Ukraine’s New Wartime Coverage Sidelines Monte Coach From Paris Main

Sergey ‘lmbt’ Bezhanov will probably be watching from house as his crew performs within the final CSGO Main


Monte coach Sergey “lmbt” Bezhanov has introduced that he is not going to attend the Paris Main as a consequence of new journey restrictions in his house nation, Ukraine. Subsequently, the CCT West Europe Collection #3 champions will play and not using a coach in France. 

Because the begin of the Russia-Ukraine warfare in February, the Ukrainian authorities has restricted journey restrictions on males belonging to the 18-60 age bracket. The Ukrainian border guard providers clarify that the journey ban on grownup males intends to keep up enough reserve manpower for emergency drafting. Earlier, the restrictions have been extra relaxed and the authorities usually granted exceptions. In latest months, nonetheless, the regulation has develop into stricter. 

The information got here as a significant setback for Monte, who’re set to face FaZe of their Paris Main Challengers Stage opener on the Accor Enviornment in three days. 

Regardless of being the primary seed within the first stage of the occasion, the Ukrainian-majority squad faces a troublesome problem of their first match towards one of many heavyweights, FaZe, who left it late to qualify for the Challengers Stage. 

Regardless of being thought-about underdogs, Monte stunned many throughout their run on the Europe RMR B, securing fourth place with a 3-1 document and spectacular victories over ENCE, Cloud9, and FORZE. They misplaced solely as soon as within the group stage to Heroic, earlier than falling to a different prime crew, Vitality, within the Legends Stage decider.

After their profitable run within the RMRs, Monte has continued to impress, profitable their fifth tier two on-line event title on the CCT West Europe Collection 3 and putting second within the CCT Central Europe Collection 6. The Ukrainians will undoubtedly be one of many darkish horses on the Paris Main 2023. 

Author: Ronnie Neal