Welcome to the Gaming Oasis VALORANT (Val) Format Guidelines. This document is meant to live and breathe to direct future seasons of the SEL and NEL. Please be sure to reference the Gaming Oasis Conference General Guidelines and Gaming Oasis VALORANT Game Guide for overall information about each conference.
All times in this combined document are shown in both Central Standard Time (CST) and Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Matches traditionally take place at 7:00 PM CST / 8:00 PM EST. There are traditionally one match per night.
To ensure consistency is kept across all documents, the only place you will find specific dates for each week of the season is in each conference's competitive calendar.
The VALORANT format consists of 4 phases shown below: