The six teams that originally survived the third group stage phase were Virus, Global Challengers, Emocore, Monkeybusiness, GosuGamers and Moscow 5. However, Virus and Global Challengers expressed their inability to attend due to issues with getting visas as the offline playoffs occur too soon after the group stage. Emocore and GosuGamers also declined on financial grounds. The only teams left were the Danish team Monkey and the Russians in Moscow5.
Since then, Emocore have managed to secure their arrival after all, and will be joined by the teams who failed to make it through the final groupstage: Hard Team and Na`Vi. Hard Team was more or less picked up by the organisation DTS, with some slight roster changes. They will attend under the name DTS. Na`Vi will participate with a modified roster as well.
The final five and their rosters as follows:
monkey: miGGel, AngeL, Link, Ryze, CalculuS
Moscow5: PGG, NS, Dread, God, vigoss
Emocore: panterspot, Wagamama, Reesion, Mini, Doni
DTS: ArtStyle, McDeath, Funn1k, dubas, Plet Na`Vi: Dendi, XBOCT, LightofHeaven, Deff, Mag| ICSC 9 Finals Prizepool | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place | Prize | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 First | $3000 US | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 Second | $2000 US | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 Third | $1500 US | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| $500 US | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The event takes place in Kiev, this Saturday to Sunday. Stay tuned to GosuGamers for updates and replays.
Links
GosuGamers - Groupstage #3 summary
GosuGamers - Matches of the weekend's playoffs
Cyberarena - source
