Road to VALORANT Champions Paris: Which teams are still in contention?

The participants for VALORANT Champions 2025 Paris are close to being finalised as squads battle towards the VCT Stage 2 Playoffs.

The event will feature a total of 16 teams, including the top two from Stage 2 and two via VCT Championship Points leader board from each region.

Esports Insider take a closer look at each VCT league as the race to VALORANT Champions 2025 heats up!

Fnatic has secured a place at Champions through Championship Points; however, if the team also finishes top two in EMEA Stage 2, the next two squads in the leaderboard will be promoted.

At the moment, Team Heretics and Team Liquid are also close to qualifying for the event, as both have reached the Stage 2 upper semi-finals.

That said, many other VCT EMEA teams are in contention, except FUT Esports, KOI, Gentle Mates, and Apeks.

VCT Pacific Stage 2 is close to concluding, and three teams have already punched a ticket to Champions Paris. This includes Paper Rex, T1, and Rex Regum Qeon (RRQ). The team that will occupy the final spot will be decided on August 30th.

Only TALON and DRX are in the race for it; however, since DRX is already eliminated from the event, the team’s qualification is out of its control.

Ascension team XLG Esports and EDward Gaming currently lead the Championship Points rankings in the region; however, Bilibili Gaming needs just one victory to tie the score.

All three teams are in the playoffs, making it difficult to predict which two will advance to Champions via Championship Points.

Wolves Esports, the best-performing Chinese team at Masters Toronto, couldn’t make it to the playoffs. However, the team still has a shot at reaching Paris if two of the teams mentioned above manage to qualify for the Grand Finals. This is because the top two of every Stage 2 event automatically qualify for Champions. Wolves currently sit 4th in the Championship points table.

Other teams still eligible for a spot at VALORANT Champions 2025 are Dragon Ranger, TYLOO, and All Gamers.

G2 Esports and Sentinels have already secured VALORANT Champions qualification by accumulating enough Championship Points. The rest of the teams will now battle for qualification through the Stage 2 playoffs bracket.

These include KRÜ Esports, Cloud9, 100 Thieves, NRG, Evil Geniuses and Leviatán.

MIBR can also make it to Champions through points, but it’s no longer in the team’s hands anymore.

Champions Paris Qualification Status

VALORANT Champions Paris is scheduled to take place in September and the tickets for the event are already live on AXS’ official website.