Brazil will not send a team to the ESEA Season 26 Global Challenge, the event's organisers have announced.

ESEA claims that it will be "unfeasible" to sort out flights and visas in the short timeframe between the end of the Brazilian Open division and the Global Challenge, which will need to be held in early December and not in January, as happened this year.

ESEA S26 Global Challenge will not feature a Brazilian team

This is not only because of the Christmas holidays and the New Year, but because the next Major and the Minor qualifiers are expected to take place in January, ESEA explained.

"Whilst we can speed up the process with the smaller MDL divisions in North America, Europe and Australia the large Open division in Brazil will be extremely difficult to complete in time for the LAN event," ESEA added.

Replacing the winner of the Brazilian Open winner will be the fourth-placed side of North American MDL league, who will be joined by three other teams from the region, the top three teams from Europe and the winner of the Australian MDL division.

ESEA insisted that it is "not giving up" on Brazil and pledged to increase the prize money of the Open division, which will have its Global Challenge spot back in Season 27.

Bruno "⁠bit⁠" Lima's TeamOne will represent Brazil at the ESEA Season 25 Global Challenge, which will take place this weekend in Burbank, with $50,000 up for grabs.