Listen listen
They decided to put champs in USA where it's notoriously hard to get russians visas (it takes MONTHS to get a work visa alrdy, and for russians it's extremely hard) (not even taking account of the fact that in csgo, somehow russians have a much easier time going to events anywhere than in valorant for some reason (riot being incompetent))
So imagine at champs, it's gonna be a repeat of iceland 2022 where NAVI won't be able to go, and Fnatic will have to play without Chronicle and field their randie sub instead. Making champions free for NA if LOUD doesn't manage to beat them this time.
It's so fucking scripted.
PS: All the russians in C9's csgo team have been able to get visas anywhere they fucking want for over a year now, but somehow in iceland players that were living in serbia already were denied visas when iceland isn't even as annoying about russian visas as USA is.
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