EDward Gaming will be without their top laner Chen “Mouse” Yu-hao for the quarter-finals at the League of Legends World Championship after the player was forced to withdraw due to a family emergency.

The team released a statement Wednesday confirming the news. The statement was published in Chinese but in English reads:

“Important announcement: Hello everyone, we are very sorry to inform you of our regrets. Because of major accidents in the home, EDward Gaming's League of Legends division top laner Mouse has had to leave Worlds and immediately return to his hometown. We are very sorry about this, and the club staff will do all we can along with Mouse to limit the difficulties. In the remaining World Championship matches, EDG will carry Mouse's dream and everyone's expectations with us to go all out. I hope you can cheer for us, thank you!”

Riot Games also released a statement to confirm the series of events and also confirmed that the team provided documentation to say that the reason for leaving was a death in the family.

Mouse will be replaced by Tong “Koro1” Yang for EDG’s quarter-finals matchup against the ROX Tigers on Saturday.