Korean player Lee “Forev” Sang-don has been recently signed on as a substitute player for MVP.Phoenix for the upcoming Boston Major. Kim “QO” Seon-yeop, a member of the MVP.Phoenix squad, has stated that forev will be playin core. This new change has knocked Kim “Febby” Yong-min. Back into the support role. No official word has been released by the organization regarding which player he will be replacing.



Lee “Forev” Sang-don has been recently confirmed as an official substitute player for the Korean team, MVP.Phoenix. MVP.Phoenix is one eight teams that have been directly invited to the Boston Major.



Forev has appeared on the official roster page as a substitute, despite no official information from MVP organization regarding which player he will be replacing. What we know so far is that the korean player will return to his core role knocking Kim “Febby” Yong-min back into a support role.

The information regarding the swap-a-roo are based on teammate Kim “QO” Seon-yeop’s Twitter post:



1 sub player updating tmrw! — QO (@QOdota) November 8, 2016

forev will be playing core febby back to support — QO (@QOdota) November 10, 2016

Lee parted ways MVP.Phoenix when the post-TI6 roster changes were in full bloom, due to his contract expiring. He later joined Team Secret but he has left the team only a few days ago, being replaced by Maurice “KheZu” Gutmann.





The Boston Major substitutes



The korean player is not the only one to be confirmed as a substitute for the upcoming Fall Major.

Jaron “MonkeysForever” Clinton has been recently confirmed as a substitute for the North American team compLexity.gaming, for the upcoming Northerna Arena BEAT Invitational LAN, which will be held in Montreal. Jaron came as a substitute after forme coL player, Justin ‘jk’ Rosselle decided to part ways with the team during the series against Team NP for ESL One Genting 2017. It is yet uncertain if MonkeysForever will continue to play for the NA team in the upcoming Major.

Execration has also signed up Adam Erwann Shah “343” bin Akhtar Hussein as a core player within the team, moving Rafael “Rapy” Sicat Palo into the substitute role earlier this month. 343 will be playing alongside his new SEA teammates in the Fall Major.



This year’s roster rules allows for easier roster changes. Any player that is not attending the Boston Major is allowed to join any team that wishes to sign him up as a substitute. The substitute player may only swap with a primary player if the said primary player wishes so.



MVP.Phoenix



The post-TI6 roster changes had all MVP.Phoenix players sign new contracts if they wished to fight under the MVP banner. Out of the formed squad only Lee “Forev” Sang-don and Pyo “MP” No-a left, signing up with Team Secret while the Korean team retained three longstanding members – Kim “QO” Seon-yeop, Kim “Febby” Yong-min and Kim “DuBu” Doo-young.



The remaining, open spots were quickly filled by two known members within the organization – Kim “Velo” Tae-sung and Lee “Reisen” Jun-yeong who have been playing for MVP.Hot6ix.



Most recently the Koreans landed second place MPGL and 7-8th at MDL 2016.

MVP Phoenix official roster: