VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN São Paulo Schedule and Seeding Draw Revealed
Riot Games has revealed the detailed schedule and seeding draw for the upcoming VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN São Paulo. In their announcement, the organizers revealed the rules for dividing teams into two brackets of the championship, and also specified the schedule of the event.
The organizers also revealed the format of the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN São Paulo and spoke about the increase in the number of participants thanks to the Chinese teams FunPlus Phoenix and EDward Gaming.
First of all, Riot Games divided participants from four regions into conditional subgroups in order to best represent the regional diversity in the opening matches.
- Europe vs Asia - 5 matches
- America vs Asia - 5 matches
- America vs Europe - 4 matches
- China vs America - 1 match
- China vs Europe - 1 match
As a result, each team was assigned a random number between 1 and 10 to account for all competitors. (America 1-10, Europe 1-10, Asia 1-10, China 1-2).
To distribute the participants and their starting matches, the organizers divided the bracket into "Alpha" and "Omega", so that teams from the same region would meet at later stages. As a result, the conditional winners of the "Alpha" and "Omega" brackets will meet in the championship final.
Grid "Alpha" |
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Grid "Omega"
America vs Asia - 3 matches
America vs Asia - 2 matches
Europe vs Asia - 2 matches
Europe vs Asia - 3 matches
America vs Europe - 2 matches
America vs Europe - 2 matches
China vs Europe - 1 match
China vs America - 1 match
In addition, a random draw assigned each of the 32 teams a number from 1 to 10, which corresponded to their region and the place already taken in the bracket.
VALORANT Champions Tour 2023 Kickoff Schedule: LOCK//IN São Paulo
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rest days
February 13-15
February 16
February 17-19
February 20-21
February 22-27
February 28 - March 1
March 2-4
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