Reading the Valorant match board
Start times on this board show in your own timezone, taken from your device, so nothing needs converting. Live series sit at the top while they are running, and everything still to come is grouped by day underneath, which puts today's games first.
The board is currently tracking 1 match across the next 4 days, and the tier filter above it cuts that down to the level you care about. Tier is the quickest read on a row: it tells you whether a match is an international stage or a regional league night.
| Tier | What it means | What to expect here |
|---|---|---|
| S-tier | International VCT events. Masters and Champions, played on LAN with the best teams from every region in one bracket. | A handful of weeks a year. When one is on, it leads the board. |
| A-tier | The top of the regional calendar and the stages that feed international events, including regional league playoffs. | Clusters around playoff weeks rather than running continuously. |
| B-tier | Regional league group stages, Challengers circuits and qualifiers. The layer that fills the competitive week. | Most rows on a normal day. Expect several running at once across regions. |
Most days lean heavily towards B-tier, because the regional circuits run continuously while the international events do not. A quiet-looking board usually means the calendar is between international stages rather than anything being missing.
A row itself carries the two teams, the event and stage it belongs to, the tier, the start time, and a price on each side where a market exists. That is enough to judge a match without opening it: the event tells you what is at stake, the tier tells you how much the result should move your view of a team, and the price tells you how the market reads the matchup.
What the event names on each row mean
Every row carries the event it belongs to, and almost all of them start with VCT, Riot's VALORANT Champions Tour. The label tells you which part of the circuit a match sits in.
- Regional leagues carry their region in the name, such as Americas, EMEA, Pacific or China.
- International events are Masters and Champions, where regional qualifiers meet.
- Challengers is the tier below the leagues, run per country or region.
- Game Changers is Riot's competitive circuit for women and marginalised genders.
A stage name usually follows, so a label reads like a region and a point in its season. More on the games themselves sits on the wider Valorant scene.
Live scores and what updates when
A live series updates in place while it is being played. The board checks for new scores every 30 seconds, so a match you leave open moves with the scoreline rather than needing a refresh. When nothing is live, the board leads with what starts next.
A live row carries two scores. The big one is the series score, the maps each team has won. The line under it is the map in play and its round score, so 1–0 over Map 2 at 9–7 means one map is banked and the second is close. Between maps a row can sit still for several minutes while the teams pick agents, and it leaves the live group once the final map is settled.
Rows also carry prices where a market exists for that match, and you can open the full board on Valorant odds. We run the same schedule for CS2 match schedule and Dota 2 matches.
Finished series and recent results
Finished series move off this board to the Valorant results page, newest first, with the final series score and the map scores. They appear there as soon as a series finishes.
Valorant match questions
What does VCT stand for in Valorant?
VCT stands for the VALORANT Champions Tour, Riot Games' official competitive circuit and the source of almost every event label on this board. It runs in two layers. Regional leagues in the Americas, EMEA, Pacific and China play through their own seasons, and the teams that do best there qualify for the international events, Masters and Champions, where the regions meet. Below the leagues sits Challengers, a tier-two circuit run per country or region that feeds talent upward. So a row labelled VCT tells you a match is part of Riot's official structure rather than a third-party tournament.
What timezone are Valorant match times shown in?
Times display in your own local timezone, read from your device, so no conversion is needed. That is also why a start time here can differ from one quoted on a broadcast or a social post published in another region.
Where can I watch Valorant matches live?
Official VCT broadcasts run on Twitch and YouTube through Riot's own channels, listed on the official VALORANT esports site. Each regional league has its own channel and language, so an EMEA broadcast is separate from the Pacific one, and international events add co-streams from players and analysts. Lower-tier matches on this board, particularly Challengers and qualifier fixtures, may have no official English stream at all, and are sometimes only covered by a regional channel or not broadcast.
Where do finished Valorant matches go?
To the Valorant results page, newest first, with the final series score and the map scores. This page keeps live and upcoming series, and links to the newest results from its Finished series and recent results section.
Why do some matches not show odds?
Because not every match has a priced market. Lower-tier and regional fixtures often go unpriced, so those rows show no price until a tracked book opens a market. The Valorant odds board carries everything that does have a market.
See today's Valorant odds
The odds board carries the same fixtures with the prices attached, so it is the natural next step once you know what is on.
View Valorant odds