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Replication asks you to push the extremes of what Agent abilities can do in a round. Think of what you can do with five Sage walls? A team of Phoenix can basically make the floor is lava if you cover it with fire. Don’t worry, this mode comes with a “flashguard” so you won’t have to play with sunglasses.

Read how to play below.

REPLICATION RULES

• Best-of-nine Spike mode
  • 80-second rounds
  • 45-second pistol round, with 30-second subsequent rounds
• All players on the same team play as the same Agent (e.g. 5 Sages against 5 Jetts)
  • Agent selection is decided in pre-match voting.
• Abilities, minus ultimates, are refreshed each round
  • Gain +1 ultimate points per round at the start of the round (except Overtime rounds)

• Set amount of credits each round regardless of win/loss
  • Per-round credit amounts:
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There’s something about VALORANT that came calling for Chris Dang, 20, from the Bay Area, California.

“VALORANT is like a mix of all the FPS games combined, where you’ll see people from so many other competitive FPS games crossover,” Dang said.

That trait lured Dang from his days of heavy PUGing (pick up games) on ESEA and FACEIT—two esports competitive platforms—to reigning at #5 as “Campion” on the Act II VALORANT NA leaderboards.

“VALORANT helped me strive for something. I wasn't really looking forward to anything. I didnt think about going pro in a game and doing something I loved to do. VALORANT brought that to me,” Campion said. “It showed me just how far I could take something if I put my time into it and really focus.”

Campion said he’s played just about every day since the closed beta, and although he only made it to Immortal 2 at first, he’s earned Radiant consistently since VALORANT’s launch.

The beta was when Dang first...

Q

My matches sometimes feel like a coin flip. I feel like I go against players that don't belong in my rank, are smurfs common?

A

Smurfs and Smurfettes, while relatively small in number, are absolutely real and are frustrating to play against. We’ve been collecting and incorporating feedback from all our channels, and have since spun up an investigation into the current state of smurfing in VALORANT.

Because we’re currently deep in this investigation, there is no actionable plan to share just yet. However, we want to at the very least provide insight into the fundamental questions our team is actively tackling:

• How do we identify smurf in our systems, and how often are players running into them?
• Why do players smurf?
• Is there a need, that isn’t being met, that is forcing players to smurf?
• What changes do we need to make in order ...

We’re back with more VCT Game Changers action! The enthusiasm around these tournaments has been incredible, and we’re proud to showcase the talent and skill this community has to offer.

Here’s everything you need to know about Verizon VCT Game Changers NA presented by Dignitas.

TOURNAMENT OVERVIEW

VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) Game Changers is a year-long program with the goal of creating new opportunities and exposure for women and marginalized genders seeking to participate in VALORANT esports, through a combination of community events and top-tier competition.

Verizon VCT Game Changers NA presented by Dignitas consists of a Double GSL open qualifier (June 19 - 20) and double elimination main event (June 24 - 27). Eight teams will advance from the open qualifiers to compete in the main event, which will feature best-of-three matches until the grand final, which will be a best-of-five showdown. In addit...

The VALORANT Champions Tour will head to Berlin, Germany for Stage 3 Masters. Masters Berlin will begin on September 9th and will bring together 16 teams from around the world to compete for points that will count towards qualification at VALORANT Champions, the final event of the 2021 VCT. The tournament will conclude with a final scheduled to take place on September 19th.

Competition will take place at Verti Music Hall - host of 2019 League of Legends World Championship Group Stage. All matches from Masters Berlin will be broadcast live globally on digital platforms including Twitch.tv and YouTube.

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Viseth Ung, a 22-year-old VALORANT player from Sacramento, California, wanted to leave his mark on the VALORANT community. So he did what any normal player would do.

He made some rugs.

Ung, who goes by “Villa of Vibes'' on social, posted the first VALORANT rug on his TikTok. There he clips together segments of the nearly four-hour process, from stencil to completion.

“I started seeing people make rugs on TikTok and I wanted to make something based on what I like,” Ung said. “So I thought, why not VALORANT?”

His first VALORANT rug, a Radiant rank icon design, was only his third ever. Ung has since created a few more, including a pair of Jett’s kunai, Cypher’s head, and an homage to the “Revive Me, Jett!” spray.

Like other TikTok DIY-ers, Ung depends primarily on a tufting gun to create his rugs, which is basically what would happen if the Frenzy shot fabric instead of bullets.

His Radiant rug video explains how it all begins with an image of...