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　　The news was confirmed today from the Star Ladder caster Vitalii 'v1lat' Volochai that team 4FC were dropping out of the Star Ladder Season 8 tournament due to issues within the Dota 2 team.

　　It's a sad day for StarLadder. Team 4FC disbanded, and all their games will be deflosed..

　　— Vitalii Volochai (@v1lat) December 10, 2013

　　The 4FC squad known as 4 Friends Chrillee who often took part in a number of the top tier Dota 2 tournaments started off this season of Star Ladder with a poor showing of 0-5 in the round robin stage of the tournament.

　　onGamers was able to speak to Christopher 'Chrillee' Wåhlin who provided us with this statement regarding the team's disbandment:

　　We now only have three players left since Blomberg [aka Noez] lost his motivation to play. The three players left myself, boomski and strangby haven't decided what to do yet. But it wasn't easy playing competitive matches when you have to find two standins for every match.

　　When asked if his team wanted to continue playing Dota 2 and look for two replacements he told us that:

　　We haven't decided yet, we have been trying to find our last player since Matrim left us after DreamHack Summer. So finding two sounds even harder. We haven't had much time to discuss this yet.

　　The remaining 4FC roster now consists of:

　　Carl-Philip 'strangby' Strängby (Captain)Christopher 'Chrillee' WåhlinMattias 'boomski' JonssonTBATBAWhat ever happens we wish 4FC all the luck in finding their replacement players and we hope to see them return to the Dota 2 scene in the near future.