VALORANT Champions 2025 group stage teams revealed

Esports & Games Writer

Publish Date: September 2, 2025

With all the VALORANT Champions Tour regional stage 2 tournaments complete, all eyes are on VALORANT Champions Paris 2025. Following the completion of VCT Americas Stage 2, the tournament draw took place. Within this, the 16 teams participating in the event were drawn into their respective groups. Let’s take a look at these draws, the community opinion, and storylines to keep an eye out for.

VALORANT Champions group stage teams

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Paper Rex	Bilibili Gaming	Team Liquid	G2 Esports
Xi Lai Gaming	MIBR	DRX	Team Heretics
GiantX	RRQ	NRG	Dragon Ranger Gaming
Sentinels	FNATIC	EDward Gaming	T1

All the best Valorant players will be headed to Paris, where the finals will run from September 12th to October 5th. The tournament will feature the top 16 teams in VALORANT esports. Currently, there are four regional VCT Leagues: Americas, EMEA, China, and Pacific.

From each regional VCT league, the top 4 teams qualify for the upcoming VALORANT Champions 2025 tournament.
During the draw for the tournament, each participating team was placed into a group.
No two teams from the same region will be a part of the same group.
Each group will play a mini double bracket.
The top 2 teams from each group will qualify for the playoffs phase of the tournament.

Teams that finish in positions between 13th and 16th place will receive a sum of $20,000. Teams that finish between positions 9 and 12 will receive $30,000 each. Each of the 16 teams will also receive a certain sum of money from the sale of the VALORANT Champions 2025 skin that released this year.

Storylines to keep an eye on

If we take a look at Group A, we can see two of the most famous teams in VALORANT Esports: Sentinels and Paper Rex.

Paper Rex recently won VCT Pacific Stage 2 and even VALORANT Masters Toronto. Currently, the team is one of the favourites to win the event.
On the other hand, we have Sentinels. This year hasn’t been the best for the organization, but they have been consistent. They are currently the only organization to have won two VALORANT Masters events.

Group C, in the eyes of many, is the group of death this year, featuring the likes of DRX, VCT EMEA Stage Two winners Team Liquid, EDward Gaming, and NRG.

Fan opinions about VALORANT Champions 2025

Regarding Group B, Redditor SoullessShadow77 noted that this will be another VALORANT Champions event, where the player Crashies will be in the same group as Bilibili Gaming. For those unaware, Crashies’ prior team, NRG and Bilibili Gaming, had quite the rivalry in previous years.

Comment from SoullessShadow77 on Reddit

Another user on Reddit, SIUonCrack, is excited to see G2 Esports face off against T1.

SIUonCrack will be there

This rivalry was first showcased during the VALORANT Masters Bangkok. In the grand finals of the tournament, T1 defeated G2 Esports to secure their first international Trophy. Since then, G2 Esports has completed the regional 3-peat winning VCT Americas Kickoff, Stage One, and Stage 2. It feels like G2 Esports is out for revenge and would love to knock T1 out of VALORANT Champions 2025.

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