Masters: Berlin competition has begun, but the cycle of news around the world has continued. Here are some headlines you might have missed, all bundled together in one place.
- Read more: September 3 recap
Roster Changes
- Complexity have announced four members of their female roster, Complexity GX3 Complexity GX3 Inactive clawdia Claudia Che Karra Aara Lee rayse L4CE Lacey Dilworth Jazzyk1ns Jasmine Manankil . As the team name implies, the core of L4CE , Maddie , Aniemal , and alimonstr previously played under the name GX3 GX3 Inactive Jan alimonstr Alice Lew L4CE Lacey Dilworth Maddie Madison Mann Aniemal Annie Lee . Notably absent is "Jan" , who recently competed with 100emoji 100emoji Inactive Shockah Bobackah Starlight lauren lunah ksweet in the VCT Game Changers Academy August group stage. She did not play with 100emoji in the playoffs.
- Immortals Immortals Inactive coach Jordan "Gunba" Graham has announced that he will be leaving the team and taking a break from esports. He has been with the Immortals organization since 2018, when he joined their Overwatch League team, the Los Angeles Valiant, for the inaugural season. He also coached the Valiant during the 2020 Overwatch League season before being announced as the Immortals Valorant head coach in late May 2020.
- Marco "Awkua" Li and Conner "GLYPH" Garcia have left Teal Seam Teal Seam Inactive renz Austin Dickman furbsa Hunter Mcmillan Jonaaa6 Jonard Penaflor d1msumboi Erik Almhjell Cade3k Cade Warren . Both of them joined the team in late June, and with the team have captured a third place finish in the Community Gaming Premier Series Finale playoffs, a second place finish in the GLG Radiant Arena Series III playoffs, and a first place finish in the NSG Summer Championship July qualifier.
- Debanjan "DEATHMAKER" Das has joined Velocity Gaming Velocity Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #19 Hotsauz Yousef Imad El-Yousef tesseract Jon Michael Piga Yukxx Yukee Lampa choosie Matthew Lorenzo Te Dignified . Earlier this week, he departed from GodLike Esports GodLike Esports Inactive Rexy Tejas Kotian karam1l Norbu Tsering astr0 Franz del Rosario kibojn Jayesh Negi in an announcement that was followed by the rest of the roster being dropped, sans "haiVaan" . haiVaan will be staying with Godlike as a content creator.
- World Game Star World Game Star Korea Rank #25 Wenty Yang Geon-mo (양건모) YUNSEUNG have announced the departure of Yoon "Xpp" Jong-sung. This is the second departure from the team in two weeks, as Lim "Has1ra14" Hyuk (임혁)'s entrance into free agency was covered in last week's edition of News Almost Missed.
- Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #8 trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Derke Nikita Sirmitev Kicks Kimmie Laasner Sayf Saif Jibraeel Less Felipe de Loyola Basso have added Ahmed "ZE1SH" El Sheikh to their coaching staff as an assistant coach, joining Arthur "pm" Guillermet as the team's second coach.
- Fire Flux Esports Fire Flux Esports Europe Rank #15 have parted ways with coach Salah "salah" Barakat , ending a stint with the team that began in mid June.
- / After being benched from the team last week, Wave Esports Wave Esports Inactive SimonD4rk Alexandr Skovbel Click Haydem Ali Saiz Daniel Ruiz have officially parted ways with Mathias "SEIDER" Seider, Sigurd "Zik" Jensen, and Robertas "Carcass" Mikuckis.
- Lee "LEXY" Jun Hao Xavier has joined UwU UwU Inactive jarpiX Pooi Shen Jie Justin FirstLove Darren Mok Yong Xiang Zeno Yu Zhijun (余智竣) bbalto Haiqal Nagib from Team SMG Team SMG Inactive . He was a part of Team SMG's first roster when they entered into Valorant, back in July of 2020.
- Enigma Gaming Enigma Gaming Inactive Divine Yeoh Chun Ting FREY Ingram Tan STYRON Tidus Goh Xan artn Ayrton Soh have announced two additions to their team: Sabyasachi "Antidote" Bose and Tejas "Rexy" Kotian. These additions bring Enigma Gaming's roster count to seven.
Results
- Tales of Eastern Tales of Eastern Inactive Yuk1no BEXEY claimed first place in the FGC Valorant Invitational, defeating 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) 3-1 in the grand finals, striking back after a 2-0 loss against EDward Gaming in the Upper Final.
- / Oxxgen Esports Oxxgen Esports Inactive Gia Süreyya Bayel rainssa Yağmur Şahin Ritha Zeynep Sualp ness Neslişah Demir finished in first place in the TGH x Birds of Prey: Episode 2 tournament, only dropping one map against Project X Project X Inactive klaudia Klaudia Beczkiewicz Glance Anastasia Anisimova Smurfette Yağmur Gündüz Kim Sophia Benfakir roxi Vivian Schilling (Europe's top rated Game Changers team) in the semifinals.
- Team Valor Team Valor Inactive Stroky BuLL3T Aditya Kajari Busterrr Sharan Dave Pashasahil Mast3r Varun Menon defeated Team XO Team XO Inactive in a back-and-forth battle in the grand finals of the Yuvin Valorant Invitational Cup to take home first place.
Matches to Watch
- Four teams are left standing in the Oceania Tour: Championship. The teams are ORDER ORDER Inactive WRONSKI Michael Wronski rDeeW Riley Wilkinson Texta Matthew O’Rourke disk0 Cameron Mac Maple Elvin Sun , Team Bliss Team Bliss Inactive tsR Dragon Nicholas Aleksandrovsky eezy Steven Tran daiK Bernard Chau junglew0w Ty O'Donnell Fweshest Christian Bartolillo , Wildcard Gaming Wildcard Gaming Inactive InfrequeNt Jesse Barker rDeeW Riley Wilkinson signed Dale Tang Nozz Noah McClafferty SWERL Ali Kobraee , and PEACE PEACE Inactive koro David Shiers Nation Joshua Penman tensai Benny Phan clutchyy Corbyn De Klerk WRONSKI Michael Wronski Ciko Ben Easterbrook . So far, ORDER have had a flawless run through the upper bracket and have not dropped a map, even against PEACE, who are currently the second highest ranked team in Oceania. The first and second place teams in this event will move on to the North American Last Chance Qualifier for a single spot at Valorant Champions.
Other News
- Joshua "m1cks" Micks, a CS:GO analyst who previously worked with Cloud9's CS:GO roster, has announced that he is looking for opportunities with the North American Valorant.
- The esport organizations Trident Esports and Villains Esports have merged together. The current roster (previously known as Villains Esports) will stay together, but compete under the Trident Esports name.