VALORANT post-partnership rostermania tracker: EMEA

Rostermania has officially began.

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Riot Games has announced the 30 partnered teams for the 2023 VALORANT Champions Tour, which has officially started the offseason for teams in the EMEA region.

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The 10 teams that were accepted into the league hail from many different nations and they will all be looking to beef up their rosters during this downtime. Meanwhile, some of the top organizations from EMEA have been left in the dust, like G2 Esports, FunPlus Phoenix, and Excel. These organizations will either leave the competitive VALORANT scene completely or look to make a run through the Challengers league next year.

Here are all the notable roster moves that have happened so far for EMEA during the 2022-2023 VALORANT offseason and the current rosters of the 10 EMEA franchised teams.

All EMEA VALORANT post-partnership roster changes

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Team Liquid

  • Oct. 4: Ayaz “nAts” Akhmetshin, Igor “Redgar” Vlasov, and Saif “Sayf” Jibraeel will reportedly join Liquid.
    • Liquid will reportedly retain Elias “Jamppi” Olkkonen and Dom “soulcas” Sulcas.
  • Nov. 10: Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom and Nabil “Nivera” Benrlitom leave Liquid.
  • Nov. 11: Ayaz “nAts” Akhmetshin, Igor “Redgar” Vlasov, and Saif “Sayf” Jibraeel join the roster.
  • Liquid 2023 roster: nAts, Redgar, Sayf, Jamppi, soulcas.

Team Vitality

  • Oct. 21: Michał “MOLSI” Łącki, Tomas “Destrian” Linikas, and Karel “Twisten” Ašenbrener are reportedly joining Vitality.
    • Joona “H1ber” Parviainen, Kamil “baddyG” Graniczka, and Nathan “nataNk” Bocqueho leave Vitality.
    • Jokūbas “ceNder” Labutis and Santeri “BONECOLD” Sassi will reportedly stay with Vitality.
  • Vitality 2023 roster (reported): MOLSI, Destrian, Twisten, ceNder, BONECOLD.

Karmine Corp

  • Sept. 30: Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom and Nabil “Nivera” Benrlitom are reportedly heading to Karmine Corp.
  • Nov. 11: Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom, Nabil “Nivera” Benrlitom, and Alexandre “xms” Forté join Karmine Corp.
  • Karmine Corp 2023 roster: ScreaM, Nivera, xms, Shin, Newzera

Team Heretics

  • Oct. 5: Mario “PoPiFresH” González enters free agency.
  • Oct. 10: Sebastian “snikk” Kamiński and Grzegorz “GRUBINHO” Ryczko enter free agency.
  • Oct. 18: Oscar “mixwell” Cañellas Colocho signs with Heretics.
  • Oct. 20: Christian “lowel” Antoran enters free agency.
  • Nov. 9: Melih “pAura” Karaduran leaves Heretics.
  • Nov. 10: Auni “AvovA” Chahade, Aleksander “zeek” Zygmunt, and Ričardas “Boo” Lukaševičius sign with Heretics.
  • Heretics 2023 roster: Mixwell, keloqz, AvovA, zeek, Boo.

Giants

  • Nov. 10: Žygimantas “nukkye” Chmieliauskas, Aaro “hoody” Peltokangas, Kirill “Cloud” Nehozhin, and Emir “rhyme” Muminovic officially join Giants.
  • Giants 2023 roster: Fit1nho, nukkye, hoody, Cloud, rhyme.

NAVI

  • Sept. 1: Denis “dinkzj” Tkachev, Mikhail “Duno” Fokin, and Nikolai “zeddy” Lapko leave NAVI.
  • Sept. 23: Artur “7ssk7” Kyurshin and Kirill “Cloud” Nehozhin leave NAVI.
  • Nov. 8: Dmitry “SUYGETSU” Ilyushin, Pontus “Zyppan” Eek, Kyrylo “ANGE1” Karasov, Andrey “Shao” Kiprsky, and Mehmet “cNed” Yağız İpek join NAVI.
  • NAVI 2023 roster: ANGE1, SUYGETSU, Zyppan, Shao, cNed.

FUT Esports

  • Oct. 25: Ata “ATA KAPTAN” Tan joins FUT Esports.
  • FUT 2023 roster: mojj, qRaxs, qw1, MrFaliN, MuJ, ATA KAPTAN

BBL Esports

  • Aug 15: Caner “CyderX” Demir leaves BBL.
  • Aug 17: Melih “pAura” Karaduran leaves BBL.
  • Oct. 19: Eren “Brave” Kasırga signs with BBL.
  • Oct. 23: Efe “Elite” Teber signs with BBL.
  • BBL 2023 roster: AsLanM4shadoW, QutionerX, Turko, Brave, Elite.

KOI

  • Oct. 8: Jose Luis “koldamenta” Aranguren, Patryk “starxo” Kopczynski, and Bogdan “Sheydos” Naumov will reportedly sign with KOI.
  • Oct. 9: KOI moves entire roster to free agency.
  • Oct. 14: Nikita “trexx” Cherednichenko and Berkant “Wolfen” Joshkun will reportedly sign with KOI.
  • KOI 2023 roster: koldamenta, starxo, Sheydos, trexx, Wolfen.

Notable free agents

  • Mistic (Fnatic) 
  • Enzo (Fnatic)
  • FoxieGG (Excel) 
  • Chiwawa (Excel) 
  • Moe40 (Excel) 
  • paTiTek (Excel)
  • ALIVE (Excel)
  • Meddo (G2 Esports) 
  • AvovA (G2 Esports)
  • Arch (WYLDE) 
  • luckeRRR (BIG) 
  • Obnoks (BIG)
  • musashi (BIG)
  • AslaN (BIG)
  • Twisten (BIG)
  • MONSTEERR (Acend)
  • L1NK (Acend, previously Team Liquid)
  • Doma (MAD Lions)
  • Boo (OG LND UTD)
  • Destrian (OG LND UTD)
  • Jady (M3C)
  • purp0 (M3C)
  • d3ffo (M3C, previously Gambit)
  • H1ber (Team Vitality)
  • polvi (MAD Lions, previously TENSTAR)
  • KRAY (MAD Lions, previously TENSTAR)
  • 7ssk7 (Na’Vi)
  • PHYRN (KOI)
  • Famsii (KOI)
  • neptuNo (KOI)
  • Magnum (KOI)
  • Kiles (Giants)
  • Jesse (Giants)
  • PoPiFresH (Heretics)
  • GRUBINHO (Heretics)
  • snikk (Heretics)
  • pAura (Heretics)
  • l0wel (Heretics)
  • H1ber
  • baddyG
  • nataNk
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