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Here’s everything you need to know about organizing VALORANT community tournaments.
Tournament organizers are a critical part of the VALORANT ecosystem, from local LANs to online tournaments to larger grassroots events. We know organizing competitions takes time, effort, and resources, and we want to make the process easier for people who want to build experiences for the community.
As part of our broader evolution toward the next era of VCT in 2027, we’re updating these guidelines for the first time in a while with a simple goal: reduce friction for community organizers. We’ve streamlined the system, removed outdated restrictions, and created a more globally consistent framework for running VALORANT community competitions.
In most cases, community organizers do not need to wait for Riot approvals or navigate complicated licensing processes to run events. If you want to organize a VALORANT competition in good faith, these guidelines are designed to help you get started quickly and confidently. We ask that you give us a heads up by filling out this form (pw:VALevent), in general we’re trying to get a better understanding of where and when these events take place so in the future we can identify better ways of supporting them.
Some organizations, including major corporate brands and government entities, are not covered under the community competition license and will still need to work directly with Riot through our partnership process.
We’ll continue updating this page over time as VALORANT esports evolves. This will also serve as a permanent home for organizer resources, including asset kits, event tools, and reporting forms.
We’ve updated and streamlined our community competition guidelines to make organizing events easier and more globally consistent.
Here are the biggest changes:
Our goal is to reduce unnecessary restrictions while improving visibility into the ecosystem so we can better support, showcase, and promote community competitions around the world.
You’re free to organize VALORANT competitions at nearly any scale, from local community events to large multi-day tournaments.
Online and offline formats are both allowed. Open and invitational formats are fine too. Build the event that makes sense for your community.
However, some organizations are not covered under these community competition guidelines, including:
Sponsors may be identified as presenting or supporting partners of a community competition (e.g., “VALORANT Community Tournament Presented by Brand”), but sponsors may not be incorporated into the name of the VALORANT competition itself (e.g., “Brand VALORANT Tournament”).
If you fall into one of those categories, you’ll need to work directly with Riot on a separate license agreement. For new entities who this may apply to - submit your inquiries via the linked form.
Yes to both.
We know tournaments cost money to run, and we want organizers to have the flexibility to build sustainable events. There are no fixed caps on entry fees, sponsorship revenue, prize pools, or spectator ticketing under these guidelines.
We do ask organizers to act reasonably and provide fair value to players, fans, and partners participating in the event.
There are, however, some sponsor categories that are off-limits. You can find the full list below.
Yes, you can use VALORANT assets solely to promote and raise awareness of your community competition. Use of these assets should be limited to what is reasonably necessary to market the competition itself. VALORANT assets may not be used to promote, endorse, or commercialize any brand, product, or service, including those of event sponsors. Riot has final say on appropriate use of VALORANT assets in its sole discretion, and organizers must follow any direction Riot provides on their use, including any direction to stop using them. Riot reserves the right to apply additional restrictions on asset usage for events involving brand sponsors.
Please note that you cannot imply Riot Games or the VALORANT esports team is officially operating, endorsing, or sponsoring your event.
That means you may not:
We may also require certain naming conventions or descriptors, such as identifying your event as a “community tournament” or “community competition.”
You’re free to stream your event online on the platform of your choice. You may also charge spectator fees or gate access to streams of your event.
However, you may not broadcast your tournament on linear television (traditional broadcast TV).
Yes.
We love showcasing cool things happening in the VALORANT community, and these guidelines allow us to feature community tournaments across Riot and partner platforms.
When we give you permission to operate a tournament under these guidelines, you also give Riot permission to use, share, adapt, and distribute tournament footage and related content for promotional purposes connected to VALORANT, Riot Games, or Riot esports.
More specifically: you agree that Riot may use, copy, modify, distribute, and create derivative works from your event content on a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide basis, without compensation, approval, or attribution requirements.
We expect organizers to act in good faith and uphold the spirit of the VALORANT community.
That means:
If you operate in good faith, you’re probably fine.
Organizers are solely responsible for ensuring their events comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and third-party obligations.
Riot reserves the right to intervene, revoke permissions, or shut down any event at our sole discretion if we believe it violates these guidelines, our values, or our policies.
Yes.
Completing the form helps us maintain visibility into the community. In most cases, you do not need to wait for a Riot response before operating your event.
This system helps us:
We want to reduce the need for bespoke approvals while still maintaining enough ecosystem visibility to support the community responsibly.
Here are the sponsor categories that are not allowed for VALORANT community competitions:
On the condition that you follow all of the guidelines described herein (the “Guidelines”), our Legal Jibber Jabber, our Community Pact, and our Terms of Service, Riot Games, Inc. grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, revocable, limited license to organize and operate a VALORANT competition.
We may take action or otherwise shut down any competition at any time if we decide it violates or misinterprets these Guidelines, our Terms of Service, or any other Riot policies, promotes anything contrary to our values, or otherwise uses Riot intellectual property inappropriately.
