VCT Lock In Sao Paulo’s 32-team LAN event format explained
The tournament starkly contrasts the double-elimination format of previous VCT events, which gave teams time to find their footing.
Overview:
- VCT Lock In São Paulo was already seen as the biggest Valorant LAN event even before Riot Games invited two Chinese teams to join the mix.
- It will also be the most intense Valorant tournament in history, with Riot Games announcing a single-elimination bracket with no group stage for all 32 teams.
With the release of the formats, VCT 2023 is off to a great start. The teams will confront one another in a bracket with random seeding. This is due to Riot's desire for foreign teams to compete against one another for the spectacle. In this video, everything you need to know is explained. As you can see, the brackets will be a best-of-three format, while the semifinals and championship game will be a best-of-five format.
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The competition will continue for three weeks, from February 13 to March 3, before ending. The goal of this competition is to host as many international matches as possible. The roulette wheel shows that multinational teams compete, like PRX vs. C9, Fnatic vs. Sentinels, etc. They did, however, make one error. A team that loses in a bracket match will be eliminated right away. Let's examine this system in more depth.
Valorant 2023 is off to, to put it mildly, a rocky start in the VCT 2023 Format
Some sections overlap, but it is not a significant deal, given the number of satisfied matches we get in the format utilizing this wheel. There is only one issue at hand. They are eliminated if a team loses its first match in a single elimination system. Riot has pledged to correct this in the subsequent competition, which will have a double-elimination bracket. At that point, two teams from each group will be left in the single elimination tournament. In the last round, they will play one another. Brazil's tournament is sure to be epic, so we hope you're eager to start this heroic year off strong!
32 teams will face off against one another from February 13 through March 4 to secure a spot for their area in the forthcoming Master's competition in Japan. All partnered teams from the Americas, Pacific, and EMEA leagues, and two more Chinese teams, Edward Gaming and FunPlus Phoenix, will compete. Following his victory in the VCT East Asia Last Chance Qualifier, Edward Gaming made his Valorant Champions debut last year. Even though they placed 13th–16th at Champions 2022, the teams they encountered had difficulty competing against them, and they could see Chinese Valorant's potential and unbridled aggressiveness.
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In the meantime, the Valorant team of FunPlus Phoenix underwent a rebuilding throughout the offseason. After FPX could not gain a berth in the EMEA league, the team that won Masters Copenhagen the previous year, European Valorant, joined Natus Vincere. FPX then created a new squad with players from China and Taiwan. With 32 teams signed up for the competition, Riot Games chose a single-elimination structure to facilitate more matches between teams from various areas.
Two groups, Alpha and Omega, were created by randomly assigning teams to them. Riot created a random draw procedure to assign teams to each group and optimize the frequency of inter-regional matches, which increases the likelihood of inter-regional matchups in the second round while pairing teams from different areas in the first round.
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First, regions were matched into 16 first-round matches, each of which had two team slots:
EMEA vs Pacific — 5 match-ups Americas vs Pacific — 5 match-ups Americas vs EMEA — 4 match-ups China vs Americas — 1 match-up China vs EMEA — 1 match-up
To account for the 10 teams in each partnered league and the two Chinese clubs, each team slot was then given a random number between 1 and 10. These 16 matchups were split among both halves of the single-elimination tournament to guarantee cross-regional competition. The next step was randomly assigned a number from 1 to 10 to each of the 32 teams. This number determined where each team would be placed in the bracket based on their area.
At VCT Lock-In, teams are eliminated immediately after a single series defeat. There are no do-overs. Only two teams will advance to the semifinals and championship game from each side of the 16-team bracket. Except for the semifinals and championship games, all contests will be best-of-three. While Omega team matchups go from February 22 to 27, Alpha team matches occur from February 13 to 19. March 2–4 are the planned dates for the semifinals and championship game.
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