The news of Tricked not participating in the competition comes shortly after the announcement of two other big teams withdrawing: CR4ZY and HellRaisers. To replace Tricked, the European Champions Cup organizers have invited Gambit Youngsters, currently ranked #32.

sh1ro and co. replace the Danes in the European Champions Cup
Gambit Youngsters have recently qualified for the $60,000 MSI MGA 2019 Finals in New York, with the European Champions Cup providing additional exposure to the young squad. The team featuring Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov, Sergey "Ax1Le" Rykhtorov and Anton "supra" Tšernobai are placed in group A alongside Major finalist and BLAST Pro Series Moscow winners AVANGAR, as well as BIG and Illuminar.
The $60,000 European Champions Cup will start on September 16, with the four teams that will go to the LAN final with a separate, yet-unannounced prize pool set to be decided by November 23.
The groups for the European Champions Cup are as follows:
Group A
AVANGAR

Gambit Youngsters

BIG

Illuminar
Group B
DreamEaters

OpTic

Movistar Riders

Sprout
Group C
HEROIC

FORZE

GamerLegion

Heretics
Group D
Syman

Windigo

Spirit

SMASH


FORZE #20


Dmitriy 'facecrack' Alekseyev

Almaz 'almazer' Asadullin

Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev

Bogdan 'xsepower' Chernikov

Andrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov


OpTic #22


René 'cajunb' Borg

Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen

Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke

Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensen

René 'TeSeS' Madsen


DreamEaters #19


Semyon 'kinqie' Lisitsyn

Svyatoslav 'svyat' Dovbakh

Vladislav 'Krad' Kravchenko

Anton 'speed4k' Titov

Igor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy



BIG #24



Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz

Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch

Johannes 'nex' Maget

Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş

Owen 'smooya' Butterfield


GamerLegion #34


Dennis 'dennis' Edman

Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom

Kevin 'HS' Tarn

Hampus 'hampus' Poser

Tim 'nawwk' Jonasson


Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov

Age: 17 Team: Gambit Youngsters Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 206 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.66


Tricked #25


Nicolai 'HUNDEN' Petersen

Lucas 'Bubzkji' Andersen

Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand

Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck

Fredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen


Movistar Riders #53


Rajohn 'EasTor' Linato

Aitor 'SOKER' Fernández

Alejandro 'alex' Masanet

Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano

Raúl 'DeathZz' Jordán Nieto


Spirit #40


Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov

Dmitry 'S0tF1k' Forostyanko

Pavel 'COLDYY1' Veklenko

Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev

Artem 'iDISBALANCE' Egorov


Heretics #28


David 'Davidp' Prins

Logan 'LOGAN' Corti

Bryan 'Maka' Canda

Gaëtan 'JiNKZ' Jamin

Jérémy 'jeyN' Nguyen


AVANGAR #6


Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev

Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev

Timur 'buster' Tulepov

Alexey 'Qikert' Golubev

Dzhami 'Jame' Ali


Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov

Age: 18 Team: Gambit Youngsters Rating 1.0: 1.20 Maps played: 143 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.58


Syman #23


Maksim 't0rick' Zaikin

Ramazan 'Ramz1kBO$$' Bashizov

Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov

Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus

Ilya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy


CR4ZY #12


Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač

Nestor 'LETN1' Tanić

Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković

Otto 'ottoNd' Sihvo

Rokas 'EspiranTo' Milasauskas


HellRaisers



SMASH #36


Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill

Jesse 'zehN' Linjala

Martin 'STYKO' Styk

Kevin 'kRYSTAL' Amend

Pavle 'Maden' Bošković


Windigo #227


Kamen 'bubble' Kostadinov

Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın

Ali 'hAdji' Haïnouss

Valentin 'poizon' Vasilev


Sprout #33


Florian 'syrsoN' Rische

Timo 'Spiidi' Richter

Denis 'denis' Howell

Nils 'k1to' Gruhne

Josef 'faveN' Baumann


Illuminar #49


Paweł 'innocent' Mocek

Paweł 'reatz' Jańczak

Oskar 'oskarish' Stenborowski

Michał 'mono' Gabszewicz

Daniel 'STOMP' Płomiński



HEROIC #17



Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer

Patrick 'es3tag' Hansen

Johannes 'b0RUP' Borup

Martin 'stavn' Lund

Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer


Anton 'supra' Tšernobai

Age: 17 Team: Gambit Youngsters Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 96 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.67


Gambit Youngsters #32


Timofey 'interz' Yakushin

Anton 'supra' Tšernobai

Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov

Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov

Vladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov