Free your Fridays as the action returns to American soil with the start of VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) 2025 Americas Stage 1. Starting on March 21, 2025, twelve teams will battle to become the champion and secure a spot at Masters Toronto. Here are the complete details about the upcoming VCT Americas 2025 Stage 1 tournament.
Format and Structure
Ready for brilliant action to show through from March 21, 2025, until April 20, 2025, for the Group Stage. This tournament will follow a two-phase format like any other VCT Stage 1 events across regions. They divided twelve teams into two groups, Alpha and Omega.
Further, each team will have to play against every other team from their cluster in a best-of-three (Bo3) series.
Under the Group Alpha are teams:
- 100 Thieves
- 2GAME Esports
- Evil Geniuses
- LOUD
- KRÜ Esports
- Sentinels
On the other hand, Group Omega consists of:
- Cloud9
- FURIA
- G2 Esports
- Leviatán
- MIBR
- NRG
Only the top four teams coming from each group get to move towards the Playoffs from April 24 to May 4. First-placed teams will get directly to the Upper Bracket Semifinals, meanwhile, second and third-place teams enter Upper Bracket Round 1. On the other hand, Lower Bracket teams will consist of fourth-placed teams.
During the Playoffs, teams engaged in best-of-three (Bo3) matches under a double-elimination bracket. While the Lower Bracket Final and Grand Final teams fight for a best-of-five (Bo5) series. Eventually, the tournament will conclude on May 4, 2025, to crown the champion for Americas Stage 1.
Opening Matches and Key Storylines
From March 21, 2025, four teams will face off for exciting matchups, starting the hype for the series. Cloud9 and NRG opened the VCT Americas 2025 Stage 1 at 2 PM PT/10 PM CET. Recently, NRG made roster changes after they replaced Verno with Brawk following the disappointing showing at Kickoff. It might actually take them a while before their pieces clicked.
On the other hand, Cloud9 can secure a great performance and opening victory with OXY in their roster. Still, anything can happen throughout the matchup. After them, KRÜ Esports and LOUD face off in a Bo3 showdown at 5 PM PT/ 1 AM CET the next day. These teams previously battled in Kickoff 2025, resulting in KRÜ victory.
Fans are expecting KRÜ to improve their strategies with adverso leading the team. Meanwhile, LOUD still has to find its rhythm to dominate against KRÜ. On March 22, it’ll be G2 Esports vs FURIA and MIBR vs Leviatán to fight for the early advantage. Then, you’ll have 2GAME Esports against Evil Geniuses on March 23.
How to Watch and Attend
Definitely, VCT Americas 2025 Stage 1 suits up as one of the exciting tournaments for Americans this year. Fans can catch up with all the live action happening at the Riot Games Arena, Los Angeles, California. Currently, they may purchase Group Stage tickets starting at $20 USD from VCT Americas ticket shop.
Unfortunately, fans won’t be able to watch the matches on April 5, 6, 19, and 20. Since it’ll be carried out in another studio, there won’t be any live audience for it. Nonetheless, they’ll broadcast all the matches live on official VCT Americas channels like Twitch and YouTube.
For English streams, they may watch through the main VCT Americas channels. Meanwhile, secondary language streams are in Portuguese (Valorant_BR) and Spanish (Valorant_LA). Stay tuned every Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the Group Stage matches in five weeks.
Conclusion
Are you ready to fill your days with exciting yet thrilling matches? VCT Americas 2025 Stage 1 will take teams into endless action from March 21 to May 4, 2025. It’ll be a long ride for them but all are definitely worth it as soon as they get on top of the championship.
