Valorant Masters London 2026 is set to start on June 6, with Valorant’s international elite assembling in the Copper Box Arena to fight for the second international of the year. Insider Gaming has everything you need to know to enjoy the London event.
Valorant Masters London 2026 Schedule and Format
Dates:
- June 6-21
- Group stage: June 6-10
- Playoffs: June 12-21
As usual, Valorant Masters London features a 12-team format, with the four regional split winners progressing directly to the playoffs. The remaining eight teams play out a Swiss Group Stage, with the top four teams progressing to join the split winners in the playoffs.
Format:
Group Stage:
- Eight-team Swiss stage format
- All matches Best of 3
- Teams with two wins progress; teams with two losses are eliminated
- Top 4 progress to playoffs
Playoffs:
- Eight-team double-elimination bracket
- All matches Bo3, except for the Grand Final and Lower Bracket Final
Valorant Masters London 2026 Teams
The Regional Split winners progress directly to the playoffs. They are:
- EDward Gaming
- G2
- Team Heretics
- Paper Rex
The remaining eight teams will contest the Swiss stage:
- XLG Esports
- Dragon Ranger Gaming
- Leviatán
- NRG
- Team Vitality
- FUT Esports
- FULL SENSE
- Global Esports
Following the opening matchups draw, the opening matches for Valorant Masters London are:
- Vitality vs Dragon Ranger Gaming
- Full Sense vs FUT
- Leviatán vs Global Esports
- XLG vs NRG
Prize Pool
Valorant Masters London 2026 features a $1,000,000 total prize pool, as well as VCT Points, which will ultimately determine invitation to Valorant Champions 2026.
- Prize pool: $1,100,000
- First place: $350,000 + 8 VCT Points
- Second place: $200,000 + 6 VCT Points
- Third place: $125,000 + 5 VCT Points
- Fourth place: $75,000 + 4 VCT Points
- Fifth/Sixth place: $50,000 + 3 VCT Points
Valorant Masters London 2026 Location
Valorant Masters London will take place in London, United Kingdom. The event will take place, in full, at the Copper Box Arena in London.
How to Watch Valorant Masters London 2026
Valorant Masters London will be broadcast on Valorant’s main Twitch channel:
Valorant Masters London 2026 Predictions
No single VCT Kickoff winner from earlier this year made VCT Masters London. FURIA, BBL, All Gamers, and Valorant Masters Santiago Champions, Nongshim RedForce are all absent.
That fact is testament to Valorant’s meta instability, which has seen several shifts amongst the strength of Agents and weaponry in 2026 alone.
G2, NRG, XLG, EDG, and Paper Rex all made both events. A list of only five teams amongst the twelve at both events, a strikingly small number of returning guests for a Masters event. It is no coincidence, however, that three of these teams are now champions in their regions.
While the Valorant scene awaits further meta shifts with the arrival of the 13.00 patch, the teams at Valorant Masters London have proved themselves to be the most adaptable to the patches that came before it.
In London, teams will once again be asked to adapt to recent Neon changes, but there will be few reservations surrounding the ability of those five to come up with new ideas in a different game state.
Of those rosters, Paper Rex seems the best placed to claim another Masters title to complement their Masters Toronto 2025 victory. The roster managed second in Santiago, falling to fellow Pacific roster Nongshim at the event, who are now absent.
G2 will be hoping that their domestic dominance can give way to international success as the roster secured their fourth split out of a last possible 5 with their VCT Americas victory, but in Santiago, they were once again outperformed by regional rivals and Valorant Champions 2025 winners NRG on the international stage.
Ethan ‘Ethan’ Arnold has proven himself time and time again to be an elite problem solver and meta-defining IGL in Valorant, and NRG will be relying on his skills again if they want to claim another international title.
As for EMEA, the region has zero returning rosters from Santiago after Fnatic once again missed out on an international. The lack of international pedigree at VCT events will have to be counterbalanced by Heretic’s experience of winning EWC 2025, and Vitality’s player experience in the form of former Fnatic members Timofey ‘Chronicle’ Khromov and Nikita ‘Derke’ Sirmitev.
Prediction: Paper Rex
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Darragh is an Esports Journalist for Insider Gaming specialising in Counter-Strike. He loves to explore how esports teams work, or why they very often do not.
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