Valorant Competitive mode is live

Updated at 24/06/2020 at 14:10 By Clémence "Idril" Lemoal

Valorant Competitive mode was quickly disabled after Patch 1.02 deployment. After a few hours, Riot Games finally announced that ranked games will be available on June 24, 2:00 PM PT.

Valorant Competitive mode is live

Ranked games finally arrive on June 24, 2:00 PM PT. The information was recently tweeted by the official Valorant account.

We know nobody's been asking for it, but ranked is finally coming in the next 24 hours. We're staggering our rollout per region and at off-peak times to monitor stability.

KR, OCE & APAC — 1:00PM PT 6/24
NA/BR/LATAM — 2:00PM PT 6/24
EU, RU, TR & CIS regions — 8:00PM PT 6/24
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) June 24, 2020

[Archives June 24 in the morning]

Players were eager to experience ranked games. If they were enabled in the beta version, since the official release of the game you could only play Normal or Spike Rush matches.

With the release of Patch 1.02 the Competitive mode has finally been made available in Valorant. The problem is that it was quickly deactivated and it will take a day or two before you can enjoy the competitive experience and climb the ladder.

We found another bug that puts competitive at risk, so we're holding off turning on ranked for a while longer. Sorry for the delay, we're working as fast as possible to get a fix and, when we get one, we'll turn ranked on. Predicting a day or two, but nothing confirmed yet.
— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) June 24, 2020

A bug that endangered the competitive integrity of the games is the cause of this deactivation. From time to time players could spawn in the opponent's camp rather than in their own. We let you imagine the disastrous consequences and the ridiculous situations that such a bug can create.

Update: bad news. We are investigating a reported issue in which players can every once in a while spawn in the opposing team's spawn point. We are actively trying to fix this and get it out as fast as possible, but will not turn on competitive until it is fixed.
— Ziegler (@RiotZiegler) June 23, 2020

Riot Ziegler, Valorant Game Director, has promised to keep the community informed in real time.

Patch 1.02 and Valorant Competitive mode are coming!

Valorant Patch 1.02 that should release of the Competitive mode is finally available. New updates affect several agents and maps. There are also some bug fixes discovered since the official release of the game.