VALORANT Champions 2026 opens in Shanghai on September 24, and Dexsport is using the season finale to extend its recent push into major esports events.
The Web3 betting platform has launched a freebet offer that will run across the entire tournament, returning 5% of qualifying weekly betting turnover as a freebet. The reward is capped at $5,000 per player each week, according to Dexsport’s promotion announcement.
There is some logic to stretching the offer across the full event rather than concentrating it around the final. Champions closes the 2026 VALORANT Champions Tour and brings together 16 teams from Americas, EMEA, Pacific and China. Riot Games’ own VCT handbook describes Shanghai as the “final and most prestigious event of the year”.
The tournament runs through October 18, leaving almost four weeks between the first matches and the world championship being decided.
The Freebet Resets Each Week
Dexsport has built the offer around that longer tournament schedule.
Qualifying activity is divided into four weekly periods, beginning with September 24–28 before resetting for the following week. Players who reach at least $100 in eligible turnover during a cycle receive a freebet equal to 5% of their qualifying stakes for that period.
Both pre-match and live bets count, as do singles and accumulators. Individual qualifying bets require a minimum $10 stake and odds of at least 1.4; an accumulator needs to contain at least one VALORANT Champions selection.
The maths is relatively straightforward. A player reaching $100 in qualifying turnover receives a $5 freebet, while $4,000 produces $200. The ceiling is $5,000 per player in each weekly cycle.
Only settled real-money bets are included. Cashed-out and voided bets, along with stakes placed using freebet funds, do not count towards the total. Rewards are credited automatically within 72 hours after each cycle closes.
That gives the campaign a slightly different rhythm from a conventional one-off tournament bonus: activity starts again from zero each week, while the promotion itself continues through to the Grand Final.
“Like a lot of VALORANT fans, we’re genuinely excited for the Champions Tour finale in Shanghai,” said Ivan Muller, CEO of Dexsport. “Esports has been a major focus for Dexsport throughout 2026, from our partnership with OG to campaigns around some of the biggest tournaments of the year. VALORANT is another community we’ve wanted to get closer to, and this challenge gives us a great opportunity to be part of the action throughout the event.”
VALORANT Joins a Bigger Esports Push
The reference to OG is not incidental.
In May, Dexsport became the official Web3 betting partner of OG Esports and headline sponsor of its Counter-Strike 2 roster. The team subsequently began competing as OG.Dexsport, with the collaboration extending into tournament activations, content and community campaigns rather than stopping at jersey branding.
Dexsport has also been using individual tournaments as a way into different esports audiences. Recent campaigns have been built around major CS2 and Dota 2 events, while Champions now brings VALORANT into the same mix.
The esports activity has developed alongside a broader change in the product itself. Earlier this month, Dexsport formally introduced Prediction Markets as a third major product area beside its sportsbook and casino, with Yes/No markets covering subjects from sports and crypto to economics, politics and entertainment.
That combination of product expansion and esports activity has already received some recognition. In the 2026 CryptoDaily Awards, Dexsport was Crypto Daily’s choice among the established leaders in iGaming. The Awards highlighted the launch of Prediction Markets, the OG.Dexsport partnership and community campaigns around major sports and esports events among the developments that stood out during the year.
VALORANT Champions adds another major tournament to that 2026 run, but with a format designed around following the competition week after week rather than a single marquee match.
The first promotional cycle begins alongside the opening Champions matches on September 24. The final one closes with the Shanghai Grand Final on October 18.
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