Karim "Krimbo" Moussa, who plays for BIG, will miss the final matches of the 2022 Pinnacle Cup Championship after testing positive for coronavirus. The team announced the news on June 10. The place of the nineteen-year-old player will be temporarily taken by Nils “k1to” Grun, who previously played for BIG and is now enrolled in the BIG Academy.
This will be k1to's first match for BIG after replacing Joseph "faven" Baumann at the closed qualification for IEM Dallas. Earlier this year, Krimbo took exactly the position of k1to in the main lineup. Krimbo's first match at this championship will be against Astralis, after which she will face either the grand final or the third place match against Heroic on Saturday.
In addition, after the end of the Pinnacle Cup, the team will have to go to Lund to compete at the BLAST Premier Spring Final tournament, which starts on Wednesday, July 15. Thus, Krimbo has little time left to recover, and it remains unclear whether he will be able to perform at this event.
In the group part of the tournament, BIG performed very successfully, taking the leading position in its group after victories over MIBR and fnatic. The winner of the Pinnacle Cup will receive a grand prize of $150,000, while the second and third place teams will receive $50,000 and $35,000 respectively.
