I first saw it on 4K forum and it seems multiple sources including zax of wern confirm it.
sk’s forum thread about it apparently he got in a fight with ownitsch.. here’s translated statement from readmore.de

statement by sk|ownitsch:
deadman is immediately released form the line-up of skgaming in therefore wont attend the wc3l finals.
at the moment we wont give out any details, an official statemnt will follow on sk-gaming.com.
until then the team should have the chance to concentrate on the upcoming games.

lol i hope grubby or tod comments on this. last time grubby had something to say about ownitsch it was pretty funny. i guess this shows what he said was true though! anyway rumors are that deadman was playing dota instead of training lol. sk benches deadman

in an interview, Zeus says Creo will go inactive to study. Not surprising. He also dismisses the rumor that ToD will join a new team. LoL, count on ToD to be ambiguous and not give details.

WC3L:

so far, sk 1-3 we with insomnia defeating reign again after beating him in bnet season 5.

as for mym vs 4k, I think 4k perhaps got the best possible lineup.

My prediction:
1on1: Secret Valley
Susiria 0:2 ToD
1on1: Twisted Meadows,
Lucifer 1:2 Grubby hard to judge this one
1on1: Turtle Rock
Moon 2:0 Creolophus maybe Creo will pull an upset!
1on1: Gnoll Wood,
FoCuS 1:2 Zeus19 I think Zeus will impress us in this finals and help his team out
2on2: Twisted Meadows
Lucifer, Moon 2:0 Grubby, Creolophus I almost said 2-1 or 1-2 but it’s just predictions. gotta be more daring!

update:

 according to wcr.. ToD is refusing to play due to it being too hot in there haha!! that’s the spirit ^^ after all, europeans sweat more lol