BIG\u2019s faveN to miss IEM Rio CSGO Major qualifier Stephanie Lindgren\/ESL Gaming via ESPATBIG have announced that Josef \u2018faveN\u2019 Baumann will not attend the upcoming EU RMR B tournament due to health reasons. In a brief statement on Twitter, the German organization said that faveN will sit out the qualifier because of \u201ca medical situation that requires him to rest at home.\u201d Replacing him at the event in Malta will be Elias \u2018s1n\u2019 Stein, who was registered by BIG as a substitute for the qualifier. s1n has been a part of BIG Academy since January, averaging a 1.24 HLTV rating in the team\u2019s third-place finish in WePlay Academy League Season 5 and a 1.32 HLTV rating (joint tournament-high) in the runner-up finish at Fragadelphia 17. It is unclear if faveN will recover in time for the IEM Rio Major, which begins on October 31. In July, he missed the final stages of BIG\u2019s winning run in Roobet Cup and also did not attend IEM Cologne due to health reasons. In a Twitter post on June 27, faveN said that he had \u201cprobably one of the worst immune systems ever\u201d and that he was laying \u201cflat in my bed with abdominal influenza.\u201d Two days later, he wrote that \u201cthere is no end in sight to my illness.\u201d The list of absentees grows faveN is the second high-profile player to miss the Europe RMR after Astralis\u2019 Kristian \u2018k0nfig\u2019 Wienecke, who suffered an ankle fracture earlier this month. In a newsletter released September 29, the Danish organization confirmed that academy player Mikkel \u2018MistR\u2019 Thomsen \u201cwill stand in k0nfig\u2019s place.\u201d Benched Heroes, a team made up of free agents from five different countries, will miss the event due to visa issues, ESL confirmed on September 29. Polish team Illuminar Gaming will take the vacant spot in the tournament. The European RMR will take place between October 4-9 in Malta, with the event split into two 16-team tournaments due to the number of teams in attendance. BIG will take on Sangal in the first round of the B tournament, which also includes teams like NAVI, Vitality and Outsiders. Even though the tournament has eight spots at the Major on offer, BIG\u2019s qualification is not a certainty. Since the German organization was created in 2017, BIG have missed only one Major, the StarLadder Berlin Major in 2019. BIG\u2019s EU RMR CS:GO roster: Johannes \u2018tabseN\u2019 Wodarz – Florian \u2018syrsoN\u2019 Rische – Karim \u2018Krimbo\u2019 Moussa – Nils \u2018k1to\u2019 Gruhne – Elias \u2018s1n\u2019 Stein –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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