The Valorant Masters Berlin 2021, also known as Valorant Masters 2021 Stage 3, was a global tournament organized by Riot Games for the first first-person shooter game Valorant as part of the Valorant Champions Tour 2021 competitive season. The tournament is the second global LAN tournament to be hosted by the game, and it served as one of the qualifying tournaments leading to its global crowning event of the season, the 2021 Valorant Champions. The tournament was held from September 10–19, 2021, in Berlin, Germany.
Gambit Esports won the championship after defeating Team Envy, via 3–0 sweep in the best-of-5 grand final to become the champions of the tournament and automatically qualify for the Valorant Champions.
Background The tournament served as one of the qualifying tournaments leading to the world championship with the winner earning an automatic qualification to the global event of the season. With this, it was set to accommodate 16 teams who qualified via the regional Challengers leagues globally, and one of them is Bren Esports who originally qualified for the tournament as the Southeast Asian Challengers Champions. However, due to visa issues and the national restrictions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the team were forced to withdraw from the tournament and has left the tournament with 15 teams.
Qualification Region Path TeamsEMEA VCT EMEA Stage 3 Challengers Champion Gambit Esports VCT EMEA Stage 3 Challengers runner-up SuperMassive Blaze VCT EMEA Stage 3 Challengers third placer VCT EMEA Stage 3 Challengers fourth placer G2 EsportsNorth America VCT North America Stage 3 Challengers Champion Sentinels VCT North America Stage 3 Challengers runner-up 100 Thieves VCT North America Stage 3 Challengers third placer Team EnvyBrazil VCT Brazil Stage 3 Challengers Champion Keyd Stars VCT Brazil Stage 3 Challengers runner-up Havan Liberty Latin America VCT LATAM Stage 3 Challengers Champion KRÜ EsportsSoutheast Asia VCT Southeast Asia Stage 3 Challengers Champion Bren Esports VCT Southeast Asia Stage 3 Challengers runner-up Paper RexJapan VCT Japan Stage 3 Challengers Champion ZETA Division VCT Japan Stage 3 Challengers runner-up Crazy RaccoonSouth Korea VCT Korea Stage 3 Challengers Champion Vision Strikers VCT Korea Stage 3 Challengers runner-up Team F4Q
Group Stage The group stage was a GSL-style double elimination format, with only two teams per group qualified to the playoffs. All matches in the group stage were a best-of-three series.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D As a result of Bren Esports' withdrawal from the tournament, the format for this group has been changed from GSL-style double-elimination format to a double round-robin format.
Playoffs The top two teams from each group qualified for the single-elimination crossover knockout stage. Teams are seeded in which the group winner will be paired against the second-seed of another group, which meant that teams from the same group can only meet until the Final.
The tournament saw Team Envy pull off a stunning upset with a 2-0 victory over the tournament favorites, Sentinels, while 100 Thieves staged a remarkable comeback in the quarterfinals, overturning a 7-12 deficit to secure a 14-12 win on Map 3, Breeze. In the semifinals, Team Envy secured victory over 100 Thieves, driven by yay’s dominant performance on Jett, delivering a remarkable 51-26 kill death score, while Gambit secured a 2-0 victory over G2, achieving the first-ever international 13-0 map win. Gambit then dominated the grand finals against Team Envy with a clean 3-0 sweep, securing their qualification for Valorant Champions 2021.
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Grand Final
Final rankings Qualified for the 2021 Valorant Champions Position Team name Circuit Points Winnings (USD) Gambit Esports — $225,000 Team Envy 375 $125,0003rd–4th 100 Thieves 325 $85,000 G2 Esports5th–8th 275 $25,000 Sentinels Vision Strikers KRÜ Esports9th–12th SuperMassive Blaze 225 $10,000Keyd StarsCrazy RaccoonTeam F4Q13th–15th Paper Rex 175 $10,000 ZETA Division Havan Liberty Bren Esports
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