posted by Blue_Knight,
The withdrawal of the two teams - who were respectively the first and final to qualify for the main event - follows the earlier withdrawal of Virtus.Pro, who were forced to pull out due to passport issues.
Personal issues were cited as the cause of qojqva's sudden withdrawal, whereas understandable financial issues were blamed for WhA's non-attendance, as explained by their manager Peter 'Pedda' Kolaska:
We are really sorry to tell you That we can not attend to Thor Open. We qualified as first team for this event and we were really excited about this Lan and hoped to place really good there. Never the less after All Those troubles with H2K and DreamHack qualification, we are not Able to Participate at Thor Open due to financial problems. During and After Dreamhack we tried to find a solution to go to Stockholm, unfortunately without success. We still have no sponsor, but we hope this will change in the future! Shoutout to our friends and fans! You are great!"
Fortunately for the event, replacements for all three teams have already been sought, with 4 Friends + Chrillee replacing the Russian squad, and now two more Swedish squads taking up the remaining unfulfilled slots: Out of Tangos and Gam.DotA.
The THOR Open finals take place this weekend, on the 8th and 9th of December in Kistamässan, Sweden, and the eight teams will be fighting for a slice of the 130,000 SEK (approximately $18,000) prize pool.
Participants
No Tidehunter
ROOT gaming
Meet Your Makers
4FC
Pulse E-sports
Fnatic.EU
Out of Tangos
Gam.DotA
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