The prestigious event will take place in Antwerp, Belgium, from May 9 to 22. The 18,000-seater Sport Palace in Antwerp will host the playoffs in front of a live audience.

There will be 24 teams competing in the PGL Major Antwerp 2022. The Challengers Stage will begin the event, followed by the Legends and Champions Stages. The overall prize fund for the competition is $1 million, with the winner receiving half of that.

PGL announced the commencement of ticket sales for the Major on March 15, with prices ranging from €35 to €295, depending on the day and the ticket level. Since then, the firm has not reported on the number of tickets sold.

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Boombl4 should be allowed to play in the arena games if Natus Vincere makes the playoffs. According to Poland’s existing regulations, positive COVID patients must be isolated for seven days, which might be enough time for Boombl4 to recover. If necessary, the CIS team will be able to field a substitute in the playoffs. The team’s substitute is presently listed as NAVI Junior’s Daniil “headtr1ck” Valitov, although another player might be recruited and utilized as an “emergency transfer.”

This is the latest COVID-related setback for the competition, which has already seen TYLOO withdraw owing to Chinese restrictions, Complexity unable to fly to Poland due to positive tests, and Robin “ropz” Kool and Aurimas “Bymas” Pipiras lose out due to the same reason. FaZe and MOUZ players were unable to compete in the competition with their teams, unlike Boombl4 and exit, due to positive tests received at the bootcamp before going to Katowice and settling into the official tournament hotel.

Also read: Complexity withdrawn from IEM Katowice 2022 due to multiple positive COVID test

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Movistar Riders who are will take Complexity spot in Katowice, have been making waves after returning to a fully-Spanish roster in October of 2021, reaching 14th position in the globe and competing in the PGL Stockholm Major Challengers Stage.

Until now, two players have been ruled out of the event owing to positive COVID tests; FaZe’s Robin “ropz” Kool and MOUZ’s Aurimas “Bymas” Pipiras, however, the two teams will participate with stand-ins. TYLOO withdrew out of the event earlier in February owing to COVID-19 requirements, with Sprout securing a slot based on their Pro Tour points.

Read also: Bymas to miss IEM Katowice 2022 due to COVID-19

On February 15, Movistar Riders will play their first match in the Play-In stage against BIG.

The team list for IEM Katowice is as follows:

Main Event Teams

• Natus Vincere
• G2
• Heroic
• FURIA
• Vitality
• Gambit
• Virtus.pro
• Liquid

Play-In Stage Teams

• NIP
• Astralis
• Renegades
• Wisla Krakow
• Entropiq
• Copenhagen Flames
• ENCE
• FaZe
• GODSENT
• Sprout
• MIBR
• BIG
• OG
• fnatic
• MOUZ
• Movistar Riders

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MOUZ had gone through a rebuild in the winter off-season, taking on veteran Nathan “NBK-” Schmitt and former academy AWPer dám “torzsi” Torzsás, and were eager to get off to a fast start in their first event of the year.

Bymas really deserved to play this tournament. The situation is unfortunate. The team has made tremendous progress daily, and this is a true bummer. JDC is a great stand-in though, so let’s go!

MOUZ coach Dennis “⁠sycrone⁠” Nielsen

MOUZ lineup for IEM Katowice 2022:

• David “⁠frozen⁠” Čerňanský
• Christopher “⁠dexter⁠” Nong
• Nathan “⁠NBK-⁠” Schmitt
• Ádám “⁠torzsi⁠” Torzsás
• Jon “⁠JDC⁠” de Castro (Stand-In)
• Dennis “⁠sycrone⁠” Nielsen (Coach)

MOUZ will start off at the prestigious tournament from the Play-In stage. On February 15, the European team will face off against GODSENT.

Read also: jks to replace ropz in FaZe at IEM Katowice 2022

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The 23-year-old Serbian player has been in the esports scene since 2016. He previously played for teams like Mad Lions, Giant Gaming, and Vitality. Yoppa was the first Serbian to become the Challenger on the EU West server and was also one of the first Serbian players to participate in professional tournaments.

Yoppa had recently parted ways with Schalke 04, for which he signed a contract in 2020. The successful player caught the Covid-19 disease while planning his career. Our condolences to his family and loved ones.

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The EVO 2021 Showcase would have brought together the top ranked players competing in Evo 2021 Online and compete at the UFC APEX Sports Complex in Las Vegas on November 27 and 28. The EVO 2021 Showcase was to be an invite-only event. There would be a total of 40 players competing for a $125,000 prize pool spread across five games in total.

Unfortunately, fighting game fans will have to wait a little longer. But the good news is that EVO 2021 will return as the EVO 2022 Showcase between August 5th and 7th.

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Riot Games took special care of each organization’s travel permit so that there would be no trouble in the tournament. But changing COVID-19 circumstances have tightened travel permits around the world. As a result, Riot Games was unable to obtain the necessary travel permits for Southeast Asian champion Bren Esports.

Riot Games, has contacted the relevant government authorities of Germany and Philippines and stated that they have tried every way for a proper solution. But despite everything, there wasn’t any way to circumvent the restrictions, hence why they announced that Bren Esports was out of the tournament.

Still, Bren Esports will be considered to have competed in Berlin Masters. The Filipino team will be rewarded with 175 VCT points. In addition, the organization will get some sort of a prize.

Group D, which includes Bren Esports, will continue with 3 teams. The format of this group will be Round-robin unlike the others. Other groups will not be affected by this format and the playoffs will continue in the same way.

The teams in Group D are as follows:

• Sentinels
• G2 Esports
• F4Q

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Everyone thought that for the 2021 Worlds tournament Vietnam would send 2 teams for the first time. But reliable Vietnamese sources said that no Vietnamese team could attend the event. These are all rumors before the official announcement. However, the cancellation of the VCS summer season and the fact that the pandemic situation in the region has not improved, paints a grim situation. This indicates that this news will most likely be supported by an official statement in a few days.

Riot Games did not fill the spot of VCS bringing teams from other regions but instead changed the format. In the new format, we watched a tournament where two teams went directly to the Group stage during the Play-In process and another two teams came from the Bo5 series. We may see a similar format this year as well.

Likewise, in MSI 2021, there were 3 teams in group A due to a lack of a Vietnamese team.

Hopefully we can see VCS in the tournament this year. Instead of playing in a different format, it would be much better to see Vietnamese teams that can challenge big regions.

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Unfortunately, many organizations were either cancelled or postponed in the past, or had limited audience. Free Fire, unfortunately, is among the games that took its share from this situation. And because of that had to cancel the World Series 2021.

Garena stated that it is not possible in terms of health issues to hold this offline tournament. The first World Series was held in Singapore with selected teams from all over the world. Phoenix Force became champions of the tournament, winning $500,000 from the $2 million prize pool. This years tournament, which was planned to be held in the same way at the end of the year is now postponed.

Garena stated that they plan to hold regional tournaments, albeit small, as the players couldn’t watch the matches of teams.

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Due to this misfortune, the Fnatic vs Team Vitality match, which will start on August 15 at 17:00 (CET), will be played from home, not from the stage. This same incident happened to Fnatic’s support player Zdravets “Hylissang” Iliev Galabov, who caught the coronavirus during the playoffs. It is really unfortunate that this happened twice for Fnatic, who has been in the esports community for a long time.

Other teams in the LEC, especially those who might face Fnatic in the playoffs, quickly sent their best wishes to Adam on social media.

The young player mentions that he is not showing any symptoms at the moment. He has met and even exceeded the high expectations of Fnatic this season. Adam, who won the EU Masters tournament with Karmine Corp last year, went to Fnatic and took the place of Bwipo, and Bwipo went to the jungle position. The team, which had a successful year with these changes, owes a significant part of this success to Adam.

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