Valorant Champions 2023: table, teams, dates and game times

Valorant Champions 2023 is the world championship for Valorant and closes the season for Riot Games’ First-Person Shooter (FPS) racing circuit. The tournament is contested by 16 teams, including Brazil’s LOUD, in Los Angeles, United States, from August 6 to 26, in search of the world title and the US$1 million (R$4.7 million in current offer), of the total US$2.25 million (R$10.5 million). See in this publication all the league information, such as table, matches, with dates and times, list of participants and more.

opening sequence
Wednesday, August 9

• A1 – Paper Rex x KRÜ – 16h
• A2 – EDward Gaming x Giants – 19h

winning streak
Thursday, August 10

• A3 – Ganhador A1 x Ganhador A2 – 22h

knockout series
Friday August 11th

• A4 – Loser A1 x Loser A2 – 16h

qualifying series
Sunday, August 13

• A5 – Loser A3 x Winner A4 – 16h

opening sequence
Monday August 7th

• B1 – FUT Esports x T1 – 16h
• B2 – Evil Geniuses x FunPlus Phoenix – 19h

winning streak
Tuesday, August 8

• B3 – Winner B1 x Winner B2 – 22 hours

knockout series
Thursday, August 10

• B4 – Loser B1 x Loser B2 – 19h

qualifying series
Saturday, August 12

• B5 – Loser B3 x Winner B4 – 7 p.m

opening sequence
Tuesday, August 8

• C1 – NRG x Bilibili Gaming – 16h
• C2 – Fnatic x ZETA DIVISION – 19h

winning streak
Wednesday, August 9

• C3 – Winner C1 x Winner C2 – 22h

knockout series
Friday August 11th

• C4 – Loser C1 x Loser C2 – 19h

qualifying series
Sunday, August 13

• C5 – Loser C3 x Winner C4 – 7 p.m

opening sequence
Sunday, August 6

• D1 – Team Liquid x NAVI – 16h
• D2 – LOUD x DRX – 19h

winning streak
Monday August 7th

• D3 – Winner D1 x Winner D2 – 22h

knockout series
Thursday, August 10

• D4 – Loser D1 x Loser D2 – 16h

qualifying series
Saturday, August 12

• D5 – Loser D3 x Winner D4 – 16h

Round 1 – Upper arm
Wednesday, August 16

• 16h – A definir x A definir | MD3
• 19h – A definir x A definir | MD3

Round 1 – Upper arm
Thursday, August 17

• 16h – A definir x A definir | MD3
• 19h – A definir x A definir | MD3

Round 1 – Lower Arm
Friday, August 18

• 16h – A definir x A definir | MD3
• 19h – A definir x A definir | MD3

Round 2 – Upper arm
Saturday, August 19

• 16h – A definir x A definir | MD3
• 19h – A definir x A definir | MD3

Round 2 – Lower Arm
Sunday, August 20

• 16h – A definir x A definir | MD3
• 19h – A definir x A definir | MD3

Final – Upper Arm
Thursday, August 24

• 16h – A definir x A definir | MD3

Round 3 – Lower Arm
Thursday, August 24

• 19h – A definir x A definir | MD3

End – Lower arm
Friday August 25th

• 16h – Set x Set | MD5

Grand Final
Saturday, August 26

• 16h – Set x Set | MD5

Valorant Champions 2023 has two phases, group and playoffs.

In the first, the 16 teams are divided into four groups, in which the four members of each group face each other in a best-of-three (md3) double-elimination series. Two teams from each group qualify.

In the playoffs, eight teams face each other in a md3 series, in the double elimination system, i.e. upper and lower bracket. The lower bracket finals and grand finals are played in md5.

• DYNATA (Brazil): Mathias “Saadhak”, Erick “aspas”, Felipe “Less”, Cauan “cauanzin” and Arthur “tuyz”
• NRG (North America): Sam “s0m”, Pujan “FNS”, Austin “crashies”, “Victor” Wong from Ardis “ardis”
• Evil Geniuses (North America): “Ethan” Arnold, Kelden “Boostio”, Alexander “jawgemo”, Corbin “C0M” and Max “Demon1”
• KRÜ (Latin America): Angelo “keznit”, Nicolas “Klaus”, Juan Pablo “NagZ”, Santiago Galvis “Daveeys”, Marco “Melser” and Carlos “axeddy”
• Fnatic (EMEA): Jake “Boaster”, Nikita “Derke”, Emir Ali “Potter”, “Leo” Jannesson, Timofey “Chronicle” and Maks “Kamyk”
• Team Liquid (EMEA): Dom “soulcas”, Elias “Jamppi”, Dmitriy “dimasick”, Igor “Redgar”, Ayaz “nAts” and Saif “Sayf”
• FUT Esports (EMEA): Serhat “Muj” to Buğra “mojj”, Doğukan “qRaxs”, Konur Alp “qw1”, Furkan “MrFalin”, Ata “ATA KAPTAN”
• SHIP (EMEA): Kyrylo “ANGE1”, Andrey “Shao”, Pontus “Zyppan”, Dmitry “SUYGETSU” and Mehmet “cNed”
• Giants (EMEA): Adolfo “Fit1nho”, Aaro “hoody”, Žygymantas “nukkye”, Emir “rhyme” and Kirill “Cloud”
• Paper Rex (Singapore): Aaron “mindfreak”, Jason “f0rsaken”, Ilia “something”, Khalish “d4v41”, Wang “Jinggg” and Patiphan “CigaretteS” (sub)
• DRX (South Korea): Gu-taek “stax”, Sang-Min “Rb”, Byung-chul “BuZz”, Myeong-kwan “MaKo” and Jae-sung “Foxy9”
• T1 (South Korea): Seon-ho “xeta”, Sang-beom “Munchkin”, Seungmin Oh “ban”, Jung-woo “Sayaplayer”, Jae-hyeok “Carpe” and “Beomjun” Kim
• ZETA DIVISION (Japan): Koji “Laz”, Tomoaki “crow”, Yuma “Dep”, Shota “SugarZ3ro” and Tenta “TENN”
• EDward Gaming (China): “Haodong” Guo, Shunzhi “CHICHOO”, Senxu “nobody”, Yongkang “ZmjKK” and Zhao “Smoggy”
• FunPlus Phoenix (China): Yang “AAAY”, Bo-lin “BerLIN”, Zhehao “TZH”, Yung-chieh “Yuicaw” and Liang “Lysoar”
• Bilibili Gaming (China): Jian Fel “Biank”, Haozhe “whz”, Lewei “rin”, Yuxiang “Knight” and Wang “yosemite”