Facing visa issues, FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #9 basic Luis Henrique Ferlin Tessaro Shyy Fabian Usnayo artzin Arthur Araujo eeiu Daniel Vucenovic koalanoob Gianfranco Potestio 's Luis "basic" Henrique Ferlin Tessaro, as well as coaches Ian "shaW" Jardim and Lucas "Kamino" Kamino will be unavailable for their Stage 2 opening match against Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Rank #15 FireBallOps Cameron Tomaselli Zellsis Jordan Montemurro Jackk Jack Foote OXY Francis Hoang v1c Victor Truong . They will instead field former KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #4 saadhak Matias Delipetro mwzera Leonardo Serrati Less Felipe de Loyola Basso Dantedeu5 Jesús Federico Larrosa heat Olavo Marcelo player Benjamín "adverso" Poblete.

The three members are working to get their visas approved to join the rest of the team before their next match against Sentinels, but their appearance is not guaranteed yet.

This is the second time this season that FURIA has been plagued with visa problems, the first being at Kickoff, where the entire roster missed their opening match. However, the resulting substitute roster ended up giving FURIA what is currently their only win of the season. Their main roster went completely winless, placing last in their group in Stage 1, leading to the complete reconstruction going into Stage 2. FURIA has already debuted their new roster at the Tixinha & Sacy Invitational, where they topped the round-robin stage, but went out 2-0 to LEVIATÁN LEVIATÁN North America Rank #2 spike Rodrigo Lombardi blowz Guilherme Oliviera Neon Bruno Rodríguez Sato Eduardo Kenzo Nagahama Sato kiNgg Francisco Aravena in the bracket stage.

After his third place Ascension finish in 2024 with All Knights All Knights Inactive NicoMachine Nicolas Valla Cebando Ezequiel Ramos Dantedeu5 Jesús Federico Larrosa tinchoff Martin Garcia , adverso made his partnership league debut this year with KRÜ. Repeating their performance form the year prior, KRÜ secured first seed out of their group in Stage 1, only to bomb out of the playoffs to miss qualification to Masters Toronto. After the disappointing result, adverso was released in favor of his former All Knights teammate Dantedeu5 .

Against Cloud9, FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #9 basic Luis Henrique Ferlin Tessaro Shyy Fabian Usnayo artzin Arthur Araujo eeiu Daniel Vucenovic koalanoob Gianfranco Potestio will field: