The winners of VCT Champions 2023 will take home a whopping $1 million from the $2.25 million prize pool.

Riot Games shocked fans as VALORANT Champions 2023 features more than double of the prize pool of its previous iterations. The upgrade in the prize pool will definitely boost the teams’ hunger for victory as the stakes are higher than before.

VALORANT Champions 2021 and 2022 both featured $1 million prize money. Now that the prize pool is $2.25 million, the winners of VALORANT Champions 2023 will bag a huge $1 million. The first runner-up will take home $400,00 which is $50,000 more than the prize money gained by the 2021 and 2022 Champions title holders.

The third placer will be awarded $250,000 while the fourth placer will get $130,000. The rest will be spread out to the remaining teams. There are 16 teams vying for the VALORANT Champions 2023 title. The teams took a different path such as the designated leagues for their regions, winners of VCT Last Chance Qualifiers, top three winners of Masters Tokyo, and three winners of China qualifiers.

It took a while for the prize pool of the biggest tournament of the year to be revealed. The recently concluded VCT Masters Tokyo had a $1 million prize pool, which marked the highest prize pool for a VCT Masters tournament. Before VCT Masters Tokyo, its iterations had prize pools that varied from $600,000 to $690,000.

As of this writing, Timofey "Chronicle" Khromov from Fnatic is the player with the highest tournament winnings estimated at $212,571.66. This was due to earning the title for VCT Masters Tokyo and winning 2nd place at VCT Champions 2021 under Gambit.

VCT Champions 2023 features highest VCT prize pool to date, winner bags $1 million