The pre-VCT shuffles didn't stop this week. Here's some news you might have missed this week.

This week's edition covers January 7 through January 14.

• Read more: News Almost Missed January 7.

Roster Changes

• Ryze Gaming Ryze Gaming Inactive lacho freizydeuS DEMONN NavĨ Maugu announced their 2022 roster with Juan "BetrayerN" Pablo Nieves and Mazzaro "Feels" Navarro Nuño.
• Akave Esports Akave Esports Latin America North Rank #10 Charlslol Carlos Castro Benavides pandejalea Ryu Dexuz Alan Chomina Careaga Feels Mazzaro Navarro Nuño Fotzy have announced their 2022 male and female roster.
• After making changes to its female team last week, Skull Cracker Skull Cracker Inactive nate Nathanael Miles prask Mike Cortbani Xhowi Luis Enmanuel Corcino Garcia MiniNiwde Lenin Mateo Guga Emil Bournigal nolan Nolan Martinez have finalized their male 2022 roster.
• FUSION FUSION Latin America North Rank #9 GLYPH Conner Garcia Xhowi Luis Enmanuel Corcino Garcia prask Mike Cortbani Fresht Juan Pablo Preciado announced their entry into Valorant.
• SA LCQ attendees E-Xolos LAZER E-Xolos LAZER Latin America North Rank #1 Mited Luis Gutierrez Jow Juan Camilo Preciado Ordoñez Feniz Thomas Molina Virtyy Leandro Moreno Darker Sebastián Castro Cicuamia have welcomed a new squad.
• Wild esports Wild esports Inactive エスタロッサ# teo neto lucasvade Lucas Vade Castro rellow bicu announced a six-man roster heading into 2022.
• INGAMING Esports INGAMING Esports Inactive 's 2022 team has been announced.
• Team Liquid Brazil Team Liquid Brazil Brazil Rank #6 Bizerra Vitoria Vieira Joojina Letícia Paiva isaa Isabeli Esser daiki Natalia Vilela bstrdd Paula Naguil have made their first foray into female Valorant, signing the old Gamelanders Purple Gamelanders Purple Inactive squad.
• At the same time, Liberty Female Liberty Female Inactive have benched their female squad, with Letícia "let" Dias joining Before Before Inactive .
• Before Before Inactive have picked up Galaxy Carrots Galaxy Carrots Inactive zakkv Vinicius Gonçales Tisora Kauã Estefanini Evilkyk Kayke Arrais DMT Vinicius Siebert Cryy Joao Vitor Ferreira .
• Los Grandes Los Grandes Inactive prince Lorran S. Ferreira CTC Caio Torres pleets Marcelo Leite announced a roster containing Caio "CTC" Torres.
• Team Queso Team Queso Inactive mezoky Boom Daniel Jiménez have dropped their Polish roster and signed an international European team.
• DSYRE DSYRE Europe Rank #4 caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci wackie Rikardo Birjukov waddle Wadir Taraki have moved away from an Italian team and have also signed an international squad.
• FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #48 hoody Aaro Peltokangas YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes Mistic James Orfila al0rante Felix Brandl xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon have welcomed naughty evil owls naughty evil owls Inactive Kuba Jakub Dogan bucher Maximilian Bucher , a squad starring Jakub "Kuba" Dogan and Lewis "YaBoiLewis" Hughes.
• Rebels Gaming Rebels Gaming Inactive have made their 2022 roster official with ex-Team BDS member Guillaume "GatsH" Kalka and Ilya "vo0kashu" Ushakov
• With ex-Giants member Štěpán "Ambi" Beránek, Case locked in their 2022 roster.
• TENSTAR released their academy TENSTAR Titan TENSTAR Titan Inactive Guesty Keodo CraZe Nathan Burton roX Joel Donaldson Stokesy and TENSTAR Vulcan TENSTAR Vulcan Inactive canefis James Barry Emz Emre Gocer DaNi Danilo Anastassiou egopeek Tom Jones sw1ze Diogo Sousa rosters.
• Into The Breach Protocol Into The Breach Protocol Inactive Azzii Aaryan Bhagwakar have entered Valorant by signing TENSTAR's academy Titan roster.
• The Goose House The Goose House Inactive have an all-new 2022 roster, signing TENSTAR's other academy roster, Vulcan.
• After several months without an organization to represent, unsigned unsigned Inactive m1sfit Geoff Woodward Monstrum Jake Byrne waddle Wadir Taraki have been picked up by HEET HEET Inactive Kinguyen Nguyen Thach memset Laurent Werly b2kk Sofian Delimi Monstrum Jake Byrne waddle Wadir Taraki .
• Mkers Mkers Inactive forgetw0w Ibragim Dalsaev wackie Rikardo Birjukov mass3R Umberto Artuso N A I S Alessandro Montanari caydeN Yari Olmi acquired CyberGround Gaming CyberGround Gaming Inactive Braso forwardp1 TH3PUN1SH3R 's roster for the coming year.
• CGN Esports CGN Esports Europe Rank #5 elllement Dragan Milanović DaviH David Cruz BennY Benjamin Domgörgen Vince Vincent Kranz announced their 2022 roster, containing Terence "SoOn" Tarlier, former Boston Uprising member in the Overwatch League.
• Anonymo Esports Anonymo Esports Inactive belmonte Kacper Mordak xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon Stix Wojciech Chamielec grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko Katu Kacper Twórz welcomed four new members to join Sebastian "snikk" Kamiński.
• Angry Titans Angry Titans Inactive ngiN Engin Kor HyDrO Lukas Brill have signed Armin "litshii" Pervan to replace Alexandre "Phatt" Silva, who left the team last week.
• Digital Athletics Digital Athletics Europe Rank #72 s0pp Efe Tur wezzy Arda Celbiş WerlasS Metin Ünal audaz Soner Ekiz pckwN Efekan Yorulmaz MerSa Mert Saatcı revealed their 2022 roster, containing former CS:GO players Ahmet "Paz" Karahoca, Engin "ngiN" Kor, and Engin "MAJ3R" Kupeli.
• Mustafa "MACHINERIS" Sürer has returned from retirement to join Zero Zone Zero Zone Inactive ThePrimerio Doğukan Meriç Karduz Nirenu YANKAS Yusuf Yankaş .
• Fenerbahçe Esports Fenerbahçe Esports Europe Rank #196 DeadInk Utku Onur Aydin Yigox cacan Mert Çaçan opted not to renew their contracts with Ahmet "cino" Furkan and "skyress" .
• Kafalar eSports Kafalar eSports Inactive ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz Wizard Artu Köroğlu fred Barış Özdemir mAz Duhan Ovalı HEPSEV Hasan Yağızhan Hepsev have made their 2022 roster definite.
• TSM X TSM X Inactive athxna Mirna Noureldin mle Emily Peters dodonut Karnthida Chaisrakeo bungee April Haight Ellie Elena Garland have welcomed coach Danial "RedKoh" Hakim.
• Rex Regum Qeon Rex Regum Qeon Asia-Pacific Rank #20 Monyet Cahya Nugraha xffero David Monangin Jemkin Maksim Batorov Kushy Bryan Carlos Setiawan Estrella Park Gun (박건) have announced a Filipino 2022 roster.
• A new roster has signed with GoNGo Prince GoNGo Prince Inactive Gunny Song Keon (송건) Wenty Yang Geon-mo (양건모) Eliza Kang Hee-won (강희원) Lawrence Yoon Hyun (윤현) for 2022.

Results

• TSM Academy TSM Academy Inactive dominated the NSG Winter Championship: Open 13 while only dropping a map in the entire tournament.
• Rebanho Rebanho Inactive giacomiN Maria Eduarda Giacomin Bia Beatriz Terra Daniops Daniela Cristini isafx Isadora Freitas Bizerra Vitoria Vieira lifted PLAYER1 SERIES: Hera's trophy in an undisputed run.
• Team RA'AD Team RA'AD MENA Rank #3 Shalaby Mohamed Shalaby Shniider Yousef Osama chrollo Omar Hussein Depyro Nour Sherif SkaNoodles Yousef Mohamed Yassien Yassien Ahmed took a comfortable win in the Odyssey Warpros Volume #6, going undefeated across their three matches.
• The first group stage matches of TEC Gauntlet - Season 4 have been played. Team Exploit Team Exploit Inactive and God Particles God Particles Inactive Logistaa Arnav Jit Kalra Scargod Divyansh Jain WhiteHorse Shane Kariwow Ember Garvit Nehra KnightRider Abhay Mulchandani sh1vy Shivam Ajmani currently lead Group A and Group B, respectively.
• UBT Esports UBT Esports Inactive moefcute Dương Phúc Hiếu Real8 Vũ Ngọc Đức Hiếu Rambut4n Phạm Xuân Giang took victory in the Road to VCT 2022, earning themselves a spot in Challengers: Vietnam.
• BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #1 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma have reached the grand finals of the SEA Esports Championship 2021 after going through Bren Esports Bren Esports Inactive , ONIC G ONIC G Inactive , and shiba n the homies shiba n the homies Inactive joshh Joshua Leow shiba Zhan Teng Toh Kairo Lee Kai Xi JdFaker Joshua Fok bryce Bryce Lee .
• The AXE Genesis Valorant Tournament has boiled down to just three teams: Action PH Action PH Inactive SyKo Daddie Shunmar Bellita eugeneS Eugene Serrano Narpim Clark Karoll Landrito SecondLove Sovano Alvin Daniel L. Oronce Worship Ian Ga , who are in the grand final, Alpha Esports Pro Alpha Esports Pro Inactive Yort Troy Hiramia d0rf Phạm Huỳnh Toàn Quốc gin Phan Văn Gin Ching Enrico Perez ChrisM Christian Rosquillo , and SV Empire SV Empire Inactive ralphiwnl nottm1 Blixerino Lostboy Ihgran Aji Brandel Ortiz .

Matches to watch

• The opening qualifier of the Knights VALORAMPAGE, the first Riot-supported tournament to feature agent bans, will conclude this coming week.
• The opening round of the Valorant MA-SERIES is scheduled for January 15 through 17.
• After a break due to weather-related issues, the Intel Rivals Series playoffs have been scheduled for the following days.
• Alpha Esports Pro Alpha Esports Pro Inactive Yort Troy Hiramia d0rf Phạm Huỳnh Toàn Quốc gin Phan Văn Gin Ching Enrico Perez ChrisM Christian Rosquillo and SV Empire SV Empire Inactive ralphiwnl nottm1 Blixerino Lostboy Ihgran Aji Brandel Ortiz will duke it out in the lower bracket final of the AXE Genesis Valorant Tournament to decide who will face Action PH Action PH Inactive SyKo Daddie Shunmar Bellita eugeneS Eugene Serrano Narpim Clark Karoll Landrito SecondLove Sovano Alvin Daniel L. Oronce Worship Ian Ga in the grand final of the tournament.
• BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #1 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma will play Sharper Esport Sharper Esport Asia-Pacific Rank #44 niffy Patcharapon Junman LBY Eisuke Kuraoka qq Phoomphat Phodjanat Siraww Siraphop Honghirun , ONIC G ONIC G Inactive or shiba n the homies shiba n the homies Inactive joshh Joshua Leow shiba Zhan Teng Toh Kairo Lee Kai Xi JdFaker Joshua Fok bryce Bryce Lee in the grand final of the SEA Esports Championship 2021.

Other news

• Serenity Serenity Inactive Turnup Joseph Sicre Joseph Joseph Rivera scourge Sky Kages Showtime Antonio Angotti Eazy Ryan Matthews is bringing a LAN to Toronto, Ontario, in the beginning of April.
• Virtus.pro are eyeing FishkaVTom FishkaVTom Inactive dips1 David Artenyan Gray Denis Daniljuk Sp1ke Stanislav Koshel retauZ Ivan Grankov MonOkson Eugene Nosko as a potential team to join the Valorant scene with, according to a report by Jakub "frs" Czapran of Dexerto.