The ESL Pro Series Scandinavia will not see FnaticMSI.CS attend.

We are sad to announce that the FnaticMSI Counter-Strike squad have decided not to attend the ESL Pro Series Scandinavia. This would have been the third EPS season to see our team attend, but due to circumstances the team have pulled out.

The team's captain, Patrik 'cArn' Sattermon gave an explanation on the team its reasoning:

"It was a tough call for us to pull back from the upcoming EPS season after two seasons in which both we ended up in the Grand-finals. The reason for our withdrawal is that we can't justify allocating the necessary time for an online league,  with several important offline events around the corner.
I truly believe in the concept of having local leagues where new teams and players can blossom, but at this stage we will not have the time to support the league. 
We wish ESL the best of luck running the league and let´s hope it will run smoother than season 2 who suffered from many unfortunate problems."

"It was a tough call for us to pull back from the upcoming EPS season after two seasons in which both we ended up in the grand final.The reason for our withdrawal is that we can't justify allocating the necessary time for an online league, with several important offline events around the corner.

I truly believe in the concept of having local leagues where new teams and players can blossom, but at this stage we will not have the time to support the league. 

We wish ESL the best of luck running and I truly hope there won´t be as much trouble in the upcoming season as in the second, where me and my team suffered a lot from DDos attacks, which contributed to some of our losses in the latter part of the season."

This leaves the EPS Scandinavia league to these eleven teams:

 SK Gaming
 Swedish Housemafia
 Lions
 mTw
 No problem!
 dakarma
 teamteam
 CHEAP TIMES
 ArcticNova
 ONLINE-KINGDOM
 PlayZone.fi