UPDATE 8/5: FaZe Clan has confirmed the signing of Rawkus as its fifth VALORANT player, which completes its starting roster. Rawkus was a member of FaZe Clan in 2016 at the start of his professional Overwatch career, and will now return to the organization to start his VALORANT career.
An incredible cosplay of Killjoy has surfaced only five days after Riot Games' announcement of the new VALORANT agent coming to the game in Act II. German cosplayer 'farbenfuchs' cosplayed the German agent to perfection in a photoshoot with Shattered Light Photography.
The Support joined Houston Outlaws' first roster in 2017 and spent the entirety of his Overwatch League career with the squad.
The players on Sentinels' VALORANT team can crown themselves the new kings of North America after a 3-1 victory over Cloud9 in the PAX Arena Invitational. Sentinels' championship win is its first in the Ignition Series.
Riot Games is reworking the Ranked Mode for VALORANT later this week, but Senior Producer Ian "Brighteyez" Fielding revealed what players could expect upon queueing up in a blog post on the official VALORANT website.
On Jun 18, esports organization T1's CEO Joe "JoeMar" Marsh called out fellow esports org G2 Esports for having a smaller prize pool than T1 for the org's VALORANT Ignition Series. The tweet itself, while meant in good fun and consistent of nothing but harmless banter, highlighted how rivalries between esports organizations could benefit the developing esports infrastructure of VALORANT, which was officially released on June 2, 2020.
Riot Games has fired Ron Johnson and provided the following statement to Inven Global:
T1 signed Tyler "Skadoodle" Latham, a former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professional player, as the fifth and final player to round out its starting roster on June 3.
The 100 Thieves Valorant team will be captained by Hiko, a former professional CS:GO player who has been a professional esports athlete for over 10 years. Hiko previously played for teams such as Cloud9 and Team Liquid. In addition to being a professional Valorant player, Hiko is one of the top 5 most watched Valorant streamers on Twitch as of June 2020.
Esports organization TSM has announced the signing of a competitive VALORANT team. Riot Games' upcoming tactical shooter is being released on June 2nd, and TSM is the 5th organization to announce the
IMT has signed four of the five players needed to complete a full VALORANT team, but the final player has yet to be announced.
Mobalytics specializes in League of Legends and has recently expanded to Riot Games' card game Legends of Runeterra. The tweet from T1's official twitter account announcing the investment and collaboration also features a link to sign up early for access to Mobalytics' VALORANT programs.
Riot Games' upcoming tactical shooter VALORANT has expanded its closed Beta access to Brazil, Latin America, and Korea, and with the playerbase growing exponentially, the VALORANT developers published an update on the official VALORANT Beta website to address community feedback on ranked, provide updates on the anti-cheat program 'VANGUARD', and the conundrum of 'Peeker's Advantage.'
Riot Games' Anna "RiotSuperCakes" Donlon, the Executive 'Decider of Things' for the VALORANT team, gave a short vlog announcement regarding the news, as well as more specifics in terms of the next phases of global rollout for the closed Beta.
UPDATED 5/1 - Joseph Ziegler, VALORANT game director at Riot Games, has confirmed in a tweet that unrated games do not have an effect on how ranked matchmaking occurs after a player's initial rating is determine
UPDATE 4/30 - The VALORANT Closed Beta has had some difficulties in maintaining server stability to launch Competitive mode. As of 3:30pm PT, the ranked ladder has gone live for North America. If all goes well for NA, then EU will have access to Competitive mode after the hotfix drops on May 1 at 9:30pm CEST. Riot Game also tweeted that Competitive mode could be pulled 'at anytime if things get weird.'
Patch 0.49, an upcoming patch Riot Games' tactical shooter VALORANT, will bring the Competitive game mode to the Closed Beta for the first time. On the morning of Friday, April 24, Riot released a guide to the VALORANT's Competitive mode so players can understand how the game's ranking system will work upon its update.
The primary subjects of the update were the game balance conversation centered around Raze, who is considered to be the most powerful agent in the game, and concerns surrounding how VALORANT Is planning on putting Anti-Cheat measures into action on a new level
Riot Games has patched the VALORANT Closed Beta with Patch 0.47+, which primarily addresses the balancing of Raze, Cypher's hilarious 'camera-gun' bug, and environmental changes. A patch during a beta phase is unusual, but the VALORANT developers have done an excellent job in responding to the community's feedback about the upcoming tactical shooter, which is set for release sometime this year.
Esports organization TSM announced that it would begin accepting applications for VALORANT, Riot Games' tactical shooter that is currently in Closed Beta. TSM is looking for both players and content creators of VALORANT and included an application link in its tweet announcing the news.
