After a lengthy and troubled Split, seven of the eight Regional League teams have locked in their slot for the VCT Promotion tournament.
CIS' league was officially canceled on March 25, a month and a day after being paused, reducing the number of teams in the Promotion tournament to just nine.
Regional League East: Surge
In the East,
NOM Esports
NOM Esports
Europe
Rank #77
nero
Eran Yosef
Zneva
litshii
Armin Pervan
Bard0lf
Emir Çinkılıç
Chadi
Farsang Balázs
topped the regular season, with
AWARIA
AWARIA
Inactive
YouBreak
Piotr Chodoła
Katu
Kacper Twórz
Stix
Wojciech Chamielec
grubinho
Grzegorz Ryczko
saiko
Kacper Kucharski
,
Anorthosis Famagusta Esports
Anorthosis Famagusta Esports
Inactive
and
Anonymo Esports
Anonymo Esports
Inactive
belmonte
Kacper Mordak
xuss
Tselmeg Tsolmon
Stix
Wojciech Chamielec
grubinho
Grzegorz Ryczko
Katu
Kacper Twórz
all finishing the season with a 4-3-0 record. In spite of this, NOM were the first team to be eliminated, suffering two 2-1 losses at the hands of Anonymo Mentos and Anorthosis Famagusta.
AWARIA and Anonymo Mentos moved to the upper bracket final, where the former took a comfortable 2-0 win. Anonymo bounced back in the lower bracket final after a 2-0 sweep over Anorthosis Famagusta. In the grand final rematch against AWARIA, Anonymo got revenge and secured a 3-2 win that granted them a slot in the VCT Promotion.
Regional League DACH: Evolution
In the DACH region,
MOUZ
MOUZ
Europe
Rank #8
xuss
Tselmeg Tsolmon
Obnoks
Nico Garczarczyk
iluri
Ilari Puranen
Fizzy
David Figueiredo
starki
Krzysztof Lewandrowski
dominated the regular season, with a 5-1-1 record.
FOKUS
FOKUS
Europe
Rank #46
Lime
Jacob Foster
bucher
Maximilian Bucher
SEIDER
Mathias Seider
al0rante
Felix Brandl
YaBoiLewis
Lewis Hughes
and
Angry Titans
Angry Titans
Inactive
ngiN
Engin Kor
HyDrO
Lukas Brill
held the same 3-1-3 record, qualifying in second and third respectively, while
Wave Esports
Wave Esports
Inactive
SimonD4rk
Alexandr Skovbel
Click
Haydem Ali
Saiz
Daniel Ruiz
qualified with a 2-1-4 record.
Wave's match against MOUZ was handed to the latter, due to the former being late. Still, Wave bounced back and took 2-0 wins over Angry Titans and MOUZ in the lower bracket. FOKUS bested the same teams in the upper bracket with 2-1 results. In the grand final, FOKUS took a comfortable 2-0 win to become Regional League DACH champions, qualifying for the VCT Promotion.
Regional League France: Revolution
France's regular season was dominated by
Team BDS
Team BDS
Inactive
bramz
Bayram Ben Redjeb
and
Sector One
Sector One
Inactive
Alyx
Alex Morrow
poegii
Yenthe Segers
q
Liam Hoek
dash
MaximN
Maxim Nonglaire
, who both held 3-1-3 records coming into the playoffs.
beGenius
beGenius
Inactive
and
OG
OG
Inactive
KONEQT
Cista Adel
uNKOE
Benjamin Chevasson
OniBy
Theo Tarlier
fxy0
Joey Schlosser
LaAw
Mathieu Plantin
followed with 3-2-2 and 2-1-4 records, respectively, leaving
Team Vitality
Team Vitality
Europe
Rank #24
trexx
Nikita Cherednichenko
Kicks
Kimmie Laasner
runneR
Emil Trajkovski
ceNder
Jokūbas Labutis
Sayf
Saif Jibraeel
out of the playoffs.
Sector One took down beGenius 3-1 in the semifinals, while BDS moved past OG with the same result. In the grand final, Sector One scored a monumental reverse sweep, recovering from 2-0 down to a 3-2 win that gave them the VCT Promotion slot and the Regional League France: Revolution trophy.
Regional League Northern Europe: Polaris
In Northern Europe,
Alliance
Alliance
Inactive
showed incredible form, suffering just one loss against
Tundra Esports
Tundra Esports
Inactive
bonkar
Malkolm Rench
Nille
Nichlas Busk
krea6on
Vilius Malinauskas
in their seven regular season games. Tundra,
EXCEL
EXCEL
Inactive
Moe40
Muhammad Hariff
chiwa
Egor Stepanyuk
paTiTek
Patryk Fabrowski
Foxie
Tyler Lowton
ALIVE
Gilad Hakim
, and
TENSTAR
TENSTAR
Inactive
Br0die
Jack Emmott
KRAY
Calum Knight
Polvi
Niko Polvinen
xms
Alexandre Forté
doma
Domagoj Fancev
all finished the regular season with the same 5-2 record, separated only by tiebreaker rules.
Despite a promising regular season, Alliance crumbled in the playoffs and were eliminated 2-1 by EXCEL, after losing to Tundra in the opening match by the same result. EXCEL advanced to the lower bracket final, where they reverse swept Tundra. In the grand finals, TENSTAR — who had previously beat EXCEL 2-1 — started with a map advantage and took advantage of it by going 2-0. EXCEL bounced back in the series, conquering the NE title with a 3-2 reverse sweep that placed them in the VCT Promotion tournament.
Regional League Spain: Rising
Over in Spain,
Giants Gaming
Giants Gaming
Inactive
Redgar
Igor Vlasov
Fit1nho
Adolfo Gallego
nukkye
Žygimantas Chmieliauskas
hoody
Aaro Peltokangas
Cloud
Kirill Nehozhin
dominated the regular season, dropping just two matches across nine played.
KOI
KOI
Europe
Rank #89
kamo
Kamil Frąckowiak
ShadoW
Tobias Flodström
grubinho
Grzegorz Ryczko
starxo
Patryk Kopczynski
sheydos
Bogdan Naumov
,
Case Esports
Case Esports
Inactive
,
Rebels Gaming
Rebels Gaming
Inactive
and
Team Queso
Team Queso
Inactive
mezoky
Boom
Daniel Jiménez
occupied the next four slots with a 6-3 record.
UCAM Esports Club
UCAM Esports Club
Europe
Rank #14
Flickless
Karel Maeckelbergh
Famsii
Ramses Valentino Erasmus Koivukangas
OLIZERA
Diogo Oliveira
azury
Luca Sammer
Quick
Fabián Pereira
qualified in fifth, winning five matches and losing four.
UCAM and Queso were the first to be eliminated, at the hands of Case and Rebels. These teams would go on to advance to the grand finals, the former finding a blowout 3-0 against Giants and the latter coming out on top 3-2 in a long series against KOI. In the final match of the Spanish Regional League, Rebels just edged out Case 3-2, becoming the league's champions after three hard-fought matches and representing the country in the VCT Promotion tournament.
Regional League Turkey: Birlik
Surreal Esports
Surreal Esports
Inactive
Rosé
Eren Erzan
VenTT
Emre Bozkurt
vittoria
macRue
Arda Yıldız
Crewen
Ali Eren Sargin
topped the Turkish league, losing only to
Thunderbolts Gaming
Thunderbolts Gaming
Inactive
Antsy
Yağız Güngör
Yato
Cem Saat
re1sxd
İlyas Çalışkan
corr0
Mehmet Alp Vural
DubzWoW
Mustafa Doğan
ARGENT
Berk Deniz Özdamar
.
Fire Flux Esports
Fire Flux Esports
Europe
Rank #9
sociablEE
Volkan Yonal
qw1
Konuralp Şahin
Ruxic
Uğur Güç
Turko
Mehmet Özen
w0zzip
Zafer Gungor
placed the regular season in second with the same 6-1 record, losing to Surreal.
FUT Esports
FUT Esports
Europe
Rank #4
MrFaliN
Furkan Yeğen
yetujey
Eray Budak
AtaKaptan
Ata Tan
cNed
Mehmet Yağız İpek
qRaxs
Doğukan Balaban
qualified in third with a 5-2 record, while
Galatasaray Esports
Galatasaray Esports
Europe
Rank #61
CyderX
Caner Demir
Padisah
Onur Dönmez
LewN
Burak Alkan
Docent
Kadri Vatandaş
Touven
Can Eryıldız
and Thunderbolts both won three matches and lost four.
Team Lixa
Team Lixa
Inactive
SkyL1ne
advanced to the playoffs over
Fenerbahçe Esports
Fenerbahçe Esports
Europe
Rank #158
DeadInk
Utku Onur Aydin
sturNN
Eren Oduncular
JrayN
Ferhat Yılmaz
samed
Yigox
cacan
Mert Çaçan
, despite both holding a 2-5 record.
Thunderbolts and Team Lixa won their opener matches, but Surreal and Fire Flux reasserted their superiority in the semifinals with 3-1 and 3-0 results, respectively, against the two squads. In the grand final, Fire Flux managed to win Haven 13-8, but lost the next three maps. Surreal reached the VCT Promotion with a 3-1 result that made them Regional League Turkey champions.
Regional League MENA: Resilience
In GCC and Iraq, one of the two subregions of Regional League MENA,
Team Falcons
Team Falcons
MENA
Rank #1
Sand
Mark Emad
stand-in
Akai
SpYzera
Abed Doughan
Moh
Mohammad Bin Oti
KHaaLiD
Khalid Al Talib
were the undisputed best team. Finishing the regular season with a 15-1 record, the team dropped just one map in the playoffs to reach the MENA Grand Final. In Levant and North Africa, Team
Team RA'AD
Team RA'AD
MENA
Rank #4
Shalaby
Mohamed Shalaby
Shniider
Yousef Osama
chrollo
Omar Hussein
Depyro
Nour Sherif
SkaNoodles
Yousef Mohamed
Yassien
Yassien Ahmed
ended their regular season with the same record, but won the subregion's playoffs without losing a single map.
In the MENA Grand Final, played offline in Dubai, Falcons and RA'AD initially kept it tight, tying the series at 1-1 with 13-7 and 13-10 wins on Fracture and Breeze, respectively. Falcons ran away with the game on Split and Ascent, which they took 13-6 and 14-12 to crown themselves the MENA Champions, earning the final available VCT Promotion slot.
VCT Promotion
To adjust to the absence of the CIS Regional League, Riot has changed the format of the VCT Promotion tournament. Running from April 1 to 10, Group A will retain the previously-announced GSL format, while Group B will turn to a round-robin format. The two best teams from each group will face
BIG
BIG
Inactive
and
Papara SuperMassive
Papara SuperMassive
Europe
Rank #27
sterben
Emre Demirci
skylen
Asil Yalçın
SouhcNi
Ibrahim Sağır
Izzy
Baran Yılmaz
in a six-team seeded double-elimination bracket with no grand final.
The VCT EMEA Promotion Group A is:
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Sector One
Sector One Inactive Alyx Alex Morrow poegii Yenthe Segers q Liam Hoek dash MaximN Maxim Nonglaire
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EXCEL
EXCEL Inactive Moe40 Muhammad Hariff chiwa Egor Stepanyuk paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski Foxie Tyler Lowton ALIVE Gilad Hakim
-
Rebels Gaming
Rebels Gaming Inactive
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Surreal Esports
Surreal Esports Inactive Rosé Eren Erzan VenTT Emre Bozkurt vittoria macRue Arda Yıldız Crewen Ali Eren Sargin
The VCT EMEA Promotion Group B is:
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Team Falcons
Team Falcons MENA Rank #1 Sand Mark Emad stand-in Akai SpYzera Abed Doughan Moh Mohammad Bin Oti KHaaLiD Khalid Al Talib
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Anonymo Esports
Anonymo Esports Inactive belmonte Kacper Mordak xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon Stix Wojciech Chamielec grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko Katu Kacper Twórz
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FOKUS
FOKUS Europe Rank #46 Lime Jacob Foster bucher Maximilian Bucher SEIDER Mathias Seider al0rante Felix Brandl YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes