LOCK//IN São Paulo continues with their Omega bracket and Challengers Leagues begin to reach their playoffs. Although there is plenty of action, teams all around the world continue to make new headlines. Here's what you might have missed this past week in Valorant news.

This week's edition covers news from Feb. 19 to Feb. 25

• Last Week: News Almost Missed Feb.18

Roster Changes

• Turtle Troop Turtle Troop North America Rank #13 WeDid Matthew Suchan Governor Peter No Add3r Jack Hayashi TiGG Tanner Spanu mummAy Anthony DiPaolo announced the additions of Anthony "mummAy" DiPaolo and Tanner "TiGG" Spanu.
• Preston "Juv3nile" Dornon announced he is seeking offers outside of Oxygen Esports Oxygen Esports North America Rank #11 skuba Logan Jenkins mitch Mitch Semago pwny Joshua VanGorder randyySAVAGE Devon Bréard Verno Andrew Maust .
• Ignite Ignite Europe Rank #175 Elancho Aday Morín Pérez FacePalm Tereshchenko Artyom Doewoe Douwe Bijlsma Miggs Maikel Hendricks released their roster following elimination from Trinity Trials - Winter Trial.
• / Tommaso "joYnt" Gavioli departed Guild X Guild X Europe Rank #3 speedowka Weronika Dabrowska aNNja Anja Vasalic Smurfette Yağmur Gündüz cinnamon Klaudia Beczkiewicz ness Neslişah Demir and joined EXCEL GC EXCEL GC Europe Rank #35 Neli Cornelia Johansson cataLina India Dubourg Purii Safaa Baydi Luzia Camille Millet Samsi Samantha Caddell Jupi Daniela Gradl as their coach.
• Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #18 sterben Emre Demirci CyderX Caner Demir Elite Efe Teber Burzzy Burak Özveren Celasun Emir Celasun Izzy Baran Yılmaz welcomed Üveys "uveyS094" Selimoğlu to their coaching staff.
• Parla Esports Parla Esports Inactive Jlerst Naci Enes Yıldırım sociablEE Volkan Yonal lauress Toprak Kaynak Ruxic Uğur Güç jeyj7y Soner Eren Kent parted ways with their Assistant Coach Hazım "casteLL0" Orhun Dalbeyler.
• AYM Esports AYM Esports Europe Rank #221 PHYRN Oskar Palmqvist Chechuu Jesús Díaz MikaEl Miguel Ángel Díaz Tolesaito Vladislav Kvantaliyan szimpli Bence Soós Vinice Adinseg Rodríguez Suárez benched Daniel "Daniel0" Bolufer.
• / Sissi State Punks Sissi State Punks Europe Rank #24 GunnyX KovaQ vaLi Yordi van den Meijdenberg MARKEZZ Markes Fentz UNCAGED Adrian Mincan welcomed Oumar "snowkone" Kone as their head coach.
• Dortmund Esports Dortmund Esports Europe Rank #196 parted ways with Markes "MARKEZZ" Fentz.
• Catalyst Esports Catalyst Esports Europe Rank #166 unify Aviran Menashe Sai Konradas Karnišovas mista Timothy Hinchin nero Eran Yosef parted ways with Maksim "amidib" Skorokhod.
• / Team Majesty Team Majesty MENA Rank #20 SN0KEER Nour Elbasha Alone Ahmed Taimour wLn Ahmed Shata Anoxai Anton Sobolev soloffg Vadim Solovyev parted with their Head Coach, Alexander "sashastripsa" Grishin.
• / Furious Gaming Furious Gaming Latin America Unranked olzerr Omar Lopez Closer Daniel Ataco UNNSTO Danilo Pilarche puleule Nahuel Pulella Kimbo mta Nicolás González parted ways with Felipe "rochet" Rochet and welcomed Omar "olzerr" Lopez and Daniel "Closer" Ataco in his place.
• / FUSION FUSION Latin America North Rank #1 theory Daniel Esteban Albadan Cardozo Virtyy Leandro Moreno Mited Luis Gutierrez edu Darker Sebastián Castro Cicuamia Dcop Carlo Delsol welcomed a new manager in "INJU" .
• INFINITY INFINITY Latin America North Rank #3 byrf Diego Cazanga ligasa Rodrigo Castillo MatiS Matias Salgado vaiZ Matías Barría suther Tomás Zurita announced the departure of Fernando "Fross" Gallagher.
• // Velocity Gaming Velocity Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #8 hellff Sagnik Roy DEATHMAKER Debanjan Das Excali Karan Mhaswadkar doma Domagoj Fancev ec1s Adam Eccles welcomed two European imports in Adam "ec1s" Eccles and Domagoj "doma" Fancev. The team also benched Saksham "Deadly10" Aurangabadkar.
• Gods Reign Gods Reign Asia-Pacific Rank #28 vibhoRR Vibhor Vaid Ember Garvit Nehra Hoax Aman Yadav tixx Nick Quinn Autumn Kale Dunne psydreams Simar Sethi parted ways with Abhay "KnightRider" Mulchandani.
• / Anaadi Army Anaadi Army Inactive Kohliii Pranav Kohli DominiK Rushikesh Khedkar SSSami Sami Ar Rahman Kishi Ngô Trường Huy DOXZ3R Soumyadeep Dey welcomed Ngô "Kishi" Trường Huy to their roster.

Results & Standings

• $3,000 FreshCut Community Series winner: Raw Dawgs Raw Dawgs North America Rank #39 Kasche1x Colbey Gardiner DraYstaR André Poitras PapaSmurf Jack Kreger | runner-up: Anime Super Soldiers Anime Super Soldiers Inactive Akula Zachy Dost Critical Tristan Trinacty SKIM Justin Jung fiziq Lucas Blow bjor Joseph Bjorklund
• Mystic Singularity Series #3 winner: 99 Strength 99 Strength North America Rank #15 icy Jacob Lange nerve Michael Yerrow zinc Brett Robertson tyfoon sharky Mike Gariti | runner-up: Mochi Fanclub Mochi Fanclub North America Rank #20 infiltrator Awkua Marco Li Yoshii Binh Nguyen Dogo Ethan Nguyen kirei Peter Dang
• HyperX Arena: Spike Drop Operation V.E.G.A.S begins their playoffs
• Balkan Unite winner: Anorthosis Famagusta Esports Female Anorthosis Famagusta Esports Female Game Changers Rank #143 Siana Anastasia Georgia Varkouta Evie Evangelia Charalampopoulou tokameite lily Lumine Katarina Crljen | runner-up: WLGaming Esports GC WLGaming Esports GC Europe Unranked Icy melloney Melloney Sekirin iva Iva Peychinova RaiciN rafaelizz Rafaela Papageorgopoulou
• Valorant East: United - Season 2 - Stage 1 - Weekly Cup #6 winner: armani briefs armani briefs Europe Rank #36 Daisuke Alexander Gushin krea6on Vilius Malinauskas Kajuks Kajus Skurvydas 1nput alain Ion Miscu | runner-up: calamity L calamity L Europe Rank #55 Incredible bmblbe Paolo Peloza Gunners
• Trinity Trials - Winter Trial remaining teams: Dragonslayerzzz Dragonslayerzzz Europe Rank #53 Aphun Anhhao Phung Atila rYn Quirijn Runia poegii Yenthe Segers shakie Nickless Boeva , K10 K10 Europe Rank #37 benzki Ben Price Cal Callum Burgoyne Apyr Nathan Abrahamse thooOOM Thom Slaghekke brazy Lars Verduin , Kahood Kahood Europe Rank #93 Skittles Yourii Blaise Vowkii Florian Pagnen eriksbe Roberts Slobodjans
• Challengers League Portugal Tempest: Split 1 remaining teams: SAW SAW Europe Rank #5 Addicted Eduardo Torres DaviH David Cruz tomaszy Tomás Machado Fizzy David Figueiredo Bati Miguel Batista , GTZ Esports GTZ Esports Europe Rank #11 starkk Gabriel Marques OLIZERA Diogo Oliveira k1zpawn Ian Rebelo kamo Kamil Frąckowiak RobbieBk Robbie Boerkamp , VIKINGS Fourteen VIKINGS Fourteen Europe Rank #46 brk Bruno Ferreira GrTw Tiago Costa VTaguT Rui Ribeiro KenzmPs Simão Azevedo Ds Daniel Silva , EGN Esports EGN Esports Europe Rank #47 Phatt Alexandre Silva silenttt Nuno Rodrigues Dext Norbert Paulovčák fainz Pedro Monteiro
• Challengers League DACH Evolution: Split 1 remaining teams: CGN Esports CGN Esports Europe Rank #29 elllement Dragan Milanović azury Luca Sammer BennY Benjamin Domgörgen Shazeon Rene Cappel starki Krzysztof Lewandrowski , Unicorns of Love Unicorns of Love Europe Rank #21 nico Nico Neumann eleo Leonard Kulish canefis James Barry Luc1d Kenny Gauthier Kühlmann Treelover Philipp Urban , MOUZ MOUZ Europe Rank #50 al0rante Felix Brandl Obnoks Nico Garczarczyk murii Murat Korkmaz Filu Dawid Czarnecki iluri Ilari Puranen , Angry Titans Angry Titans Europe Rank #60 eNes Enes Bulut jurca Jurca Andreas Louitan Louis Beresford ngiN Engin Kor HyDrO Lukas Brill
• World Cyber Games Challengers League Korea: Split 1 winner: Dplus Esports Dplus Esports Korea Rank #2 Wenty Yang Geon-mo (양건모) Lakia Kim Jong-min (김종민) Estrella Park Gun (박건) exy Park Geun-cheol (박근철) Esperanza Jeong Jin-cheol (정진철) allow Park Sang-wook (박상욱) | runner-up: Rio Company Rio Company Inactive SungJin Ko Sung-jin (고성진) Sunday Kim Min-soo (김민수) SeliG Um Hyun-sung (엄현성) LuZ Lim Ui-jun (임의준) JinboongE Kim Jin-won (김진원)
• Challengers League Japan: Split 1 remaining teams: Crazy Raccoon Crazy Raccoon Japan Rank #2 popogachi Souta Morita Meiy Ibuki Seki Medusa An Min-cheol makiba Miyamoto Akatsuki neth Yusuke Matsuda , SCARZ SCARZ Japan Rank #4 Allen TORANECO Jusei Saito Jemkin Maksim Batorov Kr1stal Savva Fedorov Yoshiii , FENNEL FENNEL Japan Rank #3 CLZ JoXJo Cho Byung-yeon (조병연) SyouTa Xdll Yuto Mizomori hiroronn Hiroki Yanai

Other News & Rumours

• According to a report by Max Katz, Jaccob "yay" Whiteaker will not be part of Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #2 Xeppaa Erick Bach leaf Nathan Orf Zellsis Jordan Montemurro qpert Mateja Mijovic runi Dylan Cade jakee Jake Anderson 's active roster in the near future. At the time of writing, there has been no rumored replacement.
• In another report by Max Katz, Moist Esports is set to enter the North American scene with the signing of BreakThru BreakThru Inactive thief Brady Dever aproto Alex Protopapas sym Tyler Porter flyuh Xavier Carlson brawk Brock Somerhalder .