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Pretty good article, I wondered why Rio was ditched and besides the fans obviously not being good enough this sums up the missing reasons.

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I suspect most people who go to Brazil intend to leave at some point, so swapping out Rio does seem like the intelligent choice

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Be it in the video or the article, I find it interesting that BLAST Pro Series São Paulo 2019 wasn't mentioned in either. I don't have the best recollection of the event, but I believe it was a good one (even though it was on the old shit BLAST format), people were hyped and the games were good. I went and check on HLTV and the photos show a greatly packed arena. I believe that this conversation should start precisely there: we have a success case (as far as I remember) in Brazil, Rio was given two tries and it failed, why not fall back on what has been tried and tested?

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