Aleksandr "shalfey" Marenov will stand in for K27 instead of Timur "clax" Sabirov at the Stake Ranked Episode 3 tournament next week, the organization's CEO, Ivan Kondratov, revealed on Telegram.
The announcement comes just a week after clax replaced Petr "fame" Bolyshev on the team upon the expiration of the latter's loan from Virtus.pro.
That, according to Kondratov, didn't leave the team with enough time to obtain the visa for clax in time for the $100,000 tournament taking place from July 15-18 in Barcelona, Spain.
"Since clax is new to our team and there was no chance of getting a visa for Stake Ranked, we'll be forced to play with a replacement," Kondratov said.
"It was important for us to find an experienced player, as well as someone with the necessary documents for EU LANs."
K27 are slated to start their campaign with an upper bracket quarter-final match against Ninjas in Pyjamas, scheduled for Wednesday at 12:00 .
K27 will play the event in Barcelona with the following roster:
Daniil "X5G7V" Maryshev Danila "kashl1d" Dronov Aleksey "xeedo" Mikulich Daniil "qw1nk1" Kabilov Aleksandr "shalfey" Marenov
Gregory "balblna" Oleinick (coach)
Aleksandr 'shalfey' Marenov
Virtus.pro
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov
Vladimir 'b1st' Krasikov
Dias 'F0R3VER' Kutubay
Alexander 'AquaRS' Kovalev
Vadim 'tO0RO' Arkov
Dmitriy 'ProbLeM' Martinov
Timur 'clax' Sabirov
Daniil 'qw1nk1' Kabilov
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer
Martin 'stavn' Lund
Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck
Roman 'n0te' Hamze
Kacper 'xKacpersky' Gabara
Richard 'Xizt' Landström
Petr 'fame' Bolyshev
Gregory 'balblna' Oleinick
Aleksey 'xeedo' Mikulich
Danila 'kashl1d' Dronov
Daniil 'X5G7V' Maryshev
K27
Timur 'clax' Sabirov
Daniil 'X5G7V' Maryshev
Aleksey 'xeedo' Mikulich
Danila 'kashl1d' Dronov
Daniil 'qw1nk1' Kabilov
Gregory 'balblna' Oleinick