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 #2 dgzin Douglas Silva v1nny Vínicius Gonçalves pANcada Bryan Luna tuyz Arthur Andrade cauanzin Cauan Pereira will play EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 S1Mon Hsien Meng-Hsun (谢孟勋) ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) at noon local time, and DRX DRX Korea Rank #4 Flashback Cho Min-hyuk (조민혁) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) Athan Na Ha-jun (나하준) freeing No Ha-jun (노하준) HYUNMIN Song Hyun-min (송현민) will play FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #3 Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu stand-in Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Chronicle Timofey Khromov 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.