Valorant's competitive matches have the potential to extend indefinitely if the score reaches a deadlock at 13-13 without any team calling for a draw. This leads us to wonder: what is the record for the longest game in Valorant?
A Valorant match concludes when a team achieves 13 rounds. In Unrated mode, if both teams reach a score of 12-12, a final round called Sudden Death is played. In this round, all players start with 5000 credits and 3 ultimate points, and the winner of the round is declared the overall winner of the match.
However, in Competitive mode, a game has the potential to extend indefinitely due to the presence of Overtime. If a match reaches a score of 12-12, a draw vote is initiated. If no team agrees to a draw, two additional rounds are played, with each team taking turns on different sides. To secure victory, one team must emerge victorious in both of these consecutive rounds. Now let's explore the record for the longest game ever played in Valorant!
Longest Valorant Games So Far
We discovered a lengthy match shared by Reddit user Dashalo_. According to Dashalo_, their game concluded with a score of 24-26 after a staggering 50 rounds played in Overtime. This marathon of a match lasted 1 hour and 24 minutes. But that is just enough for third place.
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The former champion is a Valorant match with 1 hour and 28 minutes and a total of 58 rounds! Riot Games released a statement in December 2020 regarding the match that took place on Ascent. However, apart from this information, no further updates or details have been provided by Riot Games.
With a total play time of 1 hour 29 minutes and 15 seconds, a match from April 11, 2022, is the longest game recorded in Valorant, beating the predecessor with just a bit over a minute. But the only played 52 rounds.
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New record? Longest Valorant game? (52 rounds) by u/PerdoxEd1ting in VALORANT
While the previously mentioned matches were notably long for regular players in normal queues, the question arises: what about the Valorant Esports scene? Could there be even longer matches played by professional players?
Longest Valorant Pro Game
The record for the longest professional Valorant game was set during a match between TSM and Gen.G. It ended with a 23-21 victory for TSM after a grueling 44 rounds. The game lasted so long that it encountered a glitch at the 90-minute mark, leading to a restart by Riot Games. This extraordinary match not only set new records in Valorant esports, but also saw an impressive performance by Gen.G NaturE, who achieved a remarkable 49 kills.
Its 2077. Im still watching the TSM x GenG Match. I had 4 children. Subroza retired and his son his playing for him now. Wardell has over 3000 kills and TSM has a map point but naturE clutches 1v5. My wife left me.
— TSM FTX (@TSM) July 29, 2021
That concludes our look at the longest recorded games in Valorant to date – or did we miss some? What are your thoughts? Do you believe you could endure such lengthy matches in Valorant?
Or could you endure the glitches and bugs of Jedi Survivor this long?
