Due to visa issues, the Asian team will be using two stand-ins for the LAN in Santa Monica, California.

The Legends Cup, which is scheduled for February 10-11, will feature four teams from three different regions: North America, Europe, and Asia. Recently, AGO pulled out of the tournament and were replaced by runners-up PRIDE.

Toy returns to action as a stand-in for 5POWER

Now 5POWER, the Asian mixture featuring players from China, Mongolia, and Thailand, that won their regional qualifier and earned a spot at the global LAN, revealed that they weren't able to secure visas for all five of their players in time. The visa applications of the two Chinese members, Peng "⁠xiaosaGe⁠" Song and Lei "⁠forget⁠" Li, were declined twice, so the team was forced to find stand-ins.

The first one is the North American player David "⁠Toy⁠" Han, last seen playing with Denial, but inactive over the last three months. The second one is Erdenetsogt "⁠erkaSt⁠" Gantulga, whose loan to 5POWER was approved by his Australian team Grayhound, currently ranked #33 in the world.

Even though 5POWER currently have three Mongolians in the team, they have confirmed that team will continue to use English for in-game communication.

5POWER will have the following lineup for Legends Cup:

Gan-Erdene "⁠dobu⁠" Batbold
Bat-Enkh "⁠kabal⁠" Batbayar
Kitikawin "⁠PTC⁠" Rattanasukol
Erdenetsogt "⁠erkaSt⁠" Gantulga (stand-in)
David "⁠Toy⁠" Han (stand-in)

Gan-Erdene 'dobu' Batbold Age: 18 Team: 5POWER Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 246 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.68 5POWER #81 Lei 'forget' LiGan-Erdene 'dobu' BatboldBat-Enkh 'kabal' BatbayarPeng 'xiaosaGe' SongKitikawin 'PTC' Rattanasukol Lei 'forget' Li Age: 28 Team: 5POWER Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 366 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.73 Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga Age: 22 Team: Grayhound Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 295 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.68 Kitikawin 'PTC' Rattanasukol Age: 19 Team: 5POWER Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 140 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.63 Bat-Enkh 'kabal' Batbayar Age: 22 Team: 5POWER Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 248 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.66 Peng 'xiaosaGe' Song Age: 28 Team: 5POWER Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 277 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.69 Grayhound #33 Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' GantulgaChristopher 'dexter' NongCallum 'BURNRUOk' HendersonSean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiOllie 'DickStacy' Tierney Denial PRIDE #40 Jacek 'MINISE' JeziakPaweł 'reatz' JańczakPiotr 'morelz' TaterkaTomasz 'ToM223' Richter David 'Toy' Han Age: 22 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.94 Maps played: 225 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.69 AGO #23 Damian 'Furlan' KislowskiDominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiMichał 'snatchie' RudzkiMateusz 'TOAO' ZawistowskiTomasz 'phr' Wójcik