FURIA has pulled off something no esports organisation had managed before: moving an entire competitive roster from one game to another without taking it apart first. FURIA fe, the Brazilian org’s women’s Counter-Strike lineup, confirmed on Aug. 17 that it is switching to VALORANT and will compete in Riot Games’ VCT Game Changers circuit under the name FURIA VAL Inclusive.
Five players, one new game
The squad making the jump is Karina “kaahSENSEI” Takahashi, Izabella “izaa” Galle, Gabriela “gabs” Freindorfer, Bruna “bizinha” Marvila and Lucia “lulitenz” Dubra. The continuity is the actual story here. When a roster loses its circuit, players usually scatter across half a dozen organisations and rebuild from nothing. FURIA kept the whole unit, the coaching structure and the brand intact and simply pointed it at a different title.
Why the move was always coming
The lineup spent six years under the FURIA banner and became one of the most decorated teams in the South American women’s scene, collecting regional titles, reaching three ESL Impact League Finals and finally winning Season 7 at DreamHack Dallas in May 2025. Then the ground moved. ESL put the Impact circuit on indefinite hold at the end of 2025, citing an economic model that no longer worked, and several organisations quietly released their women’s rosters in the months that followed. For a team at the top of that pyramid, there was suddenly very little left to win.
Game Changers, by contrast, is still funded, still scheduled and still feeding players into the wider VCT ecosystem. Moving from a shrinking part of the competitive Counter-Strike landscape into a growing one is less a gamble than a survival decision.
FalleN weighs in
FURIA’s own CS legend Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo called the departure a sad reflection of how little effort went into keeping the women’s Counter-Strike ecosystem alive, while conceding the players are heading to a “more vibrant scene”. He also admitted he is curious to see how they cope against opponents who have been playing the game for years.
What it means for Game Changers markets
This is the rare roster move that carries almost no predictive information. Six years of CS2 results tell you these five can hold a structure under pressure, communicate cleanly and win a final. They tell you nothing about agent pools, ultimate economy, retake protocols or how the team handles a Viper wall on Icebox. Aim mechanics and utility discipline transfer partially; almost everything else has to be rebuilt.
That matters because pricing models lean heavily on continuity. A lineup that keeps four or five players usually gets a small edge in the numbers, on the assumption that shared history predicts shared results. Here the shared history sits in a different game. Anyone shopping odds across esports bookmakers should expect wide, thin and volatile lines on FURIA VAL Inclusive for at least a full split — and expect those lines to move sharply once actual map data exists rather than before it.
The bottom line
The sensible read is patience. Watch the first three or four official matches, look at round win rates on defence rather than headline scorelines, and treat the first month of pricing as an open question rather than a market. If the transition works, FURIA will have written the template for how orgs rescue a roster when its circuit disappears. If it does not, the cost of a dead ESL Impact will be a lot easier to measure.
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