Photo by: ESFIWorld, TeamLiquid

Team Liquid player Jos "Ret" de Kroon is unable to take part in this week's Intel Extreme Masters World Championships. Ukrainian Protoss Aleksey "White-Ra" Krupnyk will, based on the IEM season rankings, fly in to replace Ret in Group B.

White-Ra was the player fifth in line to replace a player in the event. ESL notes that Revival, TOP, TT1 and Naniwa all were unable to attend on short notice.

IEM World Championship Group Stage
Group AGroup B
Violet00:0 MC00:0
MMA00:0 Elfi00:0
JYP00:0 Sound00:0
Killer00:0 White-Ra00:0
Socke00:0 HasuObs00:0
Strelok00:0 Nerchio00:0
Group CGroup D
Puma00:0 Idra00:0
Dimaga00:0 DarkForce00:0
Mana00:0 Supernova00:0
Killer00:0 Kas00:0
Zenio00:0 Real00:0
Select00:0 Feast00:0