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 #7 Reduxx Yassin Aboulalazm Jerrwin Gurjiwan Gill Victor Victor Wong stand-in johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid cortezia Gabriel Cortez JonahP Jonah Pulice , Crazy Raccoon Crazy Raccoon Inactive and KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #4 saadhak Matias Delipetro mwzera Leonardo Serrati Less Felipe de Loyola Basso Dantedeu5 Jesús Federico Larrosa heat Olavo Marcelo — 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

Group B

Group C

Group D

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:

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

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

Saturday, September 11

Sunday, September 12

Monday, September 13

Tuesday, September 14

Wednesday, September 15

Thursday, September 16

Friday, September 17

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

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

VLR.gg is covering all of Masters in our event hub, which includes our live match ticker and stats to comb over. We have also enabled our Pick'Ems feature where you can create a bracket on who you think will win in Masters.