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　　After a dominating day 1 in the North American Promotion group stage, Quantic Gaming's all Korean lineup was sitting at the top of the group with a 2-0 record. Heavily favoured going into day 2, the team disappointed fans with a 0-3 performance, leaving the fate of their placement in the hands of their opponents. With only four games left in the round robin group stage on the final day, Quantic had a 31% probability of finishing in a tiebreaker scenario for third place and having another chance at the final spot in the next round of the Promotion tournament. Quantic fans stormed the Twitch chat, rooting for the teams that would help their favorite team get another shot at continuing towards a LCS position. After the first game of the day, Quantic’s chances lowered to 25% with TBD beating vVV gaming. Quantic needed The Walking Zed to drop their next two games to get a chance at a tiebreaker, but TWZ didn’t falter and picked up their first match of the day against compLexity Gaming. Quantic is now headed home after their brief stint in America, or were they already on their way?

　　@alexpenn can confirm quantic was flying home sunday, so even if the tiebreaker happened they wernt playing

　　— Phy (@lePHYathan) December 10, 2013

　　@lePHYathan @alexpenn I can confirm the confirmation. Visas had expired.

　　— Forrest (@QuanticForrest) December 10, 2013

　　According to compLexity Gaming's LoL manager, Phy, tweets mentioning that Quantic was already flying home on Sunday and would not have even competed in the tiebreaker if it had happened. News to Quantic fans as they had been rooting for a scenario that would allow Quantic to compete and possibly proceed to the next round of the Promotion tournament at the Riot Studios in LA.

　　Quantic Gaming's LoL Analyst and Research chimed in, claiming that visas were the reason that the players were forced to leave on Sunday before a potential tiebreaker scenario could have even happened. This explains why Quantic played all five of their games on Friday and Saturday as opposed to having them spread across the entire weekend. Most people assumed because Quantic was playing in a LAN center for more stable internet, as they had been having home internet problems over the last few months, was the reasoning behind compacting their schedule.

　　onGamers was able to talk to Quantic Gaming's COO, Bernie 'Fujikura' Catalan, about this weekend's situation.

　　When asked about why the team had to leave on Sunday, Catalan replied with: "Well, per their Visas that Sunday they had to leave, the team felt confident that they could 4-1 or 5-0 so we schedule the matches Friday and Saturday. That wasn't the case, they already had their flights for Sunday at 11:00 AM. Being only a 30% chance that tie-breakers could have happened, we all decided it wasn't worth them risking ever entering the USA again."

　　Many were wondering what the visa situation would have been like if the team did in fact qualify for the off-line portion of the Promotion tournament that takes place in the Riot's LA-based studios. Catalan sheds some light on the situation, claiming the "plan was they would back this Wednesday or Thursday and start scrimming again, after a short break to see family and grab winter clothes." If The Walking Zed had beaten COGnitive Gaming then the organization would have "gotten flights for them to go to Costa Rice around 11PM Sunday and come back." Basically stating that the team needed to leave the country for any period of time, in order to return for the next stage of the tournament.

　　Catalan ends with a snippet of news concerning the future of Quantic and their Korean squad, mentioning that "they can come back and potentially try for the Summer split of LCS once they have cleared their heads or the team could possibly participate in the Coke Zero league. Just have to wait and see what the future holds."

　　Quantic Gaming was participating in two challenger leagues during their stay in North America, 10K Tournament's ALCS and National ESL's Pro Series. The team was scheduled to play during ALCS last night and was planning to field a roster of subs to take the places of their Korean squad but 10k Tournament's owner, Geoffrey Cole, tells onGamers that the organization was ultimately "disqualified on the grounds that since they were not able to produce a roster matching the regulation three-fifths rule of the series, and flew he only team eligible to compete in the tournament back to Korea they did not have the ability to compete further in the tournament." Teams who had matches schedules against Quantic have had those matches withhelds rather than given a default win, which means those matches don't hurt their win percentages but also do not increase them. Quantic was sitting at the top of the league at a dominant 16-2 record and boasting a 89% win percentage in the $3,500 prize pool tournament.

　　.@NESLProSeries Playoffs are moved to Dec 16-18. @QuanticGaming will not be participating and Team Tempest will take the #6 seed. #hype #eps

　　— Michal Kucharz (@kuchcio) December 9, 2013

　　National ESL's Tournament Director, Michal Kucharz, tweeted on Sunday night that the NESL playoffs are to be moved to December 16th-18th and that Quantic Gaming will not be participating. Quantic Gaming had finished the season in the top position, receiving a first round bye in the playoffs. 7th place finisher, Team Tempest will take the final spot in the Pro Series playoffs. Quantic is the second team to drop out of the league, after Velocity eSports dropped their entire roster earlier in the season.

　　Quantic Gaming's foray into the Korean player pool may not be over yet, but the situation that unfolded this past weekend definitely proves that bringing foreign players over to compete and potentially qualify for a spot in a premier league is a huge gamble for the organizations that take part.