The groups and opening matches for the Valorant Champions Tour Masters 3 in Berlin have been revealed in a Riot Japan press release.

The opening matches are:

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

In an article later released on the Champions Tour website, it's explained that the seeding format is as such:

Teams were first sorted into four draw pools based on a combination of their respective final placements at the Challenger events and their regional strength.

  • Pool 1: NA #1, EMEA #1, KR #1, BR #1
  • Pool 2: NA #2, EMEA #2, LATAM #1, SEA #1
  • Pool 3: JP #1, BR #2, KR #2, EMEA #3
  • Pool 4: NA #3, SEA #2, JP #2, EMEA #4

Next, each team in a pool will be randomly drawn into one of the four groups (Groups A-D). If at any point a team is drawn into a group which already has a team from their region, then they get placed into the next alphabetically sequential group. The only exception to this are teams from EMEA, which as a result of having the most representatives at the tournament, can have two teams drawn into a single group.