VALORANT NSE Spring 24

RULES SUMMARY

• All players must be current students from the same university. 
• Teams must have at least 5 players. Teams may add/remove players from the team between weeks.
• If teams are more than 20 minutes late they will forfeit a map.
• Check-in deadline is 18:30pm. Teams who don't check-in will not get games for that evening.
• Offensive player and team names are not allowed.
• Verbal abuse is not allowed. In particular any use of racist, sexist, homophobic or any other discriminatory language will lead to disqualification of players involved.

In addition to NSE rules all players must comply with VALORANT terms of service at all times including, but not limited to, any account sharing policies.

Click here to download the full rulebook

Players are expected to uphold the NSE Code of Conduct whilst competing in this tournament.

All decisions regarding the interpretation and enforcement of these rules are at the sole discretion of the NSE Admin Team, whose decisions are final.
These rules may be amended, changed or supplemented when required by the NSE Admin Team to ensure fair play and competitive integrity.

Game Settings

• Mode : Standard
• Cheats : Off
• Competitive/Tournament mode : On
• Win by two: On

Pauses and Timeouts

Teams are allowed 2 tactical timeouts each game, 2 per team (1 on each half). This can be done by typing /timeout in the chat, a timeout will be queued for the next buy phase. If teams are having technical issues they may pause during the buy phase to try and fix it. This can be done by using "Pause Match Timer" in the start menu via the cheats tab (with tournament mode on all cheats will be disabled except Pause Match Timer).

Map Pool

• Ascent
• Breeze
• Bind
• Icebox
• Lotus
• Split
• Sunset

Map Veto 

The home team (left team) can elect to be Team A or Team B within the following process:

Teams then Veto maps in the following order

1. Team A bans 1 map
2. Team B bans 2 maps
3. Team A bans 1 map
4. Team B bans 1 map
5. Team A picks map out of 2 remaining maps and Team B has side choice
   

This competition is not affiliated with or sponsored by Riot Games, Inc. or VALORANT Esports.