During a free agency period, teams are permitted to talk to other players, agents, and/or teams about signing said players to a contract to play for their team. The free agency period sometimes also gets referred to as an offseason or “rostermania” and for esports like Call of Duty and League of Legends, these offseason periods are commonly considered one of the most exciting times of the year.
VALORANT‘s free agency period, following the conclusion of Champions 2022 and the official Riot announcement of partnered teams for VCT 2023, is an interesting one. It’s not an official free agency period sanctioned by Riot per se, but the partnership announcement means that a wave of moves is coming.