The Chinese representatives iG and LGD will be unable to travel to Sweden and participate in DreamLeague's offline phase. The organization will now attempt to replace these teams with two participants from their four groups. Rave have already declined the invitation.
The organizers for the second season of the DreamLeague cannot seem to catch a break as yet another problem arises. Chinese qualifiers Invictus Gaming and LGD-Gaming have gotten their visas denied and are thus not able to travel to Sweden to attend the tournament. Replacements are looked into. Invictus Gaming and LGD-Gaming have both gotten their visas denied and will not be able to attend the LAN portion of the DreamLeague season 2.
LGD and IG have got their VISA application denied. We are right now looking for replacements in the league. Update will come when we have it
— ASUS ROG DreamLeague (@DHDreamLeague) November 14, 2014
Bruno 'Statsman Bruno' Carlucci has stated on reddit that the organizers will first look into the other teams from the Asian division, which would only leave MVP.Phoenix as Rave has apparently already declined the invitation. Considering the fact that MVP is currently attending the IeSF, they will either have to stay in Europe until late November or travel back to South Korea and return to Europe in two weeks. If MVP refuse to participate in DreamLeague finals, the organization will ask teams from the other groups, starting with the third placers Alliance and Sneaky Nyx Assassins.
Although there is no official explanation regarding the visa issues of LGD and iG, apparently the two clubs could not provide sufficient documents to explain the reason behind their visa request. It seems as if neither had hardcopies of their invitations to Sweden and iG also seemed to not provide sufficient amount of information regarding their solvency, as well as not providing information regarding a return flight. Nevertheless, this will probably not affect the teams' participation in other international events such as The Summit 2, which would take place in December (LGD recently posted a youtube video requesting an invitation to The Summit).
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