LOUD beat Team Vitality 3-1 in the VALORANT Champions 2026 grand final, taking the Brazilian organisation's second world championship and making it the first team in VALORANT esports to win two Champions titles. The best-of-five finished in four maps, and LOUD collected $1 million in prize money.
In-game leader Roberto "erde" Lobos was named MVP. Esports Insider recorded him as the tournament MVP and Esports.gg as the final's MVP.
A rookie roster closes the franchise era
Esports.gg reported that LOUD fielded the youngest roster at the tournament, at an average age of 19.8. Alongside Lobos, the winning five were Lucca "luk xo" Travaioli, Juan "Darker" Castro Cicuamia, David "DaviH" Cruz and Enzo "tkzin" Guimarães Zimiani. At 18, tkzin was the youngest player on the team and was in his first Tier 1 season, having been loaned to LOUD by KRÜ Spark in July.
LOUD's first Champions win came in 2022, with a roster that included Erick "aspas" Santos and Gustavo "Sacy" Ross. Esports.gg noted that the organisation's titles bookend VALORANT's franchise era: the 2026 final closed the existing VCT format, and Esports Insider reported that the circuit is set to move in 2027 to a more open ecosystem with more tournaments, with partner teams remaining in it.
Lobos dedicated the win to his mother, who he said died two days before LOUD's opening match of the event against EDward Gaming.
I dedicate this win to my mom, she died two days before our EDG game. I couldn't believe it, she was doing really well with her disease. I dedicate this tournament to her. I only play for her.
Viewership
Esports Charts put the grand final's peak audience at 1.49 million, which Esports Insider reported as around 1.21% above the figure for VALORANT Champions 2025. No other match at the event passed one million; the next highest was LOUD's upper-bracket quarterfinal against Paper Rex, at nearly 886,000. The Portuguese-language peak audience rose 89.2% year on year, and the number of unique channels broadcasting the event grew by around 50 across the last two editions. Esports Charts' all-time VALORANT high still belongs to VCT 2024: Masters Madrid, the only event to have passed 1.6 million concurrent viewers.
LOUD and Team Vitality met three times across Champions 2026. Vitality took their group-stage meeting 2-0; LOUD won the upper-bracket final 2-1 and the grand final 3-1.
