Tundra Esports lose Whitemon from their TI 2025 charge

With The International 2025 quickly approaching, but sadly for a few players, things are not shaping up well for getting to Hamburg.

As we countdown the days to The International 2025, some unfortunate news has begun to come in. Although it seems that most players have not had a problem with their visas, problems always occur. While we have already seen one Southeast Asian player being replaced, although due to medical issues, another has now needed to be replaced.

Whitemon misses out on TI 2025

With a third-place finish at The International 2024, Tundra Esports were coming into this year’s iteration hoping to take another victory. While this plan is still on the cards, they will have to do it without their position five support player, Matthew "Whitemon" Filemon. In a post on the teams X account, Tundra put out a statement regarding the player and his absence from the roster at TI 2025.

Unfortunately Tundra will be competing at The International without Matthew “Whitemon” Filemon. This is due to unforeseen complications in the visa application process. Every attempt was made to secure Matthew his visa, however extenuation circumstances outside of Tundra and Matthew’s control led us to this situation. The team will adapt and press forward, and we’d like to thank Fissure Universe 5 Champ, Tobias “Tobi” Buchner, for stepping in at such short notice. He has been with the team the last few days preparing, and we are ready to face TI head on and overcome adversity once more.

The full roster for Tundra without Whitemon is as follows:

• Remco "Crystallis" Arets
• Bozhidar "bzm" Bogdanov
• Neta "33" Shapira
• Martin "Saksa" Sazdov
• Tobias "Tobi" Buchner

Currently, apart from Whitemon and Wilson "poloson" Koh, as well as the withdrawal from Gaimin Gladiators, no other players have had any issues with reaching TI2025. With only a week until everything kicks off in Hamburg, Germany, the excitement is palpable. Whether or not the change will have a huge impact on Tundra’s performance remains to be seen as we begin the final countdown to TI 2025.