Valorant competition around the world is well underway for the 2023 calendar year. Nonetheless, teams all around the world continued to make new headlines. Here's what you might have missed this past week.

This week's edition covers news from Jan. 8 - Jan. 14.

• Read more: News Almost Missed Jan. 7

Roster Changes

• / Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #2 Xeppaa Erick Bach leaf Nathan Orf yay Jaccob Whiteaker Zellsis Jordan Montemurro qpert Mateja Mijovic vanity Anthony Malaspina said goodbye to assistant coach Erik "vapen" Sutton and coach Gaël "vexel" Attal.
• XSET Purple XSET Purple North America Rank #16 officially parted ways with Carolyn "artStar" Noquez.
• Popular content creator DisguisedToast officially revealed his Valorant roster after much anticipation. The roster consists of Joseph "clear" Allen, Joshua "steel" Nissan, Damion "XXiF" Cook, Drake "Exalt" Branly, Amgalan "Genghsta" Nemekhbayar, and coach Kyle "OCEAN" O'Brien.
• / CLG Red CLG Red North America Rank #23 itnothan Han Nguyen bid farewell to Melanie "rise" Tetreault.
• / Skwirel Warriers Skwirel Warriers North America Rank #31 Nurfed James McFadden BearZ Peyton Miller ethos Alan Ruan ALEKSANDAR Aleksandar Hinojosa completed their roster with Peyton "BearZ" Miller, Matthew "WeDid" Suchan, and James "Nurfed" McFadden.
• / M80 M80 North America Unranked zander Alexander Dituri eeiu Daniel Vucenovic NiSMO Marc-Andre Tayar johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid koalanoob Gianfranco Potestio announced Vincent "Happy" Schopenhauer as the team's new head coach.
• / bonk bonk Europe Rank #17 chiwawa Egor Stepanyuk SEIDER Mathias Seider Kicks Kimmie Laasner bonkar Malkolm Rench juseu Elric Belland welcomed Casper "Desmo" Rasmussen to their team as a coach.
• After being benched from Team BDS Team BDS Europe Rank #88 bramz Bayram Ben Redjeb juseu Elric Belland in September, Thomas "kAdavra" Johner has joined Mandatory Mandatory Europe Rank #12 HyP Damien Souville thebigfiz Julien Auberton kAdavra Thomas Johner AKUMAAAAA Alex Lo Bello Goaster Tony Richard to round out the team's roster.
• / KOI KOI Europe Rank #23 starxo Patryk Kopczynski koldamenta Jose Luis Aranguren sheydos Bogdan Naumov trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Wolfen Berkant Joshkun officially parted ways with Martin "MAGNUM" Penkov. He was originally benched from the starting roster in October.
• Apeks Apeks Europe Unranked MAGNUM Martin Penkov Mistic James Orfila Enzo Enzo Mestari ShadoW Tobias Flodström Keiko Georgio Sanassy has formed a new roster for the first split of Polaris. The team features MAGNUM, Enzo "Enzo" Mestari, James "Mistic" Orfila, Georgio "Keiko" Sanassy, and Tobias "ShadoW" Flodström as the team's starting five. They are supported by Dimitar "Itopata" Staev, Danail "DANNYTO" Sofroniev, and Sam "Forrest" Forrest as head coach, assistant coach, and strategic coach respectively.
• Angry Titans Oni Angry Titans Oni Europe Unranked Viv serenity F4INT Salty Blossom parted ways with jjeonda and Lenam0n .
• CGN Esports CGN Esports Europe Rank #30 elllement Dragan Milanović azury Luca Sammer BennY Benjamin Domgörgen Shazeon Rene Cappel starki Krzysztof Lewandrowski welcomed back Rene "Shazeon" Cappel to their main roster. He had been playing for the organization's academy team, CGN Youngstars CGN Youngstars Europe Rank #59 Lele Leandro de Nittis Kongi Matthias Schranz Faceroll Leon Grudnowski Vince Vincent Kranz Yuno Philipp Holzner , since May.
• / FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #2 Leo Leo Jannesson Derke Nikita Sirmitev Boaster Jake Howlett Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder added Maks "kamyk" Rychlewski and Aleksey "slk" Lynksov to their team as substitute player and assistant coach respectively.
• / In a full unveiling of the French Challengers League teams, HEET HEET Europe Rank #25 Kinguyen Nguyen Thach memset Laurent Werly b2kk Sofian Delimi Monstrum Jake Byrne waddle Wadir Taraki 's final member has been revealed to be Laurent "memset" Werly.
• // B8 Esports B8 Esports Europe Rank #47 Dreamas Aurimas Zablockis Kamisseq Kamil Lepper 999kvmil Kamil Szymanek adm1k Adam Siemieniec arch Vladyslav Svistov revealed their full roster for the first split of the Eastern European Challengers League.
• // Sector One Sector One Inactive Alyx Alex Morrow poegi Yenthe Segers q Liam Hoek dash Pieter-Jan De Decker MaximN Maxim Nonglaire has also had their full team revealed on the French Challengers League Twitter. The team will be comprised of Maxim "MaximN" Nonglaire, Yenthe "poegi" Segers, Pieter-Jan "dash" De Decker, Liam "q" Hoek, Alyx , and head coach Kicygo .
• / Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #3 MOLSI Michał Łącki Destrian Tomas Linikas Twisten Karel Ašenbrener BONECOLD Santeri Sassi ceNder Jokūbas Labutis have welcomed former FNATIC performance coach Marcus Askildsen to their team.
• MOUZ MOUZ Europe Rank #35 al0rante Felix Brandl Obnoks Nico Garczarczyk murii Murat Korkmaz Filu Dawid Czarnecki iluri Ilari Puranen announced their full roster, featuring new members Dawid "Filu" Czarnecki, Ilari "iluri" Puranen, Nico "Obnoks" Garczarczyk, Murat "murii" Korkmaz, and coach Jiri "KUNDIKUNDI" Honkala.
• Acend Acend Europe Rank #33 ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi Br0die Jack Emmott baddyG Kamil Graniczka B3ASTM0D3 Ivan Ledić MONSTEERR Ondřej Petrů revealed their full roster for 2023. The roster is comprised of Ivan "B3ASTM0D3" Ledić, Kamil "baddyG" Graniczka, Gilad "ALIVE" Hakim, Jack "Br0die" Emmott, Alessio "musashi" Xhaferi, and Ondřej "MONSTEERR" Petrů, who returns to the active lineup after being inactive for Acend since September alongside coach Laurynas "Nbs" Kisielius.
• Cyber Wolves Esports Cyber Wolves Esports Europe Rank #28 ALMO Albert Moscicki Freyy Krystian Konopka Hitch Martin Srp pyrolll Artur Minin tatzuki Jovan Milovanovic unveiled their full roster for the first split of the Eastern European Challengers League.
• TBK Esports TBK Esports Brazil Rank #9 deNaro Matheus Hipólito chase Davi Mello matheuzin Matheus Lima ryotzz Leon Felipe luk Lucas Soares revealed their full roster for 2023, featuring official members Matheus "deNaro" Hipólito and Davi "chase" Mello as well as coach Rodrigo "shoyu" Matheus. chase and deNaro were added as stand-ins in November, and shoyu was previously the analyst for TBK's Game Changers team, TBK Esports GC TBK Esports GC Inactive shyz Luisa Minarelli Daniops Daniela Cristini Bizerra Vitoria Vieira gabee .
• B4 Angels B4 Angels Inactive bid farewell to Taynah "tayhuhu" Yukimi.
• Team Liquid Brazil Team Liquid Brazil Brazil Rank #44 Bizerra Vitoria Vieira Joojina Letícia Paiva isaa Isabeli Esser daiki Natalia Vilela bstrdd Paula Naguil parted ways with Paola "drn" Caroline and Natalia "nat1" Meneses.
• SCARZ SCARZ Japan Rank #6 Zennakukin TORANECO Jemkin Kr1stal Savva Fedorov Yoshiii rounded out their roster with Yoshiii .
• / FAV gaming FAV gaming Japan Rank #4 LOB Lim Byung-gun (임병건) Minty Daiki Kato fukuken Phantom Hideaki Nakai bazz welcomed JanOwO to their team as a player.
• / BOBO BOBO Oceania Rank #1 Nozz Noah McClafferty DRAGON Nicholas Aleksandrovsky rDeeW Riley Wilkinson Crunchy Ethan Laker pl1xx Chris Li coach Sion "VaZe" Eom revealed that he had parted ways with the team.
• / Former Team Secret Team Secret Asia-Pacific Rank #6 invy Adrian Jiggs Reyes lenne Lim You Xiang Lionel BORKUM Jim Timbreza JessieVash Jessie Cuyco DubsteP Jayvee Paguirigan Jremy Jeremy Cabrera coach Chong "Fayde" Hoc Wah was announced as the new head coach of Griffin E-Sports Griffin E-Sports Asia-Pacific Rank #35 Fung3 SiuFatBB YRSelect LockM sora wink .
• Mammoth ESC Mammoth ESC Oceania Rank #11 loubert Muzz azuliate kwon DARK signed the roster of afterhours afterhours Inactive WKND azuliate loubert DARK Muzz kwon Cxrsed .
• HellrangeR announced that his time with Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #8 Bazzi Park Jun-ki (박준기) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) SkRossi Ganesh Gangadhar WRONSKI Michael Wronski Lightningfast Abhirup Choudhury Monyet Cahya Nugraha AYRIN Jordan He had come to a close.
• KnightRider revealed that he was in search of new opportunities as a restricted free agent. He was previously a member of Gods Reign Gods Reign Asia-Pacific Rank #31 DC Daivik Chauhan vibhoRR Vibhor Vaid Ember Garvit Nehra Hoax Aman Yadav .

Results & Standings

• Ludwig x Tarik Invitational remaining teams: The Guard The Guard North America Rank #4 JonahP Jonah Pulice trent Trent Cairns neT Michael Bernet valyn Jacob Batio tex Ian Botsch , Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #13 pANcada Bryan Luna TenZ Tyson Ngo dephh Rory Jackson SicK Hunter Mims zekken Zachary Patrone Sacy Gustavo Rossi , TSM TSM North America Rank #6 gMd Anthony Guimond seven Johann Hernandez hazed James Cobb NaturE Nicholas Garrison corey Corey Nigra
• Nerd Street Valorant Lockdown finals remaining teams: where is fullerton where is fullerton Inactive Governor Peter No Harmful Mohammed Choudhary , CAT MAID BOYS CAT MAID BOYS North America Rank #40 , Crownless Crownless North America Rank #37 Tempt Brett Oberholtzer Flonson Matt Johnson Kurama Joshua Chumney chime Kouf Andrew Koufogianis , BabyJ Esports BabyJ Esports Inactive , Evolution Gaming Evolution Gaming North America Rank #64 , Hyperactive Hyperactive Inactive Gjalla Jerrey Moss-Landers dKim David Markus Boni HyperDuck Matthew Robertson-Brown Neebz Gabriel Nguyen
• BEACON Open Split 2 Division 1 Finals winner: VAMONOS VAMONOS Europe Rank #45 Zik Sigurd Jensen Klusia Jonas Colkær Thomsen sunshine Benjamin Hornshøj Nielsen Vorwenn Tomas Baldrich Nille Nichlas Busk | runner-up: Les Petit Bouffons Les Petit Bouffons Europe Rank #26 vong Vong Nguyen Luzuh Joseph Loose KRAY Calum Knight Russ Russel Mendes L1NK Travis Mendoza
• Gaming Culture Girl Power #6 grand finals teams: Amigas da Bizinha Amigas da Bizinha Brazil Rank #33 nanah Nathalia Hammoud antG Antônia Garcia Bizinha Bruna Marvila Mel Melissa Souza sayuri Camila Obam , ODDIK Bright ODDIK Bright Brazil Rank #14 m4ndzin gabee mindle Elaine Takahashi gabiTê Aninha Ana Luiza Martinho | consolation final teams: Black Dragons Female Black Dragons Female Brazil Rank #49 blu Victoriah Ceniz luiza Luiza Parron lule Luiza Meira mizi Mirella Gomes Bia Beatriz Terra , MOVE Gaming MOVE Gaming Brazil Rank #133 mandy Amanda Santiago covinhas Nathane Queiroz fly Jessica Pellegrini Enderzinha Heloisa Israel
• Valorant Vietnam Rising Stars Week 1 winner: TTT TTT Asia-Pacific Rank #59 Redneval Le Quốc Khánh Hyzee Võ Nhựt Huy Suka Nguyễn Văn Tiến viness Nguyễn Trung Tín FrightingK Bùi Minh Tuấn Daicute Nguyễn Anh Minh Thông | runner-up: Team Lofi Team Lofi Asia-Pacific Unranked Laww XjuMại Lin Milooo BánhMj
• Valorant Vietnam Rising Stars Week 2 remaining teams: Mekong Gaming Mekong Gaming Asia-Pacific Unranked Zamasu Phan Trấn Bảo Thiên Brownie Phan Kiều Xuân Phan Tuna Nguyễn Bá Anh Tuấn Mowff Trần Đức Minh Son Keke Vũ Thượng Toàn Tu KeKe Nguyễn Hoàng Anh Tú , Jolly Prodigies Jolly Prodigies Asia-Pacific Unranked Kaz v1c Ita sneakyy2k5 Noodie , TwoKay TwoKay Asia-Pacific Rank #53 Ringo Nguyễn Hoàng Minh Slaz Lương Gia Nhật Minh Vers4ce Lê Nguyễn Gia Bảo Hyel Lê Hoàng Quang Huy meodayngu Nguyễn Nghĩa Minh Kong Nguyễn Nguyên Đăng Juu Trần Thái Vỹ , MEOGANG MEOGANG Asia-Pacific Rank #46 Lyf Nguyen Ta Trung Hieu paulR NhatUyen Lương Công Minh Nhật Jeremy Harrytzz 16Ch0ps Nguyễn Đức Trí Tín huygetsu
• Masters Pro League Season 3 Main Event winner: ONYX RAVENS ONYX RAVENS MENA Rank #5 Louda Khaled Hossam moner Kirill Matsanov AntiBiotique Taha Handaoui ACHRF Adjabi Cheraf rey Habib Majoul | runner-up: NASR Esports NASR Esports MENA Rank #7 sibeastw0w Anton Govorukhin A1mly Ameen Dibis cactuzio Youssef Ait Amghar chrollo Omar Hussein Mickebwoy Mikołaj Chojnacki

Other News & Rumors

• Riot Games have announced that they will be putting out "some cosmetics" for VCT LOCK//IN São Paulo in the Episode 6 Dev Stream Launch. What the cosmetics will be specifically has not yet been revealed.