Muffin Lightning will replace Echo Fox at the Americas Minor Championship for The ELEAGUE Major 2017, the tournament organizer announced on Thursday.

ELEAGUE has cited Echo Fox's sudden roster changes as the reason for their disqualification, while Muffin Lighting were chosen due to their performance in the closed qualifier to the Americas Minor. There, both Muffin Lightning and paiN Gaming shared 1-2 records from the group stage, but Muffin Lightning had a far better round differential score of -7, against paiN's -26.

Echo Fox announced yesterday that they were giving all their CS:GO players permission to explore their transfer options. Hours later both Shahzeb "ShahZam" Khan and Ronny "ryx" Bylicki announced their departure. Ryan "Freakazoid" Abadir is currently the only Echo Fox player to confirm his stay with the team as both Daniel "roca" Gustaferri and team captain Sean Gares are currently going over their options.

Here's the opening matches of the double-elimination bracket:

Cloud9 vs. Muffin Lightning

Immortals vs. Team SoloMid

The Americas Minor Championship features a $50,000 prize pool and will take place on Dec. 3-4. The Grand Finalists will progress to the ELEAGUE Major 2017 offline qualifier on Dec. 15-18.