On the morning of May 19, the VCT Emea Stage 1 tournament was closed. In the final, Fnatic quickly defeated the Heretics team with a score of 3-0 to win the championship. Accordingly, Fnatic will be the No. 1 seed of the EMEA area at the VCT Masters Toronto 2025, while the Heretics and Liquid team will start the tournament from the Swiss round.
Immediately after the final, Riot Games conducted a draw of the Swiss round matches with 8 teams attending. The draw results are announced as follows:
– Geng vs Mibra
– Bilili Gaming vs Team Liquid
– Sentinels vs Wolves Esports
– Team Heretics vs Paper Rex
According to the draw results, the most attractive match in the first round will belong to Geng – Mibr when the two Duelist is famous, T3xture and Aspas will confront each other. Another very interesting match is Team Heretics – Paper Rex, the two teams missed an appointment with Masters Bangkok 2025 and are receiving great doubts about their form. In the remaining two matches, Western representatives are highly appreciated than the two teams from China and are expected to be difficult to win.
In terms of formula, VCT Masters Toronto 2025 is divided into two stages: Swiss and Play-offs similar to Masters Bangkok in March before. 4 Stage 1 championship teams will be specially overcome the Swiss round, while 8 runner-up teams and 3rd regional ranks in Stage 1 will play to select 4 teams to play-off. Coming to the Play -off, the teams will play in the winning branch – the branch to find the champion.
All matches of the VCT Masters Toronto 2025 will be delineated by the BO3, except for the Losing Branch final and the final will be the Bo5. The VCT Masters Toronto 2025 will receive 350,000 USD and 7 points to accumulate, towards playing at Valorant Champions 2025.
