AVANGAR confirmed at DreamHack Open Rio

AVANGAR have been invited to attend the upcoming DreamHack Open event in Rio de Janeiro, the event's organisers have announced.

The Kazakhstani side bring the team count to four, joining the Brazilian trio of FURIA, Sharks and Luminosity, who were all previously invited by DreamHack.

Currently ranked 13th in the world, AVANGAR were recently in action at the IEM Katowice Major, where they came through the New Challengers Stage with just one defeat to their name before being eliminated in the New Legends Stage with a 2-3 record.

AVANGAR will compete in Rio de Janeiro next month

Since returning from Katowice, AVANGAR have been fielding Sanjar "⁠SANJI⁠" Kuliev as a stand-in for Bektiyar "⁠fitch⁠" Bahytov, but, according to DreamHack, the team will be attending the event in Rio with the former Gambit member, who was signed in August as a replacement for Dmitry "⁠dimasick⁠" Matvienko.

DreamHack Open Rio will take place at the Barra Olympic Park from April 19-21 and will have $100,000 in prize money. There are now just two invites left to reveal, with the final two spots going to the winners of the online qualifiers that will be held across the Americas.

The team list for the Brazilian event now looks as follows:

FURIA
Luminosity
TBA
BR/SLAM qualifier Sharks
AVANGAR
TBA
NA/NLAM qualifier Luminosity #35 Lucas 'steel' LopesHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesRicardo 'boltz' PrassGabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato AVANGAR #13 Bektiyar 'fitch' BahytovTimur 'buster' TulepovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' Ali Dmitry 'dimasick' Matvienko Age: 22 Team: GambitB Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 393 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.67 Bektiyar 'fitch' Bahytov Age: 26 Team: AVANGAR Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 484 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.71 Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev Age: 21 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 128 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.70 FURIA #21 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior Sharks #49 Renato 'nak' NakanoRaphael 'exit' LacerdaLeonardo 'leo_drk' OliveiraRodrigo 'RCF' FigueiredoJhonatan 'jnt' Silva Gambit #40 Mihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovVladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukNikolay 'mir' BityukovSergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov