London-headquartered esports organisation Fnatic are the first team from EMEA to qualify for the major Valorant Champions 2024 tournament.
They are one of 16 teams that will compete at the biggest LAN competition of the year in Valorant esports, which will take place in South Korea from August 1st to 25th 2024.
Fnatic have qualified thanks to their VCT EMEA points standings. They are top with 13 points, just about Heretics in second place (with 12 points) and FUT Esports in third (with 11 points).
This sends Fnatic – consisting of Boaster, Derke, Alfajer, Chronicle and hiro – to Valorant Champions Seoul.
Fnatic have also qualified for the VCT EMEA 2024 Stage 2 playoffs, along with Heretics and FUT. The other team places are still to be decided.
The news comes after Fnatic beat Team Liquid 2-0 yesterday.
Coach mini said: “GG Team Liquid. So fucking proud of the boys! Crosshairs on Champs for me now – I wanna win it badly.”
Head coach Elmapuddy added: “Qualified for Champs with that win! Looking forward to seeing some friends from last year in Seoul. GGs Team Liquid.”
British Valorant star Boaster said:
hiro commented: “We’re 4-0 in the group stage and we’re going Korea!”
Derke said: “2-0 against Team Liquid and we qualified for Champs! Clean game from the boys and super good energy from everyone! Thank you guys for the support.”
Teams qualified for Valorant Champions 2024
Only a few teams have qualified at the time of writing this article (July 11th 2024).
They are FPX, EDG, Paper Rex and Fnatic.
The list of 16 slots at the tournament are as follows, according to the Valorant Champions 2024 Liquipedia page:
- TBC (Americas points)
- TBC (Americas Stage 2, first place)
- TBC (Americas Stage 2, second place)
- TBC (Americas Stage 2, third place)
- EDG (China points)
- FPX (China points)
- TBC (China Stage 2, first place)
- TBC (China Stage 2, second place)
- Fnatic (EMEA points)
- TBC (EMEA Stage 2, first place)
- TBC (EMEA Stage 2, second place)
- TBC (EMEA Stage 2, third place)
- Paper Rex (Pacific points)
- TBC (Pacific Stage 2, first place)
- TBC (Pacific Stage 2, second place)
- TBC (Pacific Stage 2, third place)
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Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
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