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Riot crowns Seoul as host city for Champions 2024

Seulgi

February 17, 2024

Riot has announced its first wave of information about Champions 2024. The event will be coming to Seoul, South Korea for the culmination of the 2024 season.

Champions is set to take place from August 1-25 as per the Riot announcement, however no host venue in the city has currently been revealed. Seoul will be Asia's third go at hosting an international event, taking place in Tokyo beforehand with Shanghai to start in May.

VCT 2024 roadmap A tough path lies ahead for the partnered teams looking for glory. (Image by Riot Games)

Sixteen teams will participate in Champions across all four International Leagues based off regular season performances throughout the year. The ongoing global Kickoff tournaments will be the first step for teams across the world to begin their journey towards qualification, with the Americas and Pacific currently undergoing play. EMEA will follow suit starting this coming Tuesday, February 20th, while China will start on Thursday, February 22nd.

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Manaphy

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gg champs gonna start next year.

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canyon

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Which intern decided this would be the best time to announce the host city? ☠️

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xMadsx

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ikr THE TIMING COULDN'T HAVE BEEN BETTER LMAO

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rabolak

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Why? I think this is a good time though

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Kxran

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pacific's not even gonna be finished by then 😭

cartixuzi

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hopefully T1 vs BLEED starts by then

Trip11

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😂😂😂😂

THis_is_an_alt_LOLZ

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kinda funny bc production is down in apac

4second

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Good pick
Teams will have abundant amount of time for warmup pre match

Seulgi

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pacific is NOT currently undergoing play 💀

Hockey-Stick

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Worst time for announcement

yawnster

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Mid location

boboboygalaxyyy

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Such hilarious timing

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Zerphyr1

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lol

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Simp4S0m

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Oh nooo

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GaeHGae

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You still have time change the location to Mumbai, India. Best place to host.

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_S1mp

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players gonna get food poisoning before they even get time to prep

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Godofvlr

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💀💀

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JustAcuriousGuy

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I would say diarrhea not food poisoning.

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Blackheart

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Japan ?

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ununoctium_

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VCT Pacific Waiting Room

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boboboygalaxyyy

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Hey man atleast the players will have a long season unlike last year

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HassanWillSaveAmerica

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Korea? GG another tech pause galore incoming

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brahianv

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Japan clears korea in production

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KingJayGG

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They announce this shit, while having more than 2 hours of technical issues with the Kickoff HOLYYYYY

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Abdototti0606

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6 hours...

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KingJayGG

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And still counting wtf HAHAHAHA

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BigBoyCaveNoby

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does it mean that it starts after first map of T1-Bleed game?

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kikikikiki

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Being notty is seulgi's passion

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horse69

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riot cares lck more than vct pacific lol

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titanwithpp

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This is the announcement for T1 vs BLEED that we've been waiting for

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Jihyeok

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Hopefully production isn’t shit, they have till august to not fuck the event up on the first day

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FNC_Ajay

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Worst country to host valorant

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0fcuZ

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I know you ain't talking

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soraol

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🐀

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MagicSpecies

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the only places riot know in asia are tokyo and seoul 🤡🤡🤡

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OlsiEffect

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I mean NA too got 1st and only host LA

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BigithJim

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August? R we gonna have another 6 month off season

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Dattadri_sai

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oh ofc its korea again, when theres many place in Asia. just change the name Pacific to VCT korea.

Riot crowns more like CLOWNS 🤡

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Chirby

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KR PRODUCTION 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻

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not_smart_user

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is riot stupid? indonesia literally exists and valesports is gaining traction there and they chose korea again fucking clueless mfers

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LycheeBlade

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there has not been a single major valorant event in korea. bro confused korea with japan. kinda hmmge

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koromast

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as if vct pacific isnt on korea already and will be for the rest of his story????

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rtg9000

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exactly why they did it, same as champs last year

idk why we're all so shocked, i'll put out a guess and say champs '25 is either in Berlin or Shanghai

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koromast

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champions berlin already happened no?

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rtg9000

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touche, but shanghai has a masters this year so i dunno which ones more likely

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dex03

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Bro why in korea the timing of matches is so bad for EU imagine stay awake untile 4 am to watch a single match

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pullupthen

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you have brain damage

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Derpp

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bro the announcement timing's sole purpose is to humilate korean production lmao

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HassanWillSaveAmerica

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KR production are already humiliating themselves given how bad these tech pauses are even after 6 months of prep time

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Derpp

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Honestly riot's fault
they ended contract with afreeca who hosted pacific 2023 and AVL decently and decided to fuck around for some reason

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simurgh

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Indonesia would be lit.... well whatever

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koromast

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well see bleed vs t1 grand final of seoul champions because we wont experience any other match with how long this tech pause has been

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taker

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💀💀💀

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FriZ091

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damn delay incoming

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nella3

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this coming out while t1 v. bld being delayed by 5 hrs is wild

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Ullyr

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Fat L tech pauses

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towf

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Bleed vs T1, it's 4 hours after the game started, we haven't finished map 1

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Haruki_3010

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VCT Champions Pyongyang will prob do better than seoul

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0fcuZ

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W take

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14mstar

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Fix title : Riot clowns Seoul as host city for Champions 2024

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ToastDC

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VCT Pausefic

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Scarfquintin

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I swear any Indian city can do better production than this korean val production 😭

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Er3ngenes1s

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I swear any Indian city can do better

dunno if u joking or being serious but people know KR production is bad, but my bro india is way more worse 😭

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Scarfquintin

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Ofc it's sarcastic way, but today they falloff so bad (sk) productions

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0fcuZ

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Riot clowns Seoul as host city for Champions 2024*

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Lazkael

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☠️☠️☠️

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AzShun

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the timing lol

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Riprif

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bad day to post champion seoul.for day 1 match blead vs t1 full 5 hours tech pause.its suck to Kr production,he only think lck Korean not vct pacific

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Aqr8

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Champions in August means another 6 months break afterwards. You cannot complain about viewers turning their backs towards Valorant, rito!

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donkkomong

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Korea is really not a place to grow Valorant. They're just a country of League Of Legends, not FPS.

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fapcity

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you are now starting to talk out of your ass. Its not that deep

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R1cardo

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dude this timing to post?lmfao XD

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Kowloon1st

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Move to japan asap or maybe champions singapore

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KimSamSung

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yes. korea over japan who consistenttly bring 50k+ overall stream viewers every event.

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syupr

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Japan had a masters last year

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LazyDoctor_SKed

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I think 1 match takes 24 hours to complete 🗿

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arin2016

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Good. Riot should always host on countries that are actually worth visiting. Comments can stay mad

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geospliced

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Are you implying that the United States of America and Turkey aren't worth visiting?

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arin2016

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Turkey is definitely worth visiting

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geospliced

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I think the US of A is definitely worth visiting. It really cleared up/confirmed a bunch of conceptions I had about the country prior to my visit.
The Masters locations this year are also worth visiting. Both Madrid and Shanghai are really nice cities.

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arin2016

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I don't like to gamble with my life otherwise I'd go tour Somalia but I get what you mean.

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geospliced

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Yeah, Rito wouldn't host a LAN in Somalia anyways.

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solsolid

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Masters Ohio

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geospliced

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Masters Columbus would be wild

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FreedomFighter

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Stay mad comments

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yUU-Yuu

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L PICK

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coolkids1d

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I must say the timing of the announcement is really bad 💀

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Warlordwibz

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W timezone

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Sonatine

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Nice, Champions 2025 is going to be a twice as long tourney.

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Aisaka04

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Good luck then. Another shitty long-ass tech pauses on the run 💀

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0fcuZ

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Rito just trying to help Asspac region getting their first international trophy

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Aayan

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so next year is probably champs berlin number 554?