Valorant Champions 2023, the annual pinnacle of Valorant esports, has had its 16 teams and four groups locked in for this year.
The major event, taking place in Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, will take place from August 6th to 26th 2023.
Some of the teams were already locked in prior to the last few days, but the conclusion of Last Chance Qualifiers around the world has seen four final teams confirmed. These are Kru Esports (Americas), Giants (EMEA), Zeta Division (Pacific) and Navi (EMEA).
There are two teams from EMEA because Fnatic won Masters Tokyo back in June, after already qualifying for Valorant Champions 2023, meaning EMEA had another slot open up in the Last Chance Qualifier.
Having won Fnatic’s first major Valorant trophy at VCT Lock In, the London-headquartered organisation now face their toughest test at Valorant Champions 2023.
Valorant Champions 2023 Teams
The 16 qualified teams are as follows:
- Evil Geniuses (Americas)
- NRG (Americas)
- Loud (Americas)
- Kru Esports (Americas)
- Fnatic (EMEA)
- Team Liquid (EMEA)
- Fut Esports (EMEA)
- Giants (EMEA)
- Navi (EMEA)
- Paper Rex (Pacific)
- DRX (Pacific)
- T1 (Pacific)
- Zeta Division (Pacific)
- Edward Gaming (China)
- Bilibili Gaming (China)
- FunPlus Phoenix (China)
Valorant Champions 2023 Groups
For EMEA, Valorant Champions 2023 will see Giants go up against Paper Rex, Kru and EDG, while FUT will face T1, FPX and EG.
Fnatic will go head-to-head with Zeta, NRG and BLG, while two EMEA teams – Liquid and Navi – have been placed with DRX and Loud in Group D.
The four Valorant Champions 2023 groups are as follows:
Group A
- Paper Rex
- Kru Esports
- Edward Gaming
- Giants
Group B
- Evil Geniuses
- FunPlus Phoenix
- FUT Esports
- T1
Group C
- Fnatic
- Zeta Division
- NRG
- Bilibili Gaming
Group D
- Team Liquid
- Navi
- DRX
- Loud
Valorant Challengers Ascension 2023 EMEA concludes, Apeks UK player Mistic ‘heartbroken’
In other recent EMEA/UK Valorant esports news, Challengers Ascension recently finished.
French team Gentle Mates beat Apeks 3-0 in the final to qualify for the 2024 EMEA League.
Apeks UK player Mistic said he was heartbroken, but thanked his teammates and offered congratulations to Gentle Mates.
Apeks GM Gulden also published a Twitter thread highlighting the team.
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As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
