junior to miss BLAST Premier Global Final

The Brazilians are set to reveal a sixth player as the North American AWPer won't be able to attend the European tournament with his new team.

Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson will not attend the BLAST Premier Global Final with FURIA, André Akkari, one of the organisation's primary investors, has revealed in an Instagram story.

Despite being announced as the newest member of the Brazilian organization on Wednesday, the American AWPer will not travel to Serbia with his new team due to passport issues, leaving the team to field a replacement in his stead.

junior won't be able to attend the BLAST Premier Global Final

The event, which features six of the top ten teams in the world, would have been junior's debut appearance under the FURIA banner.

In the same series of videos, Mr. Akkari revealed that FURIA will announce a sixth member of the team on Thursday, with the newcomer filling in for junior for the duration of the tournament.

FURIA #6 Paytyn 'junior' JohnsonAndrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato Paytyn 'junior' Johnson Age: 20 Team: FURIA Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 209 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.61