VALORANT’s new season is approaching and soft roster locks are taking place. Most of the announcements are rosters of the teams partnered in 2023. Due to the lack of coverage in the region, parts of the teams that will take part in the Pacific League have not been fully leaked, which has kept the expectation high for a long time. DetonatioN Gaming however, recently announced their new roster, and it does not disappoint.
Read More →A VALORANT season full of surprises awaits us in 2023 with the arrival of VALORANT Champions Tour franchises around the world. The emergence of partner teams, the merging of regions where there are already great teams in one league, as well as the growing importance of local leagues, exponentially increase the uncertainty for the upcoming season.
Read More →The VCT 2022 Game Changers Championship is right around the corner. It is going to be the first women-only championship in the history of Valorant esports. Many teams have already secured their place in the tournament, such as G2 Gozen and Cloud9 White, the EMEA and NA heavyweights.
Read More →Global Esports is living up to its name with the announcement of what may be the most diverse roster of VCT 2023. The Indian eSports organization presents a 7-player roster in the Pacific league, composed of players from five different countries.
Read More →As we enter the VALORANT off-season ahead of the 2023 VCT season, the inaugural season of the association’s era defined by three top-tier international leagues, all eyes were watching to see where arguably the best player in the game, Jaccob “yay” Whiteaker, would end up. Since OpTic did not partner, the services of the most prolific operator and leading camera/duelist were suddenly up for sale. Eventually, yay made his decision, choosing to sign with Cloud9, but the man himself has said that his choice really wasn’t that difficult.
Read More →Fnatic is set to bring ex Guild Esports player Leo Jannesson and ex Masters Berlin champion Timofey “Chronicle” Khromov to finish its VALORANT lineup, reported first by Alejandro Gomis.
Read More →<!-- wp:paragraph --> The last couple of pieces of the 2023 VALORANT squads for the debut season of the Americas league, an effort by Riot Games to provide a well rounded ecosystem for their tactical shooter. <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> One of the well known teams through VALORANT over the last two years is looking to refresh their lineup, as Sentinels continues to create a championship winning squad with two reigning world champion signings in Gustavo “Sacy” Rossi and Bryan “pANcada” Luna from Brazilian based team <a href="https://liquipedia.net/valorant/LOUD">LOUD</a>, as first reported by <a href="https://dotesports.com/valorant/news/sentinels-set-to-sign-2-brazilian-world-champions-to-valorant-roster">Dot Esports</a>. <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
Read More →After a hefty process and investigation set by Riot Games, we finally have confirmation of who are the lucky organizations that will be able to participate in the VALORANT Americas partnered league. It was definitely a difficult task to accomplish for any organization, as teams such as OpTic Gaming were not able to sustain Riot’s test. Today we are going to take a look at the teams for the next years of VALORANT competitive play.
Read More →Valorant has announced the 30 teams who will be a part of their Franchising teams in the new system. Earlier, Twitter went berserk trying to figure out which teams would make it. Reports of various teams not making the partnership lead to quite a few shockwaves as well within the industry.
Read More →North American organization Cloud9 has been notified it has secured a partnership with Riot Games for the Americas VALORANT league next year, multiple sources told Dot Esports.
Read More →Sentinels, arguably the most popular organization in VALORANT, has secured partnership with Riot Games. The North American organization will join the Americas league next year alongside nine other teams from across the region.
Read More →With the conclusion of VCT 2022 Last Chance Qualifiers in different regions, all the teams that will compete in VALORANT Champions 2022 have been determined. The participant list includes teams that are used to the international stage, as well as teams that will be making their global debut. The most notable of these is the Chinese representative Edward Gaming.
Read More →The Last Chance Qualifiers across Valorant’s competitive regions come to an end this week. Spots at the most important tournament of the season, VALORANT Champions 2022, are on the line. LATAM has become one of the leading regions in VALORANT, both for its surprise performances in the 2021 season and for its participation in every international tournament since the beginning of the VCT. This isn’t something you get to see in a lot of esports, but VALORANT has been a great opportunity for the Latin American players to show their potential.
Read More →It’s one of the most exciting times of the year as the VALORANT NA LCQ is coming to an end and we almost have our second representative of the region. Round 1 and 2 in the VCT 2022 North America Last Chance Qualifier have concluded with Evil Geniuses and Shopify Rebellion out of the competition, but there is one team that is looking to pull-off a miracle.
Read More →Eight of the best EMEA teams are revving up their engines for one of the most important tournaments as the 2022 season is coming to an end. The VCT 2022 EMEA Last Chance Qualifier is right around the corner and we can’t be any more excited about it.
Read More →Orangutan is the name of the squad that increased the hype at the Skyesport Pro Invitational, mostly because they were the first all-female team in the tournament.
Read More →XSET is an American professional esports and entertainment organization based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has rosters competing in a myriad of titles, including Fortnite, Valorant, Rocket League and more. XSET recently announced the completion of its Series A funding round, which secured $15 million in capital for the firm. They have just celebrated their second year of operation and are already making huge steps forward for the company. Since 2020, XSET has taken huge leaps in the esports industry, signing numerous top-tier content creators and esports teams.
Read More →We’ve finally reached the later stages of the tournament, and the time has finally come for VALORANT’s first international match to be played in front of live fans. VCT 2022 Stage 2 Masters Copenhagen will host an extraordinary series with the audience: Paper Rex vs OpTic Gaming. The two teams will face off in the Upper-Bracket Final and will try to be the first team to qualify for the Grand Final.
Read More →It’s been one week of intense VCT Copenhagen action for every VALORANT fan out there. While the tournament has reached the point of the semi-finals, the hype is far from being over. From major upsets to miraculous comebacks we have seen it all this tournament.
Read More →As seen recently, FPX VALORANT was unable able play their first round playoffs series against Fnatic with their full first active roster, as unfortunately it seems likely that Dmitry “SUYGETSU” Ilyushin arrived just a couple of hours late to the VCT Masters Copenhagen stage, all of this information according to FPX coach Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren.
Read More →During the first day of the VCT Master Copenhagen we got to see a couple of teams dominate their counterparts. The first match of the day was APAC’s Paper Rex against Europe’s Guild Esports, and the outcome wasn’t exactly an expected one. The APAC representatives completely rolled over EMEA’s 3rd seed in just 2 games. Now the team captained by Benedict “Benkai” Tan will have to face Fnatic, one of the tournament favorites. After being forced to miss out on the first Masters event this year, Nikita “Derke” Sirmitev has returned to terrorize the international VALORANT scene. He led the way for Fnatic today in a rout of regional foes FunPlus Phoenix in their opening playoff match at VCT Masters Copenhagen.
Read More →After losing to Maru Gaming in a disappointing fashion and failing to reach the VALORANT Champions Tour 2022: Korea Stage 2 Challengers grand finals, DAMWON Gaming have made significant roster changes. They signed former Jadeite duelist Park “allow” Sang-wook and parted ways with Lee “Hate” Ye-hun. Kim “Lakia” Jong-min will also join the Korean roster on loan from his current team IGZIST.
Read More →All of the winners and losers matches are now defined at VCT Masters Copenhagen after a three-map encounter where Europe’s FunPlus Phoenix took down Thailand’s XERXIA.
Read More →This isn’t the first time that the North American representatives started an event this way. OpTic once again lost their opening match at an international VALORANT tournament, losing to EMEA’s Guild Esports in a 2-0 fashion today in their first group stage match at VCT Masters Copenhagen. North American fans aren’t feeling great about this as this OpTic roster now has a 0-7 map record against EMEA teams.
Read More →LOUD’s domestic run started with a dominant victory over FURIA. The first match of the group stage ended with a score of 2-0 for the side of LOUD, 13-3 on Ascent, and 13-4 on Breeze. A combination of Matias “Saadhak” Delipetro’s Kay/O and Erick “aspas” Santos’s Jett helped the team secure their first VCT 2022 Stage 2 win. LOUD then faced Los Grandes and the series followed a similar narrative with the only difference being the replacement of Breeze by Bind in the map veto.
Read More →The only South Korean representatives at Copenhagen, DRX VS, are ready to represent their region on the international stage and keep their win streak going. Let’s take a look at how their run went in the VALORANT Champions Tour 2022: Korea Stage 2 Challengers.
Read More →After yesterday, XSET guaranteed themselves a top three finish in the NA VALORANT Champions Tour second stage, taking just one step closer to buying their ticket to the next Masters event in Copenhagen, all of this thanks to a commanding 2-0 win against 100 Thieves on Saturday.
Read More →Yesterday playoffs continued as usual in North America for the Valorant Champions Tour Stage Two, as rising talent Evil Geniuses took on current Masters One champions OpTic Gaming. The game was one of the most anticipated rematches after Evil Geniuses beat OpTic earlier on the same stage.
Read More →After the first day of the North American VCT Playoffs for Stage Two was over, we saw Evil Geniuses surprising once more by achieving their first VALORANT playoff match win 2-0 over Ghost Gaming.
Read More →Annie, who played on Cloud9 White’s team for almost a year and a half, is recently stepping down from competitive VALORANT and will instead focus totally on content creation.
Read More →As a newly formed player, Fnatic’s entry fragger and duelist Emir “Alfajer” Ali Beder has been through alot. Years later, when it came time to pick a name to represent him and his skills, he settled on the nickname of his father’s favorite racehorse “Alfajer”.
Read More →The Luminosity Gaming VALORANT roster has secured their playoffs spot in NA VCT Stage Two, less than a week after their organization unfortunately announced they were departing the new staple game. Their win over Cloud9 also ended C9’s chance of reaching the playoffs.
Read More →FaZe managed to start out strong with an unexpected win on Cloud9’s map pick (Fracture). After taking an eight to four lead at half time, FaZe only allowed Cloud9 to pick one more round in the second half before closing out the map thirteen to five. The dynamic duo of Dicey and babybay showed up for the team on Fracture by dropping an efficient kill to death ratio of 1.88 on Chamber and 1.9 on Neon, respectively. After losing their map pick, Cloud9 needed to adapt and would have to take down FaZe Clan on Haven to keep them from sweeping the series.
Read More →100 Thieves’ VALORANT team has been incredible in the past however within the last couple of months/tournaments they have definitely disappointed with their gameplay. After a pretty big roster change they entered a resurgence era, which continued today with an incredible victory over XSET in the NA Valorant Champions Tour Stage Two main event group stage. Group A is now unpredictable as technically any of the six teams is able to make the playoff stage, or even claim the first seed.
Read More →EMEA Challengers after battling their way out of the VCT EMEA Promotion tournament. Upon entering this next stage of the tournament, BIG were immediately put to the test against Team Liquid in their opening series.
Read More →In February of this year, Misfits Gaming entered the Valorant scene by signing the roster of all-female team 24Haven. The lineup was Slandy, Vernina Gozum, Chloe Wong, LunaFox, and Mady. They debuted under the Misfits name in the VCT 2022: Game Changers North America Series 1 Open Qualifier where they didn’t find much success at all. They got knocked down to the lower bracket by Dignitas Female in a clean sweep, meaning they would have to face AIMPUNCH in the lower bracket. They managed to take the enemy team in a convincing fashion, advancing into the next round. VersionX was their next opponent but the Misfits weren’t able to keep up against VersionX’s aggressive playstyle.
Read More →Valorant has been growing incredibly fast in its second year of esports progresses steadily. When Riot announced the shooter back in 2020 it was incredibly obvious that Riot would give the game a large and sustainable competitive scene and it came to reality in 2021. It’s crazy to think that Valorant is not even 2 years old and it already has gathered such a massive fanbase.
Read More →FaZe Clan introduced their new Valorant roster on April 27. The lineup consists of Jake “Poach” Brumleve, Quan “Dicey” Tran, Andrej “Babybaby” Francisty, Phat “Supamen” Le, and Kevin “Poised” Ngo. The team is still led by Joshua “JDM” Mazano in the head coach position as they head into the 2022 VCT Stage 2 North American Challengers which begins on April 29.
Read More →The highly regarded Counter-Strike player KennyS is trying his luck with Danish Valorant team OG. This would be the biggest Valorant roster move of 2022 so far and while this can be huge for KennyS, a lot of fans might be disappointed to know there is a chance we won’t see him in CSGO ever again. The French player is still signed to the G2 Esports organization but he hasn’t played a single game since December when he subbed in for next in the Intel Extreme Masters XVI – Winter tournament.
Read More →North American Valorant fans are rejoicing after OpTic Gaming rolled over the competition in the Stage 1 Masters. They weren’t necessarily considered the strongest contender to win it all, the main reason being that they came into the tournament as North America’s 2nd seed. Back in late March, they got taken down by The Guard in a very close series in the NA Challengers 1 grand final. OpTic had one of the best runs we’ve seen so far this year in the Valorant Champions Tour circuit and we’ll go over how they achieved this.
Read More →While VCT Stage 1 Masters is ongoing, some of the teams that either got knocked out of the tournament or didn’t participate in the event are already going through roster changes. Teams have a span of around 3 weeks to make all the roster changes they deem necessary to have the best results in the next VCT stage.
Read More →The Brazilian team known as LOUD knocked down Europe’s G2 Esports to the lower bracket after sweeping them 2-0, now they will be facing the North American squad Optic Gaming, who took down Korea’s DRX after 3 very close games. These two teams will face each other on April 22, and whoever wins will advance into the grand finals of the Stage 1 Masters at Reykjavík.
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