Today ESL confirmed 5 of the 8 teams that will be in attendance at the IEM: Asian Championship Finals in Taipei.
The 5 confirmed teams are:
TitaNs
Prasad 'StrykerX' Paramajothi Sean 'syck' Lau Li Zeng 'techduck' Cong Chan Kar 'extreMe' Chun Andrew 'bali' Joseph |
DuskBin
Jan 'pixl' Li Wai-Lun 'protege' Wong Kwun-Fung 'fungbi' Lau Kwan-Yeung 'perhaps' Tam Siu-Yin 'aumei' Cheng |
WeMadeFox
Sun-Ho 'termi' Pyun Sung-Jae 'bail' Lee Seung-Wook 'GARSIA' Lee Min-Soo 'glow' Kim Keun-Chul 'solo' Kang |
Immunity
Miles 'rizE' O'Connor Gareth 'gazR' Lynn Fergus 'ferg' Stephenson Mike 'Apoc' Aliferis Otis 'pupajoN' Duncan |
UMX-Gaming
Tsung-Kai 'Evant' Chen Tzu-An 'CedriK' Chen Chia-Heng 'Kandinsky'Chen Yen-Jui 'Nitor' Liu Yu-Chung 'Nevan' Chang |
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Although ESL's press release indicate the 3 remaining teams will be announced next week, PCGames.com.cn have published the original invite list which include
XCN and both the
TyLoo teams, one of them being the ex-wNv squad.
However according to PCG,
TyLoo have not completed their visa's to Taiwan which will mean their spot will be filled by two local teams instead. A news announcement made on the UMX-Gaming website further confirms these claims by asking for local teams to apply for the event.
This comes as good news for
Immunity as they will only be underdogs to the Koreans and should hopefully secure themselves a spot in the IEM Global Finals by finishing top 2.
Source
UMX-Gaming
PCGames.com.cn
in regards to tyloo; i think theyre somewhere in asia currently doing Arbalet cup with the russians and wemadefox, maybe they just couldn't budget or make it in time for IEM. Others say that the organisation is dieing. It's a bit of a shame, but atleast it opens up more chance of us getting to global finals!
So it looks like it could be a 3 horse race with iM,WMF,Titans - with 2 spots available