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
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Turtle Troop
Turtle Troop North America Rank #3 wedid Matthew Suchan Add3r Jack Hayashi stellar Brenden McGrath corey Corey Nigra bdog Brandon Sanders 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 #1 skuba Logan Jenkins mitch Mitch Semago Verno Andrew Maust Reduxx Yassin Aboulalazm dapr Michael Gulino .
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Ignite
Ignite Inactive released their roster following elimination from Trinity Trials - Winter Trial.
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Gavioli departed
Guild GC
Guild GC Europe Rank #77 Xaline Laure Mateos and joined EXCEL GC
EXCEL GC Inactive 6sonya Maria Istrate fluxxy Lola Ainslie Viv angelka Angela Nikolovska Samsi Samantha Caddell as their coach.
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Papara SuperMassive
Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #27 sterben Emre Demirci skylen Asil Yalçın SouhcNi Ibrahim Sağır Izzy Baran Yılmaz welcomed Üveys "uveyS094" Selimoğlu to their coaching staff.
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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.
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AYM Esports
AYM Esports Inactive Pando Michel Michel del Castillo DRK Gabriel Lorenzo benched Daniel "Daniel0" Bolufer.
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Sissi State Punks
Sissi State Punks Europe Rank #91 Terrox ico Kubfu RIX welcomed Oumar "snowkone" Kone as their head coach.
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Dortmund Esports
Dortmund Esports Europe Rank #181 Aurax Darum0n Darunee Knirck KlausC Lenam0n parted ways with Markes "MARKEZZ" Fentz.
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Catalyst Esports
Catalyst Esports Inactive unify Aviran Menashe Sai Konradas Karnišovas mista Timothy Hinchin nero Eran Yosef parted ways with Maksim "amidib" Skorokhod.
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Team Majesty
Team Majesty Inactive wLn Ahmed Shata Anoxai Anton Sobolev Fyco Swayy Alexey Lyapin parted with their Head Coach, Alexander "sashastripsa" Grishin.
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Furious Gaming
Furious Gaming Latin America South Rank #6 skyppervz Mikey Tap Luciano Pensa erde Neon tkzin parted ways with Felipe "rochet" Rochet and welcomed Omar "olzerr" Lopez and Daniel "Closer" Ataco in his place.
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FUSION
FUSION Latin America North Rank #8 Fresht Juan Pablo Preciado Winter Rei ezznap Faber Murillo RAINMAKER Javier Cruz welcomed a new manager in "INJU" .
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INFINITY
INFINITY Inactive ligasa Rodrigo Castillo MatiS Matias Salgado Seraph Benjamin Rabinovich announced the departure of Fernando "Fross" Gallagher.
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Velocity Gaming
Velocity Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #18 adrnking Adrian Setiawan Hoax Aman Yadav sayoo Willy Ivandra Venka Venkatesh Sharma Kohliii Pranav Kohli welcomed two European imports in Adam "ec1s" Eccles and Domagoj "doma" Fancev. The team also benched Saksham "Deadly10" Aurangabadkar.
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Gods Reign
Gods Reign Inactive Ember Garvit Nehra parted ways with Abhay "KnightRider" Mulchandani.
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Anaadi Army
Anaadi Army Inactive Kohliii Pranav Kohli DominiK Hrishikesh 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 Inactive 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 Inactive tyfoon sharky Mike Gariti | runner-up: Mochi Fanclub
Mochi Fanclub Inactive req Efren Mayuga zero cap Phil Pham Dogo Ethan Nguyen Kaoticcc Awkua Marco Li
- 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 #91 Moli SPOOKY bakkushaw Siana Anastasia Georgia Varkouta Lumine Katarina Crljen | runner-up: WLGaming Female Stars
WLGaming Female Stars Inactive melloney Melloney Sekirin
- Valorant East: United - Season 2 - Stage 1 - Weekly Cup #6 winner:
armani briefs
armani briefs Inactive dreAms Adel Smirnov krea6on Vilius Malinauskas Kajuks Kajus Skurvydas 1nput alain Ion Miscu | runner-up: calamity L
calamity L Europe Rank #111 bmblbe Paolo Peloza Gunners Krishan Patel
- Trinity Trials - Winter Trial remaining teams:
Dragonslayerzzz
Dragonslayerzzz Europe Rank #70 Atila shakie , K10
K10 Europe Rank #136 benzki Ben Price IllegaL Jacob Stringer merix Howl Connor Robinson Zuko , Kahood
Kahood Inactive Skittles Yourii Blaise Vowkii Florian Pagnen eriksbe Roberts Slobodjans
- Challengers League Portugal Tempest: Split 1 remaining teams:
SAW
SAW Europe Rank #13 Fragger Henrique Correia brk Bruno Ferreira GrTw Tiago Costa Addicted Eduardo Torres Cunha20 David Cunha , GTZ Esports
GTZ Esports Europe Rank #178 Cal Callum Burgoyne H4te Rodrigo Ribeiro Kayn Tiago Teixeira Dos Santos Hiiro Eric Brassac Caim Hugo Fonseca , VIKINGS Fourteen
VIKINGS Fourteen Inactive twokey brk Bruno Ferreira GrTw Tiago Costa VTaguT Rui Ribeiro KenzmPs Simão Azevedo Ds Daniel Silva , EGN Esports
EGN Esports Europe Rank #49
- Challengers League DACH Evolution: Split 1 remaining teams:
CGN Esports
CGN Esports Europe Rank #5 elllement Dragan Milanović aNguiSt Ross Pendleton DaviH David Cruz BennY Benjamin Domgörgen Vince Vincent Kranz , Unicorns of Love
Unicorns of Love Inactive bleeshh Christopher Bledowski , MOUZ
MOUZ Europe Rank #8 xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon Obnoks Nico Garczarczyk iluri Ilari Puranen Fizzy David Figueiredo starki Krzysztof Lewandrowski , Angry Titans
Angry Titans Inactive ngiN Engin Kor HyDrO Lukas Brill
- World Cyber Games Challengers League Korea: Split 1 winner:
Dplus Esports
Dplus Esports Korea Rank #7 Yyy NGen Lee Jae-hong (이재홍) Hermes Ahn Byeong-wook (안병욱) SeliG Um Hyun-sung (엄현성) freeing No Ha-jun (노하준) iNTRO Kang Seung-gyun (강승균) exy Park Geun-cheol (박근철) | 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) Jinboong Kim Jin-won (김진원)
- Challengers League Japan: Split 1 remaining teams:
Crazy Raccoon
Crazy Raccoon Inactive , SCARZ
SCARZ Japan Rank #8 MrTenzouEz Lumo Maxim Demianovskikh tixx Nick Quinn Yotaa Yota Kaouachi Yoshiii John Yoshiharu Kawakami , FENNEL
FENNEL Japan Rank #3 TENNN Tenta Asai GON CLZ SyouTa Xdll Yuto Mizomori
Other News & Rumours
- According to a report by Max Katz, Jaccob "yay"
Whiteaker will not be part of
Cloud9
Cloud9 North America Rank #9 Xeppaa Erick Bach runi Dylan Cade moose Kaleb Jayne vanity Anthony Malaspina OXY Francis Hoang '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 .