January is gone, and February is here. Nonetheless, the Valorant world continued to create new headlines. Here's what you might have missed this past week.

This week's edition covers news from January 29 - February 4.

• Read more: News Almost Missed January 28

Roster Changes

• / Cloud9 Academy Cloud9 Academy Inactive geeza Tanner McGhee nillyaz Chase Linder have bid farewell to Conner "GLYPH" Garcia and Austin "renz" Dickman.
• Moon Raccoons Moon Raccoons Inactive icy Jacob Lange tech ZK Timothy Ly have unveiled a new roster ahead of their matches in the second qualifier in NA Stage 1 Challengers and the NSG Winter Championship finals.
• Immortals Immortals Inactive head coach Michael "packing10" Szklanny Sr. has revealed that his multi-year tenure with Immortals beginning 2019 in Overwatch has come to a close, and that he is in search of new opportunities.
• Kaloyan "iKoniK" Iliev has revealed that he will be departing VIRTUOSO VIRTUOSO Inactive King Aiden King Eley Zach Stauffer DBK Dylan Bazic-Kulangiev Blahst Nathan Brand snxper Louis Lama after the current VCT NA stage, citing circumstances outside the game as his reason for stepping down from the team.
• / Casper "Desmo" Rasmussen has become the new coach for Alliance Alliance Inactive .
• According to a post from Denis "Gray" Daniljuk on VK, FishkaVTom FishkaVTom Inactive dips1 David Artenyan Gray Denis Daniljuk Sp1ke Stanislav Koshel retauZ Ivan Grankov MonOkson Eugene Nosko has disbanded.
• MIBR have announced that their female CS:GO roster will also compete in Valorant, under the same name— MIBR GC MIBR GC Game Changers Rank #37 srN Nicolas Niederauer sayuri Camila Obam Jelly Julia Iris Mel Melissa Souza jubs Juliana Oliveira .
• A story from late last week, Gamelanders have revealed their male and female teams, competing under the team names Gamelanders Blue Gamelanders Blue Inactive and Gamelanders Purple Gamelanders Purple Inactive respectively.
• FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #8 kon4n Vitor Hugo mwzera Leonardo Serrati havoc Ilan Eloy Khalil Khalil Schmidt nzr Agustin Ibarra have rounded out their roster with Rinaldo "ableJ" Moda.
• Team Vikings Team Vikings Inactive Veroneze Vinícius Ribeiro Ds Daniel Silva swag João Neto pollo Julio Silva have revealed an all-new roster.
• / Alan "ddx" Salvati has joined KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #3 keznit Angelo Mori Klaus Nicolas Ferrari Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro heat Olavo Marcelo as the team's new analyst.
• INFINITY INFINITY Inactive ligasa Rodrigo Castillo MatiS Matias Salgado Seraph Benjamin Rabinovich have signed four new players: Ivan "Maka" Arambula Aguero, ERMAAAK , gessito , and Martin "tehx" Mendoza.
• / SCARZ SCARZ Japan Rank #18 MrTenzouEz Lumo Maxim Demianovskikh Yoshiii John Yoshiharu Kawakami have added Shin "Shuzz" Ji-seok (신지석) and Sio to their team. Additionally, Anthem has joined the team from Inactive on a three-month loan.
• Team Falcons Team Falcons MENA Rank #1 Akai OuTLaW Abdullah Sulaiman Al-Salem SpYzera Abed Doughan Moh Mohammad Bin Oti KHaaLiD Khalid Al Talib have entered Valorant by signing players three former NASR Esports NASR Esports MENA Rank #2 sibeastw0w Anton Govorukhin 7ssk7 Artur Kurshin Avez Hazem Khaled xenon Vladimir Lobov vakk Vakaris Bebravičius players and two former members of Piercer Esports Piercer Esports Inactive Nartzie Elyes Zoghlami .
• kelevra has revealed that he is departing MLC Esports MLC Esports Inactive MenT Nisuh following their first place finish in the Valorant MA-SERIES.

Results

• / Optix Optix Inactive ganter Bastian Eduardo Reinoso Fross Fernando Gallagher D1E Diego Contreras Tio Carlos Swing gio Giovani Cristobal Lainati Ruz , 9z Team 9z Team Latin America South Rank #2 deigara Gonzalo Funes Tuli Giulliano Pozo Massone rubkkoide Facundo Chavez mizu Gabriel Gonzalez david David Olivares , Meta Gaming Meta Gaming Inactive vaiZ Matías Barría lucasvade Lucas Vade Castro WKN Alvaro Bustos badzw Lukas Rivera NicoMachine Nicolas Valla , and EBRO Gaming EBRO Gaming Latin America South Rank #14 Kardash Mateo Verni Liu Haitam pepzet CrayZ nachitt Juan Ignacio Palesi qualified for the group stage of VCT LATAM South. The aforementioned four teams will join Leviatán Leviatán Latin America South Rank #1 tex Ian Botsch kiNgg Francisco Aravena Mazino Roberto Rivas aspas Erick Santos C0M Corbin Lee and KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #3 keznit Angelo Mori Klaus Nicolas Ferrari Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro heat Olavo Marcelo in the group stage.
• In the Bangladesh qualifier of the Valorant Conquerors Championship, Exceeli Esports Exceeli Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #102 Hermione Tasawf Zami zoloCRAZY Shihab Imtiaz M1SYL Tahsin Ashrafee RozsteR Kyojin secured their spot in the playoffs by defeating M1syl and friends M1syl and friends Inactive Hermione Tasawf Zami M1SYL Tahsin Ashrafee MR R3D peroR Mohammad Faiyaz Kyojin in the grand finals.
• / Union Gaming Union Gaming Inactive SCR1M BenJ 锦 Sanjeevan Kalaieesan ROACH Omal Prabuddha took first place in the Sri Lanka/Maldives qualifier in the Valorant Conquerors Championship without dropping a map. They will advance to the playoffs, which will begin on February 17.
• MLC Esports MLC Esports Inactive MenT Nisuh defeated Mustang Gaming Mustang Gaming Inactive kn1fed SAABO K1leaN SomebodyY Mounir Ajib in the grand finals of the Valorant MA-SERIES. That grand finals win completed the team's perfect run of the event.

Matches to Watch

• The NSG Winter Championship finals will conclude next week, with the group stages taking place from February 7 - February 8. The eight qualifying teams from the group stages will compete in a single elimination bracket.
• G2 Gozen G2 Gozen Europe Rank #10 rezq Eda Naz Akçocuk amy Amy Lai Vania Aleyna Keskin Petra Petra Stoker mimi Michaela Lintrup , Guild GC Guild GC Europe Rank #75 Xaline Laure Mateos , and TENSTAR Nova TENSTAR Nova Inactive Cla Clara Rossi Sliicyy Lucy Tran Kim Sophia Benfakir Nelo Mathilde Beltoise are the final three teams standing in the Game Changers EMEA: Series I main event. The upper bracket final and lower bracket final matches will take place tomorrow, February 5, with the grand finals being held the day after.
• The second Indian qualifier of the Valorant Conquerors Championship will conclude this weekend. The remaining teams are God Particles God Particles Inactive Logistaa Arnav Jit Kalra Scargod Divyansh Jain WhiteHorse Shane Kariwow Ember Garvit Nehra KnightRider Abhay Mulchandani sh1vy Shivam Ajmani , Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #65 blaZek1ng Gary Dastin Lightningfast Abhirup Choudhury Polvi Niko Polvinen Benkai Benedict Tan Russ Russel Mendes , Velocity Gaming Velocity Gaming Inactive , True Rippers True Rippers Asia-Pacific Rank #11 Techno Shravana Kumar Sahoo Aryu Philip Vergara d1srupt Nereus Lico GauRanG DEATHMAKER Debanjan Das hellff Sagnik Roy , and Reckoning Esports Reckoning Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #24 RvK Rishi Vijayakumar DOXZ3R Soumyadeep Dey LBY Eisuke Kuraoka Anq Ilya Matyash karam1l Norbu Tsering .

Other News

• Riot has created multiple job postings for Valorant mobile for the company's offices in Los Angeles, California and Bellevue, Washington.
• NRG Esports content creator Chris "FLEXINJA" Irvine and Valorant team coach Josh "JoshRT" Lee filled in for Ian "tex" Botsch and Sam "s0m" Oh during NRG's group stage matches in the NSG Winter Championship LCQ.
• / According to a report from Upcomer's Brieuc "Wooloo" Seeger, Sector One Sector One Inactive Alyx Alex Morrow poegii Yenthe Segers q Liam Hoek dash MaximN Maxim Nonglaire are set to enter the French Valorant scene by signing Megastitut Megastitut Inactive Goaster Tony Richard sh1n Ryad Ensaad iDex Sammy Van de Weghe KONEQT Cista Adel MARCTYLINHO Marcty Bienvenu .
• A February 2 report from Dot Esports has detailed changes coming to Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #22 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjy David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius . Jesper "TENZKI" Mikalski is set to be benched by the team, while Felix "al0rante" Brandl is set to be released from the team. A later report from Brieuc "Wooloo" Seeger of Upcomer named Alhan "Jakexd" Meguenni and Mario "PoPiFresH" González as their replacements.
• Vision Strikers Vision Strikers Inactive stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Rb Goo Sang-min (구상민) Zest Kim Ki-seok (김기석) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) are set to add Kang "BeYN" Ha-bin (강하빈) as a sixth player, according to reports from Bo "BoDork" Hoogland and Max "purest" Katz of Dot Esports.