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Topias "Topson" Taavitsainen Officially Join Tundra Esports
With the roster lock deadline for The International 12 (TI12) qualifiers just a few days away, attention turns to teams that still need to finalize or unveil their last lineups. Surprisingly, even a well-established squad like Tundra Esports might be in for a major shakeup. There's a buzz surrounding the possibility of them adding Topias "Topson" Taavitsainen, a former two-time TI champion, to their roster. This speculation gains traction as Leon "Nine" Kirilin, Tundra's midlaner, has been observed playing support roles in public matches lately. Meanwhile, Martin "Saksa" Sazdov, the team's support player who has been dealing with health concerns, appears to have abstained from ranked games in recent days.
Nine, who has been an integral part of Tundra's roster for the past two and a half years, has predominantly held the midlane position in both professional matches and ranked games. However, doubts began to arise when recent match records revealed him playing in the support role.
According to data from Dota 2 Pro Tracker, Nine has engaged in 37 games across the last eight days, using primarily Skywrath Mage and Rubick in the support role on his two accounts. This has fueled speculations about the potential addition of Topias "Topson" Taavitsainen to Tundra, especially considering Martin "Saksa" Sazdov's history of missing tournaments due to health-related issues in recent months.
Saksa's withdrawals from events like the Riyadh Masters 2023, Bali Major 2023, and DreamLeague S20 have been attributed to anxiety, sleep disturbances, and mental health challenges. During this period, Kurtis "Aui_2000" Ling has temporarily filled in for the team. If Nine is indeed transitioning to the support role and Aui_2000 wishes to focus on coaching, Saksa might take an extended hiatus from competitive Dota 2, potentially opening up a spot in the team.
Meanwhile, Topson, who has shown renewed interest in competitive Dota 2 this year, continues to play midlane heroes in public games. On YouTube, Topson recently posted a cryptic image of himself smiling, responding enigmatically to the community's query about whether the rumor is true or not.
The situation concerning Tundra's future, particularly with regards to Topson, remains uncertain. It's possible that even if Saksa is unavailable, Topson might not be the immediate replacement as current rumors suggest. Any forthcoming roster changes are likely to be disclosed to the public in the coming days.
Ana’s Outstanding Plays Earn T1 a Win in the Dota2 Regional Qualifiers
The International 2022 (TI11) Regional Qualifiers are starting to heat up as the final set of qualifiers are beginning today. Both Western Europe (WEU) and Southeast Asia (SEA) regions are in the mix and T1’s newest roster faced off against Execration in the Upper Bracket Quarterfinals of TI11’s SEA Regional Qualifiers. The series saw Anathan "ana" Pham carry T1 to victory as the team secured a 2-0 win over Execration.
Following this win, T1 will face RSG in the Upper Bracket Semi Finals in a couple of days while Execration will fall to the Lower Bracket.
T1 vs Execration: Match recap
The community had high expectations from T1, as the organization recently picked up two-time TI winners Anathan "ana" Pham & Topias "Topson" Taavitsainen to replace the departing Karl "Karl" Baldovino & Kim "Gabbi" Santos.
Game One
Game one saw T1 drafting an unconventional Marci carry for ana whilst picking up Morphling and Nature’s Prophet. On the opposing side, Execration picked up a carry Pudge for Jinn "Palos" Lamatao along with Shadow Fiend (SF) and Death Prophet in the offlane.
The early game was going horribly for T1 as Topson was constantly being pressured in the mid lane. On the other hand Ana’s Marci was dominating his lane and this allowed the rest of T1 to help Topson recover in the mid game. Execration had no answers for the carry Marci as it called the game at 30 minutes, giving T1 its first victory of the series.
Game Two
Game Two of the series saw Execration retaining the Death Prophet and Shadow Fiend once again while also picking up Lycan as an offlane hero. On the other side, T1 went for one of Topson’s signature heroes, Pugna while also retaining the Morphling and Marci.
This time, Execration was the aggressor as it was constantly winning team fights in the early game. However, ana’s Morphling was playing very well as he turned things around for T1 in the later stages of the game. Despite attempts from Justine "Tino" Grimaldo’s Lycan to force a third game by backdooring T1’s base, T1 managed to end the game at 52 minutes to close the series with a 2-0 stomp.
Despite having a short time to build chemistry with other members of T1, Anathan "ana" Pham had an outstanding performance, as he managed to obtain a combined KDA of 24/2/17 and only died once in both games. Following this victory, T1 will move on to the Upper Bracket Semi Finals and shall face off against RSG in two days. Execration has a perilous journey ahead as the team is on its final chance to qualify to TI11 through the Lower Bracket.
Dota2 Pro Circuit 2022 Stockholm Major Begins
For the first time in more than two years, a Dota 2 Major will welcome a live audience to watch some of the best teams in the world clash for positioning on the Dota Pro Circuit as ESL hosts the Stockholm Major from May 12 to 22. Unfortunately, the Major won’t be without its missing pieces; various global situations have led to Chinese teams missing the event and multiple teams in attendance needing to play using stand-in players instead of their main rosters. Prior to this, the 2022’s Winter Tour was forced to pivot to Regional Finals playoffs featuring the top four teams from each individual region due to a rise in concerns surrounding COVID at the start of the year.
That is the same format China utilized due to being unable to attend the Stockholm Major, while the remaining five regions sent their qualified teams to Sweden to compete on LAN. With those stipulations, the first Major of the 2022 DPC season will feature a reduced 14 teams, with those teams being split into two groups of seven to open the event with a round-robin Group Stage. Every team in both groups will face each other in best-of-two series, with the top four teams from each moving on to make up the eight teams in the upper bracket of playoffs. The fifth and sixth place teams will also advance to the playoffs via the lower bracket, while the last place roster in each group will be eliminated at the end of the Group Stage. The playoffs will be a standard double-elimination bracket with best-of-three series, up until the grand finals will swap to a best-of-five. In total, teams are competing for their share of $500,000 and 3,530 Pro Circuit points, with the top finishers likely clinching an invite to The International 11 later this year without even factoring in the next DPC Tour and its third Major. And, just like with most larger DPC events, only the top eight teams will receive any prizing. Because teams have been evenly split into groups, most fans will instantly jump to looking at the pairings within each bracket to see which teams have an advantage. However, this is going to be harder than usual because a majority of these teams have not faced each other at all. Some teams, such as Team Spirit and beastcoast, have maintained their rosters from TI10 last October, but outside of those two teams, many of the teams have swapped at least one player or are fielding entirely new lineups. This means we will likely see some matchups for the first time and predicting who will stand above the rest is slightly harder. Here is how the groups are currently formatted, listed based on their region:
Group A | Group B | |||||
OG | Gaimin Gladiators | |||||
Tundra Esports | Team Liquid | |||||
BOOM Esports | Fnatic | |||||
T1 | Team Spirit | |||||
BetBoom Team | Mind Games | |||||
Evil Geniuses | TSM | |||||
Beastcoast | Thunder Awaken |
At the one sizable LAN event that has been played this year, GAMERS GALAXY: Invitational Series Dubai back in March, the two top finishers are featured in Group A BOOM Esports and Tundra Esports. BOOM is an explosive team many predict will make a deep run at this Major, while Tundra is a solid team out of Europe, though they have struggled against other top teams from their region. That would likely have fans picking OG over Tundra, though the team will be playing with Ceb as a stand-in due to Misha being unable to attend, which could potentially throw off their flow. T1 and beastcoast have strong rosters with a history of playing well on big stages, but the latter is known for occasionally having a tough time early on in their runs. However, the two biggest wildcards for Group A are BetBoom Team and Evil Geniuses. EG is fielding a trio of new players that have slowly meshed and turned the squad into a true force coming out of NA, though we have never seen this group helmed by JerAx on a Major stage. Meanwhile, BetBoom is a veteran squad that rose out of Division II in the Winter Tour and qualified for the Major via an expedited qualifier for Eastern Europe. They are the biggest unknown when it comes to facing other top teams. Even with a shaky showing in the Eastern Europe playoff qualifier, it is unlikely anyone will bet against Team Spirit bringing their A-game as the defending International Champions attend their first DPC Major since winning it all last October. And, once you get past Spirit, Gaimin Gladiators and Team Liquid are both threatening rosters that have performed well in Europe and could easily make a deep run. TSM and Fnatic also have veteran rosters with experience playing together, but neither has a recent record of beating top international talent outside of their regions. This duo of rosters were among the bottom three finishers at GAMERS GALAXY and have a lot to prove even while fighting for a spot in the playoffs. Just like with Group A, Group B also has two wildcards that don’t have a lot of experience playing on big stages together or are facing some problems. Thunder Awaken has a new roster that hasn’t appeared at many international LAN events, with captain Farith “Matthew” Puente having the only real experience outside of regional competitions. The team dominated South America’s regional league during the Spring Tour, but we will have to see how that translates to a Major stage. Mind Games would have been a sleeper hit to contend for an upper bracket playoff spot coming into the event, but now the team will be playing without two of its core players Danil “Bignum” Shekhovtsov and Semion “CemaTheSlayer” Krivulya. Both were unable to leave Ukraine and are being replaced by PuckChamp support players Genadiy “Astral” Motuz and Andrey “Dukalis” Kuropatkin for the duration of the Major, leaving some questions to how the roster will mesh in such a short amount of time.
Dragon’s Blood Book 2 hits Netflix On January 2022
The second season of DOTA’s animated show Dragon’s Blood will be available to stream on January 6, 2022. As spotted by DOTA 2 community figure Wykrhm Reddy, the Netflix page for DOTA: Dragon’s Blood Book 2 now has a release date and a swanky new trailer to boot.
The trailer is a moody affair, as you might expect. We start with several shots of glowing purple lotuses fading into the wind while one man tells a woman that she’s no longer worshipped and that all that sustains her is a spark of divinity. We then get some shots of the demon marauder Terrorblade looking suitably broody as he hunts for more Eldwurm souls. We also see scenes of conflict and war, which sets us up for a potentially war-heavy season.
If you’ve been out of the loop, the show is being created by Ashley Miller, who has worked on superhero movies like Thor and X-Men: First Class. We also have Kaiju Boulevard and Studio Mir on production duties, who you might recall is working on the animated Witcher prequel The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.
Dragon's Blood Book 2 Trailer — The whole season will launch on January 6, 2022. Get hyped. @ashmasterzero @StudioMir2010 @netflix #DragonsBlood #Dota2 pic.twitter.com/YUaCEneOCg
— Wykrhm Reddy (@wykrhm) December 9, 2021
Marci From Dota: Dragon's Blood Will Be Dota 2's Newest Hero
Dota 2‘s newest hero was announced by Valve during The International 10. Who is it, you ask? Why, it’s no other than Marci, Mirana’s servant and muscle, originally introduced in the Netflix animated series DOTA: Dragon’s Blood. Developer Valve Software announced on Saturday (16 October) that Marci, a character from DOTA: Dragon's Blood the Dota 2 Netflix animated series will be joining the game as a full-fledged hero this fall.
Valve announced Marci will be the 121st hero to join Dota 2's extensive roster of combatants after the upper bracket finals of The International 10 (TI10), this year's iteration of the game's annual world championship tournament, which saw Chinese team PSG.LGD book their ticket to the grand finals and send European powerhouse Team Secret to the lower bracket finals.
In DOTA: Dragon's Blood, Marci is the loyal servant of Mirana, Princess of the Moon, among the most iconic Dota 2 heroes and one of the principal characters of its animated series.
Marci has become quite the favourite among fans of both Dota 2 and DOTA: Dragon's Blood, due to her expressive and bubbly demeanour — which shines through despite her being mute — that belies her fierce loyalty and proficiency in hand-to-hand combat.
It’s already a tradition at this point, that Valve announces a brand new hero towards the tail end of The International. This time around, it turns out to be Marci who Valve says will be released this Fall. It’s going to be interesting to see how Marci will be portrayed in the game, as she will be the game’s first mute character (if Io and Phoenix would not be considered mute).
Day 1 of LA Major open qualifiers for Team B8
The first day of open qualifiers for the ESL One Los Angeles Major marked the debut of Danil “Dendi” Ishutin’s new team, B8. The first two matches were easy but the third one, against Team Empire Hope, went up to the 65 minute mark. Even though Empire Hope had good AOE damage heroes against B8’s Phantom Lancer, other heroes were not countered enough. B8 had an advantage in healing, counters, durability, pushing, split pushing and defending whereas Empire Hope had an advantage in initiation, right click damage and mobility.
The worst situation for Empire Hope was when they had the lead and wanted to push on B8’s high ground but they were unable to. They had bad pushing heroes and B8 had good defending heroes. This allowed B8 to buy some time for Phantom Lancer to get a good farm. After a few rough fights, B8 were able to close the game. Empire had a good laning stage, especially for their safe lane Bloodseeker, but as the game went late, he was not effective against B8’s cores. On the other hand, Magnus was the first to reach level 30 and he was a bit effective against B8 but he alone couldn’t do the required amount of damage. Road ahead for B8 B8 will face Hailhydra next and they need to win 3 more series to qualify for the closed qualifiers round.
The worst situation for Empire Hope was when they had the lead and wanted to push on B8’s high ground but they were unable to. They had bad pushing heroes and B8 had good defending heroes. This allowed B8 to buy some time for Phantom Lancer to get a good farm. After a few rough fights, B8 were able to close the game. Empire had a good laning stage, especially for their safe lane Bloodseeker, but as the game went late, he was not effective against B8’s cores. On the other hand, Magnus was the first to reach level 30 and he was a bit effective against B8 but he alone couldn’t do the required amount of damage. Road ahead for B8 B8 will face Hailhydra next and they need to win 3 more series to qualify for the closed qualifiers round.
Cloud9 eliminated from ESL One L.A Qualifiers
Open qualifiers for the ESL One Los Angeles 2020 Major got underway for most regions yesterday and for Southeast Asia, there were a host of teams which were fighting to reach the closed bracket, including Cloud9.
Cloud9’s return to the Dota 2 scene was confirmed on January 29th when they announced their latest roster after two years. With some extremely strong names such as Rasmus ‘MISERY’ Filipsen and Adrei ‘skem’ Ong, C9 seemed as though they would be able to make waves in the SEA region where they would be fighting through the qualifiers for the next Major.
While the team were able to make it thorough the first day of the open qualifiers, day two did not go as planned, even after an emphatic victory over Team Uprising to open the day. In the round of eight, C9 were up against Motivade.Trust Gaming, a team that is fairly unknown to most outside the SEA region. Being a best-of-one match at this stage of the qualifier, Trust seemed ready to throw everything they had into taking down their opponents – and it worked perfectly. The loss eliminates C9 from the open qualifiers, not even reaching the closed bracket for the SEA region. While Cloud9 won’t be in the SEA region for the next set of open qualifiers, as they plan to relocate to North America, it will be a long period before they are seen again, with the next Major qualifiers only set to begin at the end of March. The SEA open qualifiers come to an end today, with only four teams remaining at time of writing – and only two spots available in the closed bracket.
While the team were able to make it thorough the first day of the open qualifiers, day two did not go as planned, even after an emphatic victory over Team Uprising to open the day. In the round of eight, C9 were up against Motivade.Trust Gaming, a team that is fairly unknown to most outside the SEA region. Being a best-of-one match at this stage of the qualifier, Trust seemed ready to throw everything they had into taking down their opponents – and it worked perfectly. The loss eliminates C9 from the open qualifiers, not even reaching the closed bracket for the SEA region. While Cloud9 won’t be in the SEA region for the next set of open qualifiers, as they plan to relocate to North America, it will be a long period before they are seen again, with the next Major qualifiers only set to begin at the end of March. The SEA open qualifiers come to an end today, with only four teams remaining at time of writing – and only two spots available in the closed bracket.
T1 signs Black^ and inYourdreaM as part of its ESL One Los Angeles Major qualifying squad
T1 joined the competitive Dota 2 scene during The International 2019 by signing Lee “Forev” Sang-don to its roster. But the team has already gone through two different iterations without making a single Dota Pro Circuit event. The organization wasn’t going to settle for not being among the best in Southeast Asia, however. T1 has signed four completely new players to come in and play alongside Forev for the ESL One Los Angeles Major qualifiers.
Just like the last two times the organization has signed more players, there’s been no official statement from T1, but the details have all been provided by Valve’s official Major and Minor team registry. Depending on how the upcoming qualifiers go, a statement might be made, but so far the team has remained silent on all matters regarding Dota 2. This team has been in the works for a while since Black^, a veteran player who missed most of the early season due to a humerus fracture in his right arm, has been teasing something big for the past few weeks. He also said that he was involved in a boot camp for the qualifiers that started on Jan. 18, which means this roster could have been practicing together for two weeks already.
If that’s the case, it makes a lot of sense as to why xuan officially resigned from his position with Demon Slayers yesterday so that the entire team could register for the qualifiers today. Out of everyone on this roster, xuan has seen the most success this season and will likely be anchoring the team’s backline along with the less experienced Jhocam. The final addition to the roster is inYourdreaM, a player who spent time with multiple teams over the last three seasons and is coming over from BOOM Esports after being moved to the inactive roster. It was likely Forev’s call to bring over both IYD and Jhocam since he was a temporary coach with BOOM for a bit. It seems odd that T1 would let talented players like Pyo “MP” No-a, Johan “pieliedie” Åström, and even Kim “Febby” Yong-min simply walk away from the team, but many organizations are trending toward building around just a few veterans and then signing younger talents. In this case, T1 is banking on Black^ and Forev’s experience to help the others adapt to top-level Dota again. This new roster will be playing against Cloud9 and LGD.International in the open qualifiers for the ESL One Los Angeles Major, which begin on Feb. 9.
Just like the last two times the organization has signed more players, there’s been no official statement from T1, but the details have all been provided by Valve’s official Major and Minor team registry. Depending on how the upcoming qualifiers go, a statement might be made, but so far the team has remained silent on all matters regarding Dota 2. This team has been in the works for a while since Black^, a veteran player who missed most of the early season due to a humerus fracture in his right arm, has been teasing something big for the past few weeks. He also said that he was involved in a boot camp for the qualifiers that started on Jan. 18, which means this roster could have been practicing together for two weeks already.
If that’s the case, it makes a lot of sense as to why xuan officially resigned from his position with Demon Slayers yesterday so that the entire team could register for the qualifiers today. Out of everyone on this roster, xuan has seen the most success this season and will likely be anchoring the team’s backline along with the less experienced Jhocam. The final addition to the roster is inYourdreaM, a player who spent time with multiple teams over the last three seasons and is coming over from BOOM Esports after being moved to the inactive roster. It was likely Forev’s call to bring over both IYD and Jhocam since he was a temporary coach with BOOM for a bit. It seems odd that T1 would let talented players like Pyo “MP” No-a, Johan “pieliedie” Åström, and even Kim “Febby” Yong-min simply walk away from the team, but many organizations are trending toward building around just a few veterans and then signing younger talents. In this case, T1 is banking on Black^ and Forev’s experience to help the others adapt to top-level Dota again. This new roster will be playing against Cloud9 and LGD.International in the open qualifiers for the ESL One Los Angeles Major, which begin on Feb. 9.
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