Challengers Leagues are now reaching their Grand Finals and the post-LOCK//IN roster moves have begun. 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 Mar. 05 to Mar. 11

• Last Week: News Almost Missed March 04

Roster Changes

• Misfits Black Misfits Black Inactive panday Tastyy Carlee Carlee Gress edith Eden Bryce Cutlip Slandy Presley Anderson welcomed the final member of their roster Carlee "Carlee" Gress.
• MAD Lions MAD Lions Inactive BlackHeart Hasan Hammad bjor Joseph Bjorklund N4RRATE Marshall Massey Ange Adam Milian Trick Justin Sears announced the addition of a strategic coach in Zach "Eley" Stauffer.
• FaZe Clan FaZe Clan Inactive POISED Kevin Ngo mummAy Anthony DiPaolo TiGG Tanner Spanu BABYBAY Andrej Francisty supamen Phat Le announced the signing of Hamboigas Hamboigas Inactive di^ Diane Tran refinnej Jennifer Le sHMeaty Emma Choe Maddie Madison Mann panini Vannesa Emory . The team will now be known as FaZe Clan GC FaZe Clan GC Inactive Maddie Madison Mann sHMeaty Emma Choe di^ Diane Tran refinnej Jennifer Le .
• Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #4 N4RRATE Marshall Massey bang Sean Bezerra Zellsis Jordan Montemurro zekken Zachary Patrone johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid moved Hunter "SicK" Mims to an inactive position while he deals with personal issues.
• GODSENT IRIS GODSENT IRIS Inactive niciplesss Nikolett Keszeli Nessa Vanessa Ahlström Melzz Melinda BlomQvist released their roster.
• UNtapped UNtapped Inactive mediKa Annika Lambertz Nariel Yaren Cirit Sylva Anna Bruce-Doig Lil Bob announced the revival of their roster ahead of Game Changers EMEA.
• / G2 Gozen G2 Gozen Europe Unranked amy Amy Lai Vania Aleyna Keskin Nelo Mathilde Beltoise Petra Petra Stoker mimi Michaela Lintrup welcomed Vivian "roxi" Schilling following Julia "juliano" Kiran's departure just days ago.
• / Rebels Gaming Rebels Gaming Inactive moved João "jannyXD" Daniel to the bench.
• who cars? who cars? Europe Rank #203 fexayy Klusia Jonas Colkær Thomsen Nille Nichlas Busk sunshine Benjamin Hornshøj Nielsen parted ways with Mads "MTE" Elgaard and assistant coach Simon "Falkun" Jakobsen. The shuffle also saw David "Davud" Alexander Vig become a substitute/content creator.
• / 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 moved Kutluay "VPNCNP" Kutlu, Enes "jonx" Güngör, and Ibrahim "lurzy0y0" Sandıkcı to the bench. The team also parted with Mustafa "DubzWoW" Doğan.
• İstanbul Wildcats İstanbul Wildcats Europe Rank #46 sturNN Eren Oduncular Gloomy Mercan Özalp baha Baha Gözmen dRKY Onur Bora Genç deminatiX Akın Tak wtex parted ways with head coach Kaan "Leader" Taşpınar and coach Armağan "L1X1NN" Yeğin.
• FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #7 xeus Doğan Gözgen MrFaliN Furkan Yeğen yetujey Eray Budak AtaKaptan Ata Tan qRaxs Doğukan Balaban announced the departure of assistant coach Nafi "NEDNAGG" Ercan Durmuş.
• / Orangutan Orangutan Asia-Pacific Rank #15 welcomed back theDoctorr as coach following a short stint with Enigma Gaming Enigma Gaming Inactive Divine Yeoh Chun Ting FREY Ingram Tan STYRON Tidus Goh Xan artn Ayrton Soh .
• / MLT Esports MLT Esports Inactive parted ways with Simon "Blas" Jimuel Blas and Troy "Yort" Hiramia in favor of Jay "wstVirginia" Patil and Atharv "Ri0" Ahire.
• Medal Esports Medal Esports Inactive Excali Karan Mhaswadkar kibojn Jayesh Negi psy Simar Sethi LilBOii Vishwaratn Srivastav tryst Jit Choudhury welcomed Daivik "deecee" Chauhan and head coach Vikrant "hacker" Pujari.
• GeeKay Esports Cherry GeeKay Esports Cherry Inactive Sandra Sandra Sherif Pinkalie Julie Lim Natakodo Natasha Kodo jduh Ceyda Kondu welcomed a new roster consisting of Julie "Pinkalie" Lim, Donia "nugget" Khaled, Natasha "Natakodo" Kodo, Ceyda "jduh" Kondu, and substitute "Sou" .
• / Sengoku Gaming Sengoku Gaming Japan Rank #6 Gwangboong Kim Gwang-won (김광원) Kippei NOBITA Misaya yuran Yushin Hato parted ways with "Vici" .
• / BLUE BEES.ESP BLUE BEES.ESP Japan Rank #13 keisu Lafura Zan e9Lair kenmohororo Kaito Yoshida parted with "nura" and Kim "Ssun" Sun-rae (김선래) in favor of Kim "SID" Min-seung (김민승) and "YAYA" .

Results & Standings

• CVAL North: Winter winner: Northwood University Northwood University North America Unranked dip Braden Dippel Dark3st benjii Benjamin Park Tyler Boat | runner-up: Mizzou Esports Mizzou Esports North America Rank #5 xelA Alex Cheun wPanda Mason Lubinsky Conch Connor Aoun Ponder Jack Ponder PIGGY Devin Donnelly
• CVAL East: Winter winner: Fisher Navy Fisher Navy North America Rank #50 sogo Davide Hoxha HUYNH Danny Huynh Momiji Blahst Nathan Brand Logan Logan Coffey | runner-up: FIU Varsity FIU Varsity North America Rank #272 ancient Cameron Ayala Starlight quiet Michael Escalona Wilmer Wilmer Rodriguez olegzinho Oleg Khayrulin
• CVAL South: Winter winner: UST Esports UST Esports North America Unranked nate Nathanael Miles Xhowi Luis Enmanuel Corcino Garcia seyq GLYPH Conner Garcia Korsonix Korey Anderson | runner-up: OC Esports OC Esports North America Rank #110 pablo Owen Boulanger Vader Zen Jrmzie MiniNiwde Lenin Mateo
• CVAL West: Winter winner: Demigods @ UCSD Demigods @ UCSD Inactive Chrome Kaden Jackson frost 469matt WicK tsalad Melvin | runner-up: UCR Blue UCR Blue North America Rank #13 Azulite Soop Ben Nguyen Vyx Andrew
• Project V: Stage 1 Division 1 winner: Yes I'm here Yes I'm here Inactive McKonsti Konstantin Helm nixoon Niko Pasonen Mikelelle Mikael Talliniemi shy supremjo | runner-up: Sissi State Punks Sissi State Punks Europe Rank #156 allthewayPat nysHAA Erwann Gougam Spexleon Leon Loogsberg Shiro Pitou Rimbert Mickaël
• Valorant East: United - Season 2 - Stage 1 - Last Chance Qualifier qualified teams: onliners onliners Inactive , calamity L calamity L Inactive bmblbe Paolo Peloza Gunners Krishan Patel
• Project V: PRO Weekly #5 - Bracket 1 winner: Permitta eSports Permitta eSports Inactive Happen Alexander Dudenhöfer Daveeski David Pawlowski quantumrino GENETICZZ RxYaL Onur Yilmaz Movi | runner-up: eSports Cologne eSports Cologne Inactive mX cookiez Shiroto Temuujin Nguyen empreZ deSwit Riccardo Puppo
• Project V: PRO Weekly #5 - Bracket 2 winner: Big Blue Charizard Big Blue Charizard Europe Rank #213 Flaqqo Filip Avramovic Richy Atom Fabian Mauel | runner-up: Doomster Doomster Inactive
• Valorant Open Tour France 2023: Stage 2 winner: Colors Esport Colors Esport Europe Rank #42 Shak0w Clovis Lallier Pie Pierrick Jeandel izana | runner-up: booskaHS booskaHS Inactive khe0ps Tony Marques NRK Pedretti Charles 10K Théo Navaro bRAAHH Davidp David Prins
• VCL Brazil remaining teams: The Union The Union Inactive Askia Estevão Ferreira GuhRVN Gustavo Ferreira pancc Fillipe Martins ntk Lucas Martins raafa Rafael Lima , RED Canids RED Canids Brazil Rank #3 Urango Victor Rodrigues RgLMeister Matheus Rodigoli maestr0 prozin Wallacy Sales bezn1 Gabriel Luiz da Costa , TBK Esports TBK Esports Brazil Rank #24 vit9ine Champzera Joaquim Alves Myssen Rodrigo Myssen Kring ind1n , Keyd Stars Keyd Stars Inactive , ODDIK ODDIK Inactive , TropiCaos TropiCaos Inactive Fatmarino Matheus Marino mNdS Rafael Mendes xenom Eduardo Soeiro cortezia Gabriel Cortez v1nny Vínicius Gonçalves
• VCL East remaining teams: Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk , Enterprise Esports Enterprise Esports Europe Rank #35 jas Jasiek Nieliwodzki Kiles Vlad Shvets zeek Aleksander Zygmunt starki Krzysztof Lewandrowski doma Domagoj Fancev , Anonymo Esports Anonymo Esports Inactive belmonte Kacper Mordak xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon Stix Wojciech Chamielec grubinho Grzegorz Ryczko Katu Kacper Twórz
• VCL Northern Europe remaining teams: HSDIRR HSDIRR Inactive Ale Alend Khalaf vicious Benjamin Guilotte lyNxi Felix Björklund Meddo Johan Renbjörk Lundborg freddan , Apeks Apeks Europe Rank #3 florescent Ava Eugene hype Tautvydas Paldavicius MOLSI Michał Łącki AvovA Auni Chahade batujnax Mehmet Batu Özaslan , FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #15 hoody Aaro Peltokangas YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes Mistic James Orfila al0rante Felix Brandl xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon
• VCL France remaining teams: SBG SBG Inactive APO Tom Bonnion stand-in TakaS Jonathan Paupard logaN Logan Corti Wailers Wailers Locart beyAz Beyazit Körpe nataNk Nathan Bocqueho , Mandatory Mandatory Europe Rank #30 CyvOph Clement Millard HyP Damien Souville Enzo Enzo Mestari mikee Michael Lim keloqz Cista Wassim
• VCL Turkey remaining teams: S2G Esports S2G Esports Europe Rank #169 pAura Melih Karaduran reazy Kaan Ürpek Turko Mehmet Özen DeepMans Yiğithan Kesici , Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #21 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt OXMANN Aytekin Çakır umu7 Umut Pekdoğan
• VCL Spain winner: Case Esports Case Esports Inactive | runner-up: Team Queso Team Queso Inactive mezoky Boom Daniel Jiménez
• VCL DACH remaining teams: Unicorns of Love Unicorns of Love Inactive bleeshh Christopher Bledowski , CGN Esports CGN Esports Europe Rank #8 elllement Dragan Milanović Ambi Štěpán Beránek Wolfen Berkant Joshkun DaviH David Cruz BennY Benjamin Domgörgen Vince Vincent Kranz
• VCL Italy remaining teams: DSYRE DSYRE Inactive caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci wackie Rikardo Birjukov waddle Wadir Taraki , GMT Esports GMT Esports Inactive N A I S Alessandro Montanari AFoxx Fábio Veigas
• VCL Portugal winner: SAW SAW Inactive Fragger Henrique Correia brk Bruno Ferreira GrTw Tiago Costa Addicted Eduardo Torres Cunha20 David Cunha | runner-up: GTZ Esports GTZ Esports Europe Rank #196 H4te Rodrigo Ribeiro Caim Hugo Fonseca
• VCL Vietnam remaining teams: Fancy United Esports Fancy United Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #12 YESicaN Đinh Đình Đạt 16Ch0ps Nguyễn Đức Trí Tín Crus Lư Tiến Huy Hyuse Nia twilight , Team Big BAAM Team Big BAAM Asia-Pacific Rank #28 invisible KimHung2k5 , Tim Tài Trơ Tim Tài Trơ Inactive Redneval Le Quốc Khánh viness Nguyễn Trung Tín Juu Trần Thái Vỹ KeA Nguyễn Anh Minh Thông BOSS
• / VCL Taiwan/Hong Kong remaining teams: ONE Team Esports ONE Team Esports Inactive YanLi Ra1ny Li Guo-Shuo (李國碩) ngk XyuS SecreT KiNo , Griffin E-Sports Griffin E-Sports Inactive Fung3 SiuFatBB Pong Gaa Hei (庞加曦) Uta LockM Xing Fuling (邢福凌) sora
• VCL Thailand remaining teams: Made in Thailand Made in Thailand Inactive Kadoom Kantapong Kingthong Killua Tanate Teerasawad cgrs Patiphan Porsi Laz Kittikawin Jirawatkakan seph1roth Chinnakrit Phoojaroen , Attack All Around Attack All Around Inactive xcool3 Nuttadet Wijit AloNeFillz Palapoom Thaikum kongared Nantapol Boonying niffy Patcharapon Junman b3ta Puwadon Jaisuekul SantaGolf Chanitpak Suwanaprateep , Sharper Esport Sharper Esport Asia-Pacific Rank #46 niffy Patcharapon Junman LBY Eisuke Kuraoka qq Phoomphat Phodjanat Siraww Siraphop Honghirun Kadoom Kantapong Kingthong
• VCL Indonesia remaining teams: BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #2 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma , Bigetron Arctic Bigetron Arctic Asia-Pacific Rank #16 k1ngkappa
• / VCL Malaysia/Singapore remaining teams: BLEED BLEED Inactive , X10 Esports X10 Esports Inactive Vera Rodman Yap Tempz Pierre Heng RedKoh Danial Hakim wayne Wayne Chang Egoist Javier Chua
• VCL Philippines remaining teams: NAOS NAOS Asia-Pacific Rank #27 PTC Kititkawin Rattanasukol xavi8k Xavier Juan Mojer Jerome Literal , Oasis Gaming Oasis Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #36 Zeus slathom999 Shawn Dale Bolondro astr0 Franz del Rosario tesseract Jon Michael Piga marky Mark Anthony Tuling
• VCL Japan remaining teams: Crazy Raccoon Crazy Raccoon Inactive , SCARZ SCARZ Japan Rank #7 zepher Jyousuke Matsuda Medusa An Min-cheol (안민철) Anthem Yoshitaka Enomoto LOB Lim Byung-gun (임병건) Yoshiii John Yoshiharu Kawakami , FENNEL FENNEL Japan Rank #8 GON Kento Hara Aace Souta Itou Hals neth Yusuke Matsuda MrTenzouEz
• VCL Oceania remaining teams: BOBO BOBO Oceania Rank #5 Exirst loubert Nozz Noah McClafferty Muzz , 95x Esports 95x Esports Inactive Dragon Nicholas Aleksandrovsky rDeeW Riley Wilkinson LEW Luis Hibbert Minimise Jackson White WAT Lewis Watson

Other News & Rumours

• / According to a report by Dot Esports, xQc is set to enter the VALORANT scene with the signing of free agent team Turtle Troop Turtle Troop Inactive wedid Matthew Suchan jowa bdog Brandon Sanders Kaoticcc . If the signing is to go through, he would become the third streamer to own a team in North American Challengers League.
• / In another report by Dot Esports, Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #5 mindfreak Aaron Leonhart Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov have trialed Ilya "something" Petrov for their roster. If he was to join the team, he would likely take a position as sub.