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 Inactive wedid Matthew Suchan jowa bdog Brandon Sanders Kaoticcc 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 Inactive skuba Logan Jenkins mitch Mitch Semago Verno Andrew Maust Reduxx Yassin Aboulalazm dapr Michael Gulino .
• Ignite Ignite Inactive released their roster following elimination from Trinity Trials - Winter Trial.
• / Tommaso "joYnt" Gavioli departed Guild GC Guild GC Inactive 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.
• Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #22 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt OXMANN Aytekin Çakır umu7 Umut Pekdoğan 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 Inactive Pando Michel Michel del Castillo DRK Gabriel Lorenzo benched Daniel "Daniel0" Bolufer.
• / Sissi State Punks Sissi State Punks Europe Rank #153 allthewayPat nysHAA Erwann Gougam Spexleon Leon Loogsberg Shiro Pitou Rimbert Mickaël welcomed Oumar "snowkone" Kone as their head coach.
• Dortmund Esports Dortmund Esports Europe Rank #198 Aurax Darum0n Darunee Knirck KlausC Lenam0n parted ways with Markes "MARKEZZ" Fentz.
• Catalyst Esports Catalyst Esports Inactive unify Aviran Menashe Sai Konradas Karnišovas mista nero Eran Yosef parted ways with Maksim "amidib" Skorokhod.
• / Team Majesty Team Majesty MENA Rank #39 Vamp1r parted with their Head Coach, Alexander "sashastripsa" Grishin.
• / Furious Gaming Furious Gaming Inactive MiradaNinja Waldo Barahona Mikey Tap Luciano Pensa erde Neon parted ways with Felipe "rochet" Rochet and welcomed Omar "olzerr" Lopez and Daniel "Closer" Ataco in his place.
• / FUSION FUSION Latin America North Rank #17 Dobsha Juan-Diego Llobregat Xhowi Luis Enmanuel Corcino Garcia prask Mike Cortbani MiniNiwde Lenin Mateo Jrmzie welcomed a new manager in "INJU" .
• INFINITY INFINITY Inactive ligasa Rodrigo Castillo MatiS Matias Salgado bnj Benjamin Rabinovich announced the departure of Fernando "Fross" Gallagher.
• // Velocity Gaming Velocity Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #15 SkRossi Ganesh Gangadhar Russ Russel Mendes Lightningfast Abhirup Choudhury Madelyn Raven William damaraa Damara Danuardi welcomed two European imports in Adam "ec1s" Eccles and Domagoj "doma" Fancev. The team also benched Saksham "Deadly10" Aurangabadkar.
• Gods Reign Gods Reign Inactive Ember Garvit Nehra parted ways with Abhay "KnightRider" Mulchandani.
• / 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 #86 Moli SPOOKY bakkushaw Siana Anastasia Georgia Varkouta Lumine Katarina Crljen | runner-up: WLGaming Female Stars WLGaming Female Stars Inactive Meowy Maria Charitonidou Siana Anastasia Georgia Varkouta Athena SweetBlood4 Efara
• 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 Inactive bmblbe Paolo Peloza Gunners Krishan Patel
• Trinity Trials - Winter Trial remaining teams: Dragonslayerzzz Dragonslayerzzz Inactive Atila shakie , K10 K10 Europe Rank #154 benzki Ben Price IllegaL Jacob Stringer howl9 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 Inactive Fragger Henrique Correia brk Bruno Ferreira GrTw Tiago Costa Addicted Eduardo Torres Cunha20 David Cunha , GTZ Esports GTZ Esports Europe Rank #188 H4te Rodrigo Ribeiro 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 #50
• Challengers League DACH Evolution: Split 1 remaining teams: CGN Esports CGN Esports Europe Rank #7 elllement Dragan Milanović Ambi Štěpán Beránek Wolfen Berkant Joshkun DaviH David Cruz BennY Benjamin Domgörgen Vince Vincent Kranz , Unicorns of Love Unicorns of Love Inactive bleeshh Christopher Bledowski , MOUZ MOUZ Europe Rank #5 bipo Taranvir Singh Lime Jacob Foster Fizzy David Figueiredo Obnoks Nico Garczarczyk iluri Ilari Puranen , 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 #15 Felix Park Hyeon-ho (박현호) Rico Han Jun-seo (한준서) CabezA No Gun-hyung (노건형) Bangnan Jung Min-u (정민우) RedLight Kim Eun-soo (김은수) kAyle Jung Soo-yong (정수용) | runner-up: Rio Company Rio Company Inactive SungJin Ko Sung-jin (고성진) Sunday Kim Min-soo (김민수) kanade 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 #7 zepher Jyousuke Matsuda Medusa An Min-cheol (안민철) Anthem Yoshitaka Enomoto LOB Lim Byung-gun (임병건) Yoshiii John Yoshiharu Kawakami , FENNEL FENNEL Japan Rank #8 GON Kento Hara Aace Souta Itou Hals neth Yusuke Matsuda MrTenzouEz

Other News & Rumours

• According to a report by Max Katz, Jaccob "yay" Whiteaker will not be part of Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #7 Xeppaa Erick Bach v1c Victor Truong mitch Mitch Semago neT Michael Bernet 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 .