The Electronic Sports League has announced that Serious Gaming's Nikita "NapS" Shatokhin has been booted from the Extreme Masters cup due to having too many pentalty points.

Shatokhin earned his 10th minor penalty point for being late for his recent match verse World Elite Europe's Dimitar "DIDI8" Aleksandrov. Both his matches and the penalties given to his opponents will be deleted. Shatokhin's earlier opponent, Yoan "ToD" Merlo, will not only get his penalties reduced from 3 to 1, but also get back the wildcard he used.

Other minor penalty points Shatokhin has recieved throughout the cup have been from such things as missing his date of birth and providing a match statement too late.

22 players remain in the Extreme Masters WarCraft III cup.