Immortals forfeit ECS matches

Immortals have forfeited their remaining matches in the Esports Championship Series (ECS), the league's organisers have announced.

In a tweet, ECS said that the Brazilian team were forced to forfeit their last four matches in the league due to not being able to field the majority of their registered roster for the competition.

Immortals were sitting next-to-last in the league, with a 3-11 record, and still had to face OpTic and Renegades. ECS has deemed the Brazilian team to have lost all of their matches 16-0 - meaning they will have to fight to keep their spot in the league in the promotion stage, in which they will face the top side of the Development League. 

All matches played by Immortals will be overturned

Following the departures of Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass and Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes to SK and Liquid, respectively, Immortals' active roster has been depleted to just four players. However, reports in Brazil suggest that Lucas "⁠destiny⁠" Bullo and Caio "⁠zqkS⁠" Fonseca have been denied entry into the United States due to visa issues and could be on their way out of the team.

João "⁠horvy⁠" Horvath and Bruno "⁠shz⁠" Martinelli have been heavily linked with Tempo Storm, who have given a strong indication that roster changes are close at hand after cutting ties with Lucas "⁠YJ⁠" Yuji.

Due to being unable to play with more than 60% of their original roster @Immortals have forfeited all of their #ECS4 maps.

— ECS (@ecsleague) November 21, 2017

Liquid #10 Lucas 'steel' LopesNick 'nitr0' CannellaJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken OpTic #15 Aleksi 'allu' JalliAdam 'friberg' FribergOscar 'mixwell' CañellasKevin 'HS' TarnEmil 'Magisk' Reif Lucas 'YJ' Yuji Age: 22 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 99 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.66 João 'horvy' Horvath Age: 19 Team: Immortals Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 82 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.68 Lucas 'steel' Lopes Age: 24 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 534 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.65 Caio 'zqkS' Fonseca Age: 25 Team: Immortals Rating 1.0: 0.94 Maps played: 213 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.67 Ricardo 'boltz' Prass Age: 20 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 670 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.64 Renegades #12 Justin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' WardKeith 'NAF' MarkovicKarlo 'USTILO' PivacNoah 'Nifty' Francis Tempo Storm #77 Paulo 'land1n' FelipeRicardo 's1' ShinjiDenis 'dzt' FischerAlef 'tatazin' Pereira SK #2 Ricardo 'boltz' PrassGabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo Immortals #78 Caio 'zqkS' FonsecaLucas 'destiny' BulloJoão 'horvy' HorvathBruno 'shz' Martinelli Bruno 'shz' Martinelli Age: 19 Team: Tempo Storm Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 251 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.67 Lucas 'destiny' Bullo Age: 20 Team: Immortals Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 323 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.71