Valorant is one of the leading first-person shooter games in the world with a flourishing competitive scene. Riot Games has done well marketing the game and has successfully nurtured an ecosystem for the competitive side of the game.
Since releasing in June 2020, the game has grown leaps and bounds, establishing a competitive circuit that has refined with each passing year. Interestingly, the preparations for the Valorant Champions Tour 2024 (VCT 2024) started way back last year with Riot Games announcing the agenda for the VCT.
Valorant Masters Madrid 2024 is the first proper international Valorant tournament of the upcoming competitive season. The event is scheduled to take place between 14th March and 24th March. Here are all the teams that have qualified for this first international tournament of 2024.
Teams Participating in Valorant Masters Madrid 2024
The inaugural global event of the VCT 2024 will be bringing together eight top teams from different regions, each representing one of the four International Leagues - Americas, Pacific, EMEA (Europe Middle East & Africa), China.
From each of these four regional leagues only the top two teams will attain a slot to further compete in Madrid, Spain. So the level of competition in this tournament is going to be extremely high, crowning the first Valorant champion of the year.
The teams had to qualify by being in the top two in the recently-concluded Valorant Kickoff event in their respective regions. The teams that qualified for Valorant Masters Madrid 2024 are as follows:
Pacific League
Gen.G Esports (GEN)
Paper Rex (PRX)
Americas League
Evil Geniuses (EG) / LOUD
NRG/ Sentinels
China League
EDward Gaming (EDG)
FunPlus Phoenix (FPX)
EMEA League
Karmine Corp (KCorp)
Team Heretics (TH)
Valorant Masters Madrid 2024 Format Explainer
Swiss Stage: 14th March to 18th March, 2024
All matches are best-of-three (BO3)
Playoffs: 21st March to 24th March 2024
Double-Elimination bracket
All matches are (excluding the lower bracket final and the grand final) best-of-three (BO3)
The lower final and the grand final are BO5
The second international tournament or the VCT Masters event, after the one taking place in Madrid, Spain, will be the Valorant Masters Shanghai 2024. This tournament is scheduled to take place sometime in the month of May.
It will be the first international Valorant tournament to take place in China as the title keeps expanding its competitive horizon to new countries, stadiums, and fans.