Cloud 9 pull out of Nanyang Championships, due to 1437’s passport impediments

Cloud 9 were forced to pull out of the Nanyang Championships main event, due to Theeban “1437” Siva’s lack of time to sort out travel requirements. Cloud 9 will be replaced by the regional qualifiers’ runners-up, Digital Chaos. The Nanyang Championships main event is scheduled to take place at the Suntec Convention and Event Centre, in Singapore, between October 26th and November 1st.

According to the information published by Chinese website fight.pcgames.com.cn, citing “Nanyang officials”, North-American team Cloud 9 – winner of the regional Nanyang Championships qualifiers – was forced to withdraw from the main event, due to Theeban “1437” Siva’s failure to renew his passport in short order, and thus his inability to travel to Singapore.

Cloud 9 will be replaced by the Nanyang Championship regional qualifiers’ runners-up, Digital Chaos.

The information has been confirmed by Beyond the Summit commentator, David “GoDz” Parker, on Twitter.

Cloud 9 had qualified for the Nanyang Championships main event, after taking down Digital Chaos, 3:0, in the Americas qualifiers’ finals.

Although the team had secured a main event spot more than one month ago, their participation in the Frankfurt Major regional qualifiers and their trip to New Orleans for the MLG World Finals left Theeban “1437” Siva with too little time to handle the travel requirements for Singapore.

Nanyang Championships participating teams

Directly invited teams:

• Fnatic
• Virtus.Pro
• Team Secret
• ViCi Gaming
• LGD Gaming
• CDEC

Qualified teams:

• Digital Chaos – Americas qualifiers runner-up
• EHOME – Winner of the Chinese qualifiers
• Team Liquid – Winner of the European qualifiers
• Mineski – Winner of the Southeast Asian (Korea included) qualifiers

Cloud 9

After their previous Dota 2 squad disbanded on August 14th, Cloud 9 have decided to pick up the North-American team “Dark Horse”, just in time to meet the registration deadline for the first Dota 2 Major.

The squad grabbed their first championship title at the BTS Series Americas #2.

They have qualified for the Nanyang Championships LAN and, also, for the MLG World Finals.

Cloud 9 have recently qualified for the Frankfurt Major.

Cloud 9 roster:

Theeban “1437” Siva
Arif “MSS” Anwar
Braxton “Brax” Paulson
Ravi “Ritsu” Kodippili
Avery “SVG” Silverman