On August 20, Riot announced the World Final Arena Chan Ly's Arena will have to switch to online formats due to the increasing Delta variant in China. In May 2021, Riot's Senior Director Whalen Rozelle said that this was one of the events that would be held in China in October this year. However, the outbreak of the pandemic has completely broken those plans.
Riot confirmed: “At the time we announced these plans, the effects of Covid-19 pandemic seemed to be repelled and opened up the opportunity to move globally. (roughly translated: destiny and galaxy) took place “.
Similar to League of Legends, Worlds is the highest tournament of the Department of CLC, where the world's leading players from Asia, Europe, Oceania and the Americas will compete with each other. The players from the areas will have to qualify and those with the highest achievements will participate in the final round.
In the face of tensions, Valorant's Masters Berlin qualifier will still start in September, where 16 teams from different areas will compete for the ticket to join the final round in December. Most recently, information about League of Legends 2021 will be relocated from China to Europe. However, Riot has not published any additional information about welcoming the audience back in the tournament.
