Valorant Esports News

The competitive landscape of Valorant continues to evolve in 2025, with distinct regional differences shaping the game's global presence. Recent data reveals fascinating insights into how the player base is distributed across different regions worldwide. Regional Distribution As of 2024, the Pacific region currently leads the pack with approximately 3.2 million active players, followed by EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) with 2.7 million players, while the Americas region accounts for 2.2 million players. This distribution showcases the game's particularlymore

Valorant esports enthusiasts, prepare for an electrifying start to the 2025 season as the Valorant Masters Bangkok, the first international tournament of the year, will gather eight of the world's elite teams from February 20 to March 2, 2025. The event will unfold at the UOB Live Arena in Bangkok, Thailand, bringing together the top two teams from each of Valorant's four competitive regions: Americas, EMEA, Pacific, and China. If you are still unsure about what to expect, our completemore

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has officially confirmed that the inaugural Olympic Esports Games will take place in 2027. This announcement follows months of speculation about potential delays, with initial plans targeting a 2025 launch. The Olympic Esports Games mark a significant milestone in the integration of esports into mainstream global sports. With the backing of the Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) as a Founding Partner, the event aims to create a structured and internationally recognized competition. The announcement comesmore

In a major development for the global esports scene, the Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) has struck a groundbreaking 3-year partnership with Riot Games, bringing VALORANT to the prestigious Esports World Cup 2025 lineup. This tactical shooter will make its debut alongside established titles League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics (TFT) at the summer event in Riyadh. Esports World Cup (EWC) 2025 Tournament D​etails The event promises to deliver unprecedented competitive action across all three titles. League of Legends willmore

A month ago, back on the 4th of January, Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek announced that he would be hosting a month-long Fragathon with the goal of donating all proceeds to charity. The primary motivation and inspiration behind the Fragathon was to serve as an homage to Shroud’s father, who had passed 2 years prior. Milestone Goal For First Ever Fragathon In his first ever Fragathon of this type, Shroud managed to hit over $1 million USD in donations, with all themore

The VCT EMEA and VCT Pacific Kickoff Grand Finals are the highlight of today with two interesting Grand Finals matches and a lot on the table with great teams clashing with all their might. Team Vitality face Team Liquid, while DRX wants to avoid revenge from T1, in a best-of-five that promises to be one hell of a match. After careful analysis, our experts team has handpicked the most promising matches in Valorant, Counter-Strike 2, League of Legends and Dotamore

The VCT Americas Kickoff Grand Finals is the highlight of today with two interesting matches and a lot on the table with great teams clashing with all their might. The MongolZ face Team Vitality after going head to head with Eternal Fire and coming out victorious and the Major winning teams, Team Spirit and Natus Vincere, will face each other in an exciting match up that will keep every one at the edge of their seats. After careful analysis, ourmore

The Lower Bracket Final of the VCT Americas Kickoff 2025 ended with Sentinels securing a dominant 3-1 victory over MiBR, punching their ticket to the Grand Finals and ending MiBR’s incredible run. The series was a tale of dominance, resilience, and heartbreak. Sentinels started strong with commanding wins on Lotus (13-7) and Abyss (13-5), but MiBR roared back with an unforgettable octuple-overtime victory on Pearl (21-19). Ultimately, Sentinels closed out the series on Split (13-7), extinguishing MiBR’s hopes of reachingmore

Erick “aspas” Santos, star player for MIBR and the Americas region, has once again etched his name in VALORANT history. In a high-stakes Lower Bracket Semifinals clash against KRÜ Esports, aspas delivered a jaw-dropping performance, breaking the record for most kills in a Best-of-3 series with an astonishing 82 kills. The match between MIBR and KRU went the distance, spanning all three maps. KRU started strong by securing a win on Bind, but MIBR staged a thrilling reverse sweep. Aspasmore

The first VALORANT Night Market of 2025 is finally here! Starting February 13th 05:00 PM PT, players can tune into the game and check their respective draws, hoping for a 2025 Night Market better than 2024 was (we know you didn't love it). What is a Night Market? VALORANT Night Market is a unique recurrent theme in the game where players can buy skins at discounted prices. But it is not as simple, these discounts are randomly assigned and playersmore

The VCT Americas Kickoff 2025 is the highlight of today as we will find out which place each one of the 4 surviving teams will finish this tournament, and the betting odds already give us a good indication of who has the better chance of winning. After careful analysis, our experts team has handpicked the most promising matches in Valorant, League of Legends and Dota 2 with particularly enticing odds for your predictions today. *Best Esports Predictions and Odds formore

The Diablo 4 lead class designer and developer Adam Jackson has joined Riot Games as a Senior Manager for an “unannounced title.” The context clues of the move certainly point towards a resurfacing of the Riot MMO project that “went dark” back in March, 2024. Riot Games MMO is back online? In their March 2024 update, Marc Merrill, Riot Games' CPO, talked about the MMO project and the excitement surrounding it. During the address, Marc spoke of “resetting the project”more

VCT Masters Bangkok is set to be the ground for the first international clash between VALORANT partnered teams in 2025. After an exciting few weeks of domestic VALORANT, with Kickoff still ongoing in all 4 leagues to determine the final 8 to qualify, the stage for Bangkok is finally in sight and its competitors taking form. The first Masters event of 2025 is set to begin on the 20th of February and run until the 3rd of March, crowning themore

Riot Games is rolling out Patch 10.02 for VALORANT, bringing a series of important bug fixes across all platforms. This update addresses gameplay inconsistencies, agent-specific issues, and observer bugs while also implementing improvements to Premier mode on PC. Let’s dive into the details of what’s getting fixed. Bug Fixes for All Platforms General Fixed a critical issue where certain types of damage could leave players with Regen Shields at 1 HP instead of killing them. This also resolves an issuemore

With the VCT 2025 Season now underway, VALORANT is introducing the all new VCT 2025 Season Capsule to the game. This new capsule will allow you to represent the VCT region you support, as well as show off your love for the highest tier of competitive VALORANT. What's in the VCT 2025 Season Capsule? The new VCT Season Capsule coming to VALORANT will include all of the following: VCT Karambit Four Regional Player Cards Four Gun Buddies Taking center stagemore

Biography of Chamber Vincent Fabron, known as Chamber in Valorant, is a Frenchman driven by a singular goal. His journey is marked by his willingness to sacrifice anything that stands in his way. Fabron’s background is deeply rooted in combat and weaponry. He initially served in the French military before becoming a private military contractor (PMC) marksman. His skills and expertise eventually led him to a role as a weapons designer for Kingdom Defense. However, his employment there was merelymore

Fissure Playground continues and that will be the main focus of today's odds. As teams face elimination for the first major LAN event of Dota 2 in 2025. After careful analysis, our expert team has handpicked the most promising matches in Dota 2, VALORANT and Counter-Strike for your predictions today with particularly enticing odds. *Best Esports Predictions and Odds for the 31st of January, 2025, as collected by the Strafe Esports Content Team.  Featured Match of the Day Fissure Playground #1more

The VCT EMEA Kickoff tournament picks up again today with Gentle Mates and Fnatic facing off with elimination on the line, making it today's Strafe Featured Match of the Day. After careful analysis, our expert team has handpicked the most promising matches in VALORANT and Counter-Strike for your predictions today with particularly enticing odds. *Best Esports Predictions and Odds for the 30th of January, 2025, as collected by the Strafe Esports Content Team.  Featured Match of the Day VCT 2025: EMEAmore

On January 25, 2024, Into the Breach (ITB) released a public statement announcing their closure, marking the beginning of a huge scandal in the esports industry. Initial Public Statement The Announcement Into the Breach released an official statement revealing that significant mismanagement had been discovered within the organization. The investigation uncovered that an individual who had been entrusted with all financial and monetary decisions had been embezzling funds for personal use. Impact on Operations The organization stated that this betrayalmore

At the BLAST Bounty Spring 2024, Team Spirit and Eternal Fire take the centre stage for an electrifying grand final matchup, making it Strafe's Featured Match of the Day. After careful analysis, our expert team has handpicked the most promising matches in Dota 2, League of Legends and VALORANT for your predictions today with particularly enticing odds. *Best Esports Predictions and Odds for the 26th of January, 2025 as collected by the Strafe Esports Content Team.  Featured Match of the Day 2025more