Europe and the Pacific are knee-deep in mid-season madness, as both regions await the start of the VCT and of the second split in the VCLs. Nevertheless, teams from around the world are still producing headlines. Here's what you might have missed this past week in Valorant news.

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

• Last week: News Almost Missed March 11

Roster Changes

• YFP Gaming YFP Gaming North America Rank #13 jakee Jake Anderson stellar Brenden McGrath penny Erik Penny thief Brady Dever fiziq Lucas Blow signed a new roster that includes Aleksandar "ALEKSANDAR" Hinojosa and Nolan "Temperature" Pepper
• / Rebels Gaming Rebels Gaming Inactive dropped João "jannyXD" Daniel after a nearly year-and-a-half long stint with the organization.
• beGenius beGenius Inactive 's roster is looking for offers after accusing the organization of lies and mismanagement.
• Diamant Esports Diamant Esports Europe Rank #12 let Alen "al1en" Pašić and Patrik "Patix" Rozman seek offers for the second split of VCLs.
• / Former Les Petits Bouffons Les Petits Bouffons Inactive vong Vong Nguyen Luzuh Joseph Loose KRAY Calum Knight Russ Russel Mendes L1NK Travis Mendoza analyst Timo "TimppaZi" Virtanen is looking for coaching opportunities.
• Galatasaray Esports Galatasaray Esports Europe Rank #37 Padisah Onur Dönmez PhuRME Yagiz Efe Baygut Docent Kadri Vatandaş Touven Can Eryıldız JrayN Ferhat Yılmaz have split with Emir "Celasun" Celasun after a top-six VCL Turkey finish.
• FUT Female FUT Female Inactive Lyda İlayda Güzeldere rezq Eda Naz Akçocuk signed a 2023 Game Changers squad, with two former Papara SuperMassive Female Papara SuperMassive Female Inactive Julis Açelya Özgen schnellÆ Ayşe Ergül players.
• / FUSION X FUSION X Latin America North Rank #20 Dano Lied Tura Tastyy replaced Cata and Zenko with Dano and ClaW .
• / KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #3 keznit Angelo Mori Mazino Roberto Rivas adverso Benjamín Poblete mta Nicolás González Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro signed Six Karma Six Karma Latin America North Rank #8 Mephisto KILLY rowancy Constantino Grijalva Peloncito Oscar Israel Palacios Martinez otaQ coach Jorge "Atom" Siero in anticipation of the VCT Americas. "Poper" was promoted to Head Coach in Atom's absence.
• Incheon On Sla2ers Incheon On Sla2ers Korea Rank #29 VaNish XirZz signed an entirely new squad for the second split of the Korean VCL.
• Dplus Esports Dplus Esports Korea Rank #7 NGen Lee Jae-hong (이재홍) Bangnan Jung Min-u (정민우) RedLight Kim Eun-soo (김은수) kAyle Jung Soo-yong (정수용) Only1 Park Dan-il (박단일) brought former GoNGo Prince GoNGo Prince Inactive Gunny Song Keon (송건) Wenty Yang Geon-mo (양건모) Eliza Kang Hee-won (강희원) Lawrence Yoon Hyun (윤현) player Yang "Wenty" Geon-mo (양건모) on board.
• T1 T1 Korea Rank #3 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-O (김태오) Sylvan Ko Young-sub (고영섭) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) signed a third coach in Lee "CheongGak" Il-ho (이일호).
• / CREST GAMING Zst CREST GAMING Zst Japan Rank #5 Brofeld bazz KEN Kapi sakurai signed sakurai in Lee "Hate" Ye-hun (이예훈)'s place after the latter left, also adding analysts Calm and nolozy
• DetonatioN FocusMe DetonatioN FocusMe Japan Rank #7 Meiy Ibuki Seki Art Jinboong Kim Jin-won (김진원) Akame Yu Gwang-hui (유광희) gyen signed a Game Changers roster.
• FAV gaming FAV gaming Japan Rank #3 rui Hands BoM Alpha fukuken Phantom Hideaki Nakai added Cynthia as assistant coach and Pyonaka as analyst.
• / Alter Ego Alter Ego Asia-Pacific Rank #6 Nakya Alehandro Fabian Simanjorang Cud Thomas Alfiantino ray4c Rayvaldo Chandra ValdyN Rivaldy Nafian gotten Davin have parted ways to Kang "Try" Tae-wook (강태욱) after nearly a year together.
• Next Gen Next Gen Inactive McKinley Brock Hudson FETA Cameron Gill BiggieCheese Aidan Gill Sinaway Norshin Yawanis MILKY Ryan Cornwell , who finished fifth in VCL OCE, were signed by NerdPunt.
• / Gods Reign Gods Reign Inactive Ember Garvit Nehra rounded out their VCL South Asia roster with Nick "tixx" Quinn and Kale "Autumn" Dunne.
• / Royal Never Give Up Royal Never Give Up Inactive HaTo Wang Rui (王睿) 4ErWa Xiaonuo signed former VCL OCE players Dale "signed" Tang and Ali "SWERL" Kobraee.
• True Rippers True Rippers Asia-Pacific Rank #99 Ri0 Atharv Ahire Marcai BatmaN R0meo WAT Lewis Watson RvK Rishi Vijayakumar introduced their 2023 roster for VCL South Asia.
• Reckoning Esports Reckoning Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #44 123 aplycs Aqil Azfar Mojo Thong Tao Jian Deadly10 Saksham Aurangabadkar Garv ghostxD rounded out their 2023 roster.
• / GodspeedxD 's ten month-long stint with BLEED BLEED Asia-Pacific Rank #22 has come to an end. He is now Gods Reign Gods Reign Inactive Ember Garvit Nehra 's Head Coach.
• BLEED BLEED Asia-Pacific Rank #22 also signed Marcus "nephh" Tan, who finished the MY/SG VCL in second with X10 Esports X10 Esports Inactive Vera Rodman Yap Tempz Pierre Heng RedKoh Danial Hakim wayne Wayne Chang Egoist Javier Chua .
• MLT Esports MLT Esports Inactive recruited long-time Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #38 patrickWHO Mark Musni UdoTan Go Kyung-won (고경원) Kr1stal Savva Fedorov kellyS Kelly Sedillo Papi Federico Evangelista staff member Malav "Rexdreams" Popat.

Results & Standings

• Astral Clash 2023 winner: Version1 Version1 Inactive sarahcat Sarah Simpson florescent Ava Eugene alexis Alexis Guarrasi meL Melanie Capone Noia Nicole Tierce | runner-up: Complexity GX3 Complexity GX3 Inactive clawdia Claudia Che Karra Aara Lee rayse L4CE Lacey Dilworth Jazzyk1ns Jasmine Manankil
• VCL Northern Europe winner: Apeks Apeks Europe Rank #2 hype Tautvydas Paldavicius MOLSI Michał Łącki AvovA Auni Chahade | runner-up: FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #21 hoody Aaro Peltokangas YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes Mistic James Orfila al0rante Felix Brandl xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon
• VCL East winner: Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk | runner-up: Enterprise Esports Enterprise Esports Inactive LUKYYY Cantzer Václav Jan Stezka SH0UTyy Michal Glacner Hasaa Radim Haša Enrik Michal Vejvoda patagod Patrik Bojkovský
• VCL Spain winner: Case Esports Case Esports Inactive | runner-up: Team Queso Team Queso Inactive mezoky Boom Daniel Jiménez
• VCL France winner: SBG SBG Inactive APO Tom Bonnion stand-in TakaS Jonathan Paupard logaN Logan Corti Wailers Wailers Locart beyAz Beyazit Körpe nataNk Nathan Bocqueho | runner-up: Mandatory Mandatory Europe Rank #27 CyvOph Clement Millard HyP Damien Souville thebigfiz Julien Auberton AKUMAAAAA Alex Lo Bello Goaster Tony Richard
• VCL Italy winner: GMT Esports GMT Esports Inactive N A I S Alessandro Montanari AFoxx Fábio Veigas | runner-up: DSYRE DSYRE Europe Rank #4 caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci wackie Rikardo Birjukov waddle Wadir Taraki
• VCL DACH winner: CGN Esports CGN Esports Europe Rank #5 elllement Dragan Milanović DaviH David Cruz BennY Benjamin Domgörgen Vince Vincent Kranz | runner-up: Unicorns of Love Unicorns of Love Inactive bleeshh Christopher Bledowski
• VCL Turkey winner: S2G Esports S2G Esports Europe Rank #134 pAura Melih Karaduran reazy Kaan Ürpek Turko Mehmet Özen DeepMans Yiğithan Kesici | runner-up: Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #13 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt Celasun Emir Celasun umu7 Umut Pekdoğan
• VCL Brazil remaining teams: The Union The Union Inactive Askia Estevão Ferreira GuhRVN Gustavo Ferreira pancc Fillipe Martins ntk Lucas Martins raafa Rafael Lima , Keyd Stars Keyd Stars Inactive
• VCL LATAM South remaining teams: 9z Team 9z Team Inactive deigara Gonzalo Funes Tuli Giulliano Pozo Massone rubkkoide Facundo Chavez mizu Gabriel Gonzalez david David Olivares , All Knights All Knights Latin America South Rank #2 NicoMachine Nicolas Valla Cebando Ezequiel Ramos Dantedeu5 tinchoff Martin Garcia , INFINITY INFINITY Inactive ligasa Rodrigo Castillo MatiS Matias Salgado bnj Benjamin Rabinovich , Optix Optix Inactive ganter Bastian Eduardo Reinoso Fross Fernando Gallagher D1E Diego Contreras Tio Carlos Swing gio Giovani Cristobal Lainati Ruz
• SEA Esports Championship 2023 winner: Indonesia Indonesia Inactive deLb Delbert Tanoto NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra Eeyore Kevin Gunawan budimeisteR Oliver Budi Wangge Asteriskk Nanda Rizana Kush Bryan Carlos Setiawan sayoo Willy Ivandra | runner-up: Vietnam Vietnam Inactive ducT Hoàng Trung Đức d0rf Phạm Huỳnh Toàn Quốc P1nA Nguyễn Nam viness Nguyễn Trung Tín Suka Nguyễn Văn Tiến Nhatthong2k Nguyễn Nhất Thống crazyguy Ngô Công Anh
• Game Changers 2023 APAC: Open 1 remaining teams: Team SMG GC Team SMG GC Inactive enerii Odella Abraham Alexy Alexy Francisco shirazi Kelly Jaudian Kamiyu Camille Enriquez , Orangutan X Orangutan X Inactive Japips Erumaa Elmarian Haessel CaspeR Neha Sottany Twirly Sway
• VCL Japan remaining teams: Crazy Raccoon Crazy Raccoon Inactive , FENNEL FENNEL Japan Rank #1 GON Kento Hara Aace Souta Itou Hals neth Yusuke Matsuda MrTenzouEz
• VCL Vietnam winner: Fancy United Esports Fancy United Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #14 YESicaN Đinh Đình Đạt foxy Crus Lư Tiến Huy tok1o Nia twilight | runner-up: Team Big BAAM Team Big BAAM Asia-Pacific Rank #65 P1nA Nguyễn Nam nTK Nguyễn Tuấn Kiệt BMV Bùi Minh Vũ Nhatthong2k Nguyễn Nhất Thống Somethai Trần Lê Huy Khiêm LilHieu Lưu Chí Hiếu invisible
• VCL Taiwan/Hong Kong winner: ONE Team Esports ONE Team Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #9 YanLi Rainy Li Guo-Shuo (李國碩) ngk XyuS SecreT KiNo | runner-up: 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 winner: Made in Thailand Made in Thailand Asia-Pacific Rank #1 Kadoom Kantapong Kingthong Killua Tanate Teerasawad cgrs Patiphan Porsi Laz Kittikawin Jirawatkakan seph1roth Chinnakrit Phoojaroen | runner-up: Sharper Esport Sharper Esport Asia-Pacific Rank #43 niffy Patcharapon Junman Kntz Krit Chaiprasit LBY Eisuke Kuraoka qq Phoomphat Phodjanat Siraww Siraphop Honghirun
• VCL Indonesia winner: Bigetron Arctic Bigetron Arctic Asia-Pacific Rank #31 Madelyn Raven William k1ngkappa damaraa Damara Danuardi sayoo Willy Ivandra frostmind Muhammad Rafi Diandra | runner-up: 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
• VCL Malaysia/Singapore winner: BLEED BLEED Asia-Pacific Rank #22 | runner-up: X10 Esports X10 Esports Inactive Vera Rodman Yap Tempz Pierre Heng RedKoh Danial Hakim wayne Wayne Chang Egoist Javier Chua
• VCL Philippines winner: NAOS NAOS Asia-Pacific Rank #4 xavi8k Xavier Juan JA John Timothy Arone Mojer Jerome Literal Emman Emmanuel Morales Nexi Nathaniel Cabero | runner-up: Oasis Gaming Oasis Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #36 Zeus SecondLove slathom999 Shawn Dale Bolondro NDG Noel De Guia marky Mark Anthony Tuling
• VCL Oceania winner: 95x Esports 95x Esports Inactive Dragon Nicholas Aleksandrovsky rDeeW Riley Wilkinson LEW Luis Hibbert Minimise Jackson White WAT Lewis Watson | runner-up: BOBO BOBO Oceania Rank #5 M1kE Michael Smith Exirst loubert Nozz Noah McClafferty Muzz

Other News & Rumours

• Talon Esports Talon Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #15 Crws Thanamethk Mahatthananuyut JitBoyS Jittana Nokngam primmie Papaphat Sriprapha ban Joseph Seungmin Oh Governor Peter No ' Crws revealed he was diagnosed with Bell's palsy and has not yet flown to Seoul, South Korea for the VCT Pacific. He has also said his condition is far better than the past few days and that he should join his team soon. Full recovery can last anywhere from a few weeks to six months, according to the NINDS.
• Due to BOBO BOBO Oceania Rank #5 M1kE Michael Smith Exirst loubert Nozz Noah McClafferty Muzz and HONEY BADGERS HONEY BADGERS Inactive Noobster xue Jesse Tang MirzAA Kiyan M-Basari JELLYD Angelo Diaz Maple Elvin Sun disbanding, VCL OCE operators LPL have eliminated the promotion series and instead directly promoted xyz xyz Inactive lg1c Alucard maine and Guangzhou Long Lionz Guangzhou Long Lionz Inactive IKANA exempt Carlos Pupo indie Yuna Martin Nguyen AMNESTY Matteo Asido Profiled to the league. Koopa Troopas Koopa Troopas Oceania Rank #23 brock Art WATER Noir Chax Chax Stipanovic Dasani and Mammoth ESC Mammoth ESC Inactive Exirst reLOADED Nozz Noah McClafferty loubert Muzz kwon DARK , who were up for relegation, have returned to the league.