Valorant guide
Valorant Champions and Masters winners
Valorant's history is shorter than Counter-Strike's, which changes how the quiz treats it: fewer elite events means a player needs only a handful of Masters or Champions appearances to count as easy tier. These are the titles that define the answer pool.
Champions titles
| Champions 2021 (Berlin) | Acend |
| Champions 2022 (Istanbul) | LOUD |
| Champions 2023 (Los Angeles) | Evil Geniuses |
| Champions 2024 (Seoul) | EDward Gaming |
Masters titles
| Masters Reykjavík 2021 | Sentinels |
| Masters Berlin 2021 | Gambit Esports |
| Masters Reykjavík 2022 | OpTic Gaming |
| Masters Copenhagen 2022 | FunPlus Phoenix |
| Masters Tokyo 2023 | Fnatic |
| Masters Madrid 2024 | Sentinels |
| Masters Shanghai 2024 | Gen.G |
| Masters Bangkok 2025 | T1 |
| Masters Toronto 2025 | Paper Rex |
Eras that decide a round
- 2021, the open era: regional qualifying rather than partnership slots, so line-ups from this year often feature organisations that no longer field a Valorant team — a strong clue on its own.
- 2023 onwards, franchising: rosters stabilise into Americas, EMEA, Pacific and China leagues, so a board of five players from the same region narrows the answer far more than it would in Counter-Strike.
- Role hints matter more: Valorant rounds expose duelist, controller, initiator and sentinel labels; a double-duelist board is a period marker, since compositions shifted with agent releases.
- Repeat winners: Sentinels appear twice with completely different five-man line-ups (Reykjavík 2021 and Madrid 2024), which is the most common near-miss in the quiz.
Difficulty in the Valorant pool
Because the circuit is young, the top of the appearance table sits around thirteen elite events (Derke, f0rsakeN), so easy tier starts at six appearances, medium covers two to five, and hard is a single elite appearance. Learn the Masters list above and most easy rounds resolve on the first or second reveal.