VALORANT Champions Tour 2024: Americas Stage 1
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VCT 2024: Americas Stage 1
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Type:
Offline
Venue:
Riot Games Arena
Start Date:
2024-04-06
End Date:
2024-05-12
Teams:
11
Liquipedia Tier:
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Chronology
About
[edit]Broadcast Talent
[edit]Format
[edit]- Group Stage: April 6th - May 5th, 2024
- Two Single Round-Robin groups
- Group Alpha has 5 teams & Group Omega has 6 teams, both drawn before Stage 1 based on Kickoff performance
- Click here for how the groups were drawn
- Group Alpha has 5 teams & Group Omega has 6 teams, both drawn before Stage 1 based on Kickoff performance
- Two Single Round-Robin groups
- 1 team from Pot 1 – Top 2 teams that also competed at Masters Madrid (Sentinels and LOUD)
- Furthermore, Sentinels were placed into Group Alpha as the Kickoff winner, while LOUD was placed into Group Omega as the Kickoff runner-up
- 1 team from Pot 2 – Playoff semifinalists (Evil Geniuses and NRG)
- 1 team from Pot 3 – Teams that advanced to the Play-In (G2 Esports and MIBR)
- 1 team from Pot 4 – Teams that were eliminated in the group stage but did not finish last in their groups (Cloud9 and Leviatán)
- 1-2 teams from Pot 5 – Teams that were eliminated in the group stage after finishing last in their groups (FURIA Esports, 100 Thieves and KRÜ Esports)
- Teams will play cross-group matches
- All matches are Bo3
- Top 3 teams from each group advance to Playoffs
- Winners have a bye into the Upper Bracket Semifinals
- 2nd & 3rd place teams advance to the Knockout Round
- Each team also needs at least two wins to qualify for the playoffs. If this rule is not met, the highest-ranked team from the other group that meets this criteria and has not already advanced qualifies instead.
- Click here for tiebreaker rules
- 2-way tie
- Head-to-head Match Score
- 3-way tie
- Head-to-head Match Series
- Teams with two matchup head-to-head advantage automatically receives first of the group. Tie-breakers for the remaining two teams are determined using the above head-to-head tiebreaker process.
- If no team has a two matchup head-to-head advantage (all Teams are 1-1 head-to-head), then proceed to next step of the 3-way tie-breaker process.
- Map differential
- Round differential
- Tiebreaker Bo1 match
- Head-to-head Match Series
- 4+-way tie
- Map differential
- Round differential
- Map differential among the tied teams
- Round differential among the tied teams
- If ties reduced to less than 3 teams after this process, tiebreakers for respective number of teams must be used to break ties among them.
- Playoffs: May 8th - May 12th, 2024
- Hybrid-Elimination bracket
- Knockout Round is Single-Elimination
- Upper Bracket Semifinals onwards is Double-Elimination
- All matches (excl. Lower Bracket Final & Grand Final) are Bo3
- Lower Bracket Final & Grand Final are Bo5
- Top 3 teams will qualify for Masters Shanghai
Prize Pool
[edit]| Americas MVPs | |
|---|---|
| Player | #MVPs |
| 5 | |
| 4 | |
| 4 | |
| 4 | |
| 3 | |
| 2 | |
| 2 | |
| 2 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 | |
| 1 | |
Note: Teams are awarded 1 point per match win and another point for winning a group.
| Base Points Distribution | ||
|---|---|---|
| Place | Points | |
| 1st | 3 | |
Schedule
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Participants
[edit]Results
[edit]Group Stage
[edit]| Group Alpha | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | G2 Esports | 1-0 | 2-0 | 26-11 | +15 | |
| 2. | NRG | 1-0 | 2-0 | 26-12 | +14 | |
| 3. | Sentinels | 1-0 | 2-0 | 26-16 | +10 | |
| 4. | KRÜ Esports | 1-0 | 2-1 | 37-27 | +10 | |
| 5. | Cloud9 | 1-0 | 2-1 | 38-36 | +2 | |
| 1. | NRG▲1 | 2-0 | 4-0 | 52-22 | +30 | |
| 2. | KRÜ Esports▲2 | 2-0 | 4-1 | 63-41 | +22 | |
| 3. | Cloud9▲2 | 2-0 | 4-2 | 73-61 | +12 | |
| 4. | G2 Esports▼3 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 43-37 | +6 | |
| 4. | Sentinels▼1 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 54-48 | +6 | |
| 1. | KRÜ Esports▲1 | 4-0 | 8-1 | 115-71 | +44 | |
| 2. | NRG▼1 | 3-1 | 6-2 | 86-60 | +26 | |
| 3. | Cloud9 | 3-1 | 6-5 | 123-113 | +10 | |
| 4. | G2 Esports | 2-2 | 5-4 | 97-77 | +20 | |
| 4. | Sentinels | 2-2 | 5-4 | 114-94 | +20 | |
| 1. | KRÜ Esports | 5-0 | 10-2 | 152-99 | +53 | |
| 2. | Cloud9▲1 | 4-1 | 8-6 | 151-137 | +14 | |
| 3. | G2 Esports▲1 | 3-2 | 7-4 | 123-89 | +34 | |
| 4. | NRG▼2 | 3-2 | 7-4 | 119-100 | +19 | |
| 5. | Sentinels▼1 | 2-3 | 5-6 | 129-120 | +9 | |
| 1. | KRÜ Esports | 5-1 | 11-4 | 180-137 | +43 | |
| 2. | Cloud9 | 5-1 | 10-6 | 178-158 | +20 | |
| 3. | G2 Esports | 3-3 | 7-6 | 138-115 | +23 | |
| 4. | Sentinels▲1 | 3-3 | 7-6 | 155-134 | +21 | |
| 5. | NRG▼1 | 3-3 | 7-6 | 134-126 | +8 | |
| Group Omega | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | MIBR | - | ||||
| 2. | Leviatán | 0-1 | 1-2 | 36-38 | -2 | |
| 3. | FURIA Esports | 0-1 | 1-2 | 27-37 | -10 | |
| 4. | 100 Thieves | 0-1 | 0-2 | 16-26 | -10 | |
| 5. | LOUD | 0-1 | 0-2 | 12-26 | -14 | |
| 6. | Evil Geniuses | 0-1 | 0-2 | 11-26 | -15 | |
| 1. | Leviatán▲1 | 1-1 | 3-2 | 68-66 | +2 | |
| 2. | 100 Thieves▲2 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 42-43 | -1 | |
| 3. | MIBR | 0-1 | 0-2 | 14-26 | -12 | |
| 4. | LOUD▲1 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 12-26 | -14 | |
| 5. | Evil Geniuses▲1 | 0-2 | 1-4 | 36-61 | -25 | |
| 6. | FURIA Esports▼3 | 0-2 | 1-4 | 37-63 | -26 | |
| 1. | Leviatán | 3-1 | 7-3 | 128-102 | +26 | |
| 2. | 100 Thieves | 2-1 | 4-2 | 68-56 | +12 | |
| 3. | Evil Geniuses▲2 | 1-3 | 3-7 | 86-121 | -35 | |
| 4. | LOUD | 0-3 | 1-6 | 54-89 | -35 | |
| 5. | FURIA Esports▲1 | 0-3 | 1-6 | 43-89 | -46 | |
| 6. | MIBR▼3 | 0-3 | 0-6 | 36-78 | -42 | |
| 1. | Leviatán | 3-1 | 7-3 | 128-102 | +26 | |
| 2. | 100 Thieves | 2-2 | 5-4 | 96-93 | +3 | |
| 3. | Evil Geniuses | 2-3 | 5-8 | 126-154 | -28 | |
| 4. | LOUD | 1-3 | 3-6 | 80-104 | -24 | |
| 5. | FURIA Esports | 0-4 | 2-8 | 67-117 | -50 | |
| 6. | MIBR | 0-4 | 0-8 | 48-104 | -56 | |
| 1. | Leviatán | 4-1 | 9-4 | 166-130 | +36 | |
| 2. | 100 Thieves | 3-2 | 7-4 | 122-108 | +14 | |
| 3. | LOUD▲1 | 2-3 | 5-6 | 106-119 | -13 | |
| 4. | Evil Geniuses▼1 | 2-3 | 5-8 | 126-154 | -28 | |
| 5. | FURIA Esports | 0-5 | 2-10 | 81-143 | -62 | |
| 6. | MIBR | 0-5 | 0-10 | 69-131 | -62 | |
- For detailed match results of the Group Stage, click here.
Playoffs
[edit]Knockout Round
Upper Bracket Semifinals
Upper Bracket Semifinals
UB Semifinals
UBSF
Upper Bracket Final
Upper Bracket Final
UB Final
UBF
Grand Final
Grand Final
Final
GF
2
0
May 8, 2024 - 16:30 PDT
2:0(Bo3)
| Map Veto | ||
|---|---|---|
| Start Map Veto | ||
| Lotus | BAN | Split |
| Bind | PICK | Icebox |
| Breeze | BAN | Sunset |
| DECIDER | Ascent | DECIDER |
Lower Bracket Semifinal
Lower Bracket Semifinal
LB Semifinal
LBSF
Lower Bracket Final
Lower Bracket Final
LB Final
LBF
1
2
May 10, 2024 - 17:10 PDT
1:2(Bo3)
| Map Veto | ||
|---|---|---|
| Start Map Veto | ||
| Bind | BAN | Split |
| Icebox | PICK | Lotus |
| Breeze | BAN | Ascent |
| DECIDER | Sunset | DECIDER |
3
0
May 12, 2024 - 14:00 PDT
3:0(Bo5)
| Map Veto | ||
|---|---|---|
| Start Map Veto | ||
| Lotus | BAN | - |
| Icebox | BAN | - |
| Bind | PICK | Breeze |
| Sunset | PICK | Ascent |
| DECIDER | Split | DECIDER |
100 Thieves have a 2-map ban advantage as the upper-bracket team.
Points
[edit]| Points Earned | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 100 Thieves | 7-2 | 9p | |||
| 2. | G2 Esports | 6-5 | 6p | |||
| 2. | KRÜ Esports | 5-3 | 6p | |||
| 2. | Leviatán | 5-3 | 6p | |||
| 5. | Cloud9 | 5-2 | 5p | |||
| 6. | NRG | 3-3 | 3p | |||
| 6. | Sentinels | 3-3 | 3p | |||
| 8. | Evil Geniuses | 2-3 | 2p | |||
| 8. | LOUD | 2-4 | 2p | |||
| 10. | FURIA Esports | 0-5 | 0p | |||
| 10. | MIBR | 0-5 | 0p | |||
Additional Data
[edit]Country Representation
[edit]| # | Country / Region | Representation | Players |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 / 55 (44%) | Asuna, bang, Boostio, C0M, crashies, Cryocells, Demon1, Derrek, Ethan, icy, jawgemo, leaf, NaturE, OXY, runi, supamen, tex, trent, valyn, vanity, Victor, Xeppaa, zekken, Zellsis | |
| 2 | 16 / 55 (29%) | qck, artzin, aspas, cauanzin, frz, havoc, heat, Jzz, Khalil, kon4n, Less, mazin, mwzera, RgLM, Sacy, tuyz | |
| 3 | 6 / 55 (11%) | Apoth, eeiu, JonahP, Marved, moose, TenZ | |
| 4 | 5 / 55 (9%) | keznit, kiNgg, Mazino, Melser, Shyy | |
| 5 | 3 / 55 (5%) | Klaus, Nozwerr, Saadhak | |
| 6 | 1 / 55 (2%) | johnqt |
Additional Content
[edit]Streams
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References
[edit]- ↑ G2 Esports (2024-04-03). "Today we say farewell to @net_valorant".
- ↑ G2 Esports (2024-04-04). "The final ingredient".
- ↑ Cloud9 (2024-03-06). "Today we part ways with @wippiecs from our team.".
- ↑ Cloud9 (2024-03-15). "Welcome the man who knows everything, @GUGLicsgo!".
- ↑ Cloud9 (2024-03-27). "Thank you @jakeeVAL".
- ↑ Cloud9 (2024-03-30). "Everyone wants to know...".
- ↑ KRÜ Esports (2024-03-25). "HEAT NA KRÜ É UMA REALIDADE " [HEAT IN KRÜ IS A REALITY] (in
Portuguese).
- ↑ KRÜ Esports (2024-03-25). "Un nuevo IGL tras el Kickoff, la lesión de @Motitaa9 y la entrada de @heatfps " [A new IGL after the Kickoff, the injury of @Motitaa9 and the entrance of @heatfps] (in
Spanish).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 FURIA Esports (2024-03-26). "BEM-VINDO DE VOLTA, @Nozwer! " [WELCOME BACK, @Nozwer!] (in
Portuguese).
- ↑ FURIA Esports (2024-03-25). "Hoje nos despedimos do @liazzifps na line-up da #FURIAVAL " [Today we say goodbye to @liazzifps in the line-up of #FURIAVAL] (in
Portuguese).