A new month is here and VCT LOCK//IN is rapidly approaching. Even with a new month, teams all around the world still manage to create new headlines. Here's what you might have missed this past week in Valorant news.

This week's edition covers news from Jan. 29 to Feb. 04

• Last Week: News Almost Missed January 28

Roster Changes

• / Turtle Troop Turtle Troop Inactive wedid Matthew Suchan jowa Jordan Wang bdog Brandon Sanders Kaoticc welcomed Andy "Avhyno" Sanschagrin as head coach and "mayuhri" as manager.
• / KOI KOI Inactive welcomed a new assistant coach/analyst in Tyler "Bambino" Jay.
• SBG SBG Inactive APO Tom Bonnion stand-in TakaS Jonathan Paupard logaN Logan Corti Wailers Wailers Locart beyAz Beyazit Körpe nataNk Nathan Bocqueho welcomed Tom "APO" Bonnion as a stand-in while Jonathan "TakaS" Paupard steps away due to injury.
• / Case Esports Case Esports Inactive announced a shift in their coaching staff with the welcoming of Lucas "Rojo" Rojo as head coach and the transition of Juan "McJuankar" Carlos Mesa Ciruelo to coach.
• / Apeks Apeks Inactive welcomed their new general manager in Frederik "Gulden" van Guldener.
• / BLX UTD BLX UTD Inactive Yourii q Liam Hoek vaLi Yordi van den Meijdenberg stike Adam Matani Apyr Nathan Abrahamse released "dash" and Yenthe "poegii" Segers in favor of Nathan "nAyte" Berquignol and Riad "ri4d" Smajilovic.
• Parla Esports Parla Esports Inactive Jlerst Naci Enes Yıldırım sociablEE Volkan Yonal lauress Toprak Kaynak Ruxic Uğur Güç jeyj7y Soner Eren Kent announced their new coach in Emirhan "L7" Şahintürk.
• / RIZON RIZON Europe Rank #96 Demiurge Lukas Larsson puggy Anton af Bjur Opex Jaden Shearman deyten Elmas Dzudzevic announced their roster for Split 1 of Project V 2023.
• // ALTERNATE aTTaX ALTERNATE aTTaX Europe Rank #302 Katuzo Furkan Güler Leosen Leonardo Hennrich disisjohn John Gabrido Shazeon Rene Cappel signed a European female roster, ALTERNATE aTTaX Ruby ALTERNATE aTTaX Ruby Europe Rank #24 Jade Blossi caelia PuriTy Karina .
• / CGN Youngstars CGN Youngstars Inactive released their roster due to a ruling by Riot on academy/project teams.
• who cars? who cars? Inactive fexayy Klusia Jonas Colkær Thomsen Nille Nichlas Busk sunshine Benjamin Hornshøj Nielsen moved Mikkel "Masked" Fuglsang to the bench as he steps away due to personal issues.
• X10 Esports X10 Esports Inactive Vera Rodman Yap Tempz Pierre Heng RedKoh Danial Hakim wayne Wayne Chang Egoist Javier Chua revealed their roster for Malaysia/Singapore: Stage 1.
• / Enigma Gaming Enigma Gaming Inactive Divine Yeoh Chun Ting FREY Ingram Tan STYRON Tidus Goh Xan Xan Ng artn Ayrton Soh also revealed their roster for Malaysia/Singapore: Stage 1.
• Ko "C1ndeR" Jae-hyuk (고재혁) announced his departure from Good 8 Squad Good 8 Squad Inactive ryota- Ryota Okayama kenmohororo Kaito Yoshida C1ndeR Ko Jae-hyuk (고재혁) Bangnan Jung Min-u (정민우) PeroOwO .
• Making It Look Easy Making It Look Easy Inactive Gera Caz Jose Hernandez GeneralSteak otaQ parted with their head coach Hernan "Dumbbell" Pernas.
• / Bravado Gaming Bravado Gaming Inactive announced the arrival of Yousef "SkaNoodles" Mohamed and Daniel "Boom" Jiménez.
• HONEY BADGERS HONEY BADGERS Inactive Noobster xue Jesse Tang MirzAA Kiyan M-Basari JELLYD Angelo Diaz Maple Elvin Sun parted ways with Ryan "MILKY" Cornwell.
• Funcrew Funcrew Inactive skrawl Justin Lanzon YAKUZA Yifang Yifang Chen MirzAA Kiyan M-Basari welcomed their new roster for VCL Oceania - Split 1.

Results & Standings

• Knights Monthly: January winner: rubberduckies rubberduckies Inactive | runner-up: Son of 4 Dogs Son of 4 Dogs Inactive
• aSmoogl Community Cup winner: eSports Cologne eSports Cologne Europe Rank #319 felito Felix Thimm ScelzeR Leon Leon Roesberg NoMiss pryxi | runner-up: asfdfdsaegsdgds asfdfdsaegsdgds Inactive
• VEU - S2S1 - Weekly Cup #4 winner: Fever Dream Fever Dream Inactive ROUSIK VJT Vojtěch Kutač Shmuky Lukáš Hesek Elysium Michael Prošek | runner-up: Team Progress Team Progress Inactive tuba Bence Boros helpless Dávid Betyák dNEL Dániel Varga SLT TIMOTIII Marcell Bakos
• Wandercon winner: calamity L calamity L Inactive bmblbe Paolo Peloza Gunners Krishan Patel | runner-up: ACE eSports ACE eSports Inactive r1zvaN YORZERA divide J1zkeyy chukl9 Danil Chuklin focus
• VALORANT Vietnam: Rising Stars - Week 3 winner: LAZY LAZY Inactive Akashi Châu Hoàn Thiện Nhân ducT Hoàng Trung Đức Louboutin Phạm Gia Khánh chikoxnxx Berserk albus Trần Phúc Thiên | runner-up: VICTORY VICTORY Inactive TRIPCIEW Vữ Minh Cường

Other News & Rumours

• According to a report by Dot Esports, LOCK//IN São Paulo is set to feature a Mandarin broadcast at an international event for the first time. This comes after the LOCK//IN format was changed to include two teams from the Chinese region, EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 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) and FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix China Rank #10 AAAAY Zhang Yang (张杨) KovaQ Blendi Kovaci coconut Colin Patrick Chung (钟弘祖) Xlele Zhao Yanbo (赵炎博) Setrod Ou Taigeng (欧泰赓) .