VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025

The VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025 is the ninth edition of the Masters, which is part of the VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) and will be the first-ever VCT event hosted in Canada. The inaugural VCT was held in 2021, and ever since, it has featured a series of elite global competitive eSports competitions for the first-person shooter game by Riot Games, VALORANT.
Subject VALORANT
Start Date June 7, 2025
End Date June 22, 2025
Status Coming Soon
Location Enercare Centre, Toronto, Canada
Prize Pool US$1,000,000
Participants 12 men’s teams
Type Offline
Tournament Champion
Format Swiss Stage and Playoffs (Double-Elimination bracket)
Organizer Riot Games

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The Masters is, actually, the second most important international VALORANT tournament after the Champions, and the VCT has held many of those events in every season since 2021. The VALORANT Masters Bangkok 2025 was the first of the two Masters competitions (two are typically held each year) in 2025. Toronto, Canada, will host the second one. Teams had to place first or second in their regional leagues in order to qualify for the Masters in Bangkok. However, three representatives from each of the four regions will compete in the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025.

The event will take place in the capital city of Ontario, a Canadian province, for just over two weeks, ending precisely one week prior to the end of June. Riot Games, a Los Angeles, California-based American video game developer, publisher, and eSports tournament organizer, will be in charge of organizing it. Riot Games was the one to launch VALORANT as a game in 2020.

Where and When Will the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025 Be Held?

The second cross-border VCT event of the year, the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025, has 12 top-placed teams from Stage 1 of the Americas, Pacific, EMEA, and China (the top 3 from each region). In addition to improving their VCT Championship Points for the Champions Paris, which is the icing on the cake for competitive VALORANT in 2025, the eligible teams have the chance to win a share of the prize money.

We’ll find out which team will take advantage of the opportunity to establish itself as the representative of the most dominant regional league by making a lasting mark on the global scene when VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025 gets underway at the Enercare Centre on June 7 and concludes on June 22.

Which Teams Will Take Part in the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025?

Twelve teams from four VCT regions will compete in Toronto, as previously stated. These will be the top three clubs from each International League’s Stage 1, which serves as the second regional tier-one competition after Kickoff (which served as the qualifying round for the Masters Bangkok) for the 2025 VCT season.
G2 Esports
1
JonahP
2
trent
3
valyn
4
leaf
5
jawgemo
G2 Esports
XLG Esports
1
Rarga
2
happywei
3
YoU
4
coconut
5
Viva
XLG Esports
Bilibili Gaming
1
whzy
2
Knight
3
Levius
4
nephh
5
rushia
Bilibili Gaming
MIBR
1
artziN
2
xenom
3
cortezia
4
aspas
5
Verno
MIBR
Wolves Esports
1
Spring
2
Yuicaw
3
SiuFatBB
4
Lysoar
5
juicy
Wolves Esports
Gen.G
1
t3xture
2
Karon
3
Munchkin
4
Ash
5
Foxy9
Gen.G
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We currently know the names of eight of the 12 competing teams, as the EMEA Stage 1 and Pacific Stage 1 haven’t yet concluded (the latter is nearing its end, and only the name of the third representative remains unknown). Two of these eight teams are playoff-seeded:

VCT 2025: Americas Stage 1:

  • G2 Esports (Direct Playoffs Seed)
  • Sentinels
  • MIBR

VCT 2025: China Stage 1:

  • XLG Esports (Direct Playoffs Seed)
  • Bilibili Gaming
  • Wolves Esports

VCT 2025: Pacific Stage 1:

  • Gen.G Esports
  • Rex Regum Qeon
  • DRX/Paper Rex

VCT 2025: EMEA Stage 1:

  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD

US$350k of the $1m prize fund will belong to the players on the winning team, who’ll receive seven Championship Points. While all teams will earn some cash, only the top six teams in the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025 will receive Championship Points.

Features of the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025

The best-of-three Swiss Stage will mark the start of the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025 and will be played between June 7 and June 11. Here, the International Leagues’ second- and third-place teams will square off. The top four teams advance to the June 13–22 Playoffs, while the bottom four teams are eliminated.

The eight-team Double-Elimination stage will be played by the teams that advance to the Playoffs. All matchups there will be best-of-three, except for the Lower Bracket Final and Grand Final, which will be played best-of-five.

Who’ll Win the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025?

We’re unable to forecast the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025 favorites because the regional Stage 1s are still ongoing.

Every betting platform that ranks as the best esport betting site offers a wide range of betting markets for the VALORANT Masters competitions. There are currently no available outright tournament or match odds for the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025.

The most successful team at VALORANT Masters competitions is Sentinels, with two titles. They have already guaranteed a spot in Toronto.

The VCT 2025 is now attracting a lot of attention. The most watched event in the game’s history, the VCT 2024: Masters Madrid, was extremely close to being overthrown by the VALORANT Masters Bangkok 2025. T1 won the event in the Thai capital, which had a peak viewership of 1.32 million, which is 340,000 short of the number of the Madrid tournament’s peak viewership.

With English commentary, the VALORANT Masters Toronto 2025 will be streamed on the VALORANT Champions Tour’s Twitch and YouTube platforms.

Pros and Cons of the VCT 2025’s Format Changes

Ahead of the 2025 season, the VCT has modified its Champions Points system. With this enhancement, points will be awarded more frequently. This comes after clubs were criticized for earning zero points in international tournaments unless they were the 2024 season’s overall winners. In 2025, Championship Points will be awarded to the top four Kickoff, Stage 1, and Stage 2 teams. This new points system will allow teams to earn points more fairly.

The competitive season was prolonged, and the off-season was shortened due to the early start of the season.

In the past, non-partner VCT teams were given a two-year contract. However, in 2025, they’ll be given a one-year contract instead. Additionally, the contracts may be renewed based on the club’s performance. Additionally, the number of teams permitted to compete in each zone has been modified. Riot Games has set a restriction of 12 teams per region, meaning that only two non-partnered teams are permitted to compete in each region.

PROSCONS
5 additional clubs have joined the VCT, meaning there will be more exciting matchups.

The distribution of Championship Points will be more frequent.

Potential rise in audience size.

Extended season of competition.

VCT teams that aren’t partners receive a one-year contract rather than a two-year one.

The number of teams per region is limited.

Players have less time to rest because the off-season is shorter.

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Publication date : 07.05.2025
Last modified date: 07.05.2025

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