2022 is coming to a close as we bring in the new year with style. Although a change in years is incoming, that didn't stop the rest of the Valorant world from creating new headlines. Here's what you might have missed this past week in Valorant news.

This week's edition covers news from Dec. 25 - Dec. 31

• Last Week: News Almost Missed Dec. 24

Roster Changes

• Bradley "ANDROID" Fodor announced his arrival to the Ottawa Braves Ottawa Braves North America Rank #19 ANDROID Bradley Fodor Infinity flow aru Dinger while he pursues a Bachelor's of Sports Psychology.
• ALTERNATE aTTaX ALTERNATE aTTaX Europe Rank #72 Jini Jan Miller Felix Felix Gerling luckeRRR Niels Jasiek KovaQ Blendi Kovaci STAVINCI Dimitrios Smoilis released Kevin "Barcode" Bana, Roberts "rAsk" Ribakovs, and Ethan "Sevire" Starke ahead of the 2023 season.
• bonk bonk Inactive juseu Elric Belland-Aysan parted with Head Coach Andrey "ENGH" Sholokhov and Georgio "Keiko" Sanassy. In their absence the team added Coach Maxime "Max0b" Jacob and Mathias "SEIDER" Seider.
• / Ben "RECIDENT" Battash announced his move to MOUZ MOUZ Europe Rank #6 Obnoks Nico Garczarczyk iluri Ilari Puranen Fizzy David Figueiredo starki Krzysztof Lewandrowski 's bench as he explores 2023 options.
• İstanbul Wildcats İstanbul Wildcats Europe Rank #219 sturNN Eren Oduncular Gloomy Mercan Özalp baha Baha Gözmen dRKY Onur Bora Genç deminatiX Akın Tak announced their 2023 roster consisting of Uğurcan "Anima" Aydin, Andrew "braveaf" Gorchakov, Muhammed "mini" Salman, Cüneyd "hatex" Baş, and Artur "7ssk7" Kurshin.
• CGN Esports CGN Esports Europe Rank #5 elllement Dragan Milanović DaviH David Cruz BennY Benjamin Domgörgen Vince Vincent Kranz released two inactive members: Theo "OniBy" Tarlier and Terence "SoOn" Tarlier.
• / KPI Gaming KPI Gaming Europe Rank #10 welcomed a new Head Coach in Dmitry "SmartSeven" Smartselov.
• Ömer "QuestioN" Karabulut announced that he is no longer with Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #21 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt Celasun Emir Celasun umu7 Umut Pekdoğan and is open to 2023 offers.
• 010 Esports 010 Esports Inactive Wizard Artu Köroğlu E5N Enes Erdoğan parted ways with their roster.
• Fire Flux Esports Fire Flux Esports Europe Rank #14 announced the arrival of Hakan "DESTRUCT1VEE" Lekesizer from bonk bonk Inactive juseu Elric Belland-Aysan and transfer of Emre "sterben" Demirci to Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #21 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt Celasun Emir Celasun umu7 Umut Pekdoğan .
• Giants Gaming Giants Gaming Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Fit1nho Adolfo Gallego nukkye Žygimantas Chmieliauskas hoody Aaro Peltokangas Cloud Kirill Nehozhin announced the departure of russ after three months on their bench.
• Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #21 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt Celasun Emir Celasun umu7 Umut Pekdoğan announced the transfer of Timur "Bishop" Şengül from Galatasaray Esports Galatasaray Esports Europe Rank #38 Padisah Onur Dönmez PhuRME Yagiz Efe Baygut Docent Kadri Vatandaş Touven Can Eryıldız JrayN Ferhat Yılmaz and Caner "CyderX" Demir from Regnum Carya Esports Regnum Carya Esports Europe Rank #205 lauzen Serhat Koca jonx Enes Güngör .
• TBK Esports GC TBK Esports GC Inactive shyz Luisa Minarelli Daniops Daniela Cristini Bizerra Vitoria Vieira gabee released their roster. All members are now free agents.
• VCT Brazil and Gamers Club VALORANT Es have announced the passing of DELIRA Female DELIRA Female Inactive player Lara "Larischz" Gilardoni.
• Inactive welcomed Hideki "Fisker" Sasaki to their 2023 roster.
• FULL SENSE FULL SENSE Asia-Pacific Rank #5 JohnOlsen Chanawin Nakchain Leviathan Thanyathon Nakmee aLerT Wattanachok Yingnakorn Potter Sutthichai Promsrikaew Sushiboys Panyawat Subsiriroj announced the arrival of three new players in Teerapong "Teerapong" Wongsirisuponchai, Phakphon "Fluky" Sukhonchasiri, and Tanate "Killua" Teerasawad.
• Tejas "rite2ace" Sawant parted with Velocity Gaming Velocity Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #17 Hotsauz Yousef Imad El-Yousef tesseract Jon Michael Piga Yukxx Yukee Lampa choosie Matthew Lorenzo Te Dignified and joined Revenant Esports Revenant Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #10 SkRossi Ganesh Gangadhar skillZ Jayanth Ramesh tricky Prish Valvani Paradox Kasif Sayyed .
• Revenant Esports Revenant Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #10 SkRossi Ganesh Gangadhar skillZ Jayanth Ramesh tricky Prish Valvani Paradox Kasif Sayyed moved Saaransh "Whimp" Dang to their inactive roster.
• Gods Reign Gods Reign Inactive Ember Garvit Nehra announced the acquisition of Prish "tricky" Valvani from Medal Esports Medal Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #95 Excali Karan Mhaswadkar Kibojn Jayesh Negi psy Simar Sethi LilBOii Vishwaratn Srivastav tryst Jit Choudhury on loan. tricky is set to compete with the team in the upcoming Premier Series 2022 LAN.

Results & Standings

• VBL - Season 3 winner: Diamant Esports Diamant Esports Europe Rank #13 | runner-up: Anorthosis Famagusta Esports Anorthosis Famagusta Esports Inactive
• RapidLAN Series: Xmas Edition winner: Rapid Ninjas Rapid Ninjas Inactive ikke Martin Erdei Barcode Kevin Bana oli Olivér Paksi arbie Kornel Holecz | runner-up: duplaw duplaw Europe Rank #191 lastround Olivér Novák woLfoo RICHi Sramek Richárd GrizzLy lcdFFF Zsolt Gabor Horvath
• FGC VALORANT Invitational 2022: Epilogue winner: FunPlus Phoenix ZHUQUE FunPlus Phoenix ZHUQUE Inactive AAAAY Zhang Yang (张杨) suyjing Wang Sicheng (王斯澄) BerLIN Zhang Bolin (張柏霖) YuChEn He Cai (何财) Yuicaw Huang Yung-chieh (黃湧傑) nizhaoTZH Tang Zehao (唐哲昊) | runner-up: EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 S1Mon Hsien Meng-Hsun (谢孟勋) ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊)

Other News & Rumours

• According to a report by Blix.gg, Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses North America Rank #17 Derrek Derrek Ha NaturE Nicholas Garrison supamen Phat Le is set to sign ex- sqn 2.0 sqn 2.0 Inactive Demon1 Max Mazanov zero cap Phil Pham tie Tai Diep lazylion Nathan Hoang star Max "Demon1" Mazanov to their 10-man roster ahead of the 2023 season.
• A report by Bo Hoogland has detailed that multiple Chinese organizations are beginning to build rosters for the 2023 season. The report surfaced after China recently gave the green light for Valorant's launch within the country. Some organizations that have shown interest are LGD Gaming, LNG Esports, Rare Atom, Billi Billi, Top Esports, and Ultra Prime.