Global Esports, one of the esports organizations partnered with Riot Games in Asia, is having trouble flying its Indian passport holders to Seoul, South Korea—where the VCT Pacific League matches will be played—according to its founder, Rushindra Sinha.
Sinha said on Twitter today that every non-Indian passport holder on Global Esports’ VALORANT team has already arrived in Seoul, which includes four of the five players who attended VCT LOCK//IN São Paulo in February: Jordan “AYRIN” He, Kim “t3xture” Na-ra, Park “Bazzi” Jun-ki, and Cahya “Monyet” Nugraha. The Indian passport holders, including starting player Ganesh “SkRossi” Gangadhar, are not allowed to fly yet because their visa is currently being processed. Aside from SkRossi, backup player Abhirup “Lightningfast” Choudhury is in the same situation alongside Sinha himself and the org’s head of esports, Vatsal Uniyal.
“That could be tomorrow or [the] day after or next Monday or in April,” Sinha said in terms of when the visas might be ready. “There’s nothing left for us to do, everything has already been submitted a while ago, now we just wait for our passports to come back soon.”
It’s unclear what starting lineup Global Esports is planning to use in their VCT Pacific League debut against T1 on Saturday, March 25. Besides the quintet that played in their match at VCT LOCK//IN, the organization has the Australian player Michael Wronski and Lightningfast on the roster.
If SkRossi and Lightiningfast don’t make it in time because of the visa process, it’s likely that Global Esports would have to play with AYRIN, Bazzi, texture, Monyet, and WRONSKI at VCT Pacific League as they’re the ones who have arrived in Seoul already. This could spell trouble for Global Esports since WRONSKI hasn’t played a professional VALORANT match since he was still a part of ORDER in August 2022, according to VLR.gg’s database.
The VCT Pacific League will run from March 25 to May 28 and only the top three teams will qualify for VCT Masters Tokyo in June.
