Riot Video games has unveiled the 2026 VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) Workforce Capsules forward of the brand new esports season.
All accomplice groups competing in VCT EMEA, VCT Americas, VCT Pacific, and VCT China have acquired a brand new capsule together with a wide range of in-game objects for gamers to buy.
Revealed on January sixth, 2026, every Workforce Capsule will embody an up to date Basic pores and skin with new visible results, an animated participant card, an achievement tracker examine, crew spray and a crew Gun Buddy. On account of profitable VALORANT Champions in 2025, NRG‘s capsule features a vary of unique Champions components commemorating its achievement.
Along with NRG’s distinctive design, this 12 months’s Workforce Capsules function a brand new design together with an unique Winner’s Aptitude awarded to groups which have received a championship.
It’s value noting that new groups competing within the VCT have but to obtain a capsule as of this writing. This contains VCT Americas Ascension 2025 winner ENVY, VCT EMEA’s PCIFIC Esports and ULF Esports, in addition to VCT Pacific’s VARREL.
Alongside revealing the brand new set of capsules, Riot Video games additionally introduced that it shared $100m (~£74.1m) with VCT groups in 2025. “Your engagement provides us confidence to proceed investing in and constructing a sustainable future for the VCT,” stated Riot Video games on social media.
The determine is a big improve in comparison with 2024’s determine of over $44m (~£32.6m) generated via the sale of Workforce Capsules and the Champions Assortment.
Followers can buy a Workforce Capsule from January thirteenth for 2,320 VP, whereas those that beforehand purchased a capsule in 2024 and 2025 will obtain a reduced worth of 1,650 VP.
The Significance Of VCT Workforce Capsules
VCT Workforce Capsules stay an integral a part of the VALORANT esports ecosystem. Alongside enabling followers to assist their favorite groups, 50% of the online earnings generated via gross sales are cut up throughout all VCT groups.
With $100m cut up throughout the groups in 2025, the revenue-sharing initiative goals to construct and preserve a sustainable ecosystem the place all accomplice groups profit from the success of excessive gross sales figures.
