VALORANT Masters London 2026: all 12 qualified teams

The field for VALORANT Masters London 2026 is set. All four regions have finished their Stage 1 runs, and the twelve teams heading to the UK are locked in. Americas was the last to sort itself out, with Leviatán closing the door on the bracket over the weekend.

This is the page to bookmark. We will keep it updated through the event with bracket results and schedule changes, so treat the “last updated” date above as your reference point.

When and where is Masters London 2026

Masters London runs from 6 to 21 June at the Copper Box Arena in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. It is the first international VALORANT event ever held in the UK, and the venue has history: it hosted the 2023 Mid-Season Invitational for League of Legends. Twelve teams will play for a $1,000,000 prize pool, with $350,000 going to the champion.

There are also eight Championship Points on the line for the winner, which matter a lot for VALORANT Champions in Shanghai later in the year. A deep run here can cover for a rough Stage 2.

How teams qualified for Masters London

The route was simple and brutal. Finish top three in your regional Stage 1 and you are in. The first seed from each region skips the Swiss Stage and drops straight into the Playoffs, which is a real advantage over a jet-lagged opening weekend.

Each of the four leagues, Americas, EMEA, Pacific and China, sends three teams, for twelve total. The format mirrors Masters Santiago earlier this year.

All 12 qualified teams

Here is the full Masters London 2026 field, by region.

Americas

Leviatán take the top Americas seed after winning Stage 1, beating G2 Esports in the grand final. They have leaned on a young core all season, and London is the international debut for most of the roster. G2 qualified as the runner-up, locking their seventh international appearance, and NRG round out the Americas trio in third.

The big absence: Sentinels missed out entirely, which says plenty about how stacked the region was this split.

EMEA

Team Heretics are the story of the region. They ran through the lower bracket and beat Team Vitality to win VCT EMEA Stage 1, their first regional title and the top EMEA seed. Vitality recovered from a shaky group stage to take the second slot, and FUT Esports grabbed the third, returning to the international stage for the first time since Champions 2024.

Both Fnatic and Team Liquid went out early. In EMEA, that is genuinely surprising.

Pacific

Paper Rex are going to London, and they did it the hard way as usual, knocking out T1 2-1 in an elimination match for the final Pacific slot. They were Santiago runners-up, so nobody is sleeping on them. FULL SENSE join them after beating T1 2-0, a remarkable result given the Thai roster only entered Tier 1 this year following TALON’s collapse. Global Esports take the third spot and reach their first LAN.

The headline casualty: Nongshim RedForce, who won Masters Santiago, were eliminated from Pacific Stage 1 and cannot defend their title.

China

Xi Lai Gaming booked their spot first and never looked troubled, going unbeaten through Stage 1 and taking the top Chinese seed with a 13-0 series sweep of JDG along the way. EDward Gaming, the 2024 world champions led by ZmjjKK, qualified second, and Dragon Ranger Gaming earned the third slot through a lower bracket run. All Gamers, China’s top seed at Santiago, missed the cut.

Why this Masters matters

Santiago set the table. Nongshim RedForce beat Paper Rex 3-0 in that final and became the first Ascension team to win an international VALORANT event. With them out of London entirely, the title is wide open.

That openness is the real storyline. T1, the Masters Bangkok winners, got knocked out twice in Pacific. Sentinels are gone. Fnatic and Team Liquid bowed out in EMEA. Two of the twelve teams, FULL SENSE and Global Esports, are at their first LAN. Whoever lifts this trophy is doing it through a bracket with very few safe draws.

There is also the Americas subplot worth following for readers tracking roster moves, with Demon1’s switch to ENVY reshaping how that region’s narrative reads heading into Stage 2.

What comes after London

Masters London feeds directly into VALORANT Champions, set for Shanghai from late September. The points earned here decide who gets to relax in the back half of the season and who has to grind Stage 2. For some of these teams, London is a redemption window. For the debutants, it is the whole season in one tournament.

We will update this hub as the Swiss Stage draws and the Playoffs bracket fill in. Follow the rest of the scene on our VALORANT news hub.

Elsewhere in esports this week: Legacy won the CS Asia Championships 2026 and PARIVISION took DreamLeague Season 29.