What are Vanta's forfeiture policies?

Last Updated: July 7th, 2025

Competitive integrity is one of our top priorities at Vanta. Every point matters and every team is invited to meet the season's challenges. Facilitating free leagues that give every team an equal opportunity of success brings it's load of challenges - one of these challenges is assessing competitor commitment. We do not charge any entree fees or require any contracts to sign up for our leagues; it's free to try out and we do not force any obligation clauses or exclusivity policies on any of our players. This is how we like esports - equal competition for everyone and anyone. However, this level of accessibility requires a level of accountability - specifically, in the area of forfeitures.

What is a forfeiture?

A forfeiture can be categorized in two different ways: the surrendering of a match and the non-attendance of a match. In both cases, the forfeiting team will not be awarded any points for the match and will be counted with a loss in their season standings.

Surrendering

A team can intentionally surrender at any time to be scored with an automatic loss and forgo any awarded points for the match. This can be submitted directly on the match scoreboard through the Vanta platform.

In cases where a team cannot compete with the minimum team size of a given game, as indicated in our general ruleset, a surrender may be called for if the opposing team does not agree to play a man down.

Non-Attendance

In the case that a team simply cannot make it to a given match day, and a reschedule is not possible, a team can submit a forfeit as mentioned above - directly through their match day scoreboard. In addition, if a team does not submit a score after 72 hours of their scheduled gameday, a forfeit will automatically be submitted for that team.

If both teams agree, a match may be postponed to a later date in order to avoid a non-attendance forfeiture - however, rescheduling is a privilege, not a right, and an opponent is not required to reschedule if they are ready to play on time.

In both of these cases, any attempt to goad another team into submitting a forfeit is in no way acceptable and falls under the category of unsportsmanlike conduct.

How many forfeits are allowed?

For Varsity Leagues: 

1. One forfeit in a split will result in subtracting 2 points from your team's overall point total.
2. A second forfeit in one split will result in disqualification of the team for the remainder of the split.
3. Forfeits reset at the beginning of a new split, so you do not carry your forfeits over from split to split.

For Club Leagues:

1. Forfeits do not count for club leagues due to the nature of having a queue system.
2. If your team will not be able to participate that day, then do not queue for a match that day.

If a forfeiture is submitted by accident, reach out to us as soon as possible to prevent the invalidation of your team's scores.