OFF//SEASON events continue as the holiday season creeps up on us, but that doesn't stop the Valorant world from creating new headlines. Here's what you might have missed this past week.

This week's edition covers news from Nov. 27 - Dec. 3

• Last Week: News Almost Missed Nov. 26

Roster Changes

• Version1 Version1 Inactive have parted ways with Alexander "zander" Dituri after two months on the bench. Heading into 2023, zander is rumored to be joining a team for Challengers ran by ex-XSET CEO & Founder Marco Mereu.
• NRG Esports NRG Esports North America Rank #4 crashies Austin Roberts Victor Victor Wong have announced the signing of Zander "thwifo" Kim from T1 T1 Korea Rank #3 xeta Son Seon-ho (손선호) Sayaplayer Ha Jeong-woo (하정우) Rossy Daniel Abedrabbo Carpe Lee Jae-hyeok (이재혁) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) k1Ng Lee Seung-won (이승원) xccurate Kevin Susanto as their sixth man.
• Sarah "sarahcat" Simpson announced her departure from Immortals Immortals Inactive .
• MOUZ MOUZ Europe Rank #8 xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon B3ASTM0D3 Ivan Ledić Obnoks Nico Garczarczyk murii Murat Korkmaz iluri Ilari Puranen announced they parted with Bence "szimpli" Soós and Alend "Ale" Khalaf. Laurent "memset" Werly was also moved to the bench.
• FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #9 Lime Jacob Foster SEIDER Mathias Seider Fizzy David Figueiredo al0rante Felix Brandl YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes announced their roster for the 2023 VCL Polaris Season.
• ALTERNATE aTTaX ALTERNATE aTTaX Europe Rank #101 Treelover Philipp Urban KovaQ Blendi Kovaci AdrianL Magnus Magnus Keller STAVINCI Dimitrios Smoilis have announced the benching of Ethan "Sevire" Starke, Roberts "rAsk" Ribakovs and Kevin "Barcode" Bana. The team also parted with Substitute Leon "Daitan" Beck.
• EXCEL GC EXCEL GC Europe Rank #397 6sonya Maria Istrate fluxxy Lola Ainslie Viv angelka Angela Nikolovska Samsi Samantha Caddell have signed the four members of N1MP N1MP Inactive cataLina India Dubourg Neli Cornelia Johansson Luzia Camille Millet Puri Safaa Baydi aswell as Acend Rising Acend Rising Inactive schnellÆ Ayşe Ergül amy Amy Lai h6tedthemost Lada Kozhemyakina speedowka Weronika Dabrowska Joliinaa Tina Agéli 's Samantha "Samsi" Caddell and Rix.GG Lightning Rix.GG Lightning Inactive 's Daniela "Jupi" Gradl.
• BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Rank #44 aimDLL Hüseyin Kabişteke Elite Efe Teber AsLanM4shadoW Ali Osman Balta pAura Melih Karaduran Brave Eren Kasırga QutionerX Doğukan Dural said goodbye to Coach Mert "Mertenstein" Bengül.
• / FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #1 Leo Leo Jannesson Derke Nikita Sirmitev Boaster Jake Howlett Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder said goodbye to Enzo "Enzo" Mestari after two months on their bench.
• Alliance Coven Alliance Coven Inactive fluxxy Lola Ainslie 6sonya Maria Istrate B3AUTIFUL Laureta Hajra Melzz Melinda BlomQvist moved Laure "Xaline" Mateos to the bench as she explores her options.
• / CGN Esports CGN Esports Europe Rank #29 elllement Dragan Milanović azury Luca Sammer DaviH David Cruz BennY Benjamin Domgörgen Vince Vincent Kranz benched Terence "SoOn" Tarlier and Theo "OniBy" Tarlier. The team has also released Leon "Leon" Roesberg.
• / Alliance Coven Alliance Coven Inactive fluxxy Lola Ainslie 6sonya Maria Istrate B3AUTIFUL Laureta Hajra Melzz Melinda BlomQvist have released all of their support staff including Coach Daniel "Yugami" Cama Hidalgo, Assistant Coach Alejandro "RAYZZ" Montaner Roig and Manager Nico "Myagus" Gonzalez-Beltran.
• / BIG BIG Inactive parted with their whole roster who had been inactive since late September.
• Anonymo Esports Anonymo Esports Inactive belmonte Kacper Mordak xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon Stix Wojciech Chamielec grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko Katu Kacper Twórz announced the departure of their roster and coaching staff.
• TENSTAR TENSTAR Inactive Buld Michał Sokal kacpi Kacper Wolski maniek Jakub Mańkowski Stix Wojciech Chamielec moved their roster and head coach move to the inactive position on the team as they have paused their Valorant operations.
• GTZ Esports GTZ Esports Inactive starkk Gabriel Marques OLIZERA Diogo Oliveira k1zpawn Ian Rebelo kamo Kamil Frąckowiak RobbieBk Robbie Boerkamp released their roster.
• MIBR Female MIBR Female Brazil Rank #35 biazik Beatriz Begnossi Daniops Daniela Cristini drn Paola Caroline isa1 Isabele Glym nat1 Natalia Meneses moved their whole roster to the bench. All players are open to 2023 proposals.
• FAV gaming FAV gaming Japan Rank #5 Minty Daiki Kato TenTen Hands Phantom Hideaki Nakai bazz said goodbye to their Analyst/Coach "Retloff" .
• Inactive moved Shotaro "Zerost" Ikeda off of the roster as he moves to a streaming position for the team.
• X10 Esports X10 Esports Inactive Vera Rodman Yap Tempz Pierre Heng RedKoh Danial Hakim wayne Wayne Chang Egoist Javier Chua have allowed their female team, X10 Sapphire X10 Sapphire Inactive Poly Patcharapron Sanitchai JinNy Sarindhorn Wanothayarnchai Muffyn Chalita Buathong Babytz Pornlapat Wittayanan alyssa Annitta Peerwantanagul , to explore options for the 2023 season.
• Danial "RedKoh" Hakim announced his departure from Alter Ego Celeste Alter Ego Celeste Inactive Alluka Tiara Bonilla Pleno Eisberg July Kusuma enerii Odella Abraham Ayumiii Nurul Aini nabbsky Nabila Sulthana .
• CNJ esports CNJ esports Korea Rank #9 Ziya AcMe Rain Seo Hong-seung (서홍승) DaeGi Jang Yoon-cheol (장윤철) have signed AcMe to the team as a full-time member.
• NORTHEPTION NORTHEPTION Japan Rank #6 YoWamu thiefy Masato Tsujita Pepper Shoki Banjo Esperanza Jeong Jin-cheol (정진철) Wolverine Cho Hyun-tae (조현태) announced the arrival of their new Coach Jeong "Jaemin" Jae-min (정재민).
• Velocity Gaming Velocity Gaming Inactive welcomed back Karan "Excali" Mhaswadkar.
• / NASR Esports NASR Esports MENA Rank #3 sibeastw0w Anton Govorukhin Avez Hazem Khaled chrollo Omar Hussein vakk Vakaris Bebravičius alvar Khaled Abdullah parted ways with their Coach Mingiyan "Naint" Goldaev.

Results & Standings

• Canadian Esports Nationals 2022 winner: Laurier Golden Hawks Laurier Golden Hawks North America Rank #101 inconsistent KBK finchy soupy sh1mu | runner-up: St. Clair Saints St. Clair Saints North America Rank #52 sSef Youssef Daghache geeza Tanner McGhee Instxnct Isaac Walton Kyu Mirel (Braco) Hrustemovic smiley Steven Fisher
• RBCC 2022 - NA LCQ winner: o7 o7 Inactive ShimmyXD Ryan Shimizu Cain Nathan Lee nabil whitr Micheal Whitney MAR1 Marwan Jannat | runner-up: Stony Brook Red Stony Brook Red North America Rank #17 Groovy Ethan Kenji Ken Barredo Tim Timothy Braun Sable Huji
• Knights Monthly Gauntlet 2022: November winner: STEALING LUNCH MONEY STEALING LUNCH MONEY Inactive Jonaaa6 Jonard Penaflor Lear Dayton Akau zeldris Elijah Hawkins PureVNS Vincent Nguyen nillyaz Chase Linder | runner-up: Oxygen Esports Oxygen Esports North America Rank #5 skuba Logan Jenkins mitch Mitch Semago Verno Andrew Maust Reduxx Yassin Aboulalazm dapr Michael Gulino
• G-Loot VALORANT Clash - Grand Finals winner: Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #6 ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky Zyppan Pontus Eek SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin ardiis Ardis Svarenieks | runner-up: Parla Esports Parla Esports Inactive Jlerst Naci Enes Yıldırım sociablEE Volkan Yonal lauress Toprak Kaynak Ruxic Uğur Güç jeyj7y Soner Eren Kent
• FEL Valorant Cup #5 winner: OnlyFins OnlyFins Europe Rank #15 Vuubit Roope Eilola Feeqn Okko Pajari nixoon Niko Pasonen Jesmu Jesse Järvenpää Snowi Otto Rautiainen | runner-up: FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #9 Lime Jacob Foster SEIDER Mathias Seider Fizzy David Figueiredo al0rante Felix Brandl YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes
• Red Bull Home Ground #3 main event teams: Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #4 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin Enzo Enzo Mestari Mistic James Orfila Keiko Georgio Sanassy , Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #48 Destrian Tomas Linikas Kicks Kimmie Laasner runneR Emil Trajkovski ceNder Jokūbas Labutis Sayf Saif Jibraeel , FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #9 Lime Jacob Foster SEIDER Mathias Seider Fizzy David Figueiredo al0rante Felix Brandl YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes , 100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Rank #9 bang Sean Bezerra Cryocells Matthew Panganiban eeiu Daniel Vucenovic Asuna Peter Mazuryk , KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #4 keznit Angelo Mori Klaus Nicolas Ferrari mta Nicolás González Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro , Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #6 Xeppaa Erick Bach jakee Jake Anderson vanity Anthony Malaspina OXY Francis Hoang wippie Maxim Shepelev , Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #164 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjy David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius , FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #5 MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak AtaKaptan Ata Tan cNed Mehmet Yağız İpek qRaxs Doğukan Balaban
• VRL DACH: Evolution - Unity remaining teams: Unicorns of Love Unicorns of Love Europe Rank #208 bleeshh Christopher Bledowski Kamo unfaiR aK Luc1d Kenny Gauthier Kühlmann Chefstrobel Domenic Strobel , Ovation eSports Ovation eSports Europe Rank #18 Matrixx Iljas Amagow aNguiSt eleo Leonard Kulish DisisJohn John Gabrido Leosen Leonardo Hennrich , Wave Esports Wave Esports Inactive SimonD4rk Alexandr Skovbel Click Haydem Ali Saiz Daniel Ruiz , DSYRE DSYRE Europe Rank #13 caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci wackie Rikardo Birjukov waddle Wadir Taraki Filu Dawid Czarnecki
• VRL France: Revolution - Coupe De France remaining teams: bonk bonk Inactive juseu Elric Belland-Aysan , Mandatory Mandatory Europe Rank #22 SoOn Terence Tarlier HyP Damien Souville thebigfiz Julien Auberton AKUMAAAAA Alex Lo Bello Goaster Tony Richard , HEET HEET Inactive Kinguyen Nguyen Thach memset Laurent Werly b2kk Sofian Delimi Monstrum Jake Byrne waddle Wadir Taraki
• Agents Series 2022 - Split 2 winner: DSYRE Elevate DSYRE Elevate Inactive wackie Rikardo Birjukov xazyy Alejandro Giudice caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci | runner-up: Axolotl Axolotl Inactive Pax RickyVaila
• DreamHack Winter 2022 - BEACON Split 2 winner: Formulation Gaming Formulation Gaming Europe Rank #95 SemberN Emil Semb puggy Anton af Bjur nk4y Nikola Radushev ri4d Riad Smajilovic Jaf | runner-up: Bjerkely FHS Bjerkely FHS Inactive
• Movistar Fibra: LATAM Gods teams: MIBR MIBR Brazil Rank #4 jzz João Pedro Mazin Matheus Araújo artzin Arthur Araujo RgLMeister Matheus Rodigoli frz Leandro Gomes , Keyd Stars Keyd Stars Inactive , Optix Optix Latin America South Rank #10 ganter Bastian Eduardo Reinoso Fross Fernando Gallagher D1E Diego Contreras Tio Carlos Swing gio Giovani Cristobal Lainati Ruz , Leviatán Leviatán Latin America South Rank #1 tex Ian Botsch kiNgg Francisco Aravena nzr Agustin Ibarra Mazino Roberto Rivas aspas Erick Santos
• Gwangju Esports Series Asia winner: DRX DRX Korea Rank #1 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Rb Goo Sang-Min (구상민) Zest Kim Ki-seok (김기석) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) Foxy9 Jung Jae-sung (정재성) | runner-up: Talon Esports Talon Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #12 Crws Thanamethk Mahatthananuyut JitBoyS Jittana Nokngam lenne Lim You Xiang Lionel ban Joseph Seungmin Oh Governor Peter No
• AfreecaTV Valorant SEA Invitational remaining teams: Bigetron Arctic Bigetron Arctic Inactive frostmind Muhammad Rafi Diandra m0rea Oliver Budi Wangge ZesBeeW Sha Mohtar NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra sayoo Willy Ivandra , Stream Raiders Nacague Stream Raiders Nacague Asia-Pacific Rank #53 ABATMAN Franc Lenard Meija Myd Mathers Jhay Arfel Quilicot johms Johmil De Leon Walk on Waters Yanagi , Made in Thailand Made in Thailand Asia-Pacific Rank #4 Kadoom Kantapong Kingthong kongared Nantapol Boonying Kntz Krit Chaiprasit cgrs Patiphan Porsi seph1roth Chinnakrit Phoojaroen , BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #3 Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo m0rea Oliver Budi Wangge NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma
• Mineski VxV 2022 remaining teams: South Built Esports South Built Esports Inactive azys Azis Nandang Pro Chris Martir flippy Philip Marique , Oasis Gaming Oasis Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #7 Draxi Jose Eduardo D. Jamir m Mark Anthony Tuling xavi8k Xavier Juan Wild0reoo Bhreyanne Christ Reyes kellyS Kelly Sedillo

Other News & Rumours

• According to a report by Bo Hoogland and twitter account "German cs leaks", cowana Gaming cowana Gaming Inactive CALVIN S Calvin Shendy STAVINCI Dimitrios Smoilis are set to be exiting Valorant. The reports detail that outstanding salaries and lack of profitability are the reasons for the departure.