MIBR reach verbal agreement with Less, but KRÜ want to keep him

The 2022 world champion has said yes to MIBR, according to TheSpike Brasil, yet his contract with KRÜ runs until the end of 2027.

MIBR have reached a verbal agreement with Felipe “Less” Basso for the 2027 VCT season, TheSpike Brasil reported on Friday 13 November. Nothing is signed. The Brazilian club still has to agree a deal with KRÜ Esports, and that part is not expected to be easy.

Less is under contract with KRÜ until the end of 2027, according to Riot’s contract database as cited by TheSpike. The Argentine club has not released him publicly to talk to other teams, and it wants to keep him as the only player left from its 2026 lineup. Less, however, chose to accept MIBR’s offer and, for now, does not want to stay, the report says. Playing alongside Douglas “dgzin” Silva, who has already agreed terms with MIBR, weighed heavily in his decision.

Neither MIBR nor KRÜ commented when TheSpike asked.

A lost year in KRÜ

Less joined KRÜ in December 2025, reuniting with his old LOUD teammate saadhak. The season never got going. He missed VCT Americas Kickoff because of US visa problems, like the rest of KRÜ’s starting lineup, and the team failed to reach an international event across the two league stages. KRÜ then held tryouts at the start of October and moved Less to the bench.

Before that he spent a single season with Team Vitality in VCT EMEA, and before Vitality he won Valorant Champions 2022 with LOUD, the first Champions title for a Brazilian team.

Two academy players and two signings

MIBR moved their whole Valorant roster to the inactive list on 23 October and opened it to offers. Their biggest name, aspas, is set to join FUT Esports for 2027, TheSpike and Sheep Esports reported earlier this week, as we covered on Tuesday.

The rebuild TheSpike describes has two academy players, Kring and Turkish, moving up to the main team, plus dgzin and Less from outside. That would be MIBR’s projected lineup if the KRÜ talks succeed:

• Less
• dgzin
• Turkish
• Kring

The fifth spot is still open.

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