The official announcement of VCT EMEA published: “Due to the serious technical problem that is taking place at Riot Games Arena in Berlin, we have made a difficult decision to postpone the matches at VCT Emea today. The tournament will update the calendar in the coming days and share update information with the community when the new competition is confirmed.”
The problem of the VCT Emea tournament took place on the last competition of the group stage VCT Emea Stage 1 2025 between Team Liquid and Karmine Corp. Accordingly, the first map of the match is Split constantly encountered technical errors and must stop to fix. However, after about 3 hours of waiting, Riot Games decided to postpone the competition day and move to another day.
Notably, this problem appears as soon as Duelist of Team Vitality is Derke mentioning that the tournament is facing too many hardware and network errors at the stadium. Derke's article has received great support from professional players and Riot personally has confirmed to revise this issue right before the last week of VCT Emea Stage 1.
Recently, the leader of Valorant Esports of the EMEA area – Daniel Ringland has officially spoken out about the technical issue. Accordingly, the installation of new infrastructure equipment has been completed, the machines have been replaced and tested. Today, the teams will test the machines and confirm so that the tournament can return after 1 week of postponement.
Currently, VCT Emea Stage 1 will have 2 matches in the group stage and the play -off round is expected to start next week – 8/5.
