Acend and Sentinels win VCT Masters Stage 1 Europe and NA: recap & final placements

With the Challengers leg of Valorant Champions Tour over and done with, we moved on to VCT Masters. Here’s everything you need to know about how the EU and NA’s Masters tournaments played out, including final scores, standings and competitors.

• Sentinels easily swept FaZe Clan 3-0 to bring home the NA hardware.
• Underdogs Acend pulled off upset against Heretics to become EU Champs.
• FaZe Clan get their rematch with Sentinels after beating Gen.G 2-0.

After VCT Challengers Stage 1 wrapped up for NA and EU, the competitors were thinned out for the Masters level competitions.

With upsets galore (on the EU side at least) and a few unfamiliar faces, the tournament will definitely be one to remember.

This wasn’t the end-all, be-all for the Champion’s Tour, so if the event calendar has you a little baffled, then check out our comprehensive explainer right here.

If you’re looking to get up-to-speed with global coverage, our dedicated global hub has all of the info you’ll need! For now, here’s a complete rundown on the NA and EU Masters competition.

VCT Masters NA Final Placements

On the NA side of things it was all Sentinels.

Babybay and the boys easily handled FaZe in the Upper Bracket final 2-0, and it was just more of the same at the Grand Final, which ended 3-0 in their favor.

Besides being $60k richer, Sentinels are now looking like the reigning top dogs of North American Valorant, and with players like TenZ performing top of their class, it will be interesting to see if anyone can take them down.

VCT Masters EU Final Placements

Team Heretics were the odds-on favorites to come out on top in this tournament but Acend obviously had other ideas, coming from behind in the losers bracket to edge out a 2-3 stunner in the Grand Final.

When the dust settled, it was the underdogs Acend Club who were the last team left standing in the EU bracket, taking home $60,000 of the $150,000 total prize pool. The full final placements can be found down below:

VCT Masters NA: Qualified Teams

Having survived a grueling round of qualifiers, some of the teams we’ve seen make it to Masters NA are familiar faces, but others are not.

With the likes of TSM and Cloud9 failing to make the cut, we’ll see a whole selection of teams duking it out for the first Masters crown.

VCT Masters NA schedule and results

VCT Masters NA runs from March 12 – 21.

Day 1: Thursday, March 11

Day 2: Friday, March 12

Day 3: Saturday, March 13

Day 4: Sunday, March 14

Day 5: Friday, March 19

Day 6: Saturday March 20

Day 7: Sunday March 21

VCT Masters EU: Qualified Teams

Challengers EU certainly shook up the competitive landscape. Challengers 3 came down to the final round of action but ultimately, the likes of Fnatic and G2 Esports had their Masters dreams crushed by hot prospects in the region.

With relative newcomers such as Ballista and Raise Your Edge showing off a dominant performance, it’ll be interesting to see how the shape up against some of Europe’s most established orgs.

VCT Stage 1 Europe: schedule and results

VCT Masters EU runs from March 12 to 21.

Day 1: Friday, March 12

Day 2: Saturday, March 13

Day 3: Sunday, March 14

Day 4: Thursday, March 18

Day 5: Friday, March 19

Day 6: Saturday, March 20

Day 7: Sunday, March 21