Masters Toronto, the second global electronic sports event in 2025 of Valorant's subject, lowered the last Sunday with the championship of Paper Rex. After defeating Fnatic with a score of 3 – 1 in the final final, the Singapore -based team helped the Asian electronic sports platform to extend the dominance in the Masters with 3 consecutive crowns (previously Gen.G Esports at Masters Shanghai 2024 and T1 at Masters Bangkok 2025).
With 1.1 million audiences watched directly in the final and a total of nearly 35 million hours, the Masters tournament took place in Toronto, Canada is currently one of the most attractive events of Valorant Electronic Sports history; Thereby continuing to prove clearly for the global popularity and continuous growth of the 5V5 tactical FPS.
On the eve of the royal battle between Paper Rex and Fnatic, the whole audience also witnessed the revelation of the new Corrode map. This is a new update in the 2025 /// IV season of Valorant and will be released from June 25, 2025. Corrode is a 5V5 map designed with the image of medieval -style streets renovated by industrial equipment, and the multi -storey defense system located on high, covering the immense Radianite salt fields at the bottom.
Corrode map will be present in the line waiting to rank right after its launch. In the first 2 weeks, when experiencing the Corrode map, the player was only deducted half of the ranking point when losing but still received enough points when winning to be able to get acquainted and practice new maps in the rating environment without worrying about dropping off. In addition, from June 25 to June 30, the super -speed mode will have a separate queue for Corrode map from the time of launch.
At the same time, in the season 2025 // Part IV of Valorant also opened the sale of PhaseGuard collection, a line of skins bearing the imprint of advanced technology as well as the optimal tactical accuracy. The weapons in the PhaseGuard collection are: Vandal, Outlaw, Ghost, Bulldog and the new line of melee weapons.
After putting aside the Masters Toronto 2025, Valorant Electronic Sports Asia -Pacific will continue to be exciting with the VCT Pacific Stage 2. This will play a decisive role in finding the most worthy teams representing APAC to attend Valorant Champions 2025. Vietnam athletes – Ngo Cong Anh (name of Crazyguy competition).
VCT Pacific Stage 2 will take place from July 15 to 31.08 in Seoul, South Korea. Particularly for the final week (August 30 – 31.0) will be held in Tokyo, Japan. The matches from July 15 – August will start at 15:00 (Vietnam time) every day.
Similar to Stage 1, VCT Pacific Stage 2 still has the presence of 12 teams and divided 2 groups evenly. In Stage 2, the tables will be reorganized and played in a circle 1 turn. Top 4 teams top 2 tables will come to the playoffs and compete in the formula of the winning – branch. From there, the event will find two names to the final of VCT Pacific Stage 2, and these are also two teams that directly won the right to attend the prestigious Valorant Champions 2025 event in Paris. The 3rd and 4th attendance of the Asia -Pacific region will be decided based on the total number of championships accumulated in the 2025 season.
