MIBR to replace Heroic at IEM Dallas

28-5-2022 21:39

The Danish team will miss out on the event in North America "due to pre-travel COVID-19 issues."

HEROIC are not able to attend IEM Dallas and will be replaced by MIBR, ESL has announced. The last-minute swap comes as a result of the PGL Major Antwerp quarter-finalists suffering from "pre-travel COVID-19 issues," leaving them unable to make the journey overseas.

After their impressive run in Belgium, Spirit were first in line to replace Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller's side in Dallas, but did not have the required visas to travel and as a result, could not accept the invite.

MIBR will appear at their first LAN after swapping WOOD7 for brnz4n

The announcement comes as the latest blow to the first Big Event in North America to take place since ECS Season 8 Finals in November 2019, becoming the fifth detractor to top-tier competition at the tournament.

Over the last week, it was announced that Natus Vincere and Entropiq would miss the event as a result of visa complications, ENCE would use Janusz "⁠Snax⁠" Pogorzelski instead of star rifler Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi due to visa issues, and Ninjas in Pyjamas would be left without in-game leader Hampus "⁠hampus⁠" Poser due to illness, needing to field Erik "⁠ztr⁠" Gustafsson in his stead. Astralis coach Martin "⁠trace⁠" Heldt will also be unable to stand behind the team, facing issues with his ESTA application.

For MIBR, the last-minute invitation presents the opportunity to bounce back from their showing at PGL Major Antwerp, where they were narrowly eliminated from the Challengers Stage with a 2-3 record. The team have since swapped Adriano "⁠WOOD7⁠" Cerato for Breno "⁠brnz4n⁠" Poletto, with Marcelo "⁠chelo⁠" Cespedes assuming in-game leadership duties.

MIBR will directly replace HEROIC in the bracket draw, with their first match pitting them against Complexity on Monday at 21:30 .

rip

2022-05-28 21:39

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F no cadian tho :DD

2022-05-28 21:43

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RIP fantasy

2022-05-29 04:15

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Had Cadian and teses but now im stuck with chelo and exit... trash system

2022-05-29 18:21

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lmao same

2022-05-30 08:18

Ya sucks for danish cs :(

2022-05-29 02:35

Good that a better team is replacing them

2022-05-29 03:50

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In your deams

2022-05-29 13:46

better team? can u stop being dumb? thanks

2022-05-29 21:21

lula 2022!!!!

2022-05-30 14:57

Now I understand why you are asking someone to give you a peanut brain. One of those will obviously work much better than whatever you use!

2022-05-30 14:30

unlucky

indeed. damn one more title contender out of the way.

2022-05-28 22:52

Clearing the path for faze

2022-05-29 11:25

Rip my fantasy

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Hampus and now this. Have to change it again

2022-05-28 22:37

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Thx man I didn't even realize you can edit line-ups later on (yes am noob)

2022-05-28 23:47

why didnt you just try lmao

2022-05-28 23:50

i thought it would be more visible than under Settings, like straight up where players are listed. tbh I didn't even put that much thought into it yet

2022-05-29 00:04

fair enough xd

2022-05-29 00:12

oh shit i have to remove heroic ppl

2022-05-29 00:34

sad

funny event

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FaZe's chance has increased

2022-05-28 22:08

why?

2022-05-28 22:09

one of nip's top players will not be at this event navi and heroic too already g2 and c9 not in form so ez 4 faze 1 more time

2022-05-28 22:15

faze trash ez for g2

2022-05-28 22:10

5 years ago he hasn't won a g2 milk trophy hahahahha

2022-05-28 22:50

2022-05-29 11:47

with faze having 100% chance to win from the start this changes nothing

2022-05-29 09:53

kekwkekw

wait what lmao this event is a joke

2022-05-28 21:40

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This is a shit show. Travel restrictions in 2022? WTF is going on?

2022-05-28 21:41

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they should cancel it and re- do it in EU

2022-05-28 21:42

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2022-05-28 21:56

+1 looking a very uncompetitive event now. It's nowhere near the calibre of a major. Absolute shit show

Yeah but there needs to be events outside of EU. Pretty much every team who isn't in Europe gets cucked by the EU bubble. NA used to get 6 events in a year alone. 6 times where the competition came here which really helps the NA teams. This applies to every region though outside of EU. This event has been a shit show so far though. Don't get why there are still travel restrictions unless Denmark is living under a rock.

2022-05-29 04:19

Asia gets almost no events and they have teams better than most of the American ones you can cry but NA doesnt deserve any events maybe 1

2022-05-29 12:03

+1 Come to Denmark, we have no covid restrictions and had none, for like, months...

2022-05-29 09:29

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There isn’t even Covid restrictions though in NA. Had a friend fly to Florida recently for a week because of break and had no issues. The friends I have have in the states too say there are no problems. Don’t understand why they are having issues. NA needs this though along with other regions. Every region has been getting the short end of the stick since Covid.

2022-05-30 03:12

When traveling to the US there is still Covid relate requirements, most likely they do not apply for Canadians. The requirements are: - One must be fully vaccinated and able to document this. - Have a negative Covid test when boarding the plane to the US, it can be no older than 24 hours. Getting a test in Denmark is easy , so I am guessing someone was not vaccinated and failed to check the requirements in time to get it sorted. Most Danes are vaccinated as only a few have bought into the conspiracy nonsense, but there is some that are not vaccinated and with Covid restrictions remove here some months ago then maybe forgetting is easy.

2022-05-30 20:39

Yeah that sounds about right. I mean I went to Hawaii (was pretty awesome) in the summer of the last year. You didn’t have to be vaccinated but you needed a negative test 24-72 hours which is pretty easy to get. Most places you just goto your local pharmacy and take one. I don’t think you should be required to be vaccinated imo. As long as you test negative who cares. I thought the TOs were forcing these players to be vaccinated anyway to goto events.

2022-05-30 22:19

Requiring people to be vaccinated makes a lot of sense, so would locking up those that are not vaccinated for no good reason only we are to timid to do so. Getting tested doesn't shield you from getting infected, so in reality you could get infected on the way to the airport, become infectious during the long flight and infect others. Being vaccinated not only protects you, but it also significantly reduces the risk of you becoming a carrier infecting others or even being the hos of a new variant.

2022-05-30 23:55

It should be personal choice is all I’m saying. If you don’t want to get the vaccine then fine. If you don’t want to get it then that’s fine too. But don’t try to force it on others to get it lol. The vaccine doesn’t stop you from getting or spreading the virus either. It’s just for personal comfortable and to minimize the symptoms.

2022-05-31 03:09

Three points here: 1. Since non of us lives alone on a island, then being vaccinated is not only for ourselves it is also for those around us. Look at the death toll in the US, they would not have had a million deaths if all people there had gotten vaccinated like they could have. Society also calls for us to not drink and drive, don't play loud music all hours, pay taxes... it is all things that is part of being in a society. 2. You're wrong about the vaccine just being for comfort and to minimize symptoms. Being vaccinated significantly reduces the risk of being infected also, which means also being less likely to become a spreader and possibly the source of a new mutation. 3. While less likely for fit young people it is not like getting infected is nothing, there is young people that die and also some which "just" get so ill they suffer for months - some even have permanent lung damage or other life changing damages!

2022-05-31 12:57

Dude what are you talking about. “They would not have millions of deaths if they took the vaccine.” That’s not true at all lol. Countless people died globally and in the US before the vaccine even existed. How are you supposed to take a vaccine if it doesn’t exist yet. Not to mention Covid deaths are over exaggerated by the media lol. Don’t know where you are getting your information from but the vaccine doesn’t stop you from getting it or spreading it lol. It just reduces symptoms.

2022-06-01 05:13

You're misquoting me. Try reading what I wrote again. I did not comment on the global deaths, my comment was about the US as can be clearly seen since I wrote "Look at the death toll in the US, they would not have had a million deaths if all people there had gotten vaccinated like they could have.". In the US they had early access to the vaccine, so had Trump and the other conspiracy nutters not made getting vaccinated into something political they could easily have had a efficient vaccine program for all. Instead many in the US choose not to get vaccinated, this then cause much suffering and death that could have been avoided. Claiming otherwise is ignoring facts. As for what the vaccine does, with the first variants it stopped most vaccinated people from getting infected. Then with the later variants it still stopped many from being infected, and it also meant those still infected were unlikely to get sick and thus less likely to spread the infection ie. if you're not coughing/sneezing and so on you do not spread as much. Go here and look at deaths per million people, the US is placed the 17th worst country globally with just over 3,000 deaths per million. worldometers.info/coronavirus/ With the US having the vaccine early, the resources to get people vaccinated and everything the US could have done much, much better. And remember it is not "just" about deaths, it is also about the many that got ill, some of which have permanent damages, and the cost to society with sick days, hospitals overwhelmed... and the many which lost loved ones.

2022-06-01 14:03

hahahaa probably easiest possible tournament for faze

lol what a joke

Ofc it's Heroic again

Omg Dallas is already a joke. No Navi, Heroic, Entropiq. Worst t1 tourney this year by far. Hopefully no more tourneys in USA

NA needs more tourneys. We used to have 6 a year and not to mention the other regions who held events. Now every event is in the EU bubble lol. Been almost three years since we have had an event lol along with other regions like South America, Asia, and Australia.

2022-05-29 04:21

tier 2 event

Not even worth watching anymore. Trash teams and the rest have stand-ins

lol

Dallas is looking more and more as a joke, why even bother watch this T2 tournament?

NA EVENT

clown fiesta

+1 no one wants to see chelo the clown, we want the comediaN

U don't want to see Fifa Peek????

2022-05-28 21:55

AHAHAHA NOT ANOTHER

Should have invited EG over MIBR would have made for some fun

EG atm is just as trash as mibr.

even paiN/godsent may have been better option

eg is worse

2022-05-28 21:45

But making fun of EG is fun, making fun of MIBR that consists of no namers is not fun

2022-05-29 08:15

is it really fun after all this time of shit performances? I arent think that, is just sad to see now

2022-05-29 09:18

its fun to call stew2k bot2k and trigger his 8 remaining fans

2022-05-29 13:45

nooo they would be 100% wasted spot

2022-05-28 21:50

he meant more fun for us. he didn't say more fun for them lol

2022-05-28 22:01

nice tournament

lmao, eZaF I guess

why bro coL @ Kato and now Heroic @ Dallas my favorite teams getting fucked

Farm city for Faze somebody stop them and make kariggan retire pls. If they win this then 1 tournament away from winning the grand slam

nah , karrigan deserve it

2022-05-28 21:54

not like this thou . its taking candy for a baby

This event xdddd

comediaN > chelo

comediaN > clown

2022-05-28 21:53

What happens to my fantasy then :(

You can still edit your team

2022-05-28 21:51

How?

2022-05-28 23:40

How

2022-05-29 01:26

Bruh just give the trophy to FaZe at this point

2022-05-28 21:44

imagine if FaZe are also missed out

Now Vitality has a real chance.

Damn is anyone going at this point or what

Literally 90% of the best teams of the world

2 out of the top 5 are not coming and one has a stand in. Faze probably wins either way but still

2022-05-28 22:07

2 top 5 teams have stand ins...

2022-05-28 22:19

again cuz fake pandemic xD

2022-05-28 21:47

wasted

brnz4n will destroy them all

2022-05-28 21:48

NA Major sucks, if there are so many visa complications

Us what a clown country… Travel restrictions is just for those with mouth-diapers.

LET'S FRIGGIN GO

This event is cursed

NA restrictions are cursed Wtf VISA lul

2022-05-29 00:41

More events for murica pls

LMFAO NO FUCKING WAY TIER 2 EVENT + FAZE

Rip fantasy L event

comedian scared of NA LANS?

FREE win for faze then

2022-05-28 21:57

Shitty event not worth watching..

2022-05-28 21:58

Next Only na teams can compete

HAHAH wtf is this event

Ahahhaha NA event, are u joking

2022-05-28 22:03

Spinx, navi, trace, hampus and now full heroic hahaha

2022-05-28 22:04

Yeah what is next? :)

2022-05-28 23:16

Faze biggest lucky team this year

2022-05-29 03:30

disaster of a tournament, wtfff

lol MIBR just get destroyed by OG and then they get invited lul

NA $$$$ in everything in esports expect wasting money :)

First no Na’Vi now no Heroic? It just keeps getting easier for FaZe.

2022-05-28 22:13

dang I have to recreate my fantasy team now

this event is so free for faze it's not even close

Covid crap still an issue!? sigh

2022-05-28 22:16

More like a convenient excuse than an issue.

IEM DALLAS IS A JOKE

2022-05-28 22:18

lolol

It’s working!

how covid still exists

2022-05-28 22:21

inviting spirit would be a downgrade.

2022-05-28 22:31

Congratulations FaZe on one step closer to the Intel Grand Slam!

2022-05-28 22:32

Lmao.

2022-05-28 22:33

wtf is this, at this point give FAZE the trophy and IGS. most easiest IGS in history

What a fucking joke, please don't have events in the US if it's gonna be like this...

2022-05-28 22:36

Someone from astralis doesn't want to get vacinated to enter a country and I totally understand

Based but wrong team.

2022-05-28 22:38

Faze disband if they don't win this event

2022-05-28 22:39

Navi is a finished team like heroic

2022-05-28 22:43

... another ez trophy for faze unless g2 steps up for once edit: btw look at group a vs group b lol stacked

2022-05-28 22:42

IEM Dallas to become Pinnacle V

2022-05-28 22:48

Lmao

Postpone iem dallas

2022-05-28 22:55

LOOOL i told u guys USA trying so hard to make it easy for NA to win. _navi _spinx _astralul coach -heroic edit*: yeah i forget hampus kekw igh whos next !!!!

2022-05-28 22:59

My bet, a MOUZ player is the next.

2022-05-28 23:28

Maybe navi didn't even want to fly to usa from the start. It seems navi knew that they would get rid of boombla after the major and made up visa issue story as an excuse.

2022-05-29 04:46

i cant believe literally so many good EU teams deciding not to go to this event / grant stand ins, officially not hyped anymore

2022-05-28 23:06

why not just give faze the trophy already since they are the only candidates to win this

2022-05-28 23:07

Nice,no comedian

2022-05-28 23:08

Any news on C9? I know ENCE and FaZe were flying today but no one in C9 uses social medias apparently.

2022-05-28 23:09

Not going. Insider

2022-05-29 00:28

Rip this tournament, very few will even attend and those that do, have some sort of handicap. What a waste of time

2022-05-28 23:12

NA EVENT NO ONE WANTS TO GO LUL

Only one top 5 team play with their full roster. Navi & heroic are not even in the tournament. Ence & nip have stand in’s. Just don’t host tournaments in USA tbh

2022-05-28 23:29

going to be embarrassing when Mouz flames out of this event anyways

2022-05-28 23:34

BIG should be pretty save in the beginning of the tournament because of this. But why still having fear in such an endemic phase as it is. b00n's in charge sadge.

2022-05-28 23:39

haha Damn, this event is already so much fucked up

2022-05-28 23:36

Bruh

2022-05-28 23:37

let's just move the event to Europe, IEM Dallas Helsinki idk

2022-05-28 23:48

Let's just never have events in the US again, their loss

2022-05-28 23:55

ez tournament to G2

2022-05-28 23:56

So basically only FaZe, G2, Vitality, Furia and C9 with full rosters from top10

2022-05-29 00:00

Unironically the best chance so far for G2 to win something

2022-05-29 00:02

I think Furia/C9 and G2 are the biggest challengers for FaZe

2022-05-29 00:05

Furia definitely not, Cloud9 maybe. The real challengers are indeed G2 and Vitality

2022-05-29 00:10

Vitality has been awful, if you think the expectations they had. No Heroic and NaVi nor ENCE with their full roster, so should be ez4faze

2022-05-29 00:30

How can you say that, if both of them could not pass the group stage in epl, and not go to playoofs in the major, but furia did both things, to me you're just delusional, a person who only goes by what you call superior, that is, europeans.

2022-05-29 06:44

Ahhh yes, beating Big, Liquid, and G2 choking in the final map at the major. They totally deserved to go to playoffs. I'm soo delusional

2022-05-29 09:55

Buguesy, if he did not use that bug, maybe g2 would've lost agaisnt imperial, and the only other team they manage to win was outsiders ( a dead team), also vitality only manage to win agaisnt both liquid and big, as you see, what you're saying is full of bullshit, comparinf to the last tournaments results it does not make sense

2022-05-29 20:19

+1 no NaVi no 0-3

2022-05-29 00:06

Free tourney for faZe lul

2022-05-29 00:01

People complain calling this tier 2 tournament I see it as an different and interesting tournament

FaZe is gonna play with inverted mouse

Tier 7 event lol

2022-05-29 00:08

Damn, so this tournament really is gonna be awful: No Navi No Heroic No Spirit Ence without Spinx NiP without hampus Astralis without trace Cloud9 still question mark

2022-05-29 00:09

Cancel US tournaments

2022-05-29 00:19

About navi #209

2022-05-29 04:41

Looks like faze are going 3/4 of the way to a grand slam

2022-05-29 01:15

Cadian 1.89 Dane-Brazilian 22 on the ruler 1 pro league 671 interior camps 1 bath tub 2 gay club nights 1 altinho with liminha and bt 1 bug abuse exposed 3 covids Better than fnx?not in my books

2022-05-29 01:16

Haha

2022-05-29 01:48

LETS GO!!!!!

2022-05-29 01:20

Tier 2 event now ;(

2022-05-29 01:27

Free playoffs spot for G2

That's what you deserve when schedule events on US

2022-05-29 01:53

At this point, events should be held in Mexico or Canada. USA has travel restrictions during normal times, imagine during a pandemic.

2022-05-29 01:56

This event is already a joke

2022-05-29 02:19

who?

2022-05-29 03:13

F godiaN =(

IEM already a shitshow before it starts, unlucky :/

2022-05-29 04:08

2022-05-29 09:57

nice event lol

2022-05-29 04:44

weakest event ever this should be a b tier event why is liquipedia saying this is s tier lmao

2022-05-29 04:51

2022-05-29 04:52

15 of top 24 are attending... What a crap tournament

2022-05-29 04:53

iem dallas not as hype now :P

2022-05-29 05:24

lets go

2022-05-29 06:06

Half of the teams can't go to a place where CS is dead. Why even waste time and money..just make it in Europe where it belongs.

2022-05-29 06:25

Should we just argree that the US shouldn't have t1 tournaments anymore. Almost all of the top5 are unable to participate with full rosters. What an absolute shitshow.

2022-05-29 07:08

2022-05-29 10:27

no stavn no fun

2022-05-29 07:20

Love it fuck them cheaters

2022-05-29 07:34

rip iem dallas

2022-05-29 07:35

what a shit tournament LULW

2022-05-29 07:55

deserved

2022-05-29 07:57

NA moment

2022-05-29 08:35

Why even organise a tournament now, ez 4 Faze

2022-05-29 08:57

2022-05-29 09:12

Postpone this tournament

2022-05-29 09:32

wtf is this.. I need IEM Riyadh or IEM Jeddah

2022-05-29 09:56

just replace the event with player rest.

2022-05-29 10:05

might as well start letting people and their mates enter with their MM teams at this point, joke of a tourney

2022-05-29 10:06

joke of a tournament

2022-05-29 10:25

nice NA bravo

2022-05-29 10:28

g2 vs faze grand final, G2 finally win a trophy.

2022-05-29 10:30

WTF are "pre-travel covid-19 issues"? So someone has covid? Or what. Why is it phrased like a lunatic

2022-05-29 10:57

Yeah confused me aswell

2022-05-29 12:13

Looks like NA teams chance of winning a map or two has improved alot.

2022-05-29 11:18

complexity happy asf

2022-05-29 11:24

Covid in 2022 omegalul

2022-05-29 11:31

WTF This event is so fucking bad before even starts

2022-05-29 11:48

the only way BR cs can get into competitions

2022-05-29 11:50

this event should just be called off

2022-05-29 12:19

Wow this event went from seeming awesome to being a bunch of incomplete rosters competing against tier 2-3 teams. Should just postpone it tbh.

2022-05-29 12:28

ez4faze

2022-05-29 12:55

Now is the time for G2 to win a trophy, NAVI not present, FaZe postmajor hangover, Heroic out, Vitality shit, ENCE standin etc etc.....

2022-05-29 13:00

nice job US govt, making sure that NA cs is dead!

2022-05-29 13:09

can I sell my fantasy team? :D

going to be one of the worst events of the year

2022-05-29 13:10

Lmaoooo tier3 tournament

2022-05-29 13:21

Covid lmfao

2022-05-29 13:22

HAHA +1 Bigger joke then the news

2022-05-29 13:24

Now group b is literally a fkn joke LOL

2022-05-29 13:36

Ez win for Faze Clan legit

2022-05-29 13:48

Hopefully this shit show prevents another event being held in US in the near future. This country is a joke.

2022-05-29 14:16

Yep, was just thinking about it earlier. Why do we have events in US at this point? Change IEM Dallas to Rio

2022-05-29 14:56

What is pre travel covid issues? You have to be really unlucky to contract it in DK at this point, on average we have about 600 positive tests a day.

2022-05-29 14:33

XD?

2022-05-29 14:35

This tournament HAHAHAH

Sad for Heroic, it was a big chance for them, no NaVi, ENCE without Spinx, it's getting really bad for this tournament, so many teams withdrew already.

2022-05-29 15:02

That's why TO were reluctant to organize events in the US. It was always hard to get all the teams to get their VISAs, now with COVID & the war it's even worse. I don't know what they were thinking.

2022-05-29 15:04