According to Fragbite, Giants sponsors are not able to pay the trip to Germany for the team and they won't be able to attend. Giants would have been in Group B together with SK, mousesports, Alternate, emuLate and MYM. Having money issues already puts a question mark above the team and organisation if they can attend later events.

In addition to that, it has been rumoured that Blank might also not attend since Rasmus 'GuX' Ståhl has joined fnatic. This would be the third team not attending the ESL Extreme Masters 3 Finals in Hannover, Germany next week. The ESL wrote about waiting for confirmation from teams being on the waiting list while Fragbite reports that GamePlay will attend.