MSI MGA: eStar Gaming nowhere to be found

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The MSI Masters Gaming Arena event has not yet begun, but it seems that one of the teams is already out of the running.

We are only hours, actually less than hours away from the start of the first international offline Heroes of the Storm event, but it seems that not all regions will actually be represented. We have heard talk of eStar Gaming not showing up to the venue in time. eStar Gaming is of course the top Chinese team that qualified for the event, but it now appears that they did not show up in time to play their first round match versus Cloud9. Their match is supposed to be the second match that is scheduled for today, and maybe eStar would have been able to play if they had been scheduled at a later time.

Currently we do not know the reason of the team missing their match, but we will report on it when we learn more.

Edit: It seems that after EDward Gaming being replaced by COGnitive Gaming because of visa issues, yet another Asian team has had to forfeit for the same reason:

[MSI MGA 2015] eStar Gaming, one of the HOTS team is not able to participated in the grand final due to the last minute visa issue. — MSI (@msitweets) August 28, 2015

It is a shame that eStar will not be able to compete for the MGA title, but we still have a plenty of amazing games that we can look forward to:

The first match will be between Tempo Storm and COGnitive Gaming, and will go live at 11:15 am PDT on http://www.twitch.tv/msigamingameu and www.twitch.tv/msigamingasia.

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