The playoff bracket of EWC 2025 Valorant has been set with all four EMEA teams involved, following their advancement from the Group Stage.
While MSI has given EU absolutely no joy, Valorant’s tournament at EWC has thankfully given the region some respite in this week’s international competitions.
Fnatic, Team Heretics, BBL Esports, and Karmine Corp all advanced through to the group stages. Fnatic and BBL made the playoffs after winning their groups on the first day, with Heretics and Karmine Corp joining them following the 1-1 matches.
Sadly, Europe cannot continue the onslaught as Fnatic will play Karmine Corp, with BBL and Heretics set for a quarter-final clash on the other side of the bracket.
What regions did well in EWC 2025 Valorant groups?
Valorant’s EWC equally splits groups regionally, with four EMEA, Americas, China, and Pacific teams each dispersed equally amongst the groups.
EMEA, of course, fared the best out of the groups with two group winners and two group runners-up. China, on the other hand, were decimated at the event, with every team eliminated at the group stage, with 2024 Valorant Champions 2024 winners, EDward Gaming, eliminated in the last series of the groups.
Toronto Masters winners, Paper Rex, and Pacific partners, Gen.G, both look like possible champions, with Gen.G recovering from losing to Fnatic to demolish EDward Gaming 13-8, 13-4.
For NA, it was a mixed bag as a G2 were vanquished without Nathan ‘Leaf’ Orf, but NRG and Sentinels showed that they weren’t just NA’s historic orgs, but current contenders as NRG won their group and Sentinels recovered from their day one BO1 defeat to BBL to recover and qualify with victory over DRX.
It will only get harder for EMEA
While EMEA may be satisfied to have four teams through, the relative balance between regions appears to be holding true so far at EWC.
The Toronto Masters top four included a team from each region, with Fnatic, Paper Rex, Wolves, and G2 all present. While the EU teams won’t have to worry about in-form Wolves or G2 teams, they will have to worry about a Gen.G that sent Fnatic to the lower bracket in Toronto, and a Paper Rex that eliminated Heretics there.
However, with two EMEA teams guaranteed to get to the semi-finals, will EWC Valorant be EMEA’s first international victory since Masters Tokyo 2023?
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Darragh Harbinson is an esports writer specialising in Counter-Strike. He has written for Esports News UK, Esports Insider, UKCSGO, Dexerto, and Rush B Media.