VALORANT Champions 2026 reaches its final four
LOUD, G2, 100 Thieves and Vitality remain in contention as VALORANT Champions 2026 heads towards its Shanghai finale.
VALORANT Champions 2026 has reached its final four, with LOUD, G2 and 100 Thieves representing VCT Americas alongside Vitality. The result leaves Pacific without a team in the tournament’s closing bracket. 1
The remaining bracket
Vitality will face LOUD in the Upper Bracket Final, while G2 meets 100 Thieves in the Lower Bracket Semi-Final. The upper-bracket winner goes straight to the Grand Final; the loser gets another route through the lower bracket. 1
LOUD reached the final four after beating defending champions NRG 2-0, including a 13-3 final map, according to Esports.net’s bracket report. G2 previously upset 100 Thieves in the opening upper-bracket round, but both teams now face elimination if they lose their next meeting. 1
The four remaining teams will continue the event at Shanghai’s Mercedes-Benz Arena. Riot’s official Champions Shanghai material confirms the tournament’s Shanghai setting and the event branding used for the official artwork accompanying this story. 2
Our opinion
The bracket has a clean narrative: three Americas teams against Vitality, with G2 and 100 Thieves facing the most immediate pressure. The Pacific exit is the headline statistic, but the more interesting contest is whether LOUD or Vitality can turn the upper route into a Grand Final place before the lower bracket catches up.
Sources describe the confirmed bracket and event context; they do not provide match dates or start times, so none are included here.