EDG player tests positive at Valorant Champions Istanbul ahead of elimination match A member of EDward Gaming\u2019s Valorant roster has returned a positive test at Valorant Champions Istanbul ahead of their elimination match against Team Liquid. For the past week, millions of fans from around the world have been tuning in to see who will be crowned the next Valorant Champions in Istanbul. The event instantly beat the peak viewership of VCT Stage 2 Masters in just the first match. However, so far, Champions hasn\u2019t exactly gone all to plan, as players and staff members from various competing organizations have received positive tests \u2013 causing some disruption. Now, Riot Games has revealed that an unnamed EDward Gaming member has tested positive. EDG tests positive at Valorant Champions As a safety precaution, all participants are required to partake in regular mandatory testing, in which a member of EDG produced a positive result from a PCR test. Should the affected player feel well enough to compete, they will play on a LAN network built in the isolation facilities. Meanwhile, the rest of the team and their opponents will compete from the usual venue. An update on #VALORANTChampions \u0130stanbul. pic.twitter.com\/PRv08qqAGa \u2014 VALORANT Champions Tour \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7 (@ValorantEsports) September 4, 2022 After falling to Paper Rex in their opening series, EDG is set to face European powerhouse Team Liquid in their elimination match \u2014 the match which will decide the team to head home first. The news follows players and staff members of 100 Thieves returning positive tests ahead of their first Champions match. OpTic Gaming\u2019s head coach Chet is also among those who\u2019ve received a positive test so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EDG player tests positive at Valorant Champions Istanbul ahead of elimination match A member of EDward Gaming\u2019s Valorant roster has returned a positive test at Valorant Champions Istanbul ahead of their elimination match against Team Liquid. For the past week, millions of fans from around the world have been tuning in to see who will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}