On Monday, GameAche.com reported based on several conversations with Major League Gaming staff that they would be dropping World of Warcraft from their PC Circuit starting in Dallas and it would not come back next season. This however was contradicted by several MLG representatives on other websites. Major League Gaming has come out to explain the situation with the game and have stated that patch issues are forcing them to postpone the National Finals which they “fully intend to finish out”.

Lee Chen, the Senior Vice President at MLG said the following:

As I posted on TeamLiquid.net, WoW is NOT at the finals because Blizzard’s efforts to get Cataclym launched have definitively broken Arenas. Not only is the Arena Queue master not spawned, but Blizzard removed him/it from the game because Arenas are not spawning under the 4.0.0.1 patch. On launch of Cataclym, Arenas will not be working at all. For the normal game development cycle at Blizzard, this isn’t a concern. But it obviously has ramifications for those of us who run competitions and tournaments around World of Warcraft.