According to NiceZ.com, the ESWC organisation would not finance Dragon's trip to the United States, which has made the Chinese runner-up cancel its participation.

The Chinese news website further claims that the team's manager, tiger, has retired, which also lead to this decision.

EYESports, who was drawn in Group C, along with the likes of mousesports and LowandLions, has confirmed to GotFrag.com that it won't attend this year's ESWC finals.

Despite winning the local qualifier, proplay.ru would not pay EYESports' expenses from the trip to California.

"The organisers of the tournament, proplay.ru, would not pay the trip to the winners," Ivan "Xenitron" Totsky told GotFrag.com.

"Our organisation does not have the money to send us to the United States."

These two dropouts leave groups A and C with just four teams.