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Valorant Masters Santiago 2026

Santiago matchups redrawn due to incorrect placements

ChickenJoe

3 hours ago

This article has been updated to reflect the changes announced by Riot.

Riot has redrawn the next round of matchups for Santiago's Swiss Stage following an incorrect placement on their draw show earlier today.

The new matchups are as follows:

Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #1 invy Adrian Jiggs Reyes Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov vs. NRG NRG North America Rank #1 keiko Georgio Sanassy brawk Brock Somerhalder mada Adam Pampuch skuba Logan Jenkins Ethan Ethan Arnold
Gentle Mates Gentle Mates Europe Rank #7 starxo Patryk Kopczynski bipo Taranvir Singh marteen Martin Pátek GLYPH Conner Garcia Minny Patrik Hušek vs. Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #3 purp0 Semyon Borchev wayne Wayne Chang MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin kamo Kamil Frąckowiak
EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #2 ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) cb Wang Qingchuan (王庆川) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) vs. T1 T1 Korea Rank #2 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-oh (김태오) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범)
Xi Lai Gaming Xi Lai Gaming China Rank #1 WsLeo Huang Pinwei (黄品维) Lysoar Liang Youhao (梁优好) NoMan James Man Rarga Arthur Churyumov happywei Deng Minwei (邓闵维) vs. G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #2 jawgemo Alexander Mor BABYBAY Andrej Francisty trent Trent Cairns valyn Jacob Batio leaf Nathan Orf

Global Head of Valorant Esports Leo Faria explained earlier that the second team drawn from the pool, seemingly Gentle Mates Gentle Mates Europe Rank #7 starxo Patryk Kopczynski bipo Taranvir Singh marteen Martin Pátek GLYPH Conner Garcia Minny Patrik Hušek , was incorrectly placed and in turn inaccurately influenced the remaining draws.

drawshowprx image All four matchups are to be redrawn. (Photo: Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)

Riot conglomerated coaches in order to redo the draw and released the updated matchups within two hours.

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forklift2

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nice article 👍

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delighted

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kdrex is still losing

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CrackedDuelist

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can't believe secret prevented the goat invy from going to internationals for so long

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tesseract clears him

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AegisJT

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LEO FRAUD

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t1 vs g2 incoming

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inhuman

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Castawaytwizz

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hope you guys are ready for XLG EDG and M8 TL!!!!!!!!

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askrial

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I LOVE REGIONAL MATCHUPS AT INTERNATIONALS!!!!! I LOVE SEEING THINGS THAT I HAVE ALREADY SEEN WHEN I'M SUPPOSED TO GAUGE THE POWER LEVEL OF INTERNATIONAL TEAMS, WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT A SEPARATE BASELINE!!!!!! YAYYYY!!!!!!!!!

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noooo you cant see newcomers vs PRX and nats vs keiko, you must consume matchups we've seen a thousand times over!!! EDG must play XLG for the second time this month!!!!

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askrial

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FUCK YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

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Cairozin

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But we get to see the same exact matchup... In a shiny new stadium

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catNmouse

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0/8 WE are all excited for the happywei masterclass vs EDG for the 50th time!! It’s a must watch!

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catNmouse

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PRX vs NRG
T1 vs G2
M8 vs TL
XLG vs EDG

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DrudaL

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tldr?

the article is too long man

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Morikoe

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1st and 2nd draw not supposed to fight
so PRX vs M8 should have been
1st vs 3rd
2nd vs 4th
This stupid cus teams alr prepared

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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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t0t0_wolff

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Sack lhfaria

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Riot is just trying to minimize the uncomfortable conversations about China as a region.

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thesky30

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If only they cared this much about like every REAL problem in vct…

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5 hours late fairs

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flyingthundercod

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article writer as pissed as the rest of us, don't have it in him to write fuck this shit

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fayewars

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about the worst way to handle this situation like holy fucking giga troll the 1-0 teams playing tomorrow what the actual fuck dude. its not like any of the matches were not allowed like they are all possible matches why not just stick with it and do the draw correctly for the 1-1 teams. they picked the lobotomy option

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W ChickenJoe Post

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MrHyphon

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“We care about our esports scene” - they said

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w0v

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deadahh we redrawing solely because the order of teams placed was different leo faria putting detriment to tomorrow's games

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SudokuDude

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Yeah I was dead confused when Mates were placed against PRX.... but it took them 3 hours to realize lol someone should have spam pinged Leo earlier.

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mojhito5

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That’s the most stupid part, I’m fine with the redraw but taking 6+ hours(and counting) for it is CRAZY

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Facts my slime

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If they kept the matches after the error, I would understand. If they changed the matchups to what they should've been (1st-3rd and 2nd-4th), I would understand. A redraw is the stupidest possible outcome

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Obvious Leo far effort wanting to rig draws

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People aren't serious right? The person who did the draw was supposed to place each team under the last before drawing their match ups. After they messed up with m8 they just kept going placing all of them across immediately instead of under. I agree that the matchups were good though.

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toidinami

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Okay wait though I didnt realize they didnt livestream the redraw though. And also the redraw is ass. I fully retract my previous statement and this is terrible and late.

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Fixed btw but I like it

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EspoirCity

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no matter which team they faced china team will still lose btw

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at least the regional match up is not china

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shameless rig behaviour from riot

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All this just to guarantee EMEA an extra spot in playoffs smh

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I didnt understand like why would they redo the picks. Sure there was a screwup but it wasn't that big of a deal and it's not like they paired 1-0 and 0-1. Shouldn't have redone it IMO

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They should've just let this one slide. Literally no team agreed to the redraw. This hurts the team who just played Day 2 VS Day 1.

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Regional matchup???

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prxe2213

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paper rex will play pearl and ethan will recreate the cove incident

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-Artorias

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Leo Faria u little rat. how much money they gave you? ofc you are giving free playoff spot for emea team sure.

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31Raven

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YES XLG T1 DONT PLAY EACHOTHER SO THEY CAN (theoretically) BOTH QUAL

w rito rigging the draw w leo furia

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“Incorrect placement” sure….. we alr know its rigged but damn right in our faces this time, at least we have prx x nrg

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OMGGOMGAMGSAM WTF?

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So shameless 🤣Ur embarrassing RIOT

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shame on Riot

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rito things🤣🤣

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PRX VS NRG FNS is fcked for this one

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Ranger45

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he wants it told yesterday in stream.. rito listen to him

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yep man is cooked.

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riot really want china to qualify for playoff. rigged... it took 6 hours because they need to re shoot until XLG and edg re not facing each other. now they will release a video saying fair draw.

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Bernazoka

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? I don't like this either but wtf are you saying

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Bernazoka

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I'm gonna assume that they told the teams the real matchup sooner and didn't wait this much time to tell the
Edit: yeah I just the tweet wtf are they doing "This is unfortunate since over three hours have gone past and teams have wasted precious prep time. "

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What is the point of having a riot official do the draw if no one on stage knows the rules.

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