Team Liquid Team Liquid Europe Rank #19 purp0 Semyon Borchev nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin kamo Kamil Frąckowiak trexx Nikita Cherednichenko Kicks Kimmie Laasner has announced that in-game leader Ayaz "nAts" Akhmetshin will not be present for its EMEA Stage 2 opening match against Eternal Fire Eternal Fire Europe Rank #16 Izzy Baran Yılmaz audaz Soner Ekiz Favian Enes Yiğiter echo Ömür Serkan Şenol nekky Anıl Dağdeviren due to personal reasons. Head Coach Ivo "LohaN" Albino will fill his shoes for the series despite not having competed as a player since 2021.

lohan engh image LohaN (left) last played an official in 2022. (Photo: Wojciech Wandzel/Riot Games)

nAts is expected to be back and competing ahead of his next game against Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #7 koshmaras Martynas Namikas Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius .

Liquid's match against Eternal Fire was supposed to be the newly-rebuilt roster's debut following the benchings of Wayne "wayne" Chang and Dominykas "MiniBoo" Lukaševičius as Nikita "trexx" Cherednichenko and Kimmie "Kicks" Laasner were welcomed back to the squad. Now, the full roster's debut will be moved to the match against Team Heretics.

Team Liquid currently sits at six Championship Points and shares a group with Eternal Fire, Team Heretics, Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #12 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan LewN Burak Alkan Avez Hazem Khaled SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin N4RRATE Marshall Massey , GIANTX GIANTX Europe Rank #36 musz3kk Cihan Göçer westside Miłosz Duda Flickless Karel Maeckelbergh ara Hanceriuc Eduard-George Jesse Adam Čtvrtníček stand-in neT Michael Bernet , and FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #6 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Cloud Kirill Nehozhin Alfajer Emir Ali Beder . The top two performers of Group Omega will bypass the Play-Ins stage and automatically qualify for Playoffs.

LohaN and the rest of Team Liquid will take to the stage against Eternal Fire on July 15.