VG.Flash's coach Zhenghui "z8z" Liu will act as a temporary replacement for YuanZhang "Attacker" Sheng, who has injured himself recently. After VG.Flash defeated BTRG and 5POWER in the DreamHack Masters Stockholm 2018 China closed qualifier, they were set to face their domestic rival TYLOO in the upper bracket final. Around the starting time, VG.Flash revealed on Weibo that Attacker "was being treated at the hospital due to his physical condition" and z8z would temporarily stand in for him. Afterwards, the Chinese squad was eliminated from the event following 2-0 losses to TYLOO and CyberZen.  According to sources close to the Chinese player, Attacker injured his foot while playing basketball, and "is unable to move". As a consequence, he will not be able to attend the Asia Minor next week in London. VG.Flash's roster for the upcoming event is:
  Zhenghui 'z8z' Liu  Age: 29 Team: VG.FlashC YuLun 'Summer' Cai  Age: 21 Team: VG.Flash Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 618 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.64   5POWER #91 Lei 'forget' Li Gan-Erdene 'dobu' BatboldBat-Enkh 'kabal' BatbayarPeng 'xiaosaGe' Song Kitikawin 'PTC' Rattanasukol  WingHei 'Freeman' Cheung  Age: 18 Team: VG.Flash Rating 1.0: 1.20 Maps played: 376 KPR: 0.81 DPR: 0.63 YuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng  Age: 21 Team: VG.Flash Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 615 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.66 WeiJie 'zhokiNg' Zhong  Age: 24 Team: VG.Flash Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 711 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.69  BTRG VG.Flash #53 YuLun 'Summer' CaiYuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengWeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongKunHua 'LOVEYY' BaiWingHei 'Freeman' Cheung KunHua 'LOVEYY' Bai  Age: 29 Team: VG.Flash Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 596 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.68  CyberZen #111 Bin 'Savage' LiuBingYuan 'tb' LiZhen 'HZ' HuangQingYu 'Monster' DengLifan 'Viva' Ran  TYLOO #16 Ke 'captainMo' LiuHui 'DD' Wu Hansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto |