Everything You Need To Know About VCT26: CN Stage 2
Group Stage (About July.11th)
Welcome back to Changsha, Hunan! The host city of VCT24: CN Stage 2 Playoffs, where the legend story of 2024 began.
After 5 weeks' fighting, VCT26: CN Stage 1 goes to an end, and the groups have exchanged.
The 1st, 4th and 5th seeds are exchanged.
And the final results: https://www.vlr.gg/674066/china-stage-2-groups-drawn
Like the common Group Stages, and top 2 teams from each group will qualify for Playoffs.
Seedings
Speacials will back, and this time, all the teams will play the seeding match.
Alpha#1 vs Omega#1, Alpha#2 vs Omega#2.... Alpha#6 vs Omega#6
And Top 4 seeds will ensure for playoffs.
Play-Ins
After a little break, we will go to the hometown of pandas -- Chengdu, Sichuan!
Here, 8 VCTCN teams who didn't qualify for Playoffs yet will play against 2 teams from 2026 China National Tournament Split Omega: Pro Division(hereinafter referred to as CNT).
Bracket: https://prnt.sc/kq7EqfUuth4O (From haojiao.cc)
And the winners of M11, M12 will play a seeding match while winners of M13 and M14 will.
The last 4 seed will ensure.
Playoffs
Like Stage 1 Playoffs, there's no more a-round-lead for top 2 seeds and no more a-life-behind for last 2 seeds.
Upper Round 1 will be: #1 vs #8, #4 vs #5, #3 vs #7 and #2 vs #6.
Ultimately, only 1 team could raise the Yearly Championship Trophy of VCTCN!
The Champions and runner-up of Stage 2 as well as the top 2 teams of China Champions Points except that 2 will qualify for Champions Shanghai.
They will defend the glory of home court!
See you after EWC 2026: China Open Qualification, 2026 China Evolution Cup Series: Act 2, Masters London and Esports World Cup 2026!
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