

They also hired several third-party companies to broadcast their events, such as Liga de Videojuegos Profesional (LVP) for their Spanish-language broadcasts and LetsPlay.Live for their Oceania broadcasts. Riot hired esports infrastructure company Nerd Street Gamers to be the operators and producers for all North American Challengers and Masters events. In February 2021, they announced the VCT Game Changers, a supplementary tournament initiative for women and marginalized genders. Teams that advance past Challengers would move on to Masters, where teams would not be divided by regions anymore, and the top 16 teams from Masters would move on to Champions, the final tournament of VCT. Challengers would act as the lowest tier, split into six regions. In November 2020, Riot Games announced the first Valorant Champions Tour, a tournament series divided into three tiers: Challengers, Masters, and Champions. The VCT was announced in 2020, with its inaugural season taking place in 2021.

The series runs multiple events throughout each season, culminating in Valorant Champions, the top-level event of the tour. The Valorant Champions Tour ( VCT) is a global competitive esports tournament series for the video game Valorant organised by Riot Games, the game's developers.
