FanimeCon 2023 – VALORANT Ruleset

A. Tournament Rules

  1. Tournament Length
    This tournament is Single Elimination (one total match loss).
  1. Set Length
    All tournament sets will be best-of-one. Grand Finals will be best-of-three. Rules below do not change between these two set formats.
  1. Set Procedure
    1. Teams will ban and/or select maps (see sections 2.3 – 2.5).
    2. The Tournament Official or captain of the highest seeded team will create the tournament lobby room.
    3. All players in the match will be invited into the tournament lobby room.
    4. When all players in the match are accounted for, the captain of the room will ask the opposing captain if their team is ready to begin the match adhering to the tardiness ruling (as stated in section 1.8).
    5. Teams will begin the game.
    6. Steps one through five will be repeated for the Grand Finals set.
  2. Pausing
    Pauses are not permitted once the game has started. Pausing is only legal for the purpose of summoning a Tournament Official for cases of peripheral malfunction, external interference, medical emergency, or other case-by-case reasons as deemed valid by Tournament Officials. A pause for a demonstrable and play-affecting bug occurring within the first five minutes of the match is highly likely to be deemed valid. All other pauses will incur an immediate match loss to the team who pauses the game.

  3. Stalling
    Stalling, or intentionally making the game unplayable, is banned and will be identified and penalized at the discretion of tournament staff. Stalling includes, but is not limited to, mutual inaction by both teams as well as consistent and intentional sacrificing of one’s operator resulting in no advancement in the field of play. Stalling will result in a forfeit of the game for the player(s) or team(s) that initiated the action.

  4. Surrender Clause
    After ten minutes into a match, surrendering through the in-game keyboard command or user-interface option is available. Teams who mistakenly surrender will not have the ability to replay the game which will result in a game loss or, potentially, a match loss.

  5. Warm-ups
    Warm-up periods and peripheral checks must happen prior to a match.

  6. Tardiness
    Anyone who is not present for their set by ten minutes past the scheduled start time of the round is subject to a total disqualification from the event.

B. Game Rules

  1. Game Settings
  • Platform: PC
  • Custom Lobby
  • Spectators: Lobby Only
  1. Lobby Settings
  • Mode: Standard
  • Allow Cheats: Off
  • Tournament Mode: On
  • Overtime Win by Two: On 
  1. Map Selection – Best-of-One
    This process will happen between team captains for each game. The team that wins a coin flip is Team A. Team A starts the process and the map for the Match will be selected according to the following procedure while spending a maximum of 15 seconds per ban:
  • Team A bans one Map
  • Team B bans one Map
  • Team A bans one Map
  • Team B bans one Map
  • Team A bans one Map
  • Team B bans one Map
  • Map Seven is only Map remaining
  • Team A picks side
  1. Map Selection – Best-of-Three
    This process will happen between team captains for each game. The team that wins a coin flip is Team A. Team A starts the process and the map for the Match will be selected according to the following procedure while spending a maximum of 15 seconds per ban/pick:
  • Team A bans one Map
  • Team B bans one Map
  • Team A picks Map One
  • Team B picks side for Map One
  • Team B picks Map Two
  • Team A picks side for Map Two
  • Team A bans one Map
  • Team B bans one Map
  • Map Three is only Map remaining
  • Team A picks side for Map Three
  1. Map Pool
  • Haven
  • Ascent
  • Icebox
  • Fracture
  • Pearl
  • Split
  • Lotus
  1. Additional Rules
    1. Spectators
      Spectator spots are reserved for FanimeCon Staff only.
    2. Patch
      FanimeCon 2023 will use whatever patch is currently live at the time of play.
    3. Accounts
      Players will use and play on their own unbanned Riot Account.