DreamHack have announced Valiance as the sixth team to attend DreamHack Open Rio from April 19-21. The Serbian side will be joining FURIA, Luminosity, Sharks, and AVANGAR as the fifth team to be invited, the sixth overall, with eUnited having qualified through the North American closed qualifier. Currently coming in at 21st in the world ranking, Valiance have shown promising performances, recently making the WESG quarter-finals with Luka "emi" Vuković and Aleksa "Impulse" Stankić as stand-ins before losing to eventual losing finalists AGO.  DreamHack Open Rio will run from April 19-21, with teams battling it out for the $100,000 prize pool. One more spot is still up for grabs in the South American closed qualifier, with an additional invitee yet to be announced. With Valiance's invite, the team list for the Brazilian event currently looks as follows:  FURIALuminosity Valiance South America qualifier Sharks AVANGARTBA eUnited  Luminosity #39 Lucas 'steel' LopesHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesRicardo 'boltz' PrassGabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato  FURIA #19 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior  AVANGAR #13 Bektiyar 'fitch' Bahytov Sanjar 'SANJI' KulievTimur 'buster' TulepovAlexey 'Qikert' Golubev Dzhami 'Jame' Ali  Valiance #21  Nemanja 'huNter-' KovačNestor 'LETN1' TanićNemanja 'nexa' Isaković Otto 'ottoNd' Sihvo Rokas 'EspiranTo' Milasauskas   AGO #20 Grzegorz 'SZPERO' DziamałekDamian 'Furlan' KislowskiDominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiTomasz 'phr' WójcikKacper 'kaper' Słoma  eUnited #34 Victor 'food' Wong Edgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoAnthony 'vanity' Malaspina Kaleb 'moose' JayneAustin 'Cooper' Abadir   Aleksa 'Impulse' Stankić  Age: 22 Team: Endpoint Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 373 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.62 Luka 'emi' Vuković  Age: 25 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 818 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.68  Sharks #95 Renato 'nak' NakanoRaphael 'exit' LacerdaLeonardo 'leo_drk' OliveiraRodrigo 'RCF' FigueiredoJhonatan 'jnt' Silva |
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