[Dingobloo]

Image Credit: twitter.com/ostojiy and twitter.com/EGSuppy

Today, Chris 'Ostojiy' Ostojic announced that he will be unable to attend Blizzard's Battle.net World Championship in Shanghai, China on November 17-18. In a formal statement of withdrawal on Teamliquid.net and Reddit.com/r/starcraft he had the following statements:

Originally Posted by Ostojiy

I just wanted to make a formal post on my withdrawal from blizzard's WCS. I put a lot of effort into training and performing my best at WCS:Canada and WCS:North America, and these tournaments were probably two of my best, so making this call was really heartbreaking. Despite making the decision at the beginning of the year to put school ahead of gaming, when I was given a choice between going to one of the largest events in eSports history or likely failing a course and thus my program I was really quite torn. Ultimately there was nothing I could do to make it work with the administration so I was forced to withdraw. I apologize to everyone that supported me and was looking forward to seeing me play in China.

Blizzard announced on their updated "Who Will Be At BWC" post that he will be replaced by the second place consolation bracket finisher from the North American continental final: Conan 'Suppy' Liu.

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Who will be at BWC
BWC on Liquipedia
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[nirvAnA]

That course must have been very important for him to give up such an opportunity. Well he would fail his program if he didn't go. Its still nice to see how far some semi-competitive gamers can go with school and stuff.

Oh and suppy got a big break!

[TCPKiaSu]

aww so sad

[x5.NotoriouS]

Would be really sad for ostijy.. but at the same time I am a huge fan of Suppy and his stream so I like this news overall.

[jayaiwhy]

dat EG curse

4 players in WCS?

[SmirkToT]

Originally Posted by jayaiwhy

dat EG curse

4 players in WCS?

team liquid: zerO