Due to travel issues on their return from StarSeries i-League S8, FURIA was forced to drop out of ECS Season 8 Week 5 and will be replaced by TeamOne.

Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan's team impressed at the last ECS Finals event in June, finishing second to Vitality, but will not be able to play for a slot at ECS Season 8 Finals this week due to travel issues on their way back from Belek, Turkey, where StarSeries i-League Season 8 was held.

FURIA had to pull out of the final ECS week due to travel issues

Their countrymen TeamOne, currently ranked #65, will be stepping in and taking on ex-Singularity in the quarter-finals of the final ECS cup of this season. Meanwhile, Complexity has also pulled out of competition, with their replacement The Quest set to take on MIBR.

The quarter-final matchups for ECS Season 8 North America Week 5 are now as follows:

TeamOne vs. ex-Singularity
INTZ vs. eUnited
ATK vs. Riot Squad
MIBR vs. The Quest

The team list for the ECS Season 8 Finals is now missing just two names, which will be decided this week:

Astralis
AVANGAR
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Week 5 Liquid
Evil Geniuses
Sharks
Week 5 INTZ #47 Alexandre 'xand' ZiziLucas 'destiny' BulloGustavo 'yel' KnittelMarcelo 'chelo' CespedesBruno 'shz' Martinelli Evil Geniuses #3 Peter 'stanislaw' JarguzTarik 'tarik' CelikVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov The Quest #57 Jack 'xCeeD' HolimanLogan 'Voltage' LongRyan 'Snakes' AmannMichael 'Grim' WinceGabe 'Spongey' Greiner Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif ATK #32 Aran 'Sonic' GroesbeekJohnny 'JT' TheodosiouRicky 'floppy' KemeryIan 'motm' HardyJosh 'oSee' Ohm TeamOne #65 Bruno 'BIT' Fukuda LimaVictor 'bld' RochaPedro 'Maluk3' CamposAlencar 'trk' RossatoBruno 'b4rtiN' Câmara eUnited #38 Ryan 'freakazoid' AbadirVictor 'food' WongEdgar 'MarKE' MaldonadoAnthony 'vanity' MalaspinaAustin 'Cooper' Abadir ex-Singularity Andrei 'arT' Piovezan Age: 23 Team: FURIA Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 539 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.69 Sharks #28 Raphael 'exit' LacerdaLeonardo 'leo_drk' OliveiraJhonatan 'jnt' SilvaIgnacio 'meyern' MeyerLuca 'Luken' Nadotti MIBR #14 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoVito 'kNgV-' GiuseppeFernando 'fer' AlvarengaLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo Complexity #31 William 'RUSH' WierzbaShahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanRory 'dephh' JacksonOwen 'oBo' SchlatterBenjamin 'blameF' Bremer Vitality #5 Richard 'shox' PapillonCédric 'RpK' GuipouyDan 'apEX' MadesclaireAlex 'ALEX' McMeekinMathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut AVANGAR #6 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevSanjar 'SANJI' KulievTimur 'buster' TulepovAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' Ali Liquid #2 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiJake 'Stewie2K' YipRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken FURIA #12 Henrique 'HEN1' TelesAndrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato Ninjas in Pyjamas #11 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergSimon 'twist' EliassonJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonFredrik 'REZ' SternerNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora Riot Squad #53 Pujan 'FNS' MehtaPeter 'ptr' GurneyMitch 'mitch' SemagoJonathan 'Jonji' CareyAustin 'crashies' Roberts