LOCK//IN São Paulo is reaching the conclusion of the Alpha bracket and Collegiate is reaching their winter season's playoffs. Although there is plenty of action, teams all around the world continue to make new headlines. Here's what you might have missed this past week in Valorant news.

This week's edition covers news from Feb. 12 to Feb. 18

Roster Changes

• Xavier "flyuh" Carlson officially parted ways with FaZe Clan FaZe Clan Inactive POISED Kevin Ngo mummAy Anthony DiPaolo TiGG Tanner Spanu BABYBAY Andrej Francisty supamen Phat Le .
• / Turtle Troop Turtle Troop North America Rank #5 wedid Matthew Suchan jowa Add3r Jack Hayashi bdog Brandon Sanders Kaoticcc parted with Anthony "Okeanos" Nguyen and Mohammed "Harmful" C..
• / QoR QoR North America Rank #28 ALEKSANDAR Aleksandar Hinojosa nerve Michael Yerrow snarly Boni Logan Logan Coffey announced their first Game Changers roster, QoR GC QoR GC Inactive .
• / RETA Esports RETA Esports Latin America North Rank #4 Tacolilla Vicente Compagnon david David Olivares rubkkoide Facundo Chavez murizzz Murillo Tuchtenhagen suther Tomás Zurita welcomed Abdo "c4Lypso" Agha to their roster.
• HEET HEET Inactive Kinguyen Nguyen Thach memset Laurent Werly b2kk Sofian Delimi Monstrum Jake Byrne waddle Wadir Taraki parted ways with their full roster.
• Laterious Laterious Inactive jkR parted with their roster, they now compete in Project V under the Capybara Huggers Capybara Huggers Inactive Belyaks1 Raio Dansbergs Nex Christoph Bergemann Wanted Giuliano Sotgiu Kixer Leon Kixmüller frontside Kamil Moroń title.
• Filip "YORZERA" Eremic departed from ACE eSports ACE eSports Inactive r1zvaN YORZERA Filip Eremic divide J1zkeyy chukL9 Danil Chuklin focus .
• Anorthosis Famagusta Esports Anorthosis Famagusta Esports Inactive benched Piotr "YouBreak" Chodoła as he explores new options.
• Dortmund Esports Dortmund Esports Europe Rank #211 Aurax Darum0n Darunee Knirck KlausC Lenam0n welcomed "Brädi" to the roster.
• EBRO Gaming EBRO Gaming Inactive Kardash Mateo Verni Liu Haitam pepzet CrayZ nachitt Juan Ignacio Palesi welcomed CrayZ .
• / Furious Flame Furious Flame Inactive bae Nanu Lesni Valu Vivii released their roster and coaching staff.
• // GodLike Esports GodLike Esports Inactive Rexy Tejas Kotian karam1l Norbu Tsering astr0 Franz del Rosario Kibojn Jayesh Negi welcomed a new roster consisting of Shakir "hikkA" Razak, Jude "Zey" Patrick Gunhuran, Norbu "karam1l" Tsering, Tejas "Rexy" Kotian, and Franz "astr0" del Rosario.
• REJECT REJECT Japan Rank #12 JaXe BNN take IceBear benched both Kosuke "Kosuke" Nishida and "Allen" .
• ZETA DIVISION GC ZETA DIVISION GC Japan Rank #10 suzu Suzu Sasaki SereNa Kim Sia (김시아) UR Moco Sarina Kawashima aco welcomed KOHAL on a transfer from FENNEL GC FENNEL GC Japan Rank #33 Curumi Haruka Tajima miNt Jeong Ye-rim (정예림) YamzzI Park Su-jin (박수진) romia Airi Sugiyama .
• / BLEED BLEED Asia-Pacific Rank #21 assistant coach Abhishek "GodspeedxD" Bajaj announced his free agency status, as his contract with BLEED will expire after VCL MY/SG: Split 1.

Results & Standings

• Mystic Singularity Series #3 continues their playoff bracket.
• Knights Monthly Gauntlet 2023: February winner: 99 Strength 99 Strength Inactive tyfoon sharky Mike Gariti | runner-up: QoR QoR North America Rank #28 ALEKSANDAR Aleksandar Hinojosa nerve Michael Yerrow snarly Boni Logan Logan Coffey
• Valorant Open Tour France 2023: Stage 1 winner: Klanik Esport Klanik Esport Inactive NowaXxZang Fabien Moura Sp1ke Stanislav Koshel bzt Renátó Bárányos | runner-up: booskaHS booskaHS Inactive khe0ps Tony Marques NRK Pedretti Charles 10K Théo Navaro bRAAHH Davidp David Prins
• Insomnia Gaming Festival 2023 winner: Geekay Esports Geekay Esports MENA Rank #6 | runner-up: 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

Other News & Rumours

• / Hasan "BlackHeart" Hammad is said to be joining Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #11 Xeppaa Erick Bach Rossy Daniel Abedrabbo v1c Victor Truong moose Kaleb Jayne OXY Francis Hoang according to a report by Dot Esports last week. He is said to be joining the team as a substitute player.
• / In more news from last week, Oxygen Esports Oxygen Esports Inactive skuba Logan Jenkins mitch Mitch Semago Verno Andrew Maust Reduxx Yassin Aboulalazm dapr Michael Gulino is set to replace Head Coach Preston "Juv3nile" Dornon with Malkolm "bonkar" Rench from bonk bonk Inactive juseu Elric Belland-Aysan according to a report by Dot Esports.
• / According to a report by BLIX.GG, Weibo Gaming Weibo Gaming China Rank #14 TryTryz Lu Shiwei (卢世炜) Star1og Jun Chao Liang (梁竣超) DRK R1ckLeexD Li Xu (李旭) are in discussions to sign two Australian players in Christopher "pl1xx" Li and Elvin "Maple" Sun.