The French organizer revealed that two teams – Temp.no and Tengri, won’t be able to make it to the tournament in Paris next week, and announced two replacement teams – ArchAngels and Millenium.
A week before ESWC 2016 is set to start, two teams have announced their withdrawal from the tournament.
The first one is the Kazakhstani team Tengri, who recently lost their star player Abay “HObbit” Khasenov to Gambit, while Temp.nopulled out of the competition after parting ways with Epiphany Boltearlier this month.
After two LANs with Turkish players, MAJ3R returns will attend ESWC with Millenium
Instead of the two teams, Engin “MAJ3R” Kupeli’s Millenium and ArchAngels, who recently won the Ownit CS:GO Challenge, will attend ESWC 2016.
With this change, the groups at ESWC 2016 will be as follows:
Group A | Group B |
Space Soldiers | Heroic |
iGame.com | Bravado |
Red Instinct | LDLC |
GEX | Overcome |
Group C | Group D |
Gambit | ALTERNATE aTTaX |
Bpro | Tricked |
Norse | FIVE |
GODSENT Academy | FTW |
Group E | Group F |
Kinguin | PENTA |
Wyvern | Epsilon |
Preparation | PRIDE |
SectorOne | ArchAngels |
Group G | Group H |
ENCE | Luminosity |
Rogue | k1ck oldschool |
fnatic Academy | Millenium |
paiN | WE GOT GAME |
ESWC 2016 will take place from October 27-30 at the Paris Game Week, featuring a $75,000 prize pool.
Source: HLTV.org