Valiance confirmed at DreamHack Open Rio

DreamHack have announced Valiance as the sixth team to attend DreamHack Open Rio from April 19-21.

The Serbian side will be joining FURIA, Luminosity, Sharks, and AVANGAR as the fifth team to be invited, the sixth overall, with eUnited having qualified through the North American closed qualifier.

Currently coming in at 21st in the world ranking, Valiance have shown promising performances, recently making the WESG quarter-finals with Luka "⁠emi⁠" Vuković and Aleksa "⁠Impulse⁠" Stankić as stand-ins before losing to eventual losing finalists AGO.

Valiance will be in Brazil next month

DreamHack Open Rio will run from April 19-21, with teams battling it out for the $100,000 prize pool. One more spot is still up for grabs in the South American closed qualifier, with an additional invitee yet to be announced.

With Valiance's invite, the team list for the Brazilian event currently looks as follows:

FURIA
Luminosity
Valiance
South America qualifier Sharks
AVANGAR
TBA
eUnited Luminosity #39 Lucas 'steel' LopesHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesRicardo 'boltz' PrassGabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato FURIA #19 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior AVANGAR #13 Bektiyar 'fitch' BahytovSanjar 'SANJI' KulievTimur 'buster' TulepovAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' Ali Valiance #21 Nemanja 'huNter-' KovačNestor 'LETN1' TanićNemanja 'nexa' IsakovićOtto 'ottoNd' SihvoRokas 'EspiranTo' Milasauskas AGO #20 Grzegorz 'SZPERO' DziamałekDamian 'Furlan' KislowskiDominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiTomasz 'phr' WójcikKacper 'kaper' Słoma eUnited #34 Victor 'food' WongEdgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoAnthony 'vanity' MalaspinaKaleb 'moose' JayneAustin 'Cooper' Abadir Aleksa 'Impulse' Stankić Age: 22 Team: Endpoint Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 373 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.62 Luka 'emi' Vuković Age: 25 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 818 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.68 Sharks #95 Renato 'nak' NakanoRaphael 'exit' LacerdaLeonardo 'leo_drk' OliveiraRodrigo 'RCF' FigueiredoJhonatan 'jnt' Silva