The Valorant world was ablaze this past week with new headlines and the conclusion of VRL circuits. Here's what you might have missed this past week.

This week's edition covers news from July 2 - July 8.

• Read more: News Almost Missed July 1

Roster Changes

• BASILISK BASILISK Inactive royal Matthew Buick Jangler Dwaine Kirkpatrick welcomed Kevin "kev" Pham to their team. They are still one player short of a full roster of five.
• PUGSTARS PUGSTARS Inactive DENYA Denis Kosogov intox Liam Wilson AntoL Anthony Lariviere said goodbye to Mason "Bewd" Guzman and welcomed Anthony "AntoL" Lariviere as their fourth player.
• / Following the team's win in the second stage of the Regional League DACH, Angry Titans Angry Titans Europe Rank #66 eNes Enes Bulut jurca Jurca Andreas Louitan Louis Beresford ngiN Engin Kor HyDrO Lukas Brill bid farewell to assistant coach James "Faustus" Frye as he returns to Overwatch to coach the Paris Eternal in the Overwatch League.
• HEET HEET Inactive Kinguyen Nguyen Thach memset Laurent Werly b2kk Sofian Delimi Monstrum Jake Byrne waddle Wadir Taraki officially parted ways with assistant coach Caelan "Caelan" Gokani. Additionally, Adam "ec1s" Eccles announced that he was in search of new offers while still under contract with the organization.
• Movistar Riders Movistar Riders Europe Rank #114 Navarrete Andreu Navarro Blasco Vinice Adinseg Rodríguez Suárez Nixerino Nicolás Canellas Colocho dimaxx Dmytro Paliy saiko Kacper Kucharski announced the departure of five players plus head coach Lucas "LRojo" Rojo. Additionally, Victor "KPZET" Steensgaard revealed that he was exploring new options while still under contract with the organization.
• / KOVA KOVA Inactive Supmah Hampus Svensson JESMUND Jesse Terävä Ale Alend Khalaf vicious Benjamin Guilotte shéd Jani Marjanen parted ways with their entire roster.
• / FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #8 KPZET Victor Steensgaard purp0 Semyon Borchev Lime Jacob Foster JUGi Jakob Hansen YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes benched Ilari "iluri" Puranen and announced that they would be trialing new players for their roster.
• Nichlas "Nille" Busk announced that he had officially entered free agency and was in search of new offers. His departure from Alliance Alliance Inactive leaves the squad one player short of a full roster.
• The entire roster of Dortmund Esports Dortmund Esports Europe Rank #234 announced that they were in search of new opportunities following the team's disbandment.
• Oscar "ozzy" Scott, Felix "Felix" Gerling, and Yiğithan "DeepMans" Kesici all revealed that they were in search of new opportunities while still under contract with Wave Esports Wave Esports Inactive SimonD4rk Alexandr Skovbel Click Haydem Ali Saiz Daniel Ruiz . The organization now has no active players.
• Sangal Rebels Sangal Rebels Inactive Anva Nehir Dinçer Miyori Eylül Sudem Sarıoğlu dociless Sude Sancak Narcius Kamila EKİN rounded out their roster with Kamila "Narcius" EKİN and Sude "dociless" Sancak, with the latter transferring to the organization from Unknownpros Female Unknownpros Female Europe Unranked Aurora Böcek Burçin Sertoğlu jadeql Ayşe Güneş NAKSU Beril Özdemir Destina Kardelen Bağış .
• Rinaldo "ableJ" Moda revealed that he had been benched from FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #3 kon4n Vitor Hugo dgzin Douglas Silva mwzera Leonardo Serrati Quick Gabriel Lima Mazin Matheus Araújo Khalil Khalil Schmidt 's active roster.
• Stars Horizon Stars Horizon Inactive flainzz Felipe Saldanha pollo Julio Silva parted ways with Pedro "pdr" Henrique.
• / Undead Gaming Fem Undead Gaming Fem Latin America South Rank #343 Morita Dae jeyjey sumi minuty said goodbye to Hinataa .
• Optix Optix Latin America South Rank #4 badzw Lukas Rivera ganter Bastian Eduardo Reinoso D1E Diego Contreras Tio Carlos Swing GioRuu Giovani Cristobal Lainati Ruz parted ways with Giulliano "Tuli" Pozo Massone, leaving the squad one player short of a full roster.
• // A story from last week, Daniel "Danielesflo" Sánchez, Fabian "AztKk" Iglesias, Andres "HellFull" Vallejo, Emiliano "solution" Peralta, and head coach Nicolás "Near" Gonzalez all departed FUSION FUSION Latin America North Rank #1 theory Daniel Esteban Albadan Cardozo Virtyy Leandro Moreno Mited Luis Gutierrez edu Darker Sebastián Castro Cicuamia Dcop Carlo Delsol and entered free agency.
• REJECT REJECT Japan Rank #27 nura ЯIA Flax BRIAN bid farewell to "HaReeee" and coach Yusuke "Norisen" Shima.
• DeToNator DeToNator Japan Rank #13 FifTy are down to three players following the departure of TenzouEz .
• Vince "Flash" Medado and Francis "Rabbet" Danison Buñag announced their entrance into free agency from Rex Regum Qeon Rex Regum Qeon Asia-Pacific Rank #48 2ge James Goopio EJAY Eroll Jule Delfin xffero David Monangin Lmemore Hagai Kristen Yesyurun Emman Emmanuel Morales fl1pzjder Saibani Rahmad .
• South Built Esports South Built Esports Inactive azys Azis Nandang Pro Chris Martir flippy Philip Marique parted ways with Elmer "micr0" Coloma.
• Bigetron Arctic Bigetron Arctic Asia-Pacific Rank #9 frostmind Muhammad Rafi Diandra m0rea Oliver Budi Wangge ZesBeeW Sha Mohtar NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra sayoo Willy Ivandra said goodbye to Thomas "Cud" Alfiantino.
• BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #6 blaZek1ng Gary Dastin Cud Thomas Alfiantino Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani severiNe Michael Winata Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma parted ways with Muhammad "frostmind" Rafi Diandra.
• / Orangutan Orangutan Asia-Pacific Rank #11 LeVi Rajiv Satpute tesseract Jon Michael Piga azys Azis Nandang RvK Rishi Vijayakumar Antidote Sabyasachi Bose rawfiul Akram Virani announced Mathanraj "theDoctorr" Munisparan and Felipe "skye" Skye Lim as coach and analyst respectively.
• CERBERUS Esports CERBERUS Esports Inactive viness Nguyễn Trung Tín Layla Hoàng Đức Hùng tinggg2k5 Dường Mạnh Thắng rounded out their roster with former Brave Wolves Brave Wolves Inactive beo Tạ Hồng Thịnh ducT Hoàng Trung Đức Redneval Le Quốc Khánh WUKONG Nguyễn Văn Thiện members Hoàng "Layla" Đức Hùng and Dường "tinggg2k5" Mạnh Thắng.
• Team Big BAAM Team Big BAAM Asia-Pacific Rank #25 Nhatthong2k Nguyễn Nhất Thống BMV Bùi Minh Vũ Layla Hoàng Đức Hùng P1nA2k4 Nguyễn Nam d0rf Phạm Huỳnh Toàn Quốc ViV Hoàng Việt disbanded.
• Fancy United Esports Fancy United Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #5 YESicaN Đinh Đình Đạt n1zzy Nguyễn Tấn Thành WUKONG Nguyễn Văn Thiện f1cio Hoàng Ngọc Sơn gin Phan Văn Gin parted ways with Vũ "Son Keke" Thượng Toàn, Dường "Freed0m" Chí Tính, Bùi "BMV" Minh Vũ, and manager Meiko .
• Saloni "Meow16K" Pawar and Akanksha "muffinloop" Sukhramani announced their departures from Asteria Asteria Inactive BriTSy Iqra Khan eluwu kthrs1s .

Results & Standings (As of July 9)

• NSG Summer Championship 2022 Online Qualifier playoffs winner: SoaR SoaR Inactive epathy Ngawang Chonjor fiziq Lucas Blow v1c Victor Truong Trill Ashley Powell | runner-up: Knights Academy Knights Academy Inactive
• Game Changers North America Series II main event winner: Cloud9 White Cloud9 White Inactive Bob Bob Tran alexis Alexis Guarrasi Jazzyk1ns Jasmine Manankil katsumi Katja Pfahnl meL Melanie Capone | runner-up: Shopify Rebellion GC Shopify Rebellion GC North America Rank #2 flowerful Kayla Horton KP Erika Lytle sonder Diana Zhang Lorri Lorrian Elad bENITA Benita Novshadian
• Northern Europe Regional League Stage 2 playoffs winner: EXCEL EXCEL Inactive Moe40 Muhammad Hariff chiwawa Egor Stepanyuk paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski FoxieGG Tyler Lowton ALIVE Gilad Hakim | runner-up: Finest Finest Inactive dESTRUCTIVEE Hakan Lekesizer Kicks Kimmie Laasner bonkar Malkolm Rench
• French Regional League Stage 2 playoffs winner: Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #3 MOLSI Michał Łącki Destrian Tomas Linikas Twisten Karel Ašenbrener BONECOLD Santeri Sassi ceNder Jokūbas Labutis | runner-up: MAD Lions MAD Lions Inactive KRAY Calum Knight
• Campeonato de Elite Stage 1 playoffs winner: Arroz Arroz Inactive Zino Paulo Figueiredo Bati Miguel Batista DaviH David Cruz tomaszy Tomás Machado VTaguT Rui Ribeiro | runner-up: RESET RESET Inactive Akira Rui Barbosa k0mpa Carlos Nunes furyan Afonso de Sousa nasK Diogo Barros silenttt Nuno Rodrigues
• / DACH Regional League Stage 2 playoffs winner: Angry Titans Angry Titans Europe Rank #66 eNes Enes Bulut jurca Jurca Andreas Louitan Louis Beresford ngiN Engin Kor HyDrO Lukas Brill | runner-up: DSYRE DSYRE Europe Rank #20 xazyy Alejandro Giudice caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci wackie Rikardo Birjukov feqew Lukas Petrauskas Zanx
• East Regional League playoffs winner: TENSTAR TENSTAR Inactive Buld Michał Sokal kacpi Kacper Wolski maniek Jakub Mańkowski Stix Wojciech Chamielec | runner-up: Diamant Esports Diamant Esports Europe Rank #26 runneR Emil Trajkovski Prti Ivan Erak Grmekista Tilen Grmek
• MEDUSA Series playoffs winner: Acend Rising Acend Rising Europe Unranked schnellÆ Ayşe Ergül Lateu Hilal Yaşar amy Amy Lai h6tedthemost Lada Kozhemyakina jademwah Jade Duffy | runner-up: Guild X Guild X Europe Rank #3 aNNja Anja Vasalic Smurfette Yağmur Gündüz cinnamon Klaudia Beczkiewicz ness Neslişah Demir
• Rebels #4 winner: Papara SuperMassive Female Papara SuperMassive Female Europe Rank #21 Julis Açelya Özgen schnellÆ Ayşe Ergül | runner-up: Sangal Rebels Sangal Rebels Inactive Anva Nehir Dinçer Miyori Eylül Sudem Sarıoğlu dociless Sude Sancak Narcius Kamila EKİN
• Protocolo: Gêneses 2022 main event winner: Team Liquid Brazil Team Liquid Brazil Brazil Rank #14 Bizerra Vitoria Vieira Joojina Letícia Paiva isaa Isabeli Esser daiki Natalia Vilela bstrdd Paula Naguil | runner-up: Gamelanders Purple Gamelanders Purple Inactive
• FGC VALORANT Invitational 2022 Act 3 playoffs winner: EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 ZmjjKK Yongkang Zheng (郑永康) nobody Sen Xu Wang (王森旭) CHICHOO Shun Zhi Wan (万顺治) Smoggy Zhao Zheng (张钊) Haodong Hao Dong Guo (郭浩东) | runner-up: KONE eSC KONE eSC China Rank #2 sword9 Li Wei (李卫) Yosemite Lei Wang Knight Yuxiang Liu Ninebody Yi Ding LuoK1ng Zhang Zhan Peng (张展鹏)
• BLEED Summer Open remaining teams: Gaimin Gladiators Gaimin Gladiators Inactive FREY Ingram Tan dzii Daven Cheong STYRON Tidus Goh nephh Marcus Tan artn Ayrton Soh , Alpha Esports Pro Alpha Esports Pro Inactive Yort Troy Hiramia d0rf Phạm Huỳnh Toàn Quốc gin Phan Văn Gin Ching Enrico Perez ChrisM Christian Rosquillo , NAOS NAOS Asia-Pacific Rank #12 NDG Noel De Guia Mojer Jerome Literal JA John Timothy Arone Witz Riley Go PapiChulo Frederico Evangelista
• Oceania Tour Championship main event remaining teams: BOBO BOBO Inactive Nozz Noah McClafferty DRAGON Nicholas Aleksandrovsky Yifang Yifang Chen Crunchy Ethan Laker pl1xx Chris Li , ORDER ORDER Inactive WRONSKI Michael Wronski rDeeW Riley Wilkinson Texta Matthew O’Rourke disk0 Cameron Mac Maple Elvin Sun
• MENA Regional League playoffs winner: Team Falcons Team Falcons MENA Rank #5 alvar Khaled Abdullah OuTLaW Abdullah Sulaiman Al-Salem SpYzera Abed Doughan Moh Mohammad Bin Oti KHaaLiD Khalid Al Talib Flowy | runner-up: Geekay Esports Geekay Esports MENA Rank #2 Kheops Anis Mokrani Winteryrook Evgeniy Lenko Shalaby Mohamed Shalaby wayLander Jan Rahkonen Shehab Shehab Hany RockeT Ahmed Mohamed

Other News & Rumors

• Riot penalized Los Grandes Los Grandes Inactive prince Lorran S. Ferreira CTC Caio Torres pleets Marcelo Leite coach Washington "thon" Araujo for offensive comments towards a tournament official. His team, Los Grandes, were been fined R$ 5,000 for the offense.
• According to dust2.br reporter Gabriel Melo, FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #3 kon4n Vitor Hugo dgzin Douglas Silva mwzera Leonardo Serrati Quick Gabriel Lima Mazin Matheus Araújo Khalil Khalil Schmidt have shown interest in acquiring former Gamelanders Blue Gamelanders Blue Inactive player Douglas "dgzin" Silva to replace Rinaldo "ableJ" Moda, who was moved to the team's bench this past week.