Royal Bandits to miss eXTREMESLAND due to visa issues

Royal Bandits have informed the Chinese organizers that they will not be attending the Shanghai event next week, due to visa problems for the Turkish side.

The news takes place after the eXTREMESLAND groups had been revealed, visa issues are no stranger to the Turkish scene following several examples in the past including HellRaisers star Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker.

Most recently, Space Soldiers were forced to field their coach Canpolat "⁠hardstyle⁠" Yıldıran as a stand-in at the
recent FACEIT Major, while Engin "⁠ngiN⁠" Kor had to miss out for the exact same reason.

SasuKe and co. will miss out on eXTREMESLAND

Despite Royal Bandits' efforts, the Turkish organisation were told by the embassy it was impossible for them to acquire the Chinese visas in time to compete (including the express method).

This was the first time eXTREMESLAND hosted a Turkish qualifier, which saw Ufuk "⁠SasuKe⁠" Göktaş's crew win the grand final, 2-0, over Bursaspor Espor last month. They were set to face TNC at the main event in Group D, alongside BOOT-d[S] and XCN.

The tournament organizers have informed HLTV.org that there will be no replacements. Therefore, the current team list will be reduced to the following fifteen teams:

Sad Story
MVP PK
TNC
Chiefs
D13
Flash
Beyond
SCARZ Absolute FrostFire
Revolution
XCN
OpTic India
NASR
5POWER
BOOT-d[S] Engin 'ngiN' Kor Age: 25 Team: Space Soldiers Rating 1.0: 0.93 Maps played: 624 KPR: 0.61 DPR: 0.63 NASR Love 'havoK' ParasObaid 'breAker' Al-MuhairiFayez 'cheK' SaifAbdulaziz 'Nami' Al-HammadiMohammed 'k1tkat' Al-Nuaimi Beyond #117 Tosapol 'TOR' SaekowPeeratch 'Olivia' IngkudanondaThotsaphon 'cbbk' SuphatthanaphalaphonAnupong 'stk' MueangngamKritthee 'Geniuss' Sawatmuang Royal Bandits #104 Ufuk 'SasuKe' GöktaşMuhammed 'mini' SalmanÖzgürcan 'SARANOSTRA' BirinciCüneyd 'hatex' BaşÖmer 'imoRR' Karataş Flash #75 YuLun 'Summer' CaiYuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengKunHua 'LOVEYY' BaiYangYang 'ayaya' Zheng 5POWER #68 Gan-Erdene 'dobu' BatboldBat-Enkh 'kabal' BatbayarZhiHai 'QKA' FuPeng 'xiaosaGe' SongWei 'shuadapai' Wang Space Soldiers #20 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınAhmet 'paz' KarahocaEngin 'ngiN' Kor Canpolat 'hardstyle' Yıldıran Age: 35 Team: ex-Space SoldiersC Chiefs Kyran 'dizzyLife' CrombieTyler 'tucks' ReillySam 'flickz' JonesMatthew 'Texta' O'Rourke FrostFire #122 Aiman 'aimaNNN' AzhamAshraf 'acAp' FirdausAzim 'CHAPMAN' ShaharudinKhalish 'd4v41' RusyaideeShamir 'Subbey' Zaman Revolution D13 #136 Munkhtamir 'tamir' GanbaatarTemuulen 'temk4wow' ByambasurenTelmen 'shinobi' BatzorigBoldbaatar 'rate' TengisEnkhmanlai 'world' Batbayar Sad Story SCARZ Absolute #83 Koji 'Laz' UshidaTomoaki 'crow' MaruokaRyo 'barce' TakebayashiShibasaki 'poem' YumekiTakemori 'takej' Shogo BOOT-d[S] #56 Nevin 'splashske' AwBenedict 'Benkai' TanAnthony 'ImpressioN' LimKumaresan 'Tommy' RamaniAlikhan 'w1nt3r' Kopzhanov XCN #180 Tejas 'Ace' SawantWindi 'wnd' HalimAdrian 'adrnking' SetiawanGary 'blaZek1ng' DastinWilliam 'kr0' Adinata MVP PK #28 Keun-Chul 'solo' KangMin-Soo 'glow' KimMin-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeSeon-Ho 'xeta' Son Ufuk 'SasuKe' Göktaş Age: 22 Team: Royal Bandits Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 301 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.71 Özgür 'woxic' Eker Age: 20 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.15 Maps played: 527 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.62 HellRaisers #11 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowVladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBence 'DeadFox' BöröczIssa 'ISSAA' Murad OpTic India #141 Agneya 'Marzil' KoushikSabyasachi 'Antidote' BoseNikhil 'forsaken' KumawatLukas 'yb' GröningVishal 'haiVaan' Sharma TNC #131 Chris 'Pro.' MartirJim 'BORKUM' TimbrezaRiley 'witz' GoDeko 'Papichulo' EvangelistaKenny 'kenzyy' Cruz