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 Inactive 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 Inactive Nixerino Nicolás Canellas Colocho YuNo Eloy García Vorwenn Tomas Baldrich Blastinho Miquel llombart Pando announced the departure of five players plus head coach Lucas "Rojo" 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 #18 hoody Aaro Peltokangas YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes Mistic James Orfila al0rante Felix Brandl xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon 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 #212 Aurax Darum0n Darunee Knirck KlausC Lenam0n 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 Inactive Aurora Böcek Burçin Sertoğlu jadeth Ayşe Güneş NAKSU Beril Özdemir Destina Kardelen Bağış .
• Rinaldo "ableJ" Moda revealed that he had been benched from FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #8 heat Olavo Marcelo raafa Rafael Lima havoc Ilan Eloy Khalil Khalil Schmidt pryze Luis-Henrique Viveiros '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 Inactive Morita Dae jeyjey sumi minuty said goodbye to Hinataa .
• Optix Optix Inactive ganter Bastian Eduardo Reinoso Fross Fernando Gallagher D1E Diego Contreras Tio Carlos Swing gio 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 #4 Xhowi Luis Enmanuel Corcino Garcia prask Mike Cortbani Jrmzie vandals MiniNiwde Lenin Mateo and entered free agency.
• REJECT REJECT Japan Rank #6 muto hiroronn Hiroki Yanai Sayaplayer Ha Jeong-woo (하정우) Brofeld BRIAN bid farewell to "HaReeee" and coach Yusuke "Norisen" Shima.
• DeToNator DeToNator Inactive K1llgrave FifTy are down to three players following the departure of MrTenzouEz .
• Vince "Flash" Medado and Francis "Rabbet" Danison Buñag announced their entrance into free agency from Rex Regum Qeon Rex Regum Qeon Asia-Pacific Rank #5 Monyet Cahya Nugraha xffero David Monangin Jemkin Maksim Batorov Kushy Bryan Carlos Setiawan crazyguy Ngô Công Anh .
• 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 #16 k1ngkappa said goodbye to Thomas "Cud" Alfiantino.
• BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #2 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma parted ways with Muhammad "frostmind" Rafi Diandra.
• / Orangutan Orangutan Asia-Pacific Rank #12 Makaveli Nikhil Chettri RvK Rishi Vijayakumar deecee Daivik Chauhan Hoax Aman Yadav announced Mathanraj "theDoctorr" Munisparan and Felipe "skye" Skye Lim as coach and analyst respectively.
• CERBERUS Esports CERBERUS Esports Inactive viness Nguyễn Trung Tín alyaL Hoàng Đức Hùng ting2k5 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 K1LLERS Nguyễn Văn Thiện members Hoàng "alyaL" Đức Hùng and Dường "ting2k5" Mạnh Thắng.
• Team Big BAAM Team Big BAAM Asia-Pacific Rank #31 Nhatthong2k Nguyễn Nhất Thống Nhatthong2k Nguyễn Nhất Thống nTK Nguyễn Tuấn Kiệt Somethai Trần Lê Huy Khiêm P1nA Nguyễn Nam Hyzee Võ Nhựt Huy disbanded.
• Fancy United Esports Fancy United Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #10 Mihlog Tô Minh Long YESicaN Đinh Đình Đạt 16Ch0ps Nguyễn Đức Trí Tín Crus Lư Tiến Huy Hyuse twilight 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 kxtharsis .

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 Inactive
• Northern Europe Regional League Stage 2 playoffs winner: EXCEL EXCEL Inactive Moe40 Muhammad Hariff chiwa Egor Stepanyuk paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski Foxie Tyler Lowton ALIVE Gilad Hakim | runner-up: Finest Finest Inactive DESTRUCT1VEE Hakan Lekesizer Kicks Kimmie Laasner bonkar Malkolm Rench
• French Regional League Stage 2 playoffs winner: Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #4 Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner CyvOph Clement Millard Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso | 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 Inactive ngiN Engin Kor HyDrO Lukas Brill | runner-up: DSYRE DSYRE Inactive caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci wackie Rikardo Birjukov waddle Wadir Taraki
• 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 Inactive
• MEDUSA Series playoffs winner: Acend Rising Acend Rising Inactive schnellÆ Ayşe Ergül amy Amy Lai htm Lada Kozhemyakina speedowka Weronika Dabrowska Joliinaa Tina Agélii | runner-up: Guild GC Guild GC Inactive Xaline Laure Mateos
• Rebels #4 winner: Papara SuperMassive Female Papara SuperMassive Female Inactive 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 #4 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 S1Mon Hsien Meng-Hsun (谢孟勋) ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) Jieni7 Zhang Juntai (张君泰) | runner-up: KONE eSports Club KONE eSports Club Inactive sword9 Li Wei (李卫) yosemite Wang Lei (王磊) Knight Liu Yuxiang (刘宇翔) Ninebody Ding Yi (丁毅) LuoK1ng Zhang Zhanpeng (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 #42 PTC Kititkawin Rattanasukol xavi8k Xavier Juan Mojer Jerome Literal ValdyN Rivaldy Nafian Xan
• Oceania Tour Championship main event remaining teams: BOBO BOBO Oceania Rank #3 Bonobo Jason Jia Blessed Arvin Latkaee MILKY Ryan Cornwell Kawaii Nozz Noah McClafferty , 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 Inactive | runner-up: Geekay Esports Geekay Esports MENA Rank #7

Other News & Rumors

• Riot penalized Los Grandes Los Grandes Brazil Rank #4 Quick Gabriel Lima mazin Matheus Araújo jzz João Pedro GuhRVN Gustavo Ferreira frz Leandro Gomes 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 #8 heat Olavo Marcelo raafa Rafael Lima havoc Ilan Eloy Khalil Khalil Schmidt pryze Luis-Henrique Viveiros 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.