2025 Valorant Champions Tour: Bangkok Masters
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Game | Valorant |
| Location | Bangkok, Thailand |
| Date | February 20 – March 2, 2025 |
| Administrator | Riot Games |
Tournament formats |
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| Teams | 8 |
| Purse | US$500,000 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | T1 |
| Runner-up | G2 Esports |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Finals MVP | Kim "Meteor" Tae-oh (T1) |
| Highest Kills | Yu "BuZz" Byung-chul (370 kills) (T1) |
| Highest ACS | Ayaz "nAts" Akhmetshin (258) (TL) |
The 2025 Valorant Champions Tour: Bangkok Masters, also known as Valorant Masters Bangkok 2025, was a global tournament organized by Riot Games for the first-person shooter game Valorant as part of the Valorant Champions Tour 2025 competitive season. The tournament was held from February 20 to March 2 in Bangkok, Thailand, at UOB Live.[1][2]
Pacific team T1 defeated Americas team G2 Esports in the grand finals to win their first international Valorant event, as well as the region's second Masters title.[3]
Before the grand finals, an exhibition match was held to showcase Waylay, the game's 28th agent and eighth Duelist. Team Thailand defeated Team International 13-9 in this match.
Qualification
The winner (seed 1) and the runner-up (seed 2) from all four International Leagues' kickoff stages qualified for the event.[4]
(*) Non-partner teams in franchise system
| Regions | Kickoffs Winner | Kickoffs Runner-up |
|---|---|---|
| Americas | G2 Esports* | Sentinels |
| EMEA | Team Vitality | Team Liquid |
| Pacific | DRX | T1 |
| China | Edward Gaming | Trace Esports |
Swiss Stage
- All eight teams played in the Swiss-system format with three rounds.
- In round 1, the seed 1 teams of respective league's kick-offs faced the seed 2 of another region's kick-off league.[6]
- From round 2 onwards, matchups were determined after each round of play, based on win-loss record.
- Teams with two wins advanced to the playoffs, while teams with two losses were eliminated.
- All matches were best-of-three series.[7][8]
| Advance to Playoffs | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1–0 | Team Vitality | |||||||||||||||||
| 0–0 | Team Vitality | 2 | Edward Gaming | Advance to Playoffs | ||||||||||||||
| Team Liquid | 0 | DRX | 1 | T1 | ||||||||||||||
| Edward Gaming | 2 | G2 Esports | 1 | 1–1 | G2 Esports | |||||||||||||
| Sentinels | 0 | Edward Gaming | 2 | T1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| DRX | 2 | DRX | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| T1 | 0 | 0–1 | G2 Esports | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Team Vitality | 2 | T1 | 2 | Team Liquid | 0 | Eliminated | ||||||||||||
| G2 Esports | 2 | Trace Esports | 0 | DRX | ||||||||||||||
| Trace Esports | 0 | Sentinels | 1 | Eliminated | Team Liquid | |||||||||||||
| Team Liquid | 2 | Trace Esports | ||||||||||||||||
| Sentinels | ||||||||||||||||||
Playoffs
- Teams that had a 2–0 win-loss record were seeded against those who had a 2–1 win-loss record in the Swiss stage.
- All matches are a best-of-three series, except the Lower Bracket Final and Grand Final, which were best-of-five series.[9]
| Upper Bracket Semifinals | Upper Bracket Final | Grand Final | |||||||||||
| T1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Edward Gaming | 2 | ||||||||||||
| G2 Esports | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Edward Gaming | 0 | ||||||||||||
| G2 Esports | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Team Vitality | 0 | ||||||||||||
| G2 Esports | 2 | ||||||||||||
| T1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Lower Semifinal | Lower Bracket Final | ||||||||||||
| Edward Gaming | 1 | ||||||||||||
| T1 | 2 | T1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Team Vitality | 1 | ||||||||||||
Final Standings
All participating teams were awarded a share of the US$500,000 prize pool. Additionally, 1st through 4th place teams earned Championship Points to help them qualify for the 2025 Valorant Champions Paris, which will be held in September.[10]
| Place | Team | Winnings (USD) | Championship Points |
|---|---|---|---|
1st
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T1 | $250,000 | 5
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2nd
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G2 Esports | $100,000 | 3
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3rd
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Edward Gaming | $65,000 | 2
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4th
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Team Vitality | $35,000 | 1
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5th-6th
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DRX | $15,000 | 0
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| Team Liquid | $15,000 | 0
| |
7th-8th
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Sentinels | $10,000 | 0
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| Trace Esports | $10,000 | 0
|
References
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- ^ "VALORANT Masters Bangkok 2025: Dates, Venue & Tickets". www.strafe.com. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
- ^ "Valorant Masters Bangkok 2025 ranked as the second most popular tournament in the history of the series". Esports Charts. 2 March 2025. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
- ^ "VALORANT Esports | Masters Bangkok: Know Before You Go!". valorantesports.com. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ^ "VALORANT Esports | Masters Bangkok: EYNTK". valorantesports.com. Archived from the original on 2025-07-07. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ^ "VALORANT: Masters Bangkok teams and Swiss Stage matchups finalized". sheepesports.com. Archived from the original on 2025-01-26. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
- ^ Mhatre (@TanmayyMhatre), Tanmay (2025-02-11). "VCT Masters Bangkok 2025: Everything You Need to Know". E4EQUIP. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ^ "Valorant Masters Bangkok 2025: Schedule and Results | Valorant Event". VLR.gg. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
- ^ "Valorant Masters Bangkok 2025: Schedule and Results | Valorant Event". VLR.gg. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
- ^ "VALORANT Esports | Masters Bangkok Standings". valorantesports.com. Retrieved 2025-09-04.