Early reviews have been confirmed appropriate as beastcoast proclaims a number of gamers have contracted COVID-19 whereas competing at The Worldwide 2022.
Not solely does this imply a few of bc’s gamers should play their upcoming sequence in opposition to PSG.LGD from isolation rooms, however the crew will even be enjoying with a handicap.
In keeping with beastcoast administration, one participant reported that that they had a sore throat following the South American crew eliminating Evil Geniuses within the earlier spherical. This led to the crew conducting speedy COVID assessments throughout the board and discovering that a number of gamers examined optimistic.
Valve was instantly notified as soon as the optimistic outcomes have been confirmed, and motion was taken for the crew to play from isolation. Nonetheless, whereas Valve will present the crew remoted rooms to proceed competing, Valve has limitations that stop beastcoast from enjoying their subsequent sequence with at the very least one in all their coaches.
“We instantly reported to Valve upon confirmed optimistic outcomes,” beastcoast mentioned. “Sadly, as a consequence of Valve’s limitations, our coach won’t be supplied an remoted room with a PC. This implies we can be compelled to play tomorrow’s video games with out our coach. That is extraordinarily disappointing however we are going to nonetheless try to do our greatest on the world stage.”
If the now deleted leaked internal report is to be believed, at the very least three gamers examined optimistic during the last 24 hours, which implies this isn’t as dangerous because the earlier scenario with Royal By no means Give Up, in accordance with these preliminary particulars.
Regardless of RNG’s situation looking worse at first look, beastcoast probably received’t have any gamers showing on the primary stage to compete as a result of the testing window was a lot shorter between the optimistic outcomes and the subsequent sequence. Valve, PGL, and the org ought to take extra precautions on this occasion to make sure no different groups come into contact with a possible false unfavorable participant.
We additionally don’t know the present state of beastcoast’s gamers who did check optimistic.
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Within the case of RNG, the group reported that it was very hard for some of its players to perform at a excessive degree as a consequence of extreme coughs, fevers, and different signs. The Chinese language crew still fought hard for nearly two hours earlier than being eradicated by Entity, however the potential impression of COVID can’t be missed.
Beastcoast will play LGD within the opening sequence of TI11’s fourth day, and now it appears like a harmful exterior issue may probably forged a shadow over the outcomes.
