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 YFP 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 Inactive 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 #22 WerlasS Metin Ünal Baransel Baransel Nasırcan Padisah Onur Dönmez PhuRME Yagiz Efe Baygut 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 #13 Dano Tura replaced Cata and Zenko with Dano and ClaW .
• / KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #2 keznit Angelo Mori Mazino Roberto Rivas adverso Benjamín Poblete Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro signed Six Karma Six Karma Latin America North Rank #6 Mephisto KILLY rowancy Constantino Grijalva Peloncito Oscar Israel Palacios Martinez otaQ Ryu 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 #14 Felix Park Hyeon-ho (박현호) Rico Han Jun-seo (한준서) CabezA No Gun-hyung (노건형) Bangnan Jung Min-u (정민우) RedLight Kim Eun-soo (김은수) kAyle Jung Soo-yong (정수용) 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 #2 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-oh (김태오) Sylvan Go Young-sup (고영섭) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) signed a third coach in Lee "CheongGak" Il-ho (이일호).
• / CREST GAMING Zst CREST GAMING Zst Japan Rank #11 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 #3 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 #7 added Cynthia as assistant coach and Pyonaka as analyst.
• / Alter Ego Alter Ego Asia-Pacific Rank #4 Nakya Alehandro Fabian Simanjorang adrnking Adrian Setiawan sayoo Willy Ivandra Cud Thomas Alfiantino gotten Davin have parted ways to Kang "Try" Tae-wook (강태욱) after nearly a year together.
• Next Gen Next Gen Oceania Rank #2 Zauqk FETA Cameron Gill BiggieCheese Aidan Gill , 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 Inactive 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 #36 Bgg Vladislav Boev moner Kirill Matsanov tricky Prish Valvani Ri0 Atharv Ahire Deadly10 Saksham Aurangabadkar rounded out their 2023 roster.
• / GodspeedxD 's ten month-long stint with BLEED BLEED Inactive has come to an end. He is now Gods Reign Gods Reign Inactive Ember Garvit Nehra 's Head Coach.
• BLEED BLEED Inactive 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 #37 UdoTan Go Kyung-won (고경원) Kr1stal Savva Fedorov kellyS Kelly Sedillo Papi Federico Evangelista Deryeon Derrick Yee 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 #3 florescent Ava Eugene hype Tautvydas Paldavicius MOLSI Michał Łącki AvovA Auni Chahade batujnax Mehmet Batu Özaslan | runner-up: FOKUS FOKUS Europe Rank #30 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 Europe Rank #55 jas Jasiek Nieliwodzki Kiles Vlad Shvets zeek Aleksander Zygmunt starki Krzysztof Lewandrowski doma Domagoj Fancev
• 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 #19 CyvOph Clement Millard HyP Damien Souville Enzo Enzo Mestari mikee Michael Lim keloqz Cista Wassim
• VCL Italy winner: GMT Esports GMT Esports Inactive N A I S Alessandro Montanari AFoxx Fábio Veigas | runner-up: DSYRE DSYRE Inactive caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci wackie Rikardo Birjukov waddle Wadir Taraki
• VCL DACH winner: CGN Esports CGN Esports Europe Rank #7 elllement Dragan Milanović Ambi Štěpán Beránek Wolfen Berkant Joshkun 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 #110 pAura Melih Karaduran Lava reazy Kaan Ürpek Turko Mehmet Özen DeepMans Yiğithan Kesici | runner-up: Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #21 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt OXMANN Aytekin Çakır 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 Latin America South Rank #3 Tacolilla Vicente Compagnon suther Tomás Zurita delz1k Joaquin Espinoza NagZ Juan Pablo Lopez Mikey Tap Luciano Pensa , All Knights All Knights Inactive 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 Kushy 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 NT2k 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 #8 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 16Ch0ps Nguyễn Đức Trí Tín Crus Lư Tiến Huy Hyuse Nia twilight | runner-up: Team Big BAAM Team Big BAAM Asia-Pacific Rank #27 invisible LilHieu Lưu Chí Hiếu KimHung2k5
• VCL Taiwan/Hong Kong winner: ONE Team Esports ONE Team Esports Inactive YanLi Ra1ny 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 Inactive Kadoom Kantapong Kingthong Killua Tanate Teerasawad cgrs Patiphan Porsi Laz Kittikawin Jirawatkakan seph1roth Chinnakrit Phoojaroen | runner-up: Sharper Esport Sharper Esport Asia-Pacific Rank #44 niffy Patcharapon Junman LBY Eisuke Kuraoka qq Phoomphat Phodjanat Siraww Siraphop Honghirun
• VCL Indonesia winner: Bigetron Arctic Bigetron Arctic Asia-Pacific Rank #20 k1ngkappa | 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 Inactive | 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 #5 sultan Sultan Akbay PatMen Patrick Mendoza PTC Kititkawin Rattanasukol xavi8k Xavier Juan Mojer Jerome Literal | runner-up: Oasis Gaming Oasis Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #34 Zeus slathom999 Shawn Dale Bolondro astr0 Franz del Rosario tesseract Jon Michael Piga 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 Exirst loubert Nozz Noah McClafferty Muzz

Other News & Rumours

• TALON TALON Asia-Pacific Rank #10 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 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 #22 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.