Riot have announced that the the LATAM/BR LCQ will not feature a live audience or KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #3 keznit Angelo Mori Klaus Nicolas Ferrari Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro heat Olavo Marcelo due to COVID-19 exposure in one of the teams. KRÜ will compete remotely, while Ninjas In Pyjamas Ninjas In Pyjamas Inactive will play on-stage in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but without a live crowd.

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⚠️Sobre el Last Chance Qualifier del 30 de junio:
8:00 AM · Jun 30, 2022 ·
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For KRÜ, this is their first time competing in the LCQ for a spot on the international stage, as they have been Latin America's representatives since Stage 2 Masters: Reykjavik in 2021. In the recent Stage 2 LATAM playoffs, they were defeated by interregional rival Leviatán Leviatán Latin America South Rank #1 tex Ian Botsch kiNgg Francisco Aravena Mazino Roberto Rivas aspas Erick Santos C0M Corbin Lee , who bounced back from an early upper bracket loss to FUSION FUSION Inactive guuih Guilherme Mariano vaiZ Matías Barría Darker Sebastián Castro Cicuamia Virtyy Leandro Moreno Tacolilla Vicente Compagnon to dethrone KRÜ and punch their ticket to Masters: Copenhagen.

NIP, on the other hand, have had to run the LCQ gauntlet once before, in Stage 1. In the Stage 1 LATAM/BR LCQ, they faced off against Leviatán and won, bringing the Ninjas to the world stage for the first time in the program's history in Valorant. They achieved this feat after falling to a red-hot LOUD LOUD Brazil Rank #1 Quick Gabriel Lima saadhak Matias Delipetro Less Felipe de Loyola tuyz Arthur Andrade cauanzin Cauan Pereira twice in the Stage 1 Challengers 1 playoffs. NIP now look to return to international competition with another win today.

The match to determine who will claim the 12th and final spot at Masters: Copenhagen in a little under two weeks kicks off later today, at 3:00 PM EDT.