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Cloud9 has confirmed that Kim Reignover Yeu-jin, the head coach of C9 s League of Legends Championship Series team, did not travel to Iceland with the rest of the squad ahead of the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational. Alfonso Mithy Aguirre Rodríguez and Max Waldo will be able to coach on-site, but Reignover will only be able to help the team remotely.
The information was revealed when Cloud9 posted a photo of its team getting ready to fly to Reykjavik, Iceland. The photo includes all five starting players, mithy, Max Waldo, and substitute top laner Darshan Darshan Upadhyaya, who normally plays for Cloud9 Academy. After being asked about Reignover s absence in the airport photo, C9 cited immigration reasons in Reignover not traveling with the team.