"Virtus.Pro is a Russian project," - states Mikhail Seleckiy, one of the organizers of the Ukrainian ESWC.

"We are interested in a local team winning it, therefore we are now discussing the possibility of banning Virtus from the preliminaries," he continues and also adds the fact that the global ESWC headquarters are also analyzing this hot topic.

Dmitry "Dilvish" Smith, WCG Russia head organiser mentioned:

"I don't know the real reason behind all this. I know that Russian and Ukrainian Intel offices are now negotiating with ESWC and trying to make Virtus.Pro's presence in the preliminaries possible."

After the addition of Mykhailo 'Kane' Blagin, Virtus.Pro now has three Ukrainian players in its roster and therefore should be considered as a Ukrainian team by the ESWC committee.

Virtus.Pro

Ioan 'Edward' Sukhariev
Mykhailo 'Kane' Blagin
Alexey 'LeX' Kolesnikov
Roman 'ROMJKE' Makarov
Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko

Source: GoodGame.ru