Benched Heroes down an active CS:GO player in Europe RMR due to visa issues

Evgeniy “Aunkere” Karyat, the Russian CS:GO player who helped Benched Heroes qualify for the IEM Rio Major Europe Regional Major Ranking (RMR) tournament, will not attend the competition in Malta due to visa issues.

“I just was told that I need to announce I’m not going to the RMR,” Aunkere said in a recent stream, according to Escore News. Benched Heroes, the mix team formed around former BIG and Fnatic AWPer Owen “smooya” Butterfield, was reportedly one of the teams facing difficulties in securing visas for players alongside K23, 1WIN, and Aurora. All of those CS:GO teams have Russian players on their rosters and the European Commission recently tightened visa processing for Russian citizens.

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