Masters Copenhagen competition is reaching its apex, but that didn't stop the rest of the Valorant world from creating new headlines. Here's what you might have missed this past week.

This week's edition covers news from July 16 - July 22.

• Read more: News Almost Missed July 15

Roster Changes

• / Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #3 N4RRATE Marshall Massey bang Sean Bezerra Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid recently revealed Matthew "Weltis" Liu and Dani "Dani" Hashweh as the team's analysts.
• / Erdenetsogt "erkaSt" Gantulga departed Cloud9 Academy Cloud9 Academy Inactive geeza Tanner McGhee nillyaz Chase Linder to return to competing in CS:GO with Team NKT.
• / Rix.GG Lightning Rix.GG Lightning Inactive rounded out their roster with former TENSTAR Nova TENSTAR Nova Inactive Cla Clara Rossi Sliicyy Lucy Tran Kim Sophia Benfakir Nelo Mathilde Beltoise players Nouhara "Ninou" Marcos and Asma "LiriLia" Boughida.
• / Manuel "ease" López revealed that he is in search of new opportunities while still under contract with UCAM Esports Club UCAM Esports Club Europe Rank #14 Flickless Karel Maeckelbergh Polvi Niko Polvinen bucher Maximilian Bucher Quick Fabián Pereira YuNo Eloy García .
• / Tomás "tomaszy" Machado announced that his time as a stand-in for Rebels Gaming Rebels Gaming Inactive had come to an end, and that he is in search of a new team.
• / Wave Esports Wave Esports Inactive SimonD4rk Alexandr Skovbel Click Haydem Ali Saiz Daniel Ruiz parted ways with head coach Andreas .
• / Markus "SPMAK" Talliniemi revealed that after a previous announcement that Dortmund Esports Dortmund Esports Europe Rank #198 Aurax Darum0n Darunee Knirck KlausC Lenam0n would be disbanding, he and Richard "RiickyC" Coles would be continuing forward with the team.
• / Kasper "Kaspe" Timonen announced that his contract with BIG BIG Inactive had expired, and that he is in search of a new team as a free agent.
• / Semyon "purp0" Borchev and head coach Vladimir "PNUKH" Chervov both revealed that they were in search of new opportunities while still under contract with XPLDZ XPLDZ Inactive .
• / The Union The Union Inactive Askia Estevão Ferreira GuhRVN Gustavo Ferreira pancc Fillipe Martins ntk Lucas Martins raafa Rafael Lima signed the core of DIRETORIA DIRETORIA Inactive GuhRVN Gustavo Ferreira havoc Ilan Eloy pancc Fillipe Martins jnt gobera Vitor Gobo plus former INFINITY INFINITY Inactive ligasa Rodrigo Castillo MatiS Matias Salgado bnj Benjamin Rabinovich player Cristobal "l4cerr" Chaparro.
• / Crazy Raccoon Crazy Raccoon Inactive announced that coach Lim "twinkl" Young-bin (임영빈) would be shifting to a general manager role within the team, leaving NorthernLights as the team's only coach.
• / L Streak Esports acquired the former 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 roster. The team will compete under the name W Streak Esports W Streak Esports Inactive Ching Enrico Perez Yort Troy Hiramia ChrisM Christian Rosquillo xavi8k Xavier Juan stand-in Georggyyy George Audrey Lachica .
• / Velocity Gaming Velocity Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #15 SkRossi Ganesh Gangadhar Russ Russel Mendes Lightningfast Abhirup Choudhury Madelyn Raven William damaraa Damara Danuardi bid farewell to analyst Nikhil "sieh" Bhansali and consultant Andi "Sleepy" Andana Bangsawan

Results & Standings

• NSG Summer Championship Open 13 winner: Nearest Airport Nearest Airport Inactive melya Emily Khan k0rupt Wylie Watts BlackMoose Shawn Fox Uncreative Kuba Kosiba Tn | runner-up: Cloud9 Academy Cloud9 Academy Inactive geeza Tanner McGhee nillyaz Chase Linder
• NOM Invitational #1 winner: Zero Tenacity Zero Tenacity Europe Rank #112 alexiiik Alex Hawlasek Prti Ivan Erak Grmekista Tilen Grmek msh Miłosz Szubański TajReX Patryk Hojoł | runner-up: Rapid Ninjas Rapid Ninjas Inactive ikke Martin Erdei Barcode Kevin Bana oli Olivér Paksi arbie Kornel Holecz
• Skyesports Pro Invitational playoffs winner: Enigma Gaming Enigma Gaming Inactive Divine Yeoh Chun Ting FREY Ingram Tan STYRON Tidus Goh Xan artn Ayrton Soh | runner-up: Revenant Esports Revenant Esports Inactive skillZ Jayanth Ramesh
• The Esports Club Challenger Series 8 Wildcard remaining teams: Team Punished Team Punished Inactive KazuyA khelthuzad Shahul Hameed Kawaii Kh. Akash Singha VaiByGoD Vaibhav Lakhera , Anaadi Army Anaadi Army Inactive Kohliii Pranav Kohli DominiK Hrishikesh Khedkar SSSami Sami Ar Rahman Kishi Ngô Trường Huy DOXZ3R Soumyadeep Dey
• The Esports Club Challenger Series 8 Group Stage qualified teams: Lethal Esports Lethal Esports Inactive khelthuzad Shahul Hameed LuciA Anil Kumar sh1vy Shivam Ajmani Rossi Kiran Rossi , Revenant Esports Revenant Esports Inactive skillZ Jayanth Ramesh , Reckoning Esports Reckoning Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #37 Bgg Vladislav Boev moner Kirill Matsanov tricky Prish Valvani Ri0 Atharv Ahire Deadly10 Saksham Aurangabadkar , Medal Esports Medal Esports Inactive Excali Karan Mhaswadkar kibojn Jayesh Negi psy Simar Sethi LilBOii Vishwaratn Srivastav tryst Jit Choudhury , Orangutan Orangutan Asia-Pacific Rank #16 Techno Shravana Kumar Sahoo hellff Sagnik Roy , Velocity Gaming Velocity Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #15 SkRossi Ganesh Gangadhar Russ Russel Mendes Lightningfast Abhirup Choudhury Madelyn Raven William damaraa Damara Danuardi , Enigma Gaming Enigma Gaming Inactive Divine Yeoh Chun Ting FREY Ingram Tan STYRON Tidus Goh Xan artn Ayrton Soh

Other News & Rumors

• Riot have announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide data and statistics for all of their esports titles, including Valorant.
• Cloud9 Academy Cloud9 Academy Inactive geeza Tanner McGhee nillyaz Chase Linder have dropped out of the third season of MEL Premiership, and will forfeit their remaining two matches in Stage 2 of the group stage and the rest of the tournament.
• / According to Bo "BoDork" Hoogland, inactive Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #12 paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski kamyk Maks Rychlewski nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin Keiko Georgio Sanassy kamo Kamil Frąckowiak player Travis "L1NK" Mendoza is set to join Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk for the EMEA LCQ in place of Aleksander "zeek" Zygmunt, who was benched from Acend's active roster at the end of last month.