VLR.gg's 10th edition of News Almost Missed is here, bundling stories from around the world that didn't make it into a full article.

• Read more: August 27 recap

Roster Changes

• / SCARZ SCARZ Japan Rank #10 Art Koki Kagami Gwangboong Kim Gwang-won (김광원) muto BRIAN Medusa An Min-cheol (안민철) have announced the departure of "INPA" . He has been with the team since the beginning of Stage 3, but has failed to advance out of the group stages in Challengers 1 and 2.
• Team Exploit Team Exploit Inactive captain Areeb "Storax" Rehman has left the team. This announcement comes after Team Exploit finished third in the Valorant Conquerors Championship playoffs. In the lower final, they were knocked out by Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #30 UdoTan Go Kyung-won (고경원) Kr1stal Savva Fedorov Papi Federico Evangelista xavi8k Xavier Juan Autumn Kale Dunne Deryeon Derrick Yee , who went on to take first place and claim a spot in the APAC Last Chance Qualifier.
• Wave Esports Wave Esports Inactive SimonD4rk Alexandr Skovbel Click Haydem Ali Saiz Daniel Ruiz have announced they are looking to rebuild their roster in light of the benchings of Sigurd "Zik" Jensen, Robertas "Carcass" Mikuckis, and Mathias "SEIDER" Seider.
• / The Inactive core of Geoff "m1sfit" Woodward, Jack "kpiz" Pragnell, Josh "neph" Munro, and Adam "Jesse" Čtvrtníček have all been benched from the team while the roster undergoes a rebuild. The rebuild will be led by head coach Tommaso "joYnt" Gavioli, and comes after the team exited Dreamhack Beyond: Europe in the fourth round of the lower bracket after a run in with Gambit Esports.
• / Team SMG Team SMG Inactive have parted ways with head coach Chong "Fayde" Hoc Wah. In VCT Malaysia & Singapore Stage 3 Challengers 2, Team SMG failed to qualify for Stage 3 Challengers 3 after they fell to Louvre in the second round of the lower bracket.
• / Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk have added former Rix.GG Thunder Rix.GG Thunder Inactive Mickebwoy Mikołaj Chojnacki memset Laurent Werly LATEKS Oliwer Fahlander frei Aaron Frei Luzuh Joseph Loose analyst Laike "temoc" Lewis to their coaching staff ahead of Masters: Berlin.
• BBL Esports have announced their female roster, BBL Queens. It consists of the roster formerly known as XuWuX XuWuX Inactive Dilâra Banshee Büşra Yurdabak Cassiex3 , and features Büşra "Banshee" Yurdabak, Nur "eva" Çakır, "Dilâra" , "Cassiex3" , Kevser "Xecriona" Aydın, and coach "t1n" .
• Former World Game Star World Game Star Korea Rank #25 Wenty Yang Geon-mo (양건모) YUNSEUNG player Lim "Has1ra14" Hyuk (임혁) has announced that he has left the organization and is looking for a new team. This comes after WGS finished 5th-8th in Stage 3 Challengers Korea.
• William "Will" Cheng has revealed that he is being allowed to explore team options outside of Built By Gamers Built By Gamers Inactive . He joined BBG in late October 2020 alongside Joseph "bjor" Bjorklund, and has been a frequent attendee of Nerd Street Gamers events.
• Another frequent NSG attendee, Renegades Renegades Inactive , have announced the departure of Justin "Jerk" Milani. He has been with the team since June, and with Renegades has claimed a first place victory in the NSG Summer Championship Open 9 and second place finish in the event prior.

Results

• The group stages of LVP Rising Series #3 have concluded. Finest Finest Inactive DESTRUCT1VEE Hakan Lekesizer Kicks Kimmie Laasner bonkar Malkolm Rench , Giants Gaming Giants Gaming Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Fit1nho Adolfo Gallego nukkye Žygimantas Chmieliauskas hoody Aaro Peltokangas Cloud Kirill Nehozhin , SUPRMODE Gaming SUPRMODE Gaming Inactive tankzor Artyom Bond yuudai Danila Ovchinnikov SimonD4rk Alexandr Skovbel Vlady Vladislav Trofimov , Movistar Riders Movistar Riders Inactive Nixerino Nicolás Canellas Colocho YuNo Eloy García Vorwenn Tomas Baldrich Blastinho Miquel llombart Pando , TENSTAR TENSTAR Inactive Br0die Jack Emmott KRAY Calum Knight Polvi Niko Polvinen xms Alexandre Forté doma Domagoj Fancev , FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #1 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Veqaj Sylvain Pattyn Alfajer Emir Ali Beder , and SAW SAW Inactive Fragger Henrique Correia brk Bruno Ferreira GrTw Tiago Costa Addicted Eduardo Torres Cunha20 David Cunha have all advanced to the playoff bracket and will compete for circuit points and cash prizes. Notably absent is Acend, who, despite making the top eight, have dropped out of the competition due to scheduling conflicts with the tournament and Masters: Berlin.
• BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Rank #6 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen sociablEE Volkan Yonal PROFEK Dawid Święć LewN Burak Alkan have claimed first place in the ESA Open Fire All Stars playoffs after defeating Kafalar eSports Kafalar eSports Inactive ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz Wizard Artu Köroğlu fred Barış Özdemir mAz Duhan Ovalı HEPSEV Hasan Yağızhan Hepsev in the grand finals. Over the course of the tournament, BBL only dropped two maps. One against Kafalar, and another against Fire Flux Vatangame Fire Flux Vatangame Inactive OXMANN Aytekin Çakır Burzzy Burak Özveren MerSa Mert Saatcı Lava Murat Varol oroni Ömer Açar .

Matches to Watch

• The LVLEAGUE JAPANBRAWL playoffs are set to begin, with Hexad Hexad Inactive Flax TORANECO Jusei Saito Kaminari sakurai Brofeld and BLUE BEES.ESP BLUE BEES.ESP Japan Rank #16 Look EscO keisu Lafura e9Lair headlining the first match of the playoffs, while the match between Icicle Conflict Icicle Conflict Inactive Dis Rem Gb0x YuuMac Slyme and Inactive will follow it.
• Four teams remain in the Yuvin Valorant Invitational Cup top eight: Team XO Team XO Inactive , Enigma Gaming Enigma Gaming Inactive Divine Yeoh Chun Ting FREY Ingram Tan STYRON Tidus Goh Xan artn Ayrton Soh , Team Valor Team Valor Inactive Stroky BuLL3T Aditya Kajari Busterrr Sharan Dave Pashasahil Mast3r Varun Menon , and Team Cohesion Team Cohesion Inactive f1redup clouda Piyush Kalwania Con3 naikzera SKwow . Team XO and Enigma Gaming are set to clash in the first of two semifinals matches, with Team Valor and Team Cohesion's match taking place afterwards.
• The FGC Valorant Invitational main event is set to begin. Tales of Eastern Tales of Eastern Inactive Yuk1no BEXEY , China's second highest ranked team in the Asia-Pacific rankings, will face off against KONE eSports Club KONE eSports Club Inactive sword9 Li Wei (李卫) yosemite Wang Lei (王磊) Knight Liu Yuxiang (刘宇翔) Ninebody Ding Yi (丁毅) LuoK1ng Zhang Zhanpeng (张展鹏) . After that, China's highest ranked team, Totoro Gaming Totoro Gaming Inactive FengF Song Xuefeng (宋学锋) ICEKING Cheng Wanpeng (程万鹏) Flex1n Lo Rui (罗瑞) YOU Yip Man Ho heybay Ho Shun Hei , will play EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #3 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) for a spot in the upper final.

Other News

• Former Entropiq Entropiq Inactive LaAw Mathieu Plantin Twisten Karel Ašenbrener HyP Damien Souville Taimou Timo Kettunen APO Tom Bonnion player Timo "Taimou" Kettunen has announced that he will be stepping back from competing in esports, marking a break in his esports career that began in 2012 with Team Fortress 2, and blossomed after the release of Overwatch, where he eventually competed in the Overwatch League until announcing his retirement from the game in mid-2020.
• According to a rumor from Arran "Halo" Spake, renowned Danish esports team Astralis have begun searching for a point of entry into the European Valorant scene. Recently, the team announced their entry into North American Rainbow Six: Seige by signing Disrupt Gaming.