Who are the VALORANT VCT China partner teams?

In 2024, China officially joined the VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) with its own dedicated league. At the end of 2023, VALORANT developer Riot Games announced the 10 partner teams that would compete in the inaugural VCT China season alongside promoted team Dragon Ranger Gaming.

Despite China being the last of the fourth major international leagues — joining the Americas, EMEA and Pacific — the region has already made an impact on the international stage by claiming the VALORANT Champions 2024 trophy.

To find more about China’s league ahead of the 2025 season, Esports Insider has created a description of the 10 announced VCT China partner teams, as well as promoted teams Dragon Ranger Gaming and XLG Esports.

Most of the partner organisations are well-known to Western viewers due to their connections within League of Legends, Counter-Strike and other games, however, some are relatively unknown outside of China.

Although one of the lesser-known names in VCT China’s partner teams, All Gamers is a notable brand to CrossFire enthusiasts, especially in China. The organisation is one of the most successful CrossFire teams to date, winning the CrossFire Pro League more than 10 times and winning CrossFire Stars, the game’s World Championship, in 2021. 

In the LPL, League of Legends’ Chinese franchise competition, All Gamers compete as Anyone’s Legend. The team is also one of the oldest organisations on this list, first established in 1999. 

All Gamers’ VCT debut was a quiet endeavour with the organisation finishing largely mid-table and failing to qualify for an international event.

Bilibili Gaming is a Chinese esports organisation that has recently made headlines through its performances at the League of Legends League of Legends World Championship in 2023 (Semi-finalist) and 2024 (finalist). The organisation is owned by Chinese video-sharing website Bilibili.com.

BiliBili Gaming is one of the more experienced and established VALORANT teams in China, having competed at VALORANT Champions 2023 prior to the launch of VCT China. The organisation has proved to be a very competitive VALORANT team, performing well in international tournaments for more than two years. 

The organisation previously also owned Overwatch League franchise Hangzhou Spark before the competition disbanded in 2023.

Based in Shanghai, Edward Gaming is known for its success in a variety of different games and genres. Notably, the organisation won the League of Legends World Championship in 2021 and the Mid-Season Invitational in 2015.

In VALORANT, Edward Gaming participated in several major international tournaments, qualifying for VALORANT Champions in 2022 and 2023, as well as VCT Masters Tokyo 2023. Edward Gaming is one of the most successful Chinese VALORANT organisations in international tournaments, together with BiliBili Gaming and FunPlus Phoenix. Following the launch of VCT China, the organisation’s competitive success reached a new level with the team winning VALORANT Champions 2024.

Another team known more to Chinese viewers than those outside of the country, Titan is most famous for its PUBG Mobile team that competes in the Peacekeeper Elite League. Founded in 2021, the team notably won the Peacekeeper Elite League Summer in 2023 and is regarded as a notable team in the PUBG Mobile ecosystem.

In VALORANT, the team competed in the VALORANT China Evolution Series prior to joining VCT China. In its inaugural season in the league, the team failed to qualify for an international event.

A Chinese esports organisation with a long history of FPS successes, TYLOO is one of the most known Counter-Strike brands in Asia. Established in 2007, the organisation is considered a pioneer of Counter-Strike in China, helping grow the game’s popularity in the country.

In 2024, TYLOO qualified for IEM Chengdu 2024 and has competed at several BLAST and ESL events in the past.

Despite being an organisation focused on Counter-Strike, TYLOO did not have a strong VALORANT presence up until VCT China. However, the team did compete in local and regional tournaments, similar to other rosters on this list. In 2024, TYLOO largely placed in the lower to mid-table across VCT China’s stages.

Nova Esports is a well-known name across several mobile games, notably Call of Duty Mobile, PUBG Mobile and Arena of Valor. The company has operations in China and Europe, where it competes in Call of Duty Mobile. Nova Esports also entered Mobile Legends: Bang Bang in 2023 and won the PUBG Mobile Global Championship in 2021. 

The organisation was created in 2016 as a Class of Clans clan and, after a short time, established itself as one of the country’s notable mobile esports organisations. According to Nova’s website, the team competes in only mobile games with VALORANT being the only PC title the organisation is currently investing in. Nova Esports has so far failed to compete at an international VALORANT event.

JD Gaming is another organisation well-known for its success in League of Legends, where it won two splits of the LPL in 2023, the Mid-Season Invitational and was knocked out in the semi-finals of the 2023 World Championship by eventual winners T1. The organisation also fields a Wild Rift team which finished second at the Chinese WRL in 2022. JD Gaming is also owned by Chinese ecommerce website JD.com. 

In VALORANT, the organisation competed locally in China’s Evolution Series prior to VCT China. The organisation’s debut season saw JD Gaming fail to reach an international event.

Trace Esports is one of the lesser-known teams competing in VCT China. The team is most known for its Wild Rift roster which is a steady regional performer.

VALORANT became the first PC game that Trace Esports competes in. However, VCT China was not the first time the viewers saw the organisation. The roster already competed in the VCT Champions 2023 qualifiers in China, where it lost to FPX and did not make the event.

In 2024, following consistent domestic results, the organisation managed to reach VALORANT Champions making it to the quarter-finals.

An organisation owned by the Premier League football club Wolverhampton Wanderers, Wolves Esports is a result of the club’s major push into the Chinese market. Besides VALORANT, Wolves Esports also competes in Call of Duty Mobile, where it fields one of the strongest teams in the country (and the world). Wolves Esports won the Call of Duty Mobile World Championship in 2023 and has recorded three domestic Honor of Kings titles in three years.

The organisation has operations in Europe, but most of its success resides in Asia. In addition to VALORANT and Call of Duty, Wolves Esports also competes in Rainbow Six and Street Fighter, among several other games. 

The organisation’s debut in VCT China saw the team largely finish in the lower half of the table throughout the year.

An organisation known for League of Legends and Counter-Strike, FPX was another very strong and experienced organisation that entered VCT China. Operating in multiple markets since its creation in 2017, the company is owned by game development company FunPlus and was known for a steady CS:GO performer before its roster was disbanded.

Compared to some of the other teams in VCT China, FPX has a lot of high-tier VALORANT experience, albeit as an EMEA representative.

The organisation finished 4th at VALORANT Champions 2022 and won the VCT Stage 2 Masters in the same year, making it one of the more successful Chinese organisations internationally. As a Chinese representative, the organisation also competed at VALORANT Champions 2023.

In 2024, the organisation played the runner-up at all VCT China domestic competitions. As a result, FPX qualified for every VCT international event in 2024.

A team that made headlines after winning the first edition of the Ascension tournament in 2023, Dragon Ranger Gaming became the first promoted team for VCT China. Dragon Ranger Gaming is known for its success in mobile MOBA game Honor of Kings, where it placed second at the Honor of Kings International Championship 2022 and in several other high-profile tournaments, bringing home several six-figure prize pool amounts between 2018 and 2024.

In VALORANT, DRG competed in the Chinese qualifiers for the VALORANT Champions 2023, and the China Evolution Series, but its most notable achievement came in 2024 when it qualified for VCT 2024: Masters Shanghai.

The latest organisation to join VCT China is XLG Esports, a Chinese organisation that was founded in 2023 and has competes solely in VALOTANT.

XLG Esports, which is also referred to as XiLai Gaming, qualified for VCT China by beating Rare Atom in VCT Ascension China 2024. Alongside its promotion, the team also won 2024’s VALORANT China National Competition: Season 2, bouncing back from a difficult 2023 VALORANT China Evolution Series campaign.

Article first published: 15/02/24. Last updated: 11/11/24