A total prize pool of US$1 million will be up for grabs at VALORANT Masters Shanghai.
CHINA – VALORANT Masters Shanghai will feature a massive prize pool of $1,000,000, doubling the amount seen in Madrid and matching last year’s sole Masters event in Tokyo. The second Masters event of the year will see twelve teams competing from May 23 to June 9.
The event will kick off with a Swiss stage featuring eight teams, consisting of the second and third seeds from each region. The winners of each Stage 1 will begin their journey directly in the playoffs, where they will also have the advantage of selecting their first opponents.
This will be the 11th international VALORANT event (excluding Game Changers), with the final three days on June 7-9 taking place in front of a live audience at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, the largest venue in VALORANT Champions Tour history.
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The winning team will take home $350,000, with $200,000 awarded to the runners-up and $125,000 for the third-place team. The remaining prize money will be distributed among the other competing teams. This will be the largest Masters-level event in terms of prize pool, matching last year’s event in Tokyo, which was the only Masters event of the year.
VALORANT Masters Shanghai will see the return of several teams from Madrid, including EDward Gaming, FunPlus Phoenix, Paper Rex, Gen.G, and Team Heretics. However, the biggest absent will be Sentinels, who won the Madrid event but failed to qualify for the playoffs of VCT Americas Stage 1.
The VALORANT Masters Shanghai prize pool distribution is as follows:
- 1st $350,000.00
- 2nd $200,000.00
- 3rd $125,000.00
- 4th $75,000.00
- 5th $50,000.00
- 6th $50,000.00
- 7th $35,000.00
- 8th $35,000.00
- 9th $25,000.00
- 10th $25,000.00
- 11th $15,000.00
- 12th $15,000.00
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