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 #8 lukxo Lucca Travaioli Darker Sebastián Castro Cicuamia Virtyy Leandro Moreno erde Roberto Lobos cauanzin Cauan Pereira will play EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) Jieni7 Zhang Juntai (张君泰) at noon local time, and Kiwoom DRX Kiwoom DRX Korea Rank #3 Hermes Ahn Byeong-wook (안병욱) yong Kim Ho-yong (김호용) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) free1ng No Ha-jun (노하준) HYUNMIN Song Hyun-min (송현민) BeYN Kang Ha-bin (강하빈) will play FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #2 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski CyvOph Clement Millard Veqaj Sylvain Pattyn 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.