Ninjas In Pyjamas Ninjas In Pyjamas Inactive have benched Benjamin "Seraph" Rabinovich following their group stage exit in Masters 1: Reykjavik.

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[ES-PT-EN] Benched from NIP.

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bnj, formerly of KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #4 keznit Angelo Mori Klaus Nicolas Ferrari Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro heat Olavo Marcelo , joined the Brazilian roster as a Controller after the organization ceased their operations in Europe. Joining alongside him were Alexandre "xand" Zizi and Walney "Jonn" Reis, former FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #5 kon4n Vitor Hugo mwzera Leonardo Serrati havoc Ilan Eloy Khalil Khalil Schmidt nzr Agustin Ibarra and Gamelanders Blue Gamelanders Blue Inactive stars respectively, as well as Gabriel "bezn1" Luiz da Costa and Cauan "cauanzin" Pereira from Tropinha do TIKTOK Tropinha do TIKTOK Inactive bezn1 Gabriel Luiz da Costa cauanzin Cauan Pereira vhz Vinicius Santana Less Felipe de Loyola bld Victor Junqueira pepa Matheus Colleto fzkk Leonardo Puertas .

Ninjas in Pyjamas qualified for VCT BR Stage 1: Challengers, but got off to a rocky start after losing to FURIA in their opening group stage game. However, that would be their only loss as they finished with a 3-1 record and as the first seed out of Group B. NIP would face off against the Brazilian superteam LOUD LOUD Brazil Rank #1 Quick Gabriel Lima saadhak Matias Delipetro Less Felipe de Loyola tuyz Arthur Andrade cauanzin Cauan Pereira in the upper semifinals and once again in the finals, missing out on automatic Masters qualification. They managed to qualify for Reykjavik after defeating Leviatán Leviatán Latin America South Rank #1 tex Ian Botsch kiNgg Francisco Aravena Mazino Roberto Rivas aspas Erick Santos C0M Corbin Lee in BR/LATAM Stage 1: Last Chance Qualifier.

The Brazilian representatives were tasked with defeating FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #1 Leo Leo Jannesson Derke Nikita Sirmitev Boaster Jake Howlett Chronicle Timofey Khromov Alfajer Emir Ali Beder , DRX DRX Korea Rank #2 Flashback Cho Min-hyuk (조민혁) 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) , and ZETA DIVISION ZETA DIVISION Japan Rank #10 Laz Ushida Koji yuran Yushin Hato hiroronn Hiroki Yanai Dep Yuma Hashimoto SugarZ3ro Shota Watanabe in group A. They began their group with a win over FNATIC, but were sent to the lower bracket by the Korean representatives. Ninjas in Pyjamas were ultimately knocked out by ZETA DIVISION in a historic match.

NIP are set to play in the group stage of Stage 2: Challengers beginning May 14th, and have not yet revealed his replacement.

With the benching of bnj, Ninjas In Pyjamas Ninjas In Pyjamas Inactive are currently: