The penultimate day of the VCT Americas Stage 2 Play-Ins has concluded, narrowing the field down to four teams fighting for two lower-bracket playoff spots.

Both matches were sweeps, with BABYBAY leading G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #4 jawgemo Alexander Mor BABYBAY Andrej Francisty trent Trent Cairns valyn Jacob Batio leaf Nathan Orf in a Chamber-only role to sweep BESTIA BESTIA Latin America South Rank #1 Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro chubizin david David Olivares Tacolilla Vicente Compagnon Loss Lorenzo Suffredini de Biazzi loan . Later in the day, Sentinels Sentinels North America Rank #10 Reduxx Yassin Aboulalazm Jerrwin Gurjiwan Gill Marved Jimmy Nguyen stand-in johnqt Mohamed Amine Ouarid cortezia Gabriel Cortez JonahP Jonah Pulice fell to KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #2 saadhak Matias Delipetro mwzera Leonardo Serrati Less Felipe de Loyola Basso Dantedeu5 Jesús Federico Larrosa heat Olavo Marcelo , making 2026 the first full season since 2023 that Sentinels will be absent from the international stage (excluding LOCK//IN São Paulo.

This article will be updated with a full recap shortly.