BLAST and Fantasyexpo have announced that Anonymo and Sprout have withdrawn from BLAST Rising following their recent qualification for Flashpoint 3, the first European Regional Major Ranking tournament, which will partly collide with the latter stages of the $30,000 event.
The new international MAD Lions side, who added Teodor "SPELLAN" Nikolov to the six-man roster last month, has taken the Polish team's spot in Group C, also featuring ALTERNATE aTTaX, Spirit Academy, and the Bulgarian in-game leader's former team, SKADE.
MAD Lions' newest addition could face his former team in Group C Meanwhile, Tricked have replaced Sprout in Group B, is set to be played on May 5-6, where they will lock horns with Galaxy Racer, Astralis Talent, and AGO. The first round of the GSL format will have the Danish side around Mads "zypztw" Hermansen go up against the Swedes.
The 24-team BLAST Rising tournament is set to start on Monday with the group stage, which will see 12 teams advance to the single-elimination playoffs directly and four more through two additional play-in stages reserved for the third-placed teams. The bracket stage will follow on May 19 and culminate with the grand final on May 23.

ALTERNATE aTTaX #75 
Kevin 'kRYSTAL' Amend
Robin 'ScrunK' Röpke
Max 'PANIX' Hangebruch
David 'prosus' Hesse
Karim 'Krimbo' Moussa 
Tricked #44 
Andreas 'kiR' Kirstein
Oliver 'kwezz' Rasmussen
Philip 'Lucky' Ewald
Mads 'zypztw' Hermansen
Mathias 'PR1mE' Carlsen 
Teodor 'SPELLAN' Nikolov
Age: 23 Team: MAD Lions Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 1377 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.66 
MAD Lions #69 
Thomas 'TMB' Bundsbæk
Filip 'tudsoN' Tudev
Volodymyr 'Woro2k' Veletniuk
Pere 'sausol' Solsona Saumell
Justinas 'jL' Lekavicius 
Sprout #30 
Timo 'Spiidi' Richter
Denis 'denis' Howell
Marko 'kressy' Đorđević
Josef 'faveN' Baumann
Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich 
AGO #28 
Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz
Paweł 'reatz' Jańczak
Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski
Michał 'snatchie' Rudzki
Maciej 'F1KU' Miklas 
Galaxy Racer #59 
Joakim 'disco doplan' Gidetun
Niclas 'PlesseN' Plessen
Adam 'dezon' Wahlqvist
Hugo 'chawzyyy' Günther
Joel 'joel' Holmlund 

Spirit Academy #119 

Pavel 'S1ren' Ogloblin
Robert 'Patsi' Isyanov
Alexey 'znxxX' Zlotkovskiy
Kirill 'T4RG3T' Kovalyov
Myroslav 'zont1x' Plakhotia 

Anonymo #47 

Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski
Paweł 'innocent' Mocek
Wiktor 'mynio' Kruk
Kamil 'KEi' Pietkun
Kacper 'Kylar' Walukiewicz 
Mads 'zypztw' Hermansen
Age: 22 Team: Tricked Rating 1.0: 0.85 Maps played: 148 KPR: 0.58 DPR: 0.71 
Astralis Talent #163 
Mads 'vester' Vestergaard
Alexander 'Altekz' Givskov
Andreas 'Void' Dietrichsen
Victor 'vigg0' Bisgaard 
SKADE #23 
Georgi 'SHiPZ' Grigorov
Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov
Viktor 'Duplicate' Mitev
Aleks 'Rainwaker' Petrov
Blagoi 'oxygeN' Dimitrov