Riot has announced that Champions 2023's matches for Aug. 20 will be played without a live audience due to severe weather in the Los Angeles area.

Hurricane Hilary's landfall is expected to cause "dangerous to catastrophic flooding" across southern California over the next couple of days, according to the U.S. National Weather Service.

Currently, Riot anticipates the two lower quarterfinal matches planned for Sunday will be broadcast as scheduled. If nothing changes, LOUD LOUD Brazil Rank #1 Quick Gabriel Lima saadhak Matias Delipetro Less Felipe de Loyola tuyz Arthur Andrade cauanzin Cauan Pereira will play EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) Muggle Tang Shijun (唐时俊) CHICHOO Wan Shunji (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) Haodong Guo Haodong (郭浩东) at noon local time, and DRX DRX Korea Rank #1 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) Foxy9 Jung Jae-sung (정재성) BeYN Kang Ha-bin (강하빈) will play FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #1 Leo Leo Jannesson Derke Nikita Sirmitev Boaster Jake Howlett Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder at around 3 p.m. local time.

The two matches will eliminate one team each, cutting the field down to just four teams before a scheduled three-day break in the action. Those final four teams will then play out the final matches of the tournament between Thursday, Aug. 24 and Saturday, Aug. 26 to determine which team will earn the Champions 2023 trophy.

Riot says ticket holders for the pair of matches scheduled for Aug. 20 will receive a refund via email in the morning.