FAQ

Project Blender is a new tournament format designed to provide a competitive experience for all players, regardless of their skill level, gender, or gaming experience.

This new approach allows existing teams or those formed for the occasion to compete against the big names in the EMEA scene during four phases spanning from October to December 2025.

During these four competitive phases, the formats will evolve, giving each game played greater strategic and tactical depth while allowing players to earn valuable bounties based on their performance.

Open to all, Project Blender will be broadcast on official channels, but the progress of each player and team can be freely broadcast, in accordance with an ethical charter provided by us.

Blender Draft is a new competitive approach in VALORANT.

How does Blender Draft work?

In a BO3 match, two teams face off against each other.

Before the match begins, a coin toss determines which team will start the map pick and ban phase, modelled on the VCT sequence.

The team that wins the coin toss is Team A. The team that loses is Team B.

On Map 1, Team A will play a roster of agents. This roster of agents will be banned for Team A on Map 2 and Map 3, if played.

On Map 1, Team B will play a roster of agents. This roster of agents will be banned for Team B on Map 2 and only on Map 2. If there is a Map 3, the roster of agents played by Team B on Map 2 will be banned on Map 3.

This adds an extra layer of strategic depth, as your drafts must be carefully considered to give you tactical options for your upcoming games. A draft is therefore designed for several games, not just the map you are currently playing.

All the latest information about Project Blender will be available across all our official channels.

The nerve center of the tournament, find news, highlights of the season, and your personal space on the official competition website: www.project-blender.com

Don't miss any live action or key information about the competition on our X channel (formerly Twitter): @ProjectBlender_ and Instagram: Project Blender.

In addition to these accounts, the EMEA VCT social channels will relay a significant amount of information about Project Blender.

1. Go to https://www.project-blender.com/en/registration.
2. Click on the "Log in with your Riot ID" button.
3. Log in to your Riot Games account (or confirm if you are already logged in on your browser).
4. Fill in the required information to complete your profile.
5. You are now fully logged in to the website. 

1. Go to https://www.project-blender.com/en/connection.
2. Click on the "Log in with your Riot ID" button.
3. Log in to your Riot Games account (or confirm if you are already logged in on your browser).
4. You are now fully logged in to the website. 

1. Log in to the website.
2. Go to https://www.project-blender.com/en/teams/create.
3. Fill out the form to create your team.
4. You will automatically become the team’s administrator. 

1. Once you are a team administrator, go to https://www.project-blender.com/en/teams/list.
2. Click on the "Manage team" icon.
3. From there, you can:
   • Accept or decline player requests
   • Remove members from the team
   • Transfer administrator rights to another member 

1. Log in to the website.
2. Go to https://www.project-blender.com/en/teams/request.
3. Search for the team you want to join.
4. Click the "Ask to join" button and confirm.
5. The team administrator will review your request and either accept or decline it. 

1. You must be a team administrator.
2. Go to https:// www.project-blender.com /en/tournament/1000/application.
3. If registration is open, you will be able to:
   • Select the team you want to register
   • Choose between 5 and 10 players who will participate
   • Submit your application
4. A tournament administrator will review your application. Your team will either be accepted or declined for participation. 

Project Blender is open to all VALORANT players, whether you're competing for the first time, a veteran, or even a professional player.

In order to comply with VALORANT's PEGI 16 rating, the competition is open to players aged 16 and over.

In many countries, players under the age of 18 may need parental consent after changing regions. Parental consent can be found in each competitor's player area on the official competition website.

In order to participate in Project Blender, you must meet several requirements:

• Be at least 16 years of age.

• Provide parental consent if you are a minor in the territory in which you reside.

• Have a latency of less than or equal to 80ms on the Paris and/or Frankfurt servers.

You can check your latency on the Paris and Frankfurt servers directly in the game.

There are two ways to do this:

1. Go to Play > Custom Game > and select the server in question.

2. Go to any game mode other than Custom Game via Play and hover over the latency icon.

Yes, it is possible to register for Project Blender if you are a professional VALORANT player.

You can register for the Phase 1 Open Qualifier with a mix of players of your choice, including professional VALORANT players or not.

Registration for Project Blender will open on September 10, 2025, at 15:00 CEST.

Registration for Project Blender will close on September 29, 2025, at 23:59 CEST.

Yes! This tournament is an official VCT Presents Series tournament produced by Gozulting.

Project Blender is divided into four phases:

• An Open Qualifier with up to 1,024 teams called Phase 1.

• A round robin with 64 teams called Phase 2.

• A Swiss round with 32 teams called Phase 3.

• A single elimination final phase with 16 teams called Phase 4.

To join Phase 1 of Project Blender, you must register your team on the official competition website between September 10 and September 29, 2025.

There are several ways to qualify for Phase 2:

• via Phase 1 by winning a spot in Phase 2 through the Open Qualifier.

• by winning a direct invitation via the Blender Spotlight tournament.

• by winning a direct invitation via Premier tournaments. The list of Premier partner tournaments will be announced at a later date.

• by winning a direct invitation through participation in the Game Changers EMEA tournament.

• by winning a direct invitation as the champion team of a VRC partner tournament. The list of VRC partner tournaments will be announced at a later date.

• by winning a direct invitation through participation in the Challengers tournaments.

There are several ways to qualify for Phase 3:

• via Phase 2 by earning a spot in Phase 3 through the round robin.

• by winning a direct invitation as the Blender Spotlight champion team.

• by winning a direct invitation as the Game Changers EMEA champion team.

• by winning a direct invitation through participation in the VCT EMEA tournament.

• by winning a direct invitation through participation in the Ascension tournament.

There is only one way to reach Phase 4:

• via Phase 3 by earning your spot in Phase 4 through the Swiss round.

The Project Blender Challenger Call is a new competitive feature added exclusively to Project Blender.

When a team wins an entire phase, it earns the privilege of choosing its first opponent in the next phase.

This means that a team that qualified for Phase 2 via Phase 1 will be able to choose which team it wants to face in the first round of Phase 2.

When you you win against a team from a higher phase than yours, you will earn a Bounty: a portion of Project Blender’s cash prize.

For example: a team from Phase 1 winning in Phase 3 against a team from Phase 3 will win a Bounty.

However, a team from Phase 2 winning in Phase 3 against a team from Phase 2 will not win any Bounty.

Phase 1 of Project Blender is an Open Qualifier featuring up to 1,024 teams competing in a single-elimination bracket.

Sixteen teams from Phase 1 will advance to Phase 2.

Phase 2 of Project Blender consists of 8 groups of 8 teams competing in a round robin system.

Each team will play every other team in its group in a BO3 match. Each BO3 win will earn points for the team.

The top two teams from each group will advance to Phase 3.

Phase 3 of Project Blender consists of 32 teams competing in a Swiss System format.

Deciding matches will be played in BO3 format, while other matches will be played in BO1 format.

The 16 teams that achieve 3 wins in Phase 3 will advance to Phase 4.

Phase 4 of Project Blender consists of a single elimination bracket.

Within this single-elimination bracket, matches will be played in BO3 format.

At the end of the matches in the single-elimination bracket, the teams reaching the semifinals will compete on LAN and in studio.

 Phase 1, consisting of an Open Qualifier, will take place on October 11 and 12, 2025.

 Phase 2 will take place from November 7 to 16, 2025.

 Phase 3 will take place from December 3 to 7, 2025.

 Phase 4 will take place from December 8 to 14, 2025.

Some of the matches will be broadcast live, but not all of them!

The matches will be available to watch on the Twitch channel VALORANT_emea and on the official Project Blender channel.

Other matches will also be broadcast on the various channels of players, teams, content creators, and commentators.

Yes, of course!

We have set up a form allowing you to apply to comment on the many parts of Project Blender.

You can find it here.

Absolutely!

You can share all of your games with your community on various live streaming platforms, as well as host VODs and highlights from your games on your various social media accounts.

We will provide more details in the near future regarding the various rules that must be followed.