Riot Video games has partnered with GRID to ship VALORANT Information Portal (VDP), the official residence for all VALORANT in-game information, initially accessible to its 30 skilled groups making up the 2023 VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT). VDP is the first-of-its-kind platform within the FPS area.
The portal supplies esports groups with a brand new automated platform permitting them to entry detailed information from official esports matches, together with the flexibility to get information from their very own personal scrims. The VDP supplies entry to information not beforehand accessible as a part of Riot’s continued dedication to rising aggressive VALORANT.
The VDP permits groups to simply search, question, or filter information for match evaluation, scrim opinions, expertise analysis, and extra. The system is straightforward to make use of, absolutely automated and permits personal information entry by means of a safe API or application-based consumer interface.
We’re excited to be working with GRID on crafting the way forward for esports information for the VALORANT Champions Tour. GRID as a companion is extremely aligned with our objectives round information accessibility and Riot’s core values. The VALORANT Information Portal is step one in our shared imaginative and prescient for the way we make official VALORANT information extra broadly accessible, beginning with our skilled groups.
John Knauss, Lead of Aggressive Information Packages for Esports at Riot Video games
GRID and Riot entered into an unique partnership for VALORANT to start with of 2022 with the give attention to the business distribution of official esports information belongings by means of the GRID Information Platform. The discharge of the VALORANT Information Portal is an enlargement of the partnership with the give attention to enhancing information accessibility throughout numerous consumer teams.
VALORANT has revolutionized the worldwide esports scene and we’re proud to take part on this change as a sport information companion of Riot. The GRID and Riot’s shared imaginative and prescient for the esports ecosystem powered by sport information is turning into a actuality with the discharge of The VALORANT Information Portal. We purpose to alter the best way followers work together with aggressive titles by means of information and we’re proud to companion on this mission with Riot Video games.
Moritz Maurer, CEO and Founder at GRID
The portal is being rolled out to the 30 partnered VCT groups throughout North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. Plans surrounding VDP entry for the broader VALORANT Esports group can be shared at a later date.
About Riot Video games
Riot Video games was based in 2006 to develop, publish, and help probably the most player-focused video games on the planet. In 2009, Riot launched its debut title, League of Legends, to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to be the most-played PC sport on the planet and a key driver of the explosive progress of esports. With League in its second decade, Riot is constant to evolve the sport whereas delivering new experiences to gamers with Teamfight Ways, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Riot Forge, and a number of work-in-progress titles. Riot can also be increasing the world of Runeterra by means of multimedia tasks throughout music, comedian books, board video games, and Arcane, its widespread animated sequence. Based by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, and led by CEO Nicolo Laurent, Riot is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and has 3,000+ Rioters in 20+ workplaces worldwide.
About GRID
GRID is a B2B software program firm that serves the online game trade with an entire sport information infrastructure, information administration, and asset distribution options.
The GRID Information Platform permits rights holders to handle and distribute their sport information by means of GRID Portals, to focus on consumer teams reminiscent of group, professional gamers, and business shoppers. GRID companions with over 90 rights holders, together with Riot Video games, KRAFTON, and PGL, and has 350+ built-in information clients in media, betting, participant teaching, and extra. GRID is headquartered in Berlin with key groups in Poland, Sweden, the US, and China.