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MDL champions withdraw from DreamLeague following release of dates for Valve's Boston Major MDL champions withdraw from DreamLeague following release of dates for Valve's Boston Major

We have declined our invitation to DreamLeague S6. The timing of Boston Major would have meant unreasonable travel during the lead up weeks. — Evil Geniuses (@EvilGeniuses) October 6, 2016

@LDdota @Hellspawnlord we will not quit and we will not back down. Forward is the only way for us #DHdreamleague — milton (@michaelfux) 6 October 2016

The delayed announcement of the dates for the Boston Major, has now led to three of the four biggest names signed up to the upcoming DreamLeague season deciding to withdraw from the competition. The three teams to withdraw are Team Secret andThe winners of MDL Evil Geniuses withdrawMDL Autumn 2016 came to a close on Sunday and today winners Evil Geniuses announced their departure from DreamLeague Season 6, citing "unreasonable travel during the lead up weeks".At MDL the team looked like a well oiled DOTA playing machine, meshing well already with new team mateAndreas ' Cr1t- ' Nielsen, and new-again-againArtour ' Arteezy ' Babaev. Having placed 3rd at TI it seems probable that they could receive a direct invite, but it appears they do not want to take the risk should they face qualifiers.Team Secret send their apologies to DreamLeagueThe latest iteration of Team Secret surprised many by picking up 3 players from the SEA region in the form of promising midYeik Nai ' MidOne ' Zheng, and MVP duoPyo ' MP ' Noa andSang-Don ' FoREv ' Lee.Since then they have played minimal officials, only partaking in MDL Autumn last week. There they secured a respectable fourth position. DreamLeague was to be the stage of their next set of officials but the team has decided that the dates of the LAN stage is too close to the upcoming major for them to take part in the tournament, saying "Apologies to DreamLeague and our Swedish fans" on Twitter.OG, Reigning champs and winners of S4 and S5 also pull out OG , whose new midAnathan ' Ana ' Pham made headlines today complete the trio of drop outs. The team has undergone major changes like Secret, pulling 3 new players in.It seems to have worked out and the new roster performed well at MDL showcasing their talent, showing their TI result to be nothing more than a slip-up. Like Secret their attendance at Boston does not seem guaranteed due to a lack of result to truly judge the team on.A major hit to DreamLeagueThis is without a shadow of a doubt a massive blow to DreamLeague. The sixth season of the Swedish competition had on paper all the top teams in EU and NA with the exception of TI6 runners-up Digital Chaos.The loss of these three headline teams could force the hand of other teams to follow suit, Team Liquid being one possible candidate. Furthermore the withdraw of EG, Secret and OG will undoubtably have a significant impact on viewership of the tournament and general interest in the online and offline stage of the sixth season of DreamLeague.DreamLeague told joinDOTA they plan to release the names of the three replacement teams tomorrow, so the show will go on with 8 competing teams when the new season starts next week on the 11th October.