FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #3 heat Olavo Marcelo raafa Rafael Lima mwzera Leonardo Serrati havoc Ilan Eloy Khalil Khalil Schmidt has announced the substitute roster they will field for Americas Kickoff. The roster consists of Jack "Add3r" Hayashi, Brandon "bdog" Sanders, Brenden "stellar" McGrath, Jake "jakee" Anderson, and Erik "penny" Penny. They will compete in place of FURIA's main Brazilian roster, who will miss the beginning of Kickoff due to delays in obtaining visas.

The roster contains a combination of players from Turtle Troop Turtle Troop North America Rank #7 wedid Matthew Suchan jowa bdog Brandon Sanders Kaoticcc and YFP YFP North America Rank #14 jakee Jake Anderson stellar Brenden McGrath penny Erik Penny thief Brady Dever fiziq Lucas Blow , two North American Challengers teams. Both teams most recently played in Challengers Stage 3, with YFP reaching the grand finals to place second, while Turtle Troop was eliminated in the first round. The core of stellar, bdog, and Add3r also played with DarkZero Esports DarkZero Esports Inactive earlier in the year, and were the top seed in North America entering the Split 2 playoffs. Unfortunately, complications in wedid 's health led to an early exit in the playoffs.

The group of players will represent FURIA in their opening Kickoff match against 2Game Esports 2Game Esports Brazil Rank #1 gobera Vitor Gobo Zap Brenno Roberto pryze Luis-Henrique Viveiros lz Luiz Reche spike Rodrigo Lombardi silentzz Caio Morita on Jan. 17. FURIA is still actively working to get their players and staff to Los Angeles as quickly as possible. It remains a possibility that their main roster may be able to play for their second or third match of Kickoff, though nothing has been confirmed.

Against 2Game Esports, FURIA FURIA Brazil Rank #3 heat Olavo Marcelo raafa Rafael Lima mwzera Leonardo Serrati havoc Ilan Eloy Khalil Khalil Schmidt will field: