How the world's biggest esports tournaments are structured — qualification paths, stage formats, prize pool breakdowns and historical context.
Challengers, Legends, Champions stages, qualifying and prize pools
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HLTV ranking explained — point decay, LAN weighting, tournament tiers
Leagues, Masters, Champions — how Valorant's world circuit works
Pick rates by role, top agents, composition logic and meta drivers
Play-In, Swiss stage, knockouts, regional seeding and Bo5 rules
Regional qualifiers, group stage, double-elimination bracket and prize pool history
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