LVG, M80, Sharks join BLAST Porto team list

The trio of teams join Inner Circle at the event by winning their regional BLAST Rising qualifiers.

Lynn Vision, M80 and Sharks have secured valuable invites to BLAST Open Porto by winning their regional qualifiers.

They will be joined by Inner Circle, the winners in Europe, and 12 top-ranked VRS sides to compete for a $1.1m prize pool in one of the few Big Events before the Singapore Major invite date on November 2.

The highest-ranked teams to miss out were losing grand finalists TYLOO and paiN, with M80 the only pre-event favorite to take home first place.

Sharks' João "⁠koala⁠" Pfeffer, a top-15 Prospect, led the way in South America with a 1.23 rating while Lizhi "⁠Starry⁠" Ye (1.43) and Fritz "⁠slaxz-⁠" Dietrich (1.38) topped the leaderboards in their qualifiers.

João 'koala' Pfeffer Lynn Vision Zhe 'Westmelon' Niu Sike 'z4KR' Zhang Lizhi 'Starry' Ye Junjie 'EmiliaQAQ' Tang Qihao 'C4LLM3SU3' Su Yifei 'GUM' Dai paiN Vinicius 'vsm' Moreira Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt Guilherme 'piriajr' Barbosa Rafael 'saffee' Costa João 'snow' Vinicius Henrique 'rikz' Waku M80 Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich Michael 'Swisher' Schmid Elias 's1n' Stein Josh 'JBa' Barutt Mason 'Lake' Sanderson Rory 'dephh' Jackson TYLOO Yi 'JamYoung' Yang Dongkai 'Jee' Ji Jingxiang 'Mercury' Wang Qianhao 'Moseyuh' Chen Su 'Zero' Jingshen WeiJie 'zhokiNg' Zhong Sharks Victor 'gafolo' Andrade João 'koala' Pfeffer Máximo 'maxxkor' Cortina Daniel 'rdnzao' Monteiro Danilo 'doc' Barros Hélder 'coachi' Sancho Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich Inner Circle Arseniy 'cptkurtka023' Derevinskiy Daniil 'headtr1ck' Valitov Eduard 'zeRRoFIX' Petrovskyi Viktor 'onic' Babii David 'Dawy' Bibik Dmytro 'jR' Chervak Lizhi 'Starry' Ye