The first DotA 2 Major Championship hype is starting to run through our veins. We open our player and teams spot light for the Frankfurt Major with an interview with EHOME’s captain Zhang ‘LaNm’ Zhicheng.
Omar “Madara” Dabasas and Giorgos “SsaSpartan” Giannakopoulos have rejoined forces as Madara departs from Golden Boys and joins No Logic Gaming. This is the fourth roster change for NLG since the new Majors season. Madara will replace Ylli “Garter” Ramadani as the carry on the team.
Alliance forfeited their match versus Virtus.Pro, withdrawing from The Summit 4 European Qualifiers due to heavy time constraints in the next coming month. This is the second tournament that the Swedish team has withdrawn from in the last few weeks, after taking leave from the Game Show Global eSports Cup group stages.
CIS Rejects have announced their new roster to include Roman “Ramzes” Kushnarev, Artur “Goblak” Kostenko and Vasily “AfterLife” Shishkin as the newest additions to the team after trying out various members.
Amidst many memes and pictures of Johan ‘N0tail-BigDaddy’ Sundstein, the Team Empire Twitter feed was lit up on the 3rd of November by the announcement that they would be announcing roster changes.
Invictus Gaming has been forced to withdraw from The Frankfurt Major due to complications in obtaining a visa for Su “super” Peng. The team did not have a substitute registered, therefore falling out of compliance with the roster lock rules implemented by Valve. No replacement has been announced yet.
Philippine team, Mineski, qualified for the solo SEA Regional spot for The Summit 4 after besting Fnatic 3:2 in the best-of-five grand finals of the qualifier. Mineski will be traveling to Los Angeles, California for the December event to compete for the base prize pool of $100,000.
