VCT 2025 Masters Bangkok: How to Watch, Schedule, Teams

This week, on February 20, the VCT 2025: Masters Bangkok begins and marks the first international LAN event of the VCT season. Eight of the best teams from the four International Leagues are competing for a total $500,000 prize pool and crucial VCT Points. Last year, the opening Masters event set a new peak viewership record for Valorant, having set the bar high for the new edition.

Valorant Masters Bangkok 2025 Tournament Page at Esports Charts

Heading to Thailand for the first time, the event will take place at the UOB Live. As Valorant continues to develop and find audiences in the Asian markets, hosting its international LAN events across Southeast Asia is a key tool for the developers to generate local excitement and interest in their flourishing esports title.

However, the event’s situation in Asia may have a negative effect on North and South American audiences, two of Valorant esports’ most critical major demographics. The time zone difference means that fans from the Americas will have to wake up in the twilight dawn to catch the action; for Valorant fans based on the United States’ west coast, the day of action will begin at 2am, likely ending just as the sun begins to rise. With this in mind, usual fan favorites Sentinels might struggle to generate the massive peaks we have seen them achieve at previous international tournaments.

Valorant Masters Bangkok 2025 teams

Americas: G2 Esports, Sentinels
Pacific: DRX, T1
EMEA: Team Vitality, Team Liquid
China: EDward Gaming, Trace Esports

Looking at the teams qualified for Masters Bangkok, there are some key audiences for Valorant esports unfortunately unrepresented. Firstly, no team from Latin America managed to qualify for the Masters event, although MIBR came quite close. Both French and Spanish audiences from EMEA are also left with few options to cheer for: while it is true Team Vitality has qualified for the event, French Valorant viewers seem more interested in supporting the teams backed by content creators, such as Gentle Mates and Karmine Corp.

Japanese audiences continue to have no local teams to root for at Masters. The last year a Japanese team qualified for a Masters event was 2022, and viewership from this demographic reached almost 420,000 Peak Viewers, rivalling Valorant’s strong North American and international English-speaking audiences.

Age and country data for players attending VCT 2025: Masters Bangkok, powered by our extensive database of esports players and teams

Valorant Masters Bangkok 2025 streams:

As usual, the VCT Masters will be streamed by official broadcasts across multiple languages. No matter what corner of the world fans come from, Riot Games provides an official localized viewing experience:

English (Twitch, YouTube);
Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese (Twitch, YouTube);
Japanese (Twitch, YouTube);
Korean (YouTube, SOOP Korea);
French (Twitch);
Spanish (Twitch LATAM, Twitch Spain, YouTube);
Thai (YouTube, Twitch);
… and more.

For those who prefer a more casual and laid-back vibe to the esports, watch parties have you covered across all audiences. Esports Charts has curated a list of some of Valorant’s top co-streamers, so our users can find their ideal broadcast:

Tarik “tarik” Celik (English);
Kyedae “Kyedae” Shymko (English);
Tyson “TenZ” Ngo (English);
Oscar “mixwell” Cañellas (Spanish);
Andre "TheMentalCraft" Nobre (Brazilian-Portuguese);
Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom (French);
Hiromichi “im_mittiii” Urahigashi (Japanese);
Mai Nam "Bomman" Hải (Vietnamese).
... and many more!

Valorant Masters Bangkok 2025 schedule:

Swiss Stage: Feb 20 – 24, 2025
Playoffs: Feb 27 – Mar 02, 2025

The event kicks off with an eight-team Swiss Stage, with each team being paired up against a competitor from another International League. Two wins are all that is required to advance to the four-team Playoffs, which feature a double-elimination bracket. If a team loses two games during the Swiss Stage, they will be eliminated.

Throughout the entire event, all games will be played as best-of-threes, with the exclusion of the lower bracket final and grand finals. These two matches will be played as best-of-fives, giving esports broadcasters plenty of time to reach high peak viewerships. If the grand finals feature two popular teams and go to the final map, this year could yet return extremely strong viewership results for Valorant esports.

The VCT also just announced that the Showmatch before the grand final will feature Team Thailand vs Team International. The Thai squad will be headed by Nattawat "SuperBusS" Yoosawat, and Tyson “TenZ” Ngo will lead its international counterpart. English-language viewership falling for the VCT Americas has coincided with TenZ’s retirement, and his participation here could make it one of the VCT’s most popular showmatches ever.

First round matches:

11:00 CET, February 20, 2025, EDward Gaming vs. Team Liquid
14:00 CET, February 20, 2025, DRX vs. Sentinels
11:00 CET, February 21, Team Vitality vs. T1
14:00 CET, February 21, G2 Esports vs. Trace Esports

Valorant enjoyed its most successful year ever in terms of watch time in 2024, as reported in our Counter-Strike vs. Valorant article, but the upcoming Masters Bangkok has a tall order to replicate last year’s viewership. Esports Charts will track live viewership data for the event, and update the tournament page with relevant viewership statistics as matches end. Keep your finger on the pulse of esports broadcasting with our esports broadcasting viewership database.