A new month is here and VCT LOCK//IN is rapidly approaching. Even with a new month, teams all around the world still manage to create new headlines. Here's what you might have missed this past week in Valorant news.

This week's edition covers news from Jan. 29 to Feb. 04

• Last Week: News Almost Missed January 28

Roster Changes

• / Turtle Troop Turtle Troop Inactive wedid Matthew Suchan jowa bdog Brandon Sanders Kaoticcc welcomed Andy "Avhyno" Sanschagrin as head coach and Maya "mayuhri" Robles as manager.
• / KOI KOI Europe Rank #30 grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko sheydos Bogdan Naumov Filu Dawid Czarnecki flyuh Xavier Carlson soulcas Dom Sulcas welcomed a new assistant coach/analyst in Tyler "Bambino" Jay.
• SBG SBG Inactive APO Tom Bonnion stand-in TakaS Jonathan Paupard logaN Logan Corti Wailers Wailers Locart beyAz Beyazit Körpe nataNk Nathan Bocqueho welcomed Tom "APO" Bonnion as a stand-in while Jonathan "TakaS" Paupard steps away due to injury.
• / Case Esports Case Esports Inactive announced a shift in their coaching staff with the welcoming of Lucas "Rojo" Rojo as head coach and the transition of Juan "McJuankar" Carlos Mesa Ciruelo to coach.
• / Apeks Apeks Europe Rank #4 florescent Ava Eugene hype Tautvydas Paldavicius MOLSI Michał Łącki AvovA Auni Chahade batujnax Mehmet Batu Özaslan welcomed their new general manager in Frederik "Gulden" van Guldener.
• / BLX UTD BLX UTD Europe Rank #244 q Liam Hoek Slurpy Descroix Max released "dash" and Yenthe "poegii" Segers in favor of Nathan "Nayte" Berquignol and Riad "ri4d" Smajilovic.
• Parla Esports Parla Esports Inactive Jlerst Naci Enes Yıldırım sociablEE Volkan Yonal lauress Toprak Kaynak Ruxic Uğur Güç jeyj7y Soner Eren Kent announced their new coach in Emirhan "L7" Şahintürk.
• / RIZON RIZON Europe Rank #235 Nexus Marko Jandric tenji Marvin Kluenenberg Shuffle z7eus Justin Reiß announced their roster for Split 1 of Project V 2023.
• // ALTERNATE aTTaX ALTERNATE aTTaX Europe Rank #36 Jini Jan Miller luckeRRR Niels Jasiek KovaQ Blendi Kovaci STAVINCI Dimitrios Smoilis signed a European female roster, ALTERNATE aTTaX Ruby ALTERNATE aTTaX Ruby Europe Unranked Jade ginger ellie Blossi Harmonee .
• / CGN Youngstars CGN Youngstars Inactive released their roster due to a ruling by Riot on academy/project teams.
• who cars? who cars? Europe Rank #206 fexayy Klusia Jonas Colkær Thomsen Nille Nichlas Busk sunshine Benjamin Hornshøj Nielsen moved Mikkel "Masked" Fuglsang to the bench as he steps away due to personal issues.
• X10 Esports X10 Esports Inactive Vera Rodman Yap Tempz Pierre Heng RedKoh Danial Hakim wayne Wayne Chang Egoist Javier Chua revealed their roster for Malaysia/Singapore: Stage 1.
• / Enigma Gaming Enigma Gaming Inactive Divine Yeoh Chun Ting FREY Ingram Tan STYRON Tidus Goh Xan artn Ayrton Soh also revealed their roster for Malaysia/Singapore: Stage 1.
• Ko "C1ndeR" Jae-hyuk (고재혁) announced his departure from Good 8 Squad Good 8 Squad Inactive ryota- Ryota Okayama kenmohororo Kaito Yoshida C1ndeR Ko Jae-hyuk (고재혁) Bangnan Jung Min-u (정민우) PeroOwO .
• Making It Look Easy Making It Look Easy Inactive Gera Caz Jose Hernandez GeneralSteak otaQ parted with their head coach Hernan "Dumbbell" Pernas.
• / Bravado Gaming Bravado Gaming Inactive announced the arrival of Yousef "SkaNoodles" Mohamed and Daniel "Boom" Jiménez.
• HONEY BADGERS HONEY BADGERS Inactive Noobster xue Jesse Tang MirzAA Kiyan M-Basari JELLYD Angelo Diaz Maple Elvin Sun parted ways with Ryan "MILKY" Cornwell.
• Funcrew Funcrew Oceania Rank #16 skrawl Justin Lanzon YAKUZA Yifang Yifang Chen MirzAA Kiyan M-Basari welcomed their new roster for VCL Oceania - Split 1.

Results & Standings

• Knights Monthly: January winner: rubberduckies rubberduckies Inactive | runner-up: Son of 4 Dogs Son of 4 Dogs Inactive
• aSmoogl Community Cup winner: eSports Cologne eSports Cologne Inactive mX cookiez Shiroto Temuujin Nguyen empreZ deSwit Riccardo Puppo | runner-up: asfdfdsaegsdgds asfdfdsaegsdgds Inactive
• VEU - S2S1 - Weekly Cup #4 winner: Fever Dream Fever Dream Inactive ROUSIK VJT Vojtěch Kutač Shmuky Lukáš Hesek Elysium Michael Prošek | runner-up: Team Progress Team Progress Inactive tuba Bence Boros helpless Dávid Betyák dNEL Dániel Varga SLT TIMOTIII Marcell Bakos
• Wandercon winner: calamity L calamity L Inactive bmblbe Paolo Peloza Gunners Krishan Patel | runner-up: ACE eSports ACE eSports Inactive r1zvaN YORZERA Filip Eremic divide J1zkeyy chukl9 Danil Chuklin focus
• VALORANT Vietnam: Rising Stars - Week 3 winner: LAZY LAZY Asia-Pacific Rank #63 moefcute Dương Phúc Hiếu Akashi Châu Hoàn Thiện Nhân ducT Hoàng Trung Đức Snowflake Kishi Ngô Trường Huy | runner-up: VICTORY VICTORY Inactive TRIPCIEW Vữ Minh Cường

Other News & Rumours

• According to a report by Dot Esports, LOCK//IN São Paulo is set to feature a Mandarin broadcast at an international event for the first time. This comes after the LOCK//IN format was changed to include two teams from the Chinese region, 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) and FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix China Rank #9 Shr1mp Yang Yong (杨勇) Autumn Kale Dunne Life Qu Donghao (瞿东豪) AAAAY Zhang Yang (张杨) yosemite Wang Lei (王磊) .