On Sept. 21, Riot announced the 30 teams present in its three partnered leagues: Americas, EMEA, and Pacific. As a result of the announcements, the teams left out are slowly dropping players.
In the days since, most of the teams who weren't accepted for the partnership have and will be dropping players or shuffling rosters. Some players have and will be joining or departing partnered teams. You can follow all those shuffles here.
Thursday, Oct. 20
8:14 p.m. CEST: BIG BIG Inactive and Twisten have parted ways. He has played with the team since September of 2021.
/ 5:04 p.m. CEST: lowel has announced that he is being moved to Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius ' bench and is open for offers for the 2023 season.
Wednesday, Oct. 19
/ 6:06 p.m. EST: BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Rank #42 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen sociablEE Volkan Yonal chiwa Egor Stepanyuk PROFEK Dawid Święć LewN Burak Alkan have announced the signing of Eren "Brave" Kasırga. He enters the team after spending most of 2021 and 2022 on Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #13 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt Celasun Emir Celasun umu7 Umut Pekdoğan . He joins one of 2 partnered Turkish teams in the EMEA League.
2:58 p.m. CEST: Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius ' Melih "pAura" Karaduran has announced that he will be a free agent when the OFF//SEASON event, Crossfire Cup comes to a close.
Tuesday, Oct. 18
/ 6:00 p.m. CEST: Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius have announced the signing of Oscar "Mixwell" Cañellas. He joins the team reuniting with former G2 Esports G2 Esports Inactive teammate Cista "keloqz" Wassim.
4:00 p.m. CEST: G2 Esports G2 Esports Inactive have released their whole roster. All players are Unrestricted free agents.
Monday, Oct. 17
- 4:23 p.m. CEST: TENSTAR TENSTAR Inactive Buld Michał Sokal kacpi Kacper Wolski maniek Jakub Mańkowski Stix Wojciech Chamielec have allowed Piotr "YouBreak" Chodoła to explore his options for the 2023 season. The announcement comes after a loss to Anonymo Esports Anonymo Esports Inactive belmonte Kacper Mordak xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon Stix Wojciech Chamielec grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko Katu Kacper Twórz in the VEU - Weekly Cup #5 Seminfinals.
Sunday, Oct. 16
- 9:40 p.m. CEST: Zero Tenacity Zero Tenacity Inactive have allowed their analyst Alaa "Flynn" Nasrallah to explore options for the 2023 season.
Saturday, Oct. 15
/ Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #20 ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky are letting Dmitry "SmartSeven" Smartselov explore his options for 2023, leaving the team without an active roster.
/ 3:52 to 4:26 p.m. CEST: Due to roster nationality rules, UCAM Esports Club UCAM Esports Club Europe Rank #15 Flickless Karel Maeckelbergh bucher Maximilian Bucher Quick Fabián Pereira YuNo Eloy García Burgueño have allowed Adam "adm1k" Siemieniec and Maks "kamyk" Rychlewski to explore their options as an unrestricted free agent.
Thursday, Oct. 13
- / Giants Gaming Giants Gaming Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Fit1nho Adolfo Gallego nukkye Žygimantas Chmieliauskas hoody Aaro Peltokangas Cloud Kirill Nehozhin have allowed Tobias "ShadoW" Flodström to explore his options, whilst being considered for the 2023 partnered leagues. ShadoW is accepting offers from any region and tier.
Wednesday, Oct. 12
2:12 p.m. to 2:41 p.m. CEST: After KOI KOI Europe Rank #43 grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko sheydos Bogdan Naumov Filu Dawid Czarnecki flyuh Xavier Carlson soulcas Dom Sulcas 's players were allowed to explore their options, assistant coach Sergio "sikako" Rodriguez and head coach Antonio "Aska" Lozano have opened themselves for 2023 offers. Both are still in consideration for the partnered VCT EMEA League.
2:36 p.m. CEST: who cars? who cars? Europe Rank #210 fexayy mishu Julius Thorslund Kyhl Klusia Jonas Colkær Thomsen Nille Nichlas Busk sunshine Benjamin Hornshøj Nielsen , one of Europe's longest-standing rosters, announced Benjamin "sunshine" Hornshøj Nielsen's departure from the team. In his place, they'll be trialing former Human Tripwires Human Tripwires Inactive Dev0 Corey Brame MaximN Maxim Nonglaire ReQz Hieu Moss chanformer Joshua Chan Bully Francisco Betancourt player Conrad "Radski" Micheal Raduchowski.
Tuesday, Oct. 11
/ Alexandr "SimonD4rk" Skovbel's contract with DSYRE DSYRE Europe Rank #4 caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci wackie Rikardo Birjukov waddle Wadir Taraki is set to expire and the player is now exploring other options.
/ 4:28 p.m. to 4:31 p.m. CEST: Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius , one of the ten partnered organizations, have allowed Grzegorz "grubinho" Ryczko and Sebastian "snikk" Kamiński to explore offers for 2023. Both are open to VCT and Ascension offers.
Monday, Oct. 10
- / After Vlad "Kiles" Shvets announced he's exploring his options, Adam "Jesse" Čtvrtníček has also revealed he's been allowed to look for opportunities, even though he might continue representing Giants Gaming Giants Gaming Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Fit1nho Adolfo Gallego nukkye Žygimantas Chmieliauskas hoody Aaro Peltokangas Cloud Kirill Nehozhin come 2023.
- / Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #8 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso have signed ex- OG LDN UTD OG LDN UTD Inactive coach Salah "salah" Barakat for 2023.
Sunday, Oct. 09
- 8:19 p.m. to 8:43 p.m. CEST: KOI KOI Europe Rank #43 grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko sheydos Bogdan Naumov Filu Dawid Czarnecki flyuh Xavier Carlson soulcas Dom Sulcas have allowed their roster to seek offers, despite all still being in consideration for the organization's 2023 roster. KOI recently placed second in the Red Bull Home Ground EMEA #3 Closed Qualifier and are in the Crossfire Cup's quarterfinals as of writing.
Saturday, Oct. 08
- / 4:14 p.m. CEST: Vlad "Kiles" Shvets has announced that he is looking for trials and opportunities for 2023. Kiles remains under contract and is being considered by Giants Gaming Giants Gaming Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Fit1nho Adolfo Gallego nukkye Žygimantas Chmieliauskas hoody Aaro Peltokangas Cloud Kirill Nehozhin for the next VCT season.
Thursday, Oct. 06
/ 5:32 p.m. CEST: All 3 of Finest Finest Inactive DESTRUCT1VEE Hakan Lekesizer Kicks Kimmie Laasner bonkar Malkolm Rench 's rosters are now free agents after the organization announced they are shutting down their professional esports operations. The main roster will compete under a team called bonk bonk Inactive juseu Elric Belland-Aysan . Where their Female and Academy roster will play is currently unkown.
4 p.m. CEST: GMT Esports GMT Esports Inactive N A I S Alessandro Montanari AFoxx Fábio Veigas , who had been off the map for most of 2022, have returned to the scene with a team made up of European free agents.
9:03 a.m CEST: Guild Esports Guild Esports Inactive have released André "BARBARR" Möller. He was the coach of the main roster for the past 2 years and is now a free agent for 2023.
Wednesday, Oct. 05
11:05 p.m. CEST: Shortly after their victory against Axolotl Axolotl Europe Rank #215 RickyVaila Morphiius Ezio Frandina xad Kacper Brzuchnalski Braso Mickebwoy Mikołaj Chojnacki in Agents Series - Split 2, QLASH QLASH Europe Rank #240 Sab1nho mass3R Umberto Artuso LOMBA EduCoz released kawaa and Kentrax from the team. They are both free agents for the 2023 year.
/ 7:03 p.m. CEST: FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #21 hoody Aaro Peltokangas YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes Mistic James Orfila al0rante Felix Brandl xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon have allowed Maximilian "bucher" Bucher to explore his options for the 2023 season. He is currently a restricted free agent seeking a team as a Sentinel or Controller.
/ 4:28 p.m. CEST: Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk have enlisted Povilas "roxie" Krivelis in Travis "L1NK" Mendoza's place for Superdome, a VCT OFF//SEASON LAN event.
/ 3:07 p.m. CEST: Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius have allowed Mario "PoPiFresH" González to explore his options, on the eve of their debut against 4Real 4Real Inactive alannn Luca Barchi Musyka Mirco Caiazza unrivaled Francisco Barata in the Crossfire Cup.
Tuesday, Oct. 04
7 p.m. CEST: Former Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #8 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso trial Mohamed "Shalaby" Shalaby has joined Geekay Esports Geekay Esports MENA Rank #6 ahead of Superdome.
5:59 p.m. CEST: DSYRE DSYRE Europe Rank #4 caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci wackie Rikardo Birjukov waddle Wadir Taraki have fielded a new roster with several European free agents.
/ 3:38 p.m. CEST: Negotiations between Kamil "baddyG" Graniczka's contract renewal and Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #8 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso fell through, meaning the Pole is now looking for a team for 2023.
Monday, Oct. 03
- 12:26 p.m. CEST: Fenerbahçe Esports Fenerbahçe Esports Europe Rank #194 DeadInk Utku Onur Aydin Yigox cacan Mert Çaçan has released Ümit "Omit" Boz. He was a coach for the organization and is now a free agent for the 2023 season.
Sunday, Oct. 02
3 p.m. to 3:13 p.m. CEST: Utku "DeadInk" Onur Aydin has officially been transferred from Galakticos Galakticos Europe Rank #149 DESTRUCT1VEE Hakan Lekesizer Bard0lf Emir Çinkılıç sterben Emre Demirci MOJJ Buğra Kiraz qw1 Konuralp Şahin glovee Burak Yıldırım to Galatasaray Esports Galatasaray Esports Europe Rank #37 Padisah Onur Dönmez PhuRME Yagiz Efe Baygut Docent Kadri Vatandaş Touven Can Eryıldız JrayN Ferhat Yılmaz . He recently played with the team in the Red Bull Home Ground #3 - Turkish Qualifier.
3 p.m. CEST: Just a few days after adding Eduardo "Addicted" Torres, Rebels Gaming Rebels Gaming Inactive have rounded out their roster with David "Fizzy" Figueiredo.
/ 2:30 p.m. CEST: Gabriel "starkk" Marques, a member of KOI KOI Europe Rank #43 grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko sheydos Bogdan Naumov Filu Dawid Czarnecki flyuh Xavier Carlson soulcas Dom Sulcas 's original roster has departed from the team. He is looking for any opportunities as a free agent for the 2023 season.
Saturday, Oct. 01
6 p.m. CEST: UCAM Tokiers Academy UCAM Tokiers Academy Inactive Sleydark Cristian Mateos Lorenzo mech Álvaro Ruíz Lavado has released their whole roster. The roster can now look for 2023 opportunities.
2:41 p.m. CEST: Movistar Riders Movistar Riders Inactive Nixerino Nicolás Canellas Colocho YuNo Eloy García Burgueño Vorwenn Tomas Baldrich Blastinho Miquel llombart Pando has released Victor "KPZET" Steensgaard due to his contract coming to a close. He is looking for 2023 offers as an unrestricted free agent.
2:09 p.m. CEST: Travis "L1NK" Mendoza's contract with Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk has officially come to a close and is now a unrestricted free agent looking for 2023 offers.
12:39 a.m. CEST: With their elimination in VCT Game Changers: Series III, TENSTAR Nova TENSTAR Nova Inactive Cla Clara Rossi Sliicyy Lucy Tran Kim Sophia Benfakir Nelo Mathilde Beltoise has released their coach Mathieu "LaAw" Plantin after helping the team with the event. He is a free agent heading into the 2023 year.
Friday, Sept. 30
- / 4:38 p.m. CEST: Batuhan "russ" Malgaç has been allowed to look for options outside of Giants Gaming Giants Gaming Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Fit1nho Adolfo Gallego nukkye Žygimantas Chmieliauskas hoody Aaro Peltokangas Cloud Kirill Nehozhin in 2023. The Turkish star had played for the Spanish organization since the start of 2022.
- 7:58 p.m. to 8:12 p.m. CEST: Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #31 saadhak Matias Delipetro Avez Hazem Khaled Elite Efe Teber SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin marteen Martin Pátek have allowed their players to explore offers for 2023. The team's coaching staff have not yet made an announcement.
Tuesday, Sept. 27
7:08 p.m. CEST: Ata "AtaKaptan" Tan and Kutluay "VPNCNP" Kutlu from Thunderbolts Gaming Thunderbolts Gaming Inactive Antsy Yağız Güngör Yato Cem Saat re1sxd İlyas Çalışkan corr0 Mehmet Alp Vural DubzWoW Mustafa Doğan ARGENT Berk Deniz Özdamar are both restricted free agents. They are looking for opportunities with partnered teams inside EMEA
/ 5:24 p.m. CEST: The final member of VRL France Stage 1 champions Sector One Sector One Inactive Alyx Alex Morrow poegii Yenthe Segers q Liam Hoek dash MaximN Maxim Nonglaire , Sammy "iDex" Van de Weghe has announced that he has parted ways with the organization and is looking for a VRL or VCT team for the 2023 season.
Friday, Sept. 23
- / 2:30 p.m. to 2:35 p.m. CEST: Artur "7ssk7" Kurshin and Kirill "Cloud" Nehozhin have been allowed to explore offers by Natus Vincere Natus Vincere Europe Rank #20 ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky . They were the two remaining players on NAVI's active roster after the organisation parted ways with zeddy , Duno , and dinkzj earlier in the month.
Thursday, Sept. 22
/ 7:52 p.m. CEST: Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk coach Laurynas "Nbs" Kisielius has been allowed to explore options, even if both parties would be happy to continue together.
/ 6:04 p.m. to 6:57 p.m. CEST: Saif "Sayf" Jibraeel and Nikita "trexx" Cherednichenko have been allowed to look for options outside of Guild Esports Guild Esports Inactive . Also, coach André "BARBARR" Möller has left the team.
/ 4:35 p.m. CEST: Joona "H1ber" Parviainen has announced he's exploring options for 2023, despite both him and Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #8 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso wanting to stay together for the coming year.
/ 3:19 p.m. CEST: After letting Mistic go, FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #3 Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu stand-in Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder have decided to let Enzo "Enzo" Mestari explore his 2023 options as well. He is looking to represent a partnered team.
/ 2:19 p.m. CEST: Neil "neilzinho" Finlay is looking for a team after helping FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix Inactive SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin Zyppan Pontus Eek ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky ardiis Ardis Svarenieks at VCT Champions.
Wednesday, Sept. 21
/ 8:31 p.m. CEST: Although making the partnered league, Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #8 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso has allowed Nathan "nataNk" Bocqueho to explore his options heading into the 2023 leagues. This comes after the release of Head Coach Tanishq "Tanizhq" Sabharwal yesterday.
7:38 p.m. CEST to 9:33 p.m.: OG LDN UTD OG LDN UTD Inactive 's entire roster is looking for 2023 offers while under contract.
6:22 p.m. CEST to 7:45 p.m.: The majority of MAD Lions MAD Lions Inactive KRAY Calum Knight 's players have announced they are looking for offers, barring Polvi . The technical staff and organization haven't announced anything.
5:45 p.m. CEST to 6:41 p.m.: Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk 's players have announced they are exploring options for 2023. The technical staff and the organization have not made any announcements.
4:53 p.m. CEST to 5:32 p.m.: All of G2 Esports G2 Esports Inactive announced, one by one, that they are exploring their options for 2023. G2 Esports was surprisingly denied partnership, which some speculate had to do with controversy involving its CEO.
4:15 p.m. CEST to 7:02 p.m.: All of BIG BIG Inactive 's players and head coach Jiri "KUNDIKUNDI" Honkala have announced they are exploring their options for the coming year.
3:38 p.m. CEST to 6:04 p.m.: EXCEL EXCEL Inactive Moe40 Muhammad Hariff chiwa Egor Stepanyuk paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski Foxie Tyler Lowton ALIVE Gilad Hakim 's players have announced they are open to offers. The technical staff and the organization have not made any announcements.
/ 8:46 a.m. CEST: Mistic announced he is open to offers within the VCT EMEA partnership. The announcement came after FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #3 Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu stand-in Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder 's top-six finish at Champions and the organization's acceptance into the league.
This story is breaking and will be updated.