Korean player Sound had to cancel his participation in the World Championship. Dutch WarCraft III legend will replace him in Group B.

Yesterday it was announced that White-Ra would replace ret in Group B. Today the group was struck by another replacement when Sound had to cancel his trip to CeBIT. The news first came up on Twitter during a conversaton between him and fellow Korean player viOLet and was later confirmed on TeamLiquid.

Due to the short notice of this cancellation, the first player who was able to accept the open spot according to the Season Ranking is Dutch Protoss Grubby. Other players a head of him were either too far away, required a visa or could not make it. He will now be in Group B where he will be one of five Protoss players with Zerg player Nerchio completing the line-up.

Group B: MC, elfittaja, Grubby, HasuObs, Nerchio, White-Ra

World Championship Group Stage
Season 2011/12 Ranking

Intel Extreme Masters World Championship 2012 6th - 10th of March at CeBIT (Hall 23)