Earlier today, Fnatic announced that Chai "Mushi" Yee Fung was returning to his role on their primary roster and consequently Wai "Net" Pern Lim was leaving the team. According to a followup statement from Fnatic's manager Eric "ReiNNNN" Khor, this will not affect the team's invite to The Manila Major.

Some clarification on our roster change



Read: https://t.co/0EKHimCoGV — Eric Khor (ReiNNNN) (@ReiNNNN) May 7, 2016

Fans first started speculating that Fnatic may have jeopardized their invite to The Manila Major based on a rule on Valve's Major registration website, which states that teams can't kick a player or release them from a roster once they have been registered.

However, Khor clarified that Fnatic has not terminated Net's contract or traded him, but has swapped him to a substitute position, and is allowing him to play with other teams. He said Fnatic cleared this move with Valve before the decision was announced.

According to Khor, a similar situation arose when Chan "WinteR" Litt-Binn left Fnatic's sub role to join Mineski-X ahead of The Shanghai Major, and this was allowed by Valve because "the sub of each team will be able to play for any teams given that they start from the open qualifiers." Net remains under contract with Fnatic, but the organization is allowing him to seek out other teams to practice and play with in the meantime.

Due to the current roster lock, which extends to The International 6, any team that picks up Net for TI6 qualifiers will have to fight through the open qualifiers.

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