Student Portal
Check in on match day, ready up with your team, chat in the Match Lobby, report results, and track your career record.
Student Sign In New player? Ask your teacher for your school's AVEL sign-up link.
Spring 2027 registration is open. Schools in every state can join.
Register Your
School for
AVEL
AVEL, the Activate Varsity Esports League, is a scholastic esports league with career exploration built in. It started in North Carolina, and now middle and high schools in any state can join. Esports gets students engaged. AVEL turns that into career awareness, real skills, and a clearer picture of what comes next.
Every student also gets
XPcareer quests + a skills record
Registration
Open for Spring 2027
Who can join
Schools in any state
Cost
Free for Spring
Winter Tournament
AVEL Open: Winter Tournament
A two-day Valorant tournament for high school teams, played online on Saturday, Dec 12 and Sunday, Dec 13. Your school does not need to be in AVEL to enter.
Sign-up closes Thursday, Dec 10 at 11:59 PM ET.
Already in AVEL?
Sign in to your portal
Students, teachers, and AVEL staff all sign in at app.activatecte.com. Pick who you are and we'll open the right sign-in for you.
Advisor Portal
Manage your roster, player forms, teams, and line-ups. Run match day from Match Center.
Teacher Sign In New school? Register your school first.League Staff
League operations, match results, rulings, and support for schools.
Staff Sign In For AVEL team members only.
Can't sign in? Students, ask your teacher to resend your invite and check your spam or junk folder.
Teachers, email AVEL Support.
XPBuilt in for every AVEL student
The competition is the hook. The skills are the point.
Every AVEL student also gets ActivateXP, where what they do around the game turns into documented career-readiness evidence your program can report on.
- Students take on Quests: recruiting for their club, running a workshop, speaking to a room, career-exploration escape rooms
- Every Quest has a published rubric students can read before they start
- An AI coach reviews the work first, then a person confirms the score
- Advisors approve real-world events before they happen, then confirm who took part
- Evidence maps to the federal Employability Skills Framework, technical skills, and career readiness
- Skills and participation export for your reporting
ActivateXP
Quest Board
EMPLOYABILITY · TECHNICAL · CAREER READINESS
QuestTake the Mic
XP150
Rubric100 pts
Sign-offAdvisor
One registration. One school portal.
One Easy Process
The primary advisor registers the school once. Everything else for the season follows from there.
01
Register School
Submit school, district, advisor, and season information.
02
Activate Advisor Access
After AVEL approval, set your password and sign into your school-connected advisor portal.
03
Register Students
Share your school's unique AVEL sign-up link with students, then approve them in your portal.
04
Forms + Teams
Mark player forms received, build your teams, and set line-ups. Students take it from there on match day.
Built for school programs
Less chasing paperwork. More running your team.
Your advisor portal becomes the home base for your school's AVEL season.
- Live member roster, including who hasn't signed in yet
- Player forms: mark a whole game's players at once
- Teams, line-ups, and Match Center for every match
- Match results, standings, and a place to report problems
- A Monday email with your week's matches and to-dos
- Rules, policies, calendars, and advisor resources
For students
Students run match day.
Players use the AVEL student portal on a phone or computer. They don't have to wait on a teacher to get the match going.
- Check in on the Match Day card, starting 2 hours before the match
- Ready up the team once enough players are checked in
- Chat with the other team in the Match Lobby
- Start early when both teams are checked in and agree
- Report the result with a screenshot of the final score
- Get match alerts, share clips, and build a career record
AVEL Competition
Game titles in the Fall 2026 season
Students receive one AVEL Member ID and can play in more than one competition when eligible. Spring games will be posted with the season dates.
Rocket League · 3v3
Marvel Rivals · 6v6
Super Smash Bros. Teams · 3v3
Super Smash Bros. Singles · 1v1
Student Safety
Structured access. Active moderation. School-based participation.
AVEL uses Discord for league communication and competition coordination with role-gated access, active moderation, and defined safety procedures. Students do not enter an unrestricted league community.
Step 01Join
Step 02Verify
Step 03Role Assigned
Step 04AVEL Access
Access begins with verification.
When a participant enters the AVEL Discord server, they do not immediately receive access to league channels. Students first enter a restricted verification area. Appropriate roles are assigned before access to AVEL league spaces is opened.
AVEL spaces are moderated.
AVEL moderators help oversee league spaces, reinforce community expectations, and respond when inappropriate behavior, content, or misuse of AVEL-managed channels is reported or observed.
Roles determine access.
Discord permissions are organized by role so participants receive access to the spaces appropriate for their participation. Advisor and adult-only areas remain separate from student-accessible league spaces.
Students remain connected to their school.
Students register through a school-specific AVEL registration pathway and appear on that school's roster. Advisors approve new students, manage members, and track player forms and eligibility before competition.
Concerns have a defined path.
AVEL maintains procedures for addressing harassment, threats, inappropriate content, misconduct, or other safety concerns within AVEL-managed league spaces. Student-related concerns can be escalated to the appropriate school advisor or school leadership when needed.
AVEL works alongside school safeguards.
AVEL's league controls are intended to complement the supervision, acceptable-use requirements, technology policies, eligibility standards, and student-safety procedures already established by participating schools and districts.
Discord is a communication platform. AVEL controls access to AVEL-managed spaces through verification, role-gated access, permissions, moderation, and league procedures.
AVEL's controls apply to AVEL-managed league spaces and supplement each participating school's own student supervision and safety requirements.
From Signup to Competition
Students join through your school.
Every participating school receives its own student registration link. State, district, school, and season are already connected so students only enter the information AVEL actually needs.
- School email, checked with a 6-digit code
- School student ID
- First name and grade (AVEL never asks for a last name)
- Gamer tag that matches their Discord username
- Esports or career track, plus game picks
- A few quick career interest questions
- Automatic AVEL Member ID
Free for Spring 2027
No cost to schools. No cost to students.
Spring 2027 is fully funded, including AVEL esports and ActivateXP career exploration. There is nothing to pay to join. Middle and high schools in every state are welcome.
Students don't need to be on an esports team to use ActivateXP, so it works for your whole class, club, or CTE program.
Spring 2027 School Registration
Registration is open
Submit your school and primary advisor information. AVEL will review the registration, confirm the permanent school record, and send approved advisors account setup instructions.
Submitting this form does not charge your school.
This creates the school registration request for AVEL review. Account activation is handled after approval. There is no cost to take part in Spring 2027.
In AVEL this fall?
Submit this form again for Spring with the same advisor email. Your school, your account, and your history stay the same.
Register Your School
Open to middle and high schools in every U.S. state. Use the advisor's school or work email address.
AVEL team member?
Staff Sign In