VALORANT Champions 2025 Paris: Prize money, Format, Dates

Darragh Harbinson, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 12/09/2025

Valorant Champions is set to start September 12, with representatives from across the globe contesting Valorant’s biggest prize.

We have all the details you need to know as the action kicks off in Paris.

Valorant Champions 2025 Prize Pool: $2,250,000
First Place: $1,000,000

VCT Champions Dates:-

Group Stage: September 12-22
Playoffs: September 25-October 5

The Group Stage will be played in Les Arènes Grand Paris Sud. The theatre-style venue has a capacity of up to 3,000.

The Playoffs will be contested in the Accor Arena, with a maximum capacity of 20,300.

The arena was home to the playoffs for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s final major, the BLAST Paris Major, which Vitality won in front of home fans.

Valorant Champions 2025 format

Valorant Champions 2025 features four GSL groups, with a representative of each region present in each group.

The top two of each group will advance into the double-elimination playoff bracket.

All matches will be Best of Three format, except for the Lower Bracket Final and Grand-Final, both of which will be Best of Five.

Valorant Champions Groups Preview

Valorant’s relative regional parity means the groups will be hugely competitive.

Even Paper Rex, favourites to win the event with esports betting sites, face a tough group with XLG, Sentinels, and GIANTX as their Group A bedfellows.

Fnatic, EMEA Stage 1 champions, will want to recover from their Stage 2 exit quickly, but in facing Pacific runners-up, Rex Regum Qeon, they will have to start quickly to progress.

EMEA Stage 2 winners, Liquid, showed incredible form in their EMEA run, beating GIANTX 3-0 in the Grand-Final in an almost perfect season, losing only one series during the split.

Liquid are grouped with DRX, EDward Gaming, and an NRG featuring a hungry Ethan ‘Ethan’ Arnold, looking for his second Champions title after winning with EG in 2023.

As is tradition Group D means Group of Death. Heretics, winners of EWC’s Valorant tournament, face G2 straight off the bat with T1 and Dragon Ranger Gaming in the group.

DRG defeated Edward Gaming, XLG, and BLG in the playoffs before falling to BLG in the Grand Final rematch. They are not to be underestimated at Valorant Champions 2025.

Darragh Harbinson, Senior Editor

Darragh Harbinson is an esports writer specialising in Counter-Strike. He has written for Esports News UK, Esports Insider, UKCSGO, Dexerto, and Rush B Media.

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