Tyloo's road to the ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 has come to an unexpected end thanks to some visa issues with one of its players, according to official announcements. The third place team in the Asia Minor, Flash Gaming, will instead take their place.
As the Boston Major is right around the corner to get started the first big problem shows up as TyLoo, who qualified by taking the second place in the Asia Minor, has bowed out of the tournament due to "BnTeT" Ferdinand being unable to acquire a visa in time. TyLoo had been trying to get their former coach Luis "peacemaker" Tadeu to be the replacement, since he was the only option because of current rules of stand-in players which only allow their coach to be their fifth player, but they couldn't reach an agreement. Tyloo originally announced the issue with BnTeT on December 15.
TyLoo is not the only team affected by these rules and we will be seeing teams like SK and Liquid using different players from their current line up: SK will play with Felps instead of Boltz and Liquid will play with their coach Zews instead of Steel.
Originally, Flash made a couple changes to their roster and benched QiFang "Karsa" Su and KunHua "LOVEYY" Bai who were replaced by WeiJia "INNOPY" Guo and Zhe "Ayeon" Yang, but because of the current rules they will be playing with the exactly same team from the Asia Minor championship:
YuLun "fancy1" Cai
YuanZhang "AttackeR" Sheng
Andrew "kaze" Khong
QiFang "Karsa" Su
KunHua "LOVEYY" Bai
Zhenghui "z8z" Liu - coach
In the Asia Minor, the team lost to TyLoo in the Lower Bracket Final 2-1, with TyLoo taking Inferno with ease before Flash responded with a win on Cache. On Cobblestone, Flash almost completed a reverse sweep but were foiled by a fantastic CT side from TyLoo, ending their dreams of going to Boston... or, at least, so they thought.
This will be Flash Gaming's first opportunity at a CS:GO Major championship but some of their players have already attended a Major Qualifier before - fancy1, AttackeR and then-coach Karsa, who played both ESL One: Cologne 2016 and ELEAGUE Major: Atlanta 2017 qualifiers for TyLoo and finished respectively with a 2:3 and 1:3 win/loss score when they needed a total of three wins to advance to the Major.
This is the first time a CS:GO Major will have 24 teams officially attending and Flash Gaming will initially take part on the "New Challengers Stage," which will define the eight teams who will fight for the title against the eight legends from the previous Major "PGL Kraków 2017."
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