Both Challengers & Partnered events have reached their halfway point and Game Changers: EMEA has begun their group stage. Although there is plenty of ongoing action, teams all around the world continue to make new headlines. Here's what you might have missed these past two weeks in Valorant news.

This week's double edition covers news from April 16 to April 29

• Previous Edition: News Almost Missed April 15

Roster Changes

• / Zero MarksMen Black Zero MarksMen Black North America Rank #27 Tim Timothy Braun Blahst Nathan Brand yiinel Elias Soto Nanners Anderson Lutkehus kev Kevin Pham announced the signing of Team Reckaroo Team Reckaroo Inactive Blahst Nathan Brand Tim Timothy Braun kev Kevin Pham Nanners Anderson Lutkehus yiinel Elias Soto 's roster.
• Torch Torch North America Rank #17 ion2x Korsonix Korey Anderson MOCKING Playboi Joe Joe Velis ShoT_UP Andrew Orlowski welcomed their first roster.
• Tanishq "Tanizhq" Sabharwal announced that Chad "Oderus" Miller joined Moist Moguls Moist Moguls North America Rank #7 aproto Alex Protopapas sym Tyler Porter brawk Brock Somerhalder flyuh Xavier Carlson thief Brady Dever as their assistant coach.
• OREsports OREsports North America Rank #16 nillyaz Chase Linder zeldris Elijah Hawkins Jonaaa6 Jonard Penaflor fiziq Lucas Blow Paincakes Jake Hass parted ways with Vincent "PureVNS" Nguyen and welcomed Lucas "fiziq" Blow and Jake "Paincakes" Hass.
• Oxygen Esports Oxygen Esports North America Rank #9 skuba Logan Jenkins mitch Mitch Semago Verno Andrew Maust Reduxx Yassin Aboulalazm Rustun Rustun Lusk revealed that Yassin "Reduxx" Aboulalazm will be returning to the main roster in place of Devon "randyySAVAGE" Bréard.
• Shopify Rebellion GC Shopify Rebellion GC North America Rank #2 flowerful Kayla Horton KP Erika Lytle sonder Diana Zhang Lorri Lorrian Elad announced the departure of Benita "bENITA" Novshadian.
• / James "JamezIRL" Macaulay was announced as a strategic coach for S2G Esports S2G Esports Europe Rank #15 reazy Kaan Ürpek RieNs Enes Ecirli russ Batuhan Malgaç pAura Melih Karaduran lurzy0y0 Ibrahim Sandıkcı .
• Rebels Gaming Rebels Gaming Europe Rank #154 devilasxa Paula Blanco Martínez GatsH Guillaume Kalka humanz Jose Luis Cebrian Phardon Brandon Perez Testa Rexs José Jaramago didii Lidia del Moral de la Torre parted ways with Ilya "vo0kashu" Ushakov and head coach John "Papasmurf" Yoo. The move also saw Alberto "TinderLvL12" Rodriguez move from assistant coach to coach.
• / Guild X Guild X Europe Rank #4 speedowka Weronika Dabrowska aNNja Anja Vasalic Smurfette Yağmur Gündüz ness Neslişah Demir Karina moved Klaudia "klaudia" Beczkiewicz to the bench in favor of "Karina" .
• / DSYRE DSYRE Europe Rank #23 xazyy Alejandro Giudice caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci wackie Rikardo Birjukov feqew Lukas Petrauskas Zanx welcomed Alaa "Flynn" Nasrallah as analyst and João "Celo" de Almeida as assistant coach.
• / Semyon "purp0" Borchev announced his release from FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #7 waddle Wadir Taraki KPZET Victor Steensgaard Lime Jacob Foster JUGi Jakob Hansen YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes .
• FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #4 MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen AtaKaptan Ata Tan Muj Serhat Yüksel MOJJ Buğra Kiraz qRaxs Doğukan Balaban qw1 Konuralp Şahin welcomed Ömer "QuestioN" Karabulut as their coach and Kerem "bASER" Gündoğdu as analyst.
• Muhammad "aduka" Arsyad Sazali parted ways with Todak Todak Asia-Pacific Rank #50 jeed Fakhrul Najeed FrostyZ Muhammad Adam kael Tarmizi Rusli subbey Shamir Alliff .
• MLT Esports MLT Esports Inactive Rio Atharv Ahire CortezZ Shubham Chhatre Venka Venkatesh Sharma BadmaN Saharyar Shaikh BADlove Jay Patil KnightRider Abhay Mulchandani announced the arrival of Shubham "CortezZ" Chhatre from Goblin Attackers Goblin Attackers Inactive r1seN Zaid Quraishi LilBOii Vishwaratn Srivastav grav1ty Anand Kumar KRIT24 .
• Reckoning Esports Reckoning Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #28 Mast3r Varun Menon hvoya Aleksandr Eremin flabben Daniil Merzlyakov Harshhh Harsh Arora Deadly10 Saksham Aurangabadkar tryst Jit Dutta welcomed Jit "tryst" Dutta to their roster.
• KONE eSports Club KONE eSports Club Inactive sword9 Li Wei (李卫) Yosemite Lei Wang Knight Yuxiang Liu Ninebody Ding Yi (丁毅) LuoK1ng Zhang Zhan Peng (张展鹏) released their roster & staff.

Results & Standings

• NSG Lockdown 2 - Open 1 winner: Thanos Mug Thanos Mug Inactive 66J Spaz Adam Laamoumi TEAGUE Teague Morgan nabil Jerk Justin Milani | runner-up: UR DONE 4 UR DONE 4 North America Rank #31 Jangler Dwaine Kirkpatrick pho Mike Panza duck Chris Dutoit Harmful Mohammed Choudhary roca Daniel Gustaferri
• NSG Lockdown 2 - Open 2 winner: YFP Gaming YFP Gaming North America Rank #20 ALEKSANDAR Aleksandar Hinojosa shonk William Kittrell Rebo Christopher Heindel Temperature Nolan Pepper | runner-up: Torch Torch North America Rank #17 ion2x Korsonix Korey Anderson MOCKING Playboi Joe Joe Velis ShoT_UP Andrew Orlowski
• Knights Monthly Gauntlet 2023: April winner: YFP Gaming YFP Gaming North America Rank #20 ALEKSANDAR Aleksandar Hinojosa shonk William Kittrell Rebo Christopher Heindel Temperature Nolan Pepper | runner-up: The Silk Road The Silk Road Inactive GLYPH Conner Garcia Neon Austin Hedge d1msumboi Erik Almhjell
• VALORANT East: United: Season 2: Stage 2 - Weekly Cup #3 winner: 2easy 2easy Europe Rank #29 tankzor Artyom Bond 1nput Kajuks Kajus Skurvydas krea6on Vilius Malinauskas shramez Ivan Hlan | runner-up: calamity L calamity L Europe Rank #95 Incredible bmblbe Paolo Peloza Gunners
• VALORANT East: United: Season 2: Stage 2 - Monthly Cup #1 winner: 2easy 2easy Europe Rank #29 tankzor Artyom Bond 1nput Kajuks Kajus Skurvydas krea6on Vilius Malinauskas shramez Ivan Hlan | runner-up: Szach Mat Szach Mat Europe Rank #38 Kozok NeFi vilczek 4Gruch
• Return of The Titans - FIRE winner: New Boss Esports New Boss Esports Europe Rank #62 Anima Uğurcan Aydin Gloomy Mercan Özalp Crewen Ali Eren Sargin VenTT Emre Bozkurt xeus Doğan Gözgen | runner-up: 2L8 2L8 Europe Rank #78 j4héx Ersel Örs JrayN Ferhat Yılmaz iXeonN Hakan Iyice TheNightChe Ege Nuhoğlu nekky Anıl Dağdeviren
• Rebels #1 winner: FUT Female FUT Female Europe Rank #66 Lyda İlayda Güzeldere dati Damla Atila Julis Açelya Özgen River Irmak Peküz Liyan | runner-up: İstanbul Wildcats Female İstanbul Wildcats Female Europe Rank #112 flowia Gülmina Arı Tajna Gizem Akgün Cassiex3 Anva Nehir Dinçer Kleisy Arya Can
• FEL Major - BEACON Split 1 winner: OnlyFins OnlyFins Europe Rank #16 Polvi Niko Polvinen Vuubit Roope Eilola Feeqn Okko Pajari nixoon Niko Pasonen Jesmu Jesse Järvenpää | runner-up: Unsigned Puggers Unsigned Puggers Inactive
• Valorant Open Tour France 2023: Stage 5 winner: Klanik Esport Klanik Esport Europe Rank #28 NowaXxZang Fabien Moura Yuta Damien Perosa Wissite1 Fasano Nicolas Sp1ke Stanislav Koshel bzt Renátó Bárányos | runner-up: F9 Hetic F9 Hetic Europe Rank #37 sabAAA TheNightChe Ege Nuhoğlu DGRj Erwan Hery Marin Yotaa Yota Kaouachi
• Dubai Police Game Safe Tournament winner: Fraggerz Fraggerz MENA Rank #9 fr1 Saif Al Ameri INFESTOR Sultan Alawadhi cloudy aimhunterr Khalid Mohammed Kill Ebeeee | runner-up: Bald Boomers Bald Boomers MENA Unranked
• Whiteboard Valorant Cup 2023 winner: Underground Gaming Underground Gaming MENA Rank #10 Near Fahad Salem KssarPlayz xelouz Saleh Abdulaziz JustnatioNN Abdulaziz Salem SnipKw | runner-up: Xenon Esports Xenon Esports MENA Unranked
• Challengers League South Asia: Split 1 winner: Orangutan Orangutan Asia-Pacific Rank #4 LeVi Rajiv Satpute tesseract Jon Michael Piga azys Azis Nandang RvK Rishi Vijayakumar Antidote Sabyasachi Bose rawfiul Akram Virani | runner-up: Gods Reign Gods Reign Asia-Pacific Rank #25 vibhoRR Vibhor Vaid Ember Garvit Nehra Hoax Aman Yadav tixx Nick Quinn Autumn Kale Dunne psydreams Simar Sethi
• Claro Gaming Spike Cup - Apertura winner: Zen Esports Zen Esports Latin America Rank #5 W1chi Edgar Begazo Xuto Renato Salazar SAYLED Kenny Chavez fab Fabio Begazo WeboDeus Steffano Millones | runner-up: Universitario Esports Universitario Esports Latin America Rank #8 JokK Kayo Matix11 antrex sKizzo
• FGC VALORANT Invitational 2023: Act 1 winner: Attacking Soul Esports Attacking Soul Esports China Rank #2 monk Wang Haoyu (王浩宇) YHchen Chen Yuhan (陳昱瀚) Zero1 Meng Zhen Ren (任梦真) bunt Jiang He (姜河) Life Dong Hao Qu (瞿东豪) hfmi0dzjc9z7 Zhang Juncheng (张峻程) | runner-up: EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) Muggle Tang Shijun (唐时俊) CHICHOO Wan Shunji (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) Haodong Guo Haodong (郭浩东)

Other News & Rumours

• / According to OwnDroneMedia, GodLike Esports GodLike Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #62 Rexy Tejas Kotian karam1l Norbu Tsering astr0 Franz del Rosario Zey Jude Patrick Gunhuran Kibo Jayesh Negi are set to welcome Bayu "Folkslore" Dwi as coach and Jayesh "Kibo" Negi.