EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) Jieni7 Zhang Juntai (张君泰) hold China's number one slot again, after capping off a near-flawless Champions China Qualifier run with a 3-1 victory over Bilibili Gaming Bilibili Gaming China Rank #4 whzy Wang Haozhe (王昊哲) Levius Lu Yinzhong (卢胤中) rushia Wang Xiaojie (王晓杰) nephh Marcus Tan Knight Liu Yuxiang (刘宇翔) .

The Champions China Qualifier was a 12-team LAN held in Shanghai that qualified three teams to Valorant Champions 2023. Of the 12 teams, four were selected based on their results in the FGC Valorant Invitational: Act 1 and Act 2, while the other eight qualified via a preceding Swiss stage in June.

The China Qualifier's playoffs used a modified double-elimination bracket that gave the four FGC teams a first-round bye. The other eight first played a knockout round, which eliminated the losers from the tournament. From thereon, the remaining eight squads played the double-elimination bracket. The upper quarterfinals and first two rounds of the lower bracket were Bo3, and the remaining matches were all Bo5. The top three teams were selected to Champions — the two finalists and the lower final's losers.

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EDG and Bilibili, both FGC teams, quickly proved themselves head and shoulders above the competition. The pair reached the upper final without a single map loss to their name, but only the former kept that streak up going into the grand final; EDG secured a 3-0 win in the upper final.

The other two FGC rosters, Attacking Soul Esports Attacking Soul Esports Inactive monk Wang Haoyu (王浩宇) Yuicaw Huang Yung-chieh (黃湧傑) YHchen Chen Yuhan (陳昱瀚) Zero1 Meng Zhen Ren (任梦真) and FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix China Rank #11 BerLIN Zhang Bolin (張柏霖) Autumn Kale Dunne Life Qu Donghao (瞿东豪) AAAAY Zhang Yang (张杨) yosemite Wang Lei (王磊) XII Chen Yen-hsiang (陈筵翔) , were both relegated in their first match. ASE were able to piece together just one win — an unexpected result after the team's run up to Masters — while FPX went on a streak that eliminated Weibo Gaming Weibo Gaming China Rank #14 TryTryz Lu Shiwei (卢世炜) Star1og Jun Chao Liang (梁竣超) DRK R1ckLeexD Li Xu (李旭) (2-0), Trace Esports Trace Esports China Rank #5 LuoK1ng Zhang Zhanpeng (张展鹏) Kai Lu Zhinan (卢智楠) Xlele Zhao Yanbo (赵炎博) FengF Song Xuefeng (宋学锋) heybay Ho Shun Hei Biank Zhong Jianfei (钟剑飞) (2-1), and finally TYLOO TYLOO China Rank #21 Scales Zhang Zhen (张震) waituu Xu Yinze (许寅泽) Ninebody Ding Yi (丁毅) slowly Kelun Sun (孙科伦) hfmi0dzjc9z7 Zhang Juncheng (张峻程) (3-1) in the penultimate round of lower's, to seal their return to LAN.

The lower final was Bilibili's to take, but not with ease. They went back and forth with FPX throughout, as both teams took close wins on their map picks. Bilibili took the final win on Ascent (13-5) and moved to the grand final. They would ultimately fall to an EDG squad which, after placing second during Masters Tokyo qualification, claimed their top spot once more.

EDG still had a tougher time against Bilibili in the grand final. The former gave up just 10 rounds across Split (13-4) and Fracture (13-6). EDG were then handed their first map loss on Bind (14-12). Haven was an equally tight afair, but EDG were the ones to find the 14-12 win, claim their spot atop the Chinese throne again, and the number one China seed going into Champions.

Split wasn't even ZmjjKK's best map.

With the Champions China Qualifier concluded, there are just four Champions spots up for grabs. Two stem from the EMEA LCQ, which will draft two teams to Los Angeles, while the Pacific and Americas Last Chance Qualifiers will each qualify one team from its region to Tokyo.

The EMEA and Pacific LCQs begin in just a few days. The Americas LCQ kicked off yesterday with the first of three elimination bouts, in which KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #1 keznit Angelo Mori Mazino Roberto Rivas adverso Benjamín Poblete Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro found their first win of the season with a 2-0 over MIBR MIBR Brazil Rank #2 artzin Arthur Araujo xenom Eduardo Soeiro cortezia Gabriel Cortez Verno Andrew Maust aspas Erick Santos .

Valorant Champions 2023 will be played in Los Angeles between August 6 and 27 between the 16 best teams of the world.

The current Valorant Champions team list is: