Masters Copenhagen competition is reaching its apex, but that didn't stop the rest of the Valorant world from creating new headlines. Here's what you might have missed this past week.
This week's edition covers news from July 16 - July 22.
- Read more: News Almost Missed July 15
Roster Changes
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Sentinels
Sentinels North America Rank #4 TenZ Tyson Ngo Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid Sacy Gustavo Rossi recently revealed Matthew "Weltis" Liu and Dani "Dani" Hashweh as the team's analysts.
- / Erdenetsogt "erkaSt"
Gantulga departed
Cloud9 Academy
Cloud9 Academy Inactive geeza Tanner McGhee nillyaz Chase Linder to return to competing in CS:GO with Team NKT.
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Rix.GG Lightning
Rix.GG Lightning Inactive rounded out their roster with former TENSTAR Nova
TENSTAR Nova Inactive Cla Clara Rossi Sliicyy Lucy Tran Kim Sophia Benfakir Nelo Mathilde Beltoise players Nouhara "Ninou" Marcos and Asma "LiriLia" Boughida.
- / Manuel "ease"
López revealed that he is in search of new opportunities while still under contract with
UCAM Esports Club
UCAM Esports Club Europe Rank #15 Flickless Karel Maeckelbergh OLIZERA Diogo Oliveira azury Luca Sammer Quick Fabián Pereira .
- / Tomás "tomaszy"
Machado announced that his time as a stand-in for
Rebels Gaming
Rebels Gaming Inactive had come to an end, and that he is in search of a new team.
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Wave Esports
Wave Esports Inactive SimonD4rk Alexandr Skovbel Click Haydem Ali Saiz Daniel Ruiz parted ways with head coach Andreas .
- / Markus "SPMAK"
Talliniemi revealed that after a previous announcement that
Dortmund Esports
Dortmund Esports Europe Rank #175 Aurax Darum0n Darunee Knirck KlausC Lenam0n would be disbanding, he and Richard "RiickyC" Coles would be continuing forward with the team.
- / Kasper "Kaspe"
Timonen announced that his contract with
BIG
BIG Inactive had expired, and that he is in search of a new team as a free agent.
- / Semyon "purp0"
Borchev and head coach Vladimir "PNUKH"
Chervov both revealed that they were in search of new opportunities while still under contract with
XPLDZ
XPLDZ Inactive .
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The Union
The Union Inactive Askia Estevão Ferreira GuhRVN Gustavo Ferreira pancc Fillipe Martins ntk Lucas Martins raafa Rafael Lima signed the core of DIRETORIA
DIRETORIA Inactive GuhRVN Gustavo Ferreira havoc Ilan Eloy pancc Fillipe Martins jnt gobera Vitor Gobo plus former INFINITY
INFINITY Inactive ligasa Rodrigo Castillo MatiS Matias Salgado bnj Benjamin Rabinovich player Cristobal "l4cerr" Chaparro.
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Crazy Raccoon
Crazy Raccoon Inactive announced that coach Lim "twinkl" Young-bin (임영빈) would be shifting to a general manager role within the team, leaving NorthernLights as the team's only coach.
- / L Streak Esports acquired the former
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 roster. The team will compete under the name W Streak Esports
W Streak Esports Inactive Ching Enrico Perez Yort Troy Hiramia ChrisM Christian Rosquillo NoMan James Man xavi8k Xavier Juan stand-in Georggyyy George Audrey Lachica .
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Velocity Gaming
Velocity Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #21 sayoo Willy Ivandra Venka Venkatesh Sharma bid farewell to analyst Nikhil "sieh" Bhansali and consultant Andi "Sleepy" Andana Bangsawan
Results & Standings
- NSG Summer Championship Open 13 winner:
Nearest Airport
Nearest Airport North America Rank #48 karizma BlackMoose Shawn Fox Uncreative Kuba Kosiba Jeba Jeevanjot Chana Tn | runner-up: Cloud9 Academy
Cloud9 Academy Inactive geeza Tanner McGhee nillyaz Chase Linder
- NOM Invitational #1 winner:
Zero Tenacity
Zero Tenacity Europe Rank #56 Krizz Krzysztof Łukaszkiewicz snikk Sebastian Kamiński kenobi Szymon Łabędzki ALMO Albert Mościcki Freyy Krystian Konopka | runner-up: Rapid Ninjas
Rapid Ninjas Inactive ikke Martin Erdei Barcode Kevin Bana oli Olivér Paksi arbie Kornel Holecz
- Skyesports Pro Invitational playoffs winner:
Enigma Gaming
Enigma Gaming Inactive Divine Yeoh Chun Ting FREY Ingram Tan STYRON Tidus Goh Xan artn Ayrton Soh | runner-up: Revenant Esports
Revenant Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #7 SkRossi Ganesh Gangadhar dos9 Zhumagali Dastan sultan Sultan Akbay skillZ Jayanth Ramesh tricky Prish Valvani Paradox Kasif Sayyed
- The Esports Club Challenger Series 8 Wildcard remaining teams:
Team Punished
Team Punished Inactive KazuyA khelthuzad Shahul Hameed Kawaii Kh. Akash Singha VaiByGoD Vaibhav Lakhera , Anaadi Army
Anaadi Army Inactive Kohliii Pranav Kohli DominiK Hrishikesh Khedkar SSSami Sami Ar Rahman Kishi Ngô Trường Huy DOXZ3R Soumyadeep Dey
- The Esports Club Challenger Series 8 Group Stage qualified teams:
Lethal Esports
Lethal Esports Inactive khelthuzad Shahul Hameed LuciA Anil Kumar sh1vy Shivam Ajmani Rossi Kiran Rossi , Revenant Esports
Revenant Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #7 SkRossi Ganesh Gangadhar dos9 Zhumagali Dastan sultan Sultan Akbay skillZ Jayanth Ramesh tricky Prish Valvani Paradox Kasif Sayyed , Reckoning Esports
Reckoning Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #28 DOXZ3R Soumyadeep Dey karam1l Norbu Tsering , Medal Esports
Medal Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #55 Excali Karan Mhaswadkar Kibojn Jayesh Negi Deadly10 Saksham Aurangabadkar vibhoRR Vibhor Vaid psy Simar Sethi , Orangutan
Orangutan Asia-Pacific Rank #74 Makaveli Nikhil Chettri Ri0 Atharv Ahire tryst Jit Choudhury trinxty Naqshab Khan DcRulz Daivik Chauhan saun Saunskar Sane , Velocity Gaming
Velocity Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #21 sayoo Willy Ivandra Venka Venkatesh Sharma , Enigma Gaming
Enigma Gaming Inactive Divine Yeoh Chun Ting FREY Ingram Tan STYRON Tidus Goh Xan artn Ayrton Soh
Other News & Rumors
- Riot have announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide data and statistics for all of their esports titles, including Valorant.
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Cloud9 Academy
Cloud9 Academy Inactive geeza Tanner McGhee nillyaz Chase Linder have dropped out of the third season of MEL Premiership, and will forfeit their remaining two matches in Stage 2 of the group stage and the rest of the tournament.
- / According to Bo "BoDork"
Hoogland, inactive
Team Liquid
Team Liquid Europe Rank #26 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin Enzo Enzo Mestari Mistic James Orfila Keiko Georgio Sanassy player Travis "L1NK" Mendoza is set to join Acend
Acend Europe Rank #11 ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk for the EMEA LCQ in place of Aleksander "zeek" Zygmunt, who was benched from Acend's active roster at the end of last month.