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Valorant’s new data portal will be available to all VCT partner teams, allowing easier access to in-game data.
GRID Esports is partnering up with Riot Games to launch the Valorant Data Portal (VDP), a new tool that hosts all the in-game data that esports players might need. The first-of-its-kind FPS platform will soon be available for all 30 Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) partner teams to use.
League of Legends Esports has used a very similar data portal since 2021, both in community events like AWS GameDay: Lolesports Edition or the much larger League of Legends World Championship in 2022. This is the first time a data portal like this has been made available for the FPS scene, however.
The VDP allows VCT teams to glean data from VCT matches and private scrims, and then use said data to better analyse matches and evaluate talents. This would give teams more information to work with when coming up with strategies and picking up new players to add to their rosters.
The VDP is fully automated, containing private data that can only be accessed through app-based user interfaces or a secure API. According to Riot itself, the VDP’s introduction is part of an effort to ensure the integrity of Valorant Esports as it enters its third year in 2023. Riot’s partnership with GRID is meant to offer the community an official source of truth for in-game data, while the publisher continues to monitor all official matches to ensure no shenanigans are underfoot.
Riot calls the VDP with GRID a, “first step in making official VCT in-game data accessible to the broader ecosystem.” More teams and partners will get access to the VDP in the future, beyond just VCT’s professional teams. Valorant Esports is growing in a few other ways in 2023, such as introducing two Chinese organisations to Brazil’s LOCK//IN tournament to move into China.
GRID is an esports-focused data analysis company and longtime partner of GosuGamers. The company is involved with several games publishers’ forays into esports, such as Valve, having contributed to the DOTA 2 Lima Major.
