{"id":15108,"date":"2021-04-15T16:32:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/valorant-patch-2-08-to-introduce-coaching-slots"},"modified":"2024-07-19T07:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T07:20:48","slug":"valorant-patch-2-08-to-introduce-coaching-slots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valorant\/valorant-patch-2-08-to-introduce-coaching-slots","title":{"rendered":"Valorant patch 2.08 to introduce coaching slots"},"content":{"rendered":"

In November last year Riot Games revealed its ambitious plans for the Valorant Champions Tour 2021<\/a>, a new competitive structure for Valorant that was built upon the grassroots community of the game.<\/p>\n

The competition is currently in Stage 2<\/a>, and the competitive scene continues to grow and develop further, along with the game itself.<\/p>\n

As competitive Valorant continues to develop players have been asking for more features that will help the game to be even more competitive, like Agent bans and similar additions.<\/p>\n

And one of those features has just been confirmed today, as Riot officially announced that the game is getting coaching slots in patch 2.08.<\/p>\n

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Riley Yurk, who is working as a part of Valorant’s esports strategy team, explained that a relationship between the coach and players is an integral part of the competitive play, describing it as “an important dynamic”.<\/p>\n

“As an esport, we continue to be excited at the prospect of coaches playing a larger role in matches and plan to provide more analytical tools in the future,” Yurk stated.<\/p>\n

Yurk says that coaching slots that will be added in 2.08 are “the basic foundation” and they will continue to improve and evolve this feature.<\/p>\n

Their plan is to actively include in-game leaders and coaches in the development process of this function. They will be asking them for opinion and feedback in order to understand better how to improve this feature. <\/p>\n

The introduction of coaching slots in Valorant comes just 3 months after Valve effectively banned CS:GO coaches<\/a> from participating in online matches, following the spectator bug scandal from last year, when the ESIC banned 37 CS:GO coaches<\/a> for abusing the glitch and thus obtaining an unfair advantage for their teams.<\/p>\n