The Valorant Champions Tour has been making a lot of headlines in 2023. The tournament has always been one of the significant e-sports competitions in the industry. Recently, the banter between Alfajer and Demon1 has gotten a lot of attention. As we move closer to the final phase, the hype around the competition is surreal. Now, the latest revelation by the Riot Games has left the fans impressed.
While all the teams aim for the crown of the Valorant Champion Tournament, the Champions bundle is a major source of revenue generation for the participants. According to Riot Games, the response to this year’s bundle collection has surpassed all the previous thresholds. Moreover, the figures seemed to have even crossed the winning amount of the tournament.
Valorant Champions Bundle 2023 response is insane!
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Riot Games released this year’s Champions Bundle on August 4 at a cost of approximately $60. The bundle includes two skins and three essentials. In the most recent announcement, Valorant’s developers claimed that the bundle had already collected over 20 million dollars from the independent team sales.
The participating teams are entitled to half of the profit made by the sales. This means that all the 16 participating teams would be subjected to a distribution of 1.25 million dollars in net profit. To understand the scale of the profit, the winning amount of the valorant tournament is a million dollars.
Gaming fans have constantly claimed 2023’s Valorant Tour to be the most successful of all. These sales numbers are just proof of how splendid the response the tournament has been receiving globally. Moreover, the numbers are only expected to grow as the competition reaches the final phase at Kia Forum.
Valorant Champs has already raised $40 million through it's skin bundle, giving VCT Champs teams $20 million already…
Nobody does it like Riot that's insane pic.twitter.com/kHG8bApsWv
— Jake Lucky (@JakeSucky) August 23, 2023
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The last four teams Evil Geniuses, Paper Rex, Fnatic, and LOUD battled it out for the crown in the last three days. So for all the eSports fans, just a few days are left to catch your bundle collection as the bundle will be closed by August 29.
Comparison from previous years
This isn’t the first time that the Valorant Champion Tournament has dominated the industry with some phenomenal sales. But certainly, over the past few years, the popularity seems to get bigger. The participating teams’ combined earnings in 2022 were over $16 million, a 70% increase over the $9.36 million reported the year before.
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It has certainly been a perfect e-sports winter for the Valorant creators. Every year, the Tournament inspires a lot of young gaming enthusiasts to consider virtual culture as a profession. Certainly, headlines like these only fuel the motivation. It will be exciting to see what would be the closing numbers of the sales by the end of the sale.
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