The Electronic Sports World Cup has recently reported some disturbing news regarding the recently concluded Canadian preliminary qualifiers. The press release states that the Canada qualifier "has been removed temporarily from the ESWC website until the company holder of the Canadian qualifier licence for 2006, submit to its contractual obligations regarding the ESWC OC and the qualified teams and players."

As a result, all information regarding the Canadian qualifiers have been removed from the ESWC website. It is unsure as to how this will effect the competitors that have successfully qualified to compete at the ESWC Grand Finals this summer in Paris, France. Please stay tuned to GotFrag as this situation develops and we will update this as more information is received from the parties involved.

Electronic Sports World Cup | Press Release

To date the Canadian preliminaries process is suspended and the information concerning ESWC Canada has been removed temporarily from the ESWC website until the company holder of the Canadian qualifier licence for 2006, submit to its contractual obligations regarding the ESWC OC and the qualified teams and players.

ESWC OC want insure that the gaming operator of the event Lan ETS is not related to this issue and that every effort to resolve the issue in favour of the players are made.