Valorant returns to LAN tomorrow, September 10th. Fifteen teams from all over the world are in Germany, where they will fight for the Masters Berlin championship, the second international title of the Valorant Champions Tour.

While most esports have kept to online play due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Riot has been keen on reintroducing LAN competition. This is the second international LAN Riot has held for Valorant. Only three teams from Reykjavik — Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #2 N4RRATE Marshall Massey bang Sean Bezerra Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid , Crazy Raccoon Crazy Raccoon Inactive and KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #3 keznit Angelo Mori mta Nicolás González Shyy Fabian Usnayo — will be present in Berlin, marking a clash of new styles not previously seen on an international level.

All eyes will be on Sentinels for this week, as they are the defending champions and are looking to prove themselves as the best Valorant team in the world once more.

Format

The 15 teams present will play two stages: a group stage and a playoffs stage.

All group stage matches will be played Bo3, in a GSL format for Groups A, B and C. Group D, due to losing Inactive , will play a double round-robin format where the top two squads will advance. Riot explained the seeding here. The groups are as follows:

Group A

Vision Strikers Vision Strikers Inactive stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Rb Goo Sang-min (구상민) Zest Kim Ki-seok (김기석) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) (Korea)
Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #1 mindfreak Aaron Leonhart Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov (Southeast Asia)
Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #32 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt Celasun Emir Celasun umu7 Umut Pekdoğan (EMEA)
Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk (EMEA)

Group B

Keyd Stars Keyd Stars Inactive (Brazil)
Envy Envy Inactive Marved Jimmy Nguyen Victor Victor Wong crashies Austin Roberts FiNESSE Pujan Mehta yay Jaccob Whiteaker (North America)
KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #3 keznit Angelo Mori mta Nicolás González Shyy Fabian Usnayo (Latin America)
ZETA DIVISION ZETA DIVISION Japan Rank #2 Dep Yuma Hashimoto SugarZ3ro Shota Watanabe CLZ Hikaru Mizutani SyouTa Shota Aoki Xdll Yuto Mizomori (Japan)

Group C

Gambit Esports Gambit Esports Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Chronicle Timofey Khromov d3ffo Nikita Sudakov sheydos Bogdan Naumov nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin (EMEA)
Crazy Raccoon Crazy Raccoon Inactive (Japan)
100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Rank #3 zander Alexander Dituri Cryocells Matthew Panganiban eeiu Daniel Vucenovic Boostio Kelden Pupello Asuna Peter Mazuryk (North America)
Liberty Liberty Inactive guuih Guilherme Mariano pepa Matheus Colleto duhT Eduardo Teixeira Zanatsu Carlos Eduardo tockers Gabriel Claumann (Brazil)

Group D

Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #2 N4RRATE Marshall Massey bang Sean Bezerra Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid (North America)
G2 Esports G2 Esports Inactive (EMEA)
F4Q F4Q Inactive Hermes Ahn Byeong-wook (안병욱) Estrella Park Gun (박건) fiveK Yoo Sung-min (유성민) GOLD Geum Chang-wan (금창완) (Korea)

The eight best teams will then play a Bo3 single-elimination bracket. The grand final of Masters Berlin will be played Bo5.

Prize Pool

The event boasts a $700,000 USD prize pool which will be distributed as follows:

1^st: $225,000
2^nd: $125,000
3^rd-4^th: $85,000
5^th-8^th: $25,000
9^th-12^th: $10,000
13^th-16^th: $10,000

A slot at the Champions, Valorant's end-of-year event that will crown a world champion, as well as a multitude of circuit points are also up for grabs:

1^st: VCT Champions slot
2^nd: 375 points
3^rd-4^th: 325 points
5^th-8^th: 275 points
9^th-12^th: 225 points
13^th-16^th: 175 points

Due to not being able to attend, Bren have been automatically awarded the lowest prize possible of $10,000 USD and 175 VCT points.

Schedule

Friday, September 10

6 a.m. PDT | 3 p.m. CEST | 10 p.m. JST - Opening (Group A): SuperMassive Blaze vs. Acend
9 a.m. PDT | 6 p.m. CEST | 1 a.m. JST - Group D: G2 Esports vs. F4Q
12 p.m. PDT | 9 p.m. CEST | 4 a.m. JST - Opening (Group C): 100 Thieves vs. Havan Liberty

Saturday, September 11

6 a.m. PDT | 3 p.m. CEST | 10 p.m. JST - Opening (Group A): Vision Strikers vs. Paper Rex
9 a.m. PDT | 6 p.m. CEST | 1 a.m. JST - Opening (Group C): Gambit Esports vs. Crazy Raccoon
12 p.m. PDT | 9 p.m. CEST | 4 a.m. JST - Opening (Group B): Vivo Keyd vs. Envy

Sunday, September 12

6 a.m. PDT | 3 p.m. CEST | 10 p.m. JST - Opening (Group B): KRÜ Esports vs. ZETA DIVISION
9 a.m. PDT | 6 p.m. CEST | 1 a.m. JST - Group D: Sentinels vs. G2 Esports
12 p.m. PDT | 9 p.m. CEST | 4 a.m. JST - Winner's (Group C)

Monday, September 13

6 a.m. PDT | 3 p.m. CEST | 10 p.m. JST - Winner's (Group B)
9 a.m. PDT | 6 p.m. CEST | 1 a.m. JST - Winner's (Group A)
12 p.m. PDT | 9 p.m. CEST | 4 a.m. JST - Group D: F4Q vs. Sentinels

Tuesday, September 14

6 a.m. PDT | 3 p.m. CEST | 10 p.m. JST - Group D: F4Q vs. G2 Esports
9 a.m. PDT | 6 p.m. CEST | 1 a.m. JST - Elimination (Group B)
12 p.m. PDT | 9 p.m. CEST | 4 a.m. JST - Elimination (Group C)

Wednesday, September 15

6 a.m. PDT | 3 p.m. CEST | 10 p.m. JST - Elimination (Group A)
9 a.m. PDT | 6 p.m. CEST | 1 a.m. JST - Group D: G2 Esports vs. Sentinels
12 p.m. PDT | 9 p.m. CEST | 4 a.m. JST - Decider (Group B)

Thursday, September 16

6 a.m. PDT | 3 p.m. CEST | 10 p.m. JST - Decider (Group A)
9 a.m. PDT | 6 p.m. CEST | 1 a.m. JST - Decider (Group C)
12 p.m. PDT | 9 p.m. CEST | 4 a.m. JST - Group D: Sentinels vs. F4Q

Friday, September 17

6 a.m. PDT | 3 p.m. CEST | 10 p.m. JST - Quarterfinals
8:30 a.m. PDT | 5:30 p.m. CEST | 12:30 a.m. JST - Quarterfinals
11 a.m. PDT | 8:00 p.m. CEST | 3 a.m. JST - Quarterfinals
1:30 p.m. PDT | 10:30 p.m. CEST | 5:30 a.m. JST - Quarterfinals

Saturday, September 18

9 a.m. PDT | 6 p.m. CEST | 1 a.m. JST - Semifinals
11:30 a.m. PDT | 8:30 p.m. CEST | 3:30 a.m. JST - Semifinals

Sunday, September 19

9 a.m. PDT | 6 p.m. CEST | 1 a.m. JST - Grand Finals

Broadcast

Talent

James "Dash" Patterson (Host)
Yinsu Collins (Host)

Beatriz "kaquka" Alonso (Commentator)
Geo "Geo" Collins
Doug "EsportsDoug" Cortez (Commentator)
Rivington Bruce Bisland III (Commentator)
Arten "Ballatw" Esa (Commentator)
Sean "sgares" Gares (Commentator)
Lauren "Pansy" Scott (Commentator)
Michael "hypoc" Robins (Commentator)
Tom "Tombizz" Bissmire (Commentator)
Mitch "MitchMan" McBride (Commentator)

David "prius" Kuntz (Observer)
Heather "sapphiRe" Garozzo (Observer)
Nicholas "Yehty" Tesolin (Observer)

Streams

Coverage

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