Ranked games are at the core of the Valorant experience, and when so naturally, when they’re not available to play, everyone is wondering why the competitive Valorant queue is disabled. Here’s what we know about the issue, which is currently preventing anybody from playing the game’s competitive mode.

Why Are Competitive Valorant Queues Disabled? Answered

Riot Games’ support of Valorant since its 2020 launch has been stellar, but occasionally the development team encounters unexpected issues after the launch of a new patch. That seems to have been the case with one particular bug that is causing some serious voice chat problems.

If you look at the top-left-hand corner of the menu screen when attempting to enter a competitive lobby, you will actually see a reference to said voice chat issue. What is apparently occurring is that in some cases, the team chat can be heard across the server, which is obviously a major problem that makes competitive play impossible.

These bugs turned out to be trickier than we thought, so we’re making the call to disable Competitive queues for now until we can get a fix in, hopefully by tomorrow. 🤞

— VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) March 24, 2022

As you can see in the above Twitter thread, initially, Riot was confident it could sort out the issue in a matter of hours, but it has now said the problem is taking longer to fix and may not be ready until tomorrow. We’ll keep you posted when we hear more.

That’s everything there is to know about why the competitive Valorant queue is disabled. For more Valorant content, why not read our latest editorial about why deathmatch is somehow worse despite recent changes? You can also check out the full list of patch notes for the game’s most recent update here.