Area51 and SK.fe miss IEM America

Another two teams have announced that they will not make it to New York City for the IEM5 American Championship Finals this weekend.

Just two days ago, we reported that Backfire had cancelled their participation for the event and that SK female would replace them. Today it became known that Canadian representative Area51 and the ladies from SK female will not attend the event due to "multiple problems", ESL proclaims.

Filling in for Area51 in Group A is mamazkillaz, while viGor will replace SK female in Group B. It has also turned out that mLgaming, who replaced Artyk, will not be able to attend and has been replaced by dynamic.

This means that the groups for the IEM5 American Championship Finals are as follows:

Group A	Group B
compLexity	Evil Geniuses
Desire 2 Excel	DINC
dynamic	Excello
mamazkillaz	viGor

The tournament will kick off Friday at 16:10CET, where the first matches of Group A will be played. Group B will enter the tournament at 21:15CET.

Playoffs will commence Saturday, while the Grand Final (broadcasted by ESL TV) and the third/fourth-place decider will be played Sunday.