Legacy player Chris "yellow" McGillivray will sit out IEM Sydney due to work commitments, it has been revealed.
The 25-year-old will be replaced by Stefan "Lacore" Paunovic, who was a teammate of Peter "BL1TZ" Athanasatos in the SIN team who finished runners-up to Legacy at the Australian Esports Masters Season 2 Finals.
The news comes as a tough blow for the Australian team, who were one of the two last-minute replacements announced by ESL for the event following the withdrawals of Natus Vincere and Space Soldiers due to visa issues.
On Twitter, Legacy Business Manager Michael "EmJaeCaer" Carmody admitted that Chris "yellow" McGillivray's absence "ramps up our already steep difficulty curve", but stressed that the team "plan to make the most" of the experience.
Legacy OCE have been drawn in Group A, headlined by FaZe, Cloud9 and SK. In their first match in the double-elimination group stage, they will take on Renegades.
This means that Legacy OCE will attend the event with:
Egor "LONSDALE" Baranov
Hugh "HUGH" Anderson
Jay "soju_j" Jeong
Stefan "Lacore" Paunovic (stand-in)
Its a little bittersweet, and I have been super busy and in two minds.
— Michael Carmody (@EmJaeCaer) April 30, 2018
Unfortunately due to work commitments @yellowCSGO wont be able to play at IEM Sydney, which has his teammates and mgmt super bummed that he is missing this opportunity. Send him love, he needs it right now.
Egor 'LONSDALE' Baranov 
Age: 25 Team: Legacy OCE Rating 1.0: 0.85 Maps played: 242 KPR: 0.60 DPR: 0.72 
Natus Vincere #4 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' Teslenko
Egor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov 
SIN Chris 'yellow' McGillivray 
Age: 25 Team: Legacy OCE Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 229 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.65 Peter 'BL1TZ' Athanasatos 
Age: 25 Team: Legacy OCE Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 200 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.68 Stefan 'Lacore' Paunovic 
Age: 23 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 45 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.71 
Renegades #15 Justin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' Ward
Joakim 'jkaem' MyrbostadKarlo 'USTILO' Pivac
Noah 'Nifty' Francis Jay 'soju_j' Jeong 
Age: 20 Team: Legacy OCE Rating 1.0: 0.88 Maps played: 96 KPR: 0.62 DPR: 0.72 Legacy OCE #134 Peter 'BL1TZ' AthanasatosChris 'yellow' McGillivrayEgor 'LONSDALE' BaranovHugh 'HUGH' AndersonJay 'soju_j' Jeong Hugh 'HUGH' Anderson 
Age: 18 Team: Legacy OCE Rating 1.0: 0.95 Maps played: 138 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.72 
FaZe #3 
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Richard 'Xizt' Landström
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács
Nikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' Nygaard 
Space Soldiers #14 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınAhmet 'paz' KarahocaEngin 'ngiN' Kor 
SK #7 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassJake 'Stewie2K' YipMarcelo 'coldzera' David 
Cloud9 #6 
Pujan 'FNS' MehtaTyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' Ta
