What’s the Difference between VCT & Challengers (VCL)? Explanation of Valorant ID & World Tournament & Franchise System.
Esports Valorant has entered a new era in 2023. They completely changed the esports scene in 2023 by using a partnership or semi-franchise system.
The teams that are shortlisted to the franchise play in the VCT tournaments and circuits and the other teams play in so-called Challengers (VCL).
You could say this is similar to what PUBG Mobile is also doing. Where they use a partnership system at PMPL SEA.
The new system in the world of Valorant might make many fans who are still confused and want to know what is the difference between VCT and VCL and what the tournament circuit will be like in Valorant esports in the future.
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What is the Valorant Esports tournament system and circuit like? What is VCT and VCL?
In Valorant esports, there are currently 2 circuit tournament systems that are played simultaneously, namely VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) and VALORANT Challengers (VCL).
VCT Circuit
For VCT, this is a circuit for teams that are said to be Tier-1 or a circuit for partnership or semi-franchise teams only. In contrast to franchise systems such as MPL or LoL, the VCT system has a promotion system, but no relegation for selected teams.
Riot Games has selected 30 teams from around the world to play on the VCT circuit. And the VCT League itself is divided into 3 regions, America, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Each league has 10 teams.
On the VCT circuitthe team plays to qualify to Championsor its world championship (same as M Series or PMGC).
So the teams are playing in their respective leagues to get into Masters to collect points to get into Champions. Masters is a major tournament like Major Bali 2023 for DotA 2.
Not only that, all teams from each league must move and play in one location offline. So for teams in Asia Pacific, 10 teams are moving to Seoul South Korea. For America in Los Angeles, United States of America and EMEA in Berlin, Germany.
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2023 is a little different because it is the first year for this VCT circuit. for years 2024 and beyond, looks like there will be 2 Masters and 2 league seasons running. Like MPL where there are 2 league seasons per year. In the middle of the season there is an international tournament Masters or similar like MSC on MLBB.
In 2023, because there is only 1 Masters, the teams that qualify for the masters automatically qualify for the 2023 Champions. For EMEA which has 4 teams, the top 3 teams from Tokyo Masters 2023 will enter the 2023 Champions.
For 7 teams in each league there is still a chance to play in the 2023 Champions through LCQ or Last Chance Qualifier. 7 teams play for 1 slot in Champions 2023 which is in Los Angeles, United States of America.
Total 16 teams will play in Champions 2023 later (4 Pacific, 4 Americas, 4 EMEA, 3 China, 1 additional slot for the region of the team that won the Masters).
So for those asking, Rex Regum Qeon (RRQ) when do you play? RRQ only plays on the VCT or VCT Pacific League circuit, because they were hand-picked by Riot. Where do BOOM Esports, AE and BTR play? They play under the name VCL which will be explained below.
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VCL Circuit
As mentioned, the semi-franchise system in Valorant esports has a promotion system. So teams that are not selected by Riot can still enter the VCT circuit.
BUT with rules, the team that entered VCT through promotion will only play in the VCT league and circuit during 2 years just.
After 2 years what happened? This team had to return to playing in regional leagues to be promoted back to VCT.
Every year, VCT will add 1 team for each league. So there will be 1 new team every year in the Pacific league, in the American league and in the EMEA league. But there are only a maximum of 14 teams playing in their respective leagues.
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So start the year 2026, 2 teams the promotion from Ascension yaa! What’s that Ascension? Here’s the explanation.
How can I get into VCT? Teams can be promoted by winning tournaments Ascension.
The non-franchised teams had to play on a circuit called VCL or VALORANT Challengers. VCL itself exists in many countries, such as Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, North America, Brazil etc.
Just like VCT, the teams are divided into 3 regions, so Indonesia, Thailand and other Asian countries enter the Pacific, North America, Brazil enter America, France, Turkey and others enter EMEA.
For the VCL in Asia Pacific, only 1 champion team from each country can enter Ascension tournament.
In Pacific Ascensionthere will be 10 teams who compete to win 1 slot to VCT or franchise. These 10 teams are from the country Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Philippines, Taiwan/Hong Kong, Malaysia/Singapore, Oceania, Vietnam and South Asia.
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So for 2023, BOOM Esports become champion in Indonesian VCL and will represent Indonesia in Ascension 2023 Pacific. XERXIA won in Thailand and will play in Ascension and many others from their respective countries.
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