Riot Video games has introduced format modifications to VCT Ascension EMEA 2025, together with an enlargement from six to eight Challengers groups.
The information was revealed by VALORANT’s Esports Product Supervisor Tomek Borowka on August thirtieth, in the future forward of the VCT EMEA Stage 2 finals.
VCT Ascension is crucial annual match for VALORANT Challengers groups, as its winner earns a one-year contract within the recreation’s tier-one circuit, the VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT).
Promoted Ascension groups should then both qualify for VALORANT Champions to take care of their VCT slot for an additional 12 months or attain the regional VCT Stage 2 Playoffs to defend their tier-one rights on the subsequent Ascension match.
Each earlier EMEA Ascension groups, Light Mates and Apeks, have failed to attain these milestones and have due to this fact been straight relegated to the area’s Challengers circuit. In consequence, this 12 months’s Ascension occasion will crown two winners to ascend to the 2026 VCT EMEA league.
A New VCT EMEA Ascension 2025 Format
Final weekend, Tomek Borowka introduced on his private social media that the double VCT EMEA promotion this 12 months would additionally result in an up to date format for the occasion.
“I’m excited to share that this 12 months’s Ascension will now characteristic 8 groups as a substitute of 6,” shared the Riot consultant.
“The highlight might be on the matches that resolve who secures a spot in VCT EMEA 2026 – the Ascension video games. Each Ascension video games matches might be performed reside on stage in entrance of followers – so as a substitute of 1 last, we’ll have two.”
Which means, along with BBL PCIFIC, Enterprise Esports, Twisted Minds and Staff RA’AD, 4 groups can nonetheless qualify for the 2025 Ascension match through regional Ascension Factors or by profitable Challengers EMEA Stage 3.
The ultimate regional Challengers competitors will kick off right this moment at 4 PM BST and conclude on September ninth.
In line with the brand new format, Ascension 2025 can even start in the future earlier and now happen from October 18th-Twenty sixth. The occasion will characteristic two double-elimination (GSL) teams of 4 contestants, respectively.
The highest two groups from every group will then advance to the Playoffs, which can embody two best-of-five (BO5) Ascension finals. All prior matches might be performed as best-of-threes (BO3s).
