Karmine Corp and Team Vitality were eliminated from VCT 2025: EMEA Stage 1

Karmine Corp and Team Vitality have been knocked out of VCT 2025: EMEA Stage 1. Both teams suffered defeats in the lower bracket — KC falling to NAVI and Team Vitality losing to FUT Esports — ending their hopes of qualifying for Masters Toronto 2025.

Karmine Corp vs NAVI
As we predicted, the match between NAVI and Karmine Corp ended with a 2:1 scoreline. It began with a painful overtime loss for KC on Icebox (12:14). The second map, Split, was also a tight contest — this time ending 13:11 in NAVI’s favor. KC fought hard to stay in the race for Masters Toronto, mounting a comeback from 9:3 to 9:9, but once again fell short 13:11. The final score: 2:1 in NAVI’s favor. Despite two incredible clutches from hiro , the MVP title went to Ruxic with 60 kills and 233 ACS. Full match stats can be found via this link.

Team Vitality vs FUT Esports
In a surprising outcome, Team Vitality were eliminated by FUT Esports in a one-sided lower bracket match. The series ended 2:0 (Fracture 13:7, Split 13:6). With this loss, Vitality’s hopes for Masters Toronto 2025 are over — a shocking result for a team that had previously dominated the region and won the EMEA Kickoff. More detailed match stats are available here.

VCT 2025: EMEA Stage 1 runs from March 26 to May 18 in a LAN format at Riot Games Arena in BerLIN . Twelve partnered EMEA teams are battling for three spots at Masters Toronto and valuable EMEA Points needed for Champions qualification.