Tournament information | |
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Game | Valorant |
Location | Copenhagen |
Date | July 10–24, 2022 |
Administrator | Riot Games |
Host(s) | ![]() |
Venue(s) | Forum Copenhagen (semifinals and grand finals) |
Teams | 12 |
Purse | US $650,000 |
Final positions | |
Champion | FunPlus Phoenix |
1st runner-up | Paper Rex |
2nd runner-up | OpTic Gaming |
The 2022 Valorant Champions Tour (VCT): Stage 2 Masters, also known as the Valorant Masters Copenhagen, was an international esports tournament organized by Riot Games for the first-person shooter game Valorant , as part of the Valorant Champions Tour's 2022 competitive season. The tournament ran from July 10–24, 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark. [1]
FunPlus Phoenix of EMEA won their first international event after defeating APAC's Paper Rex in the five-game championship series, 3–2.
Copenhagen was the city chosen to host the competition. All matches were played at Forum Copenhagen. [2]
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Forum Copenhagen |
Similar with the previous Masters, the champion teams from the Asia-Pacific; EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) and North America Stage 2 Challengers were all directly qualified to the upper bracket quarterfinals. Which of the two regions Latin America and Brazil win the South America Playoff (the match between two runner-up teams from Challengers of twos) will get quarterfinals spot for their Challengers winner. The remaining eight teams were seeded in the GSL formatted group stage and were divided into two groups of four teams. [3]
Region | Path | Team | ID | |
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Starting in the upper bracket quarterfinals | ||||
EMEA | EMEA Stage 2 Challengers winner | Fnatic | FNC | |
North America | NA Stage 2 Challengers winner | XSET | XSET | |
Asia-Pacific | MYSG | MYSG Stage 2 Challengers winner ►APAC Stage 2 Challengers winner | Paper Rex | PRX |
Latin America | LATAM South | LATAM South Stage 2 Challengers runner-up ►LATAM Stage 2 Challengers winner | Leviatán | LEV |
Starting in the group stage | ||||
EMEA | EMEA Stage 2 Challengers runner-up | FunPlus Phoenix | FPX | |
EMEA Stage 2 Challengers third-place | Guild Esports | GLD | ||
North America | NA Stage 2 Challengers runner-up | OpTic Gaming | OPTC | |
Asia-Pacific | Thailand | Thailand Stage 2 Challengers winner ►APAC Stage 2 Challengers runner-up | XERXIA Esports | XIA |
South Korea | KR Stage 2 Challengers winner | DRX | DRX | |
Japan | JP Stage 2 Challengers winner | NORTHEPTION | NTH | |
Brazil | BR Stage 2 Challengers winner | LOUD | LOUD | |
Latin America | LATAM South | LATAM South Stage 2 Challengers winner ►LATAM Stage 2 Challengers runner-up ►South America Stage 2 Playoff winner | KRÜ Esports | KRÜ |
Opening Matches | Winner's Match | Advanced to Playoffs | |||||||||||
OpTic Gaming | 0 | ||||||||||||
Guild Esports | 2 | ||||||||||||
Guild Esports | 2 | ||||||||||||
Guild Esports | |||||||||||||
KRÜ Esports | 1 | ||||||||||||
LOUD | 1 | ||||||||||||
KRÜ Esports | 2 | ||||||||||||
Elimination Match | Decider Match | ||||||||||||
KRÜ Esports | 0 | ||||||||||||
OpTic Gaming | |||||||||||||
OpTic Gaming | 2 | OpTic Gaming | 2 | ||||||||||
LOUD | 1 | ||||||||||||
Opening Matches | Winner's Match | Advanced to Playoffs | |||||||||||
FunPlus Phoenix | 2 | ||||||||||||
XERXIA Esports | 1 | ||||||||||||
FunPlus Phoenix | 1 | ||||||||||||
DRX | |||||||||||||
DRX | 2 | ||||||||||||
DRX | 2 | ||||||||||||
NORTHEPTION | 0 | ||||||||||||
Elimination Match | Decider Match | ||||||||||||
FunPlus Phoenix | 2 | ||||||||||||
FunPlus Phoenix | |||||||||||||
XERXIA Esports | 1 | NORTHEPTION | 0 | ||||||||||
NORTHEPTION | 2 | ||||||||||||
All seeded teams and the teams qualified from the group stage qualified for the knockout playoffs. All matches were in a best-of-three series, except for the Lower Bracket Final and the Grand Finals, which were a best-of-five series.
All times are in Central European Summer Time, UTC+02.
Upper Bracket - Round 1 | Upper Bracket Semifinals | Upper Bracket Final | Grand Final | ||||||||||||||||||||
Paper Rex | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Guild Esports | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Paper Rex | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Fnatic | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Fnatic | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
FunPlus Phoenix | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Paper Rex | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
OpTic Gaming | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Leviatán | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
DRX | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
DRX | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
OpTic Gaming | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
XSET | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
OpTic Gaming | 2 | Paper Rex | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
FunPlus Phoenix | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Lower Bracket - Round 1 | Lower Bracket Quarterfinals | Lower Bracket Semifinals | Lower Bracket Final | ||||||||||||||||||||
DRX | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Guild Esports | 1 | FunPlus Phoenix | 2 | OpTic Gaming | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
FunPlus Phoenix | 2 | FunPlus Phoenix | 2 | FunPlus Phoenix | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Fnatic | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Fnatic | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Leviatán | 2 | Leviatán | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
XSET | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Upper Round 1 | July 14 | Paper Rex | 2 | – | 0 | Guild Esports | Copenhagen, Denmark | |
5:00 pm (UTC+2) | Statistics | Forum Copenhagen | ||||||
13 | Ascent | 4 | ||||||
14 | Fracture | 12 | ||||||
Upper Round 1 | July 15 | Fnatic | 2 | – | 0 | FunPlus Phoenix | Copenhagen, Denmark | |
7:30 pm (UTC+2) | Statistics | Forum Copenhagen | ||||||
13 | Icebox | 10 | ||||||
13 | Haven | 4 | ||||||
Upper Round 1 | July 15 | Leviatán | 1 | – | 2 | DRX | Copenhagen, Denmark | |
5:00 pm (UTC+2) | Statistics | Forum Copenhagen | ||||||
13 | Ascent | 6 | ||||||
5 | Breeze | 13 | ||||||
11 | Haven | 13 |
Upper Round 1 | July 16 | XSET | 0 | – | 2 | OpTic Gaming | Copenhagen, Denmark | |
9:00 pm (UTC+2) | Forum Copenhagen | |||||||
7 | Haven | 13 | ||||||
6 | Bind | 13 | ||||||
Upper Semifinals A | July 17 | Paper Rex | v | Fnatic | Copenhagen, Denmark | |||
Forum Copenhagen |
Upper Semifinals B | July 17 | DRX | v | OpTic Gaming | Copenhagen, Denmark | |||
Forum Copenhagen |
Lower Round 1 | July 16 | Guild Esports | 1 | – | 2 | FunPlus Phoenix | Copenhagen, Denmark | |
5:00 pm (UTC+2) | Statistics | Forum Copenhagen | ||||||
11 | Ascent | 13 | ||||||
13 | Breeze | 3 | ||||||
4 | Bind | 13 |
Lower Round 1 | July 16 | Leviatán | 0 | – | 0 | XSET | Copenhagen, Denmark | |
8:00 pm (UTC+2) | Forum Copenhagen |
Upper Final | July 22 | v | Copenhagen, Denmark | |||||
Forum Copenhagen |
Lower Final | July 23 | v | Copenhagen, Denmark | |||||
Forum Copenhagen |
Grand Final | July 24 | Paper Rex | 2 | – | 3 | FunPlus Phoenix | Copenhagen, Denmark | |
5:00 pm (UTC+2) | Statistics | Forum Copenhagen | ||||||
3 | Bind | 13 | ||||||
13 | Icebox | 7 | ||||||
7 | Fracture | 13 | ||||||
13 | Haven | 7 | ||||||
9 | Breeze | 13 |
Rank | Team | Winnings (USD) | Circuit Points |
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1st | FunPlus Phoenix | $200,000 | 1,000 |
2nd | Paper Rex | $120,000 | 750 |
3rd | OpTic Gaming | $85,000 | 500 |
4th | Fnatic | $65,000 | 400 |
5th–6th | DRX | $40,000 | 300 |
Leviatán | |||
7th–8th | Guild Esports | $25,000 | 250 |
XSET | |||
9th–10th | KRŬ Esports | $15,000 | 200 |
NORTHEPTION | |||
11th–12th | LOUD | $10,000 | 150 |
XERXIA Esports |
Source: [4]
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