Teams portal: overview

Biography[edit]

DotAedit

QO was first introduced to DotA when a man from a church showed him the game every Sunday. While initially bored and disappointed at the game because he was dying a lot, he eventually decided to learn and persevere with the game eventually beating the man from the church. While learning the game, QO played DotA as leisure during his years in Australia under the name RoastedKimchi. He continued to play the game when its sequel Dota 2 was released.

Dota 2edit

QO’s origins of his name was by chance when he made the decision to change his nickname due to most websites and gaming platforms allowing only 4-12 letters when his previous name, «RoastedKimchi» contained 13 letters. By randomly choosing the letters QO, he also realized that it in capitals that it looked like a face and furthermore from word of mouth, typing QO on a Korean keyboard meant don’t back. Coincidentally, he believes that he does not «back» and likes to play aggressive while in Dota 2, picking a username does not need to be between 4-12 letters, hence choosing the name QO. While playing other games such as League of Legends, he eventually chose Dota 2 because of its depth and was interested in the Blink ability.

While studying science in Australia, QO’s first professional Dota 2 stint came in 2013 with AkmA which was a group of Australian players in a stack. For his winter holidays, he traveled to South Korea and met his future teammate Sagun online. After numerous talks with Sagan, he was introduced to March. The emerging Nexon Dota 2 events in South Korea saw this as an opportunity to play with March and QO decided to take a gap year on his studies with the consent of his parents. He joined FXOpen e-Sports alongside March, Febby and Sagun as a mid laner. Despite being knocked out of the AMD Premier League Season 2 in the round of 16, QO displayed his worth to the team by playing a great series in the Nexon Starter League Season 1 with a surprise mid pick Meepo in the grand finals to secure a 3-0 grand final win against EoT Hammer, winning the tournament and complimentary tickets to watch The International 2013. QO then left FXO and made his own team called 5 in QO. In 2014, QO joined MVP Phoenix and saw them qualify for Starladder StarSeries IX — their first lan event outside South Korea. Over the course of 2014-15 QO participated in more events and showed displays of growth as player with placing 4th place in I-League Season 2 and Starladder StarSeries 11. The team carried this play into the qualifiers for The International 2015, making it through the qualifiers and wildcard, and ending up placing 7-8th. The team exhibited their determination and resilience, under the looming speculation of March retiring due to military service. QO became known for his Templar Assassin throughout the tournament against Team Empire in the first match of the elimination when on the 29th minute, he survived a 1v3, and despite initially fleeing, decided to Meld and killed two with style — QO finished the game with the score of 19-5-5.

In 2016 saw a transition and further growth for QO and MVP with first place wins in Dota Pit League Season 4 and WePlay Dota2 League Season 3. He has placed 4th and 5-6th place in Shanghai and Manila majors respectively. QO believed that the rise in MVP Phoenix was due to continually playing ranked solo matches and further practice. In an interview, QO mentioned his «solid-play» style as a further reason behind its recent success in 2016:«Our team is highly based on individual skill. Our players read skills well, they foresee the next movements. Those kinds of things help the drafting. Whatever you draft, a skilled player can play anything.» The team’s recent achievements saw them receive a direct invitation to The International 2016. QO was featured in a player profile and finished 5-6th place in the tournament left MVP Phoenix. He competed at the MPGL/Southeast Asian Championship with a stand-in team, finishing runners-up. He later returned to MVP Phoenix with the stand-in team.

On the 18th January 2018, QO announced that he would be taking a break from Dota 2. During his extended break he returned to Australia to study, and with documentation issues, he later formed Team Oracle in April 2019 and was announced as the carry player for the team.

Dota 2[edit]

The M5.Garaj squad played together for a good half year, but in November 2011 M5 had to drop the team as they refused to play together due to internal issues. However, only a few weeks after M5 came back with a new roster, keeping NS and God but swapping the other three players. This lineup would not prove to be resilient to the internal issues that plagued many of NS’s earlier teams, and only a few months later the team split up again. By February 2012, the former M5 squad were picked up by Darer. NS would not be long in the organization, as him and Dread left in May to instead join Virtus.pro. After some player swapping the team finally found a stable roster by September 2012, and results started showing during the following Winter. Most notably, VP won The Defense Season 3 in March 2013. On November 30, 2013 NS announced that he is retiring from professional DotA 2.

Broadcast Talent[edit]

The talent for the English broadcast was announced on May 21st, 2021.

• Hosts:
  •  Sheever (Jorien van der Heijden)
  •  SirActionSlacks (Jake Kanner)
  •  Rich (Richard Campbell)

• Observers:
  •  PimpmuckL (Jonathan Liebig)
  •  skrff (Rikard Holm Melin)

• Analyst/Commentators:
  •  ODPixel (Owen Davies)
  •  SUNSfan (Shannon Scotten)
  •  SyndereN (Troels Lyngholt Nielsen)
  •  Cap (Austin Walsh)
  •  Lacoste (Dominik Stipić)
  •  lizZard (Admir Salkanović)
  •  BSJ (Brian Canavan)
  •  Aui_2000 (Kurtis Daniel Ling)

• Analyst/Commentators:
  •  Jenkins (Andrew Jenkins)
  •  Tsunami (Neal Khandheria)
  •  Fogged (Ioannis Loucas)
  •  Kyle (Kyle Freedman)
  •  TeaGuvnor (Robson Merritt)
  •  Ephey (Mira Riad)
  •  Gareth (Gareth Bateson)

• Hosts:
  •  Faker (Ivan Demkin)
  •  v1lat (Vitalii Volochai)
  •  Franklin (Belema George)
  •  Skevich (Roman Paskevich)

• Analysts:
  •  DkPhobos (Alexander Kucheria)
  •  Belony (Yehor Dovhyi)
  •  TpoH (Maxim Vernikov)
  •  Dragneel_FH (Dmitry Staroverov)
  •  Sh4dowehhh (Yevhen Alekseiev)
  •  Goblak (Artur Kostenko)
  •  Sm1Ley (Peter Banakh)
  •  PGG (Vladimir Anosov)
  •  lil me alone (Ilya Ilyuk)
  •  ALWAYSWANNAFLY (Andrii Bondarenko)
  •  XBOCT (Oleksandr Dashkevych)
  •  ArsZeeqq (Arsenii Usov)

• Commentators:
  •  CaspeR (Roman Lepokhin)
  •  Droog (Dmitry Chumachenko)
  •  VeRsuta (Aren Zurabyan)
  •  STORM (Alexey Tumanov)
  •  BafiK (Alexey Bafadarov)
  •  Olsior (Mykhailo Zvieriev)
  •  GodHunt (Viktor Volkov)
  •  Flunky (Dmitrii Meshkov)

The talent for the Ukrainian broadcast was announced on May 28th, 2021.

• Host:

   yXo (Alexey Maletsky)

• Commentators:
  •  bamb1notv (Roman Jura)
  •  DoubleEspresso (Roman Hubin)
  •  TaiTake (Yevhen Pakholiuk)
  •  Maimeik (Vladislav Luzan)
  •  sadEAST (Bogdan Ehrlich)
  •  Aelnis (Bohdan Zaverukha)
  •  JUSTICE (Vladyslav Bahan)
  •  violinUA (Andrii Yatsiuk)
  •  Feaver (Oleg Skarzhinsky)

The talent for the Chinese broadcast was announced on May 31st, 2021.

• Hosts:
  •   (Du Junnan)
  •  Mashall (Ma Shaowei)

• Analysts:
  •  Wind (Wang Zhibo)
  •  Yuno (Wang Jing)
  •  Ams (Chen Juan)

• Commentators:
  •  Sdn (Shi Danni)
  •  CC (Shi Cancan)
  •  FreeAgain (Hao Peng)
  •  Mad (Cheng Han)
  •  AA (Li Qiming)
  •  M4 (Sun Yabin)
  •  Yammers (Mi Hongwei)

The talent for the Portuguese broadcast was announced on June 2nd, 2021.

• Hosts:
  •  Haon (Rômulo Capazzo)
  •  Shaolin (Fabio Madia)

• Analysts:
  •  Tay (Taynara Sousa)
  •  Mentirinha (Matheus Ayala Batista)

• Commentators:
  •  Warss (Renan Moura)
  •  Jasam (José Victor Almeida dos Santos)
  •  Lil_kin6 (Marcio Rodrigues)
  •  Kaxanga (Pablo Oliveira Franco Menin)
  •  guipepe (Guilherme Tedesco)
  •  Luiziin (Luiz Eduardo Alves Costa)
  •  Leonardo LML (Leonardo Moreira Lemos)

• Commentators:
  •  Sherlock (Alisson Maximo)
  •  Flytable (Tógo Menezes)
  •  baLones (Felipe Augusto Rodrigues dos Santos)
  •  dirmaoURSO (Diego Santos Rodrigues)
  •  Fedel (Guilherme Fedel)
  •  Ace (Paulo Camerino)

The talent for the Spanish broadcast was announced on May 30th, 2021.

• Guest Host:

   Ndree (Andree Santillán)

• Commentators:
  •  Mr Choco (Rikardo Mendoza Mattos)
  •  Imperius (Luis Cuadros)
  •  Avo+ (Alvaro Sanchez Velasco)
  •  Blue (Marco Espinoza Oliveros)
  •  Swadow (Ramón López)
  •  AxL- (Axel Ramos)
  •  Flapjack (Julián Carbajal)
  •  Caosfénix (William Morera)
  •  YoloSergio (Sergio Pérez)
  •  Stick (Axel Chambe)
  •  Pawpaw (Paulo César Tuya)

The official channel for the Filipino broadcast was announced on June 1st, 2021.

• Commentators:
  •  Kuya D (Aldrin Paulo Pangan)
  •  Dayanara (Dianne Torres)
  •  KC (Kacelyn Alinea)
  •  Aki (Erika Mei Ilar)
  •  KJ (Kristine Joy Bedano)
  •  JB (James Bryan Valenzuela)
  •  Shola (Shane Santos)
  •  Alo (Michael Angelo Zomil)
  •  Ishy (Ariza Quinones)
  •  Dan (Daniel John Baluyot)
  •  Pilaj (Pi-laj Lajato)
  •  Joevy (Joevy Siao)
  •  DarkStar (Luigi David)

Achievements[edit]

History[edit]

This section is an excerpt from History of OG

Team OG was originally formed under the name (monkey) Business and was comprised of both experienced veterans in n0tail and Fly as well as new and upcoming talents in Miracle-, Cr1t- and MoonMeander. The team achieved their breakthrough during the Frankfurt Major, defeating European powerhouse Team Secret in the grand finals. The team continued to have a strong presence in the European Dota scene, but after a fourth-place finish at The Summit 4, OG’s dominance began to wane and ended with a 7-8th place finish in the Shanghai Major. Despite this, the team rebounded with a 3rd place finish at EPICENTER and claimed a second Dota Major Championship title at the Manila Major. The squad proceeded to defeat Natus Vincere at ESL One Frankfurt 2016, winning the tournament and securing their invite to The International 2016.

OG performed well in the group stage of The International 2016 and finished first in their group. Despite this, the team was unable to maintain their momentum and fell to the loser’s bracket against MVP Phoenix. 7ckingmad would later say in his ‘Reflections’ interview with Duncan «Thorin» Shields that they chose to play MVP Phoenix after their ‘complete domination’ of them at the Manila Major, and that this may have been a mistake. Following this unexpected loss, the team was eliminated by TNC Gaming and finished 9-12th, in what has been referred to as one of the biggest upsets in professional Dota 2. Shortly after their disappointing run, OG announced that MoonMeander would no longer be an active player, and that Cr1t- and Miracle- would be leaving the team. In the same ‘Reflections’ interview, 7ckingmad claimed that it was a personality conflict within the team that led to the removal of Moonmeander, and that once the team wasn’t remaining as 5, it prompted Miracle to consider other offers.

Results[edit]

Achievements[edit]

References[edit]

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2. Valve Corporation. «The International 2012». blog.dota2.com. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
3. Valve Corporation. «The International 2013». blog.dota2.com. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
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9. Dota Team (August 30, 2019). «The International Grand Champions». Valve.

Broadcast Talent[edit]

• Hosts:
  •  Redeye (Paul Chaloner)
  •  Sheever (Jorien van der Heijden)
  •  Richard (Richard Campbell)
  •  SirActionSlacks (Jake Kanner)
  •  PyrionFlax (Ted Forsyth)
  •  Kaci (Kaci Aitchison)

• Observers:
  •  Weppas (Johan Westberg)
  •  PimpmuckL (Jonathan Liebig)
  •  Skrff (Rikard Holm Melin)

• Analysts:
  •  Blitz (William Lee)
  •  BananaSlamJamma (Brian Canavan)
  •  Febby (Kim Yong-min)
  •  Fogged (Ioannis Loucas)
  •  Gunnar (Nico Lopez)
  •  Kyle (Kyle Freedman)
  •  Lacoste (Dominik Stipić)
  •  Nahaz (Alan Bester)
  •  Purge (Kevin Godec)
  •  Synderen (Troels Lyngholt Nielsen)

• Commentators:
  •  Capitalist (Austin Walsh)
  •  Dakota (Dakota Cox)
  •  GodZ (David Parker)
  •  GrandGrant (Grant Harris)
  •  Lyrical (Gabriel Cruz)
  •  ODPixel (Owen Davies)
  •  Tobiwan (Toby Dawson)
  •  TrentPax (Trent MacKenzie)
  •  Tsunami (Neal Khandheria)

• Interviewers:
  •  Hotbid (Ken Chen)
  •  Tokki (Helen Xu)

1 djWHEAT was invited as a host, but was not able to attend the event due to personal issues.

• Hosts:
  •  Faker (Ivan Demkin)
  •  CrystalMay (Dmitry Korchevinin)
  •  DonStepan (Stepan Shulga)

• Content Creator:

   Tonya (Antonina Predko)

• EN/RU Interpreter:

   AbsoKulikov (Oleg Kulikov)

• Analysts:
  •  fng (Artsiom Barshak)
  •  Dendi (Danil Ishutin)
  •  Goblak (Artur Kostenko)
  •  ARS-ART (Sergey Revin)
  •  Artstyle (Ivan Antonov)
  •  DkPhobos (Alexander Kucheria)
  •  XBOCT (Oleksandr Dashkevych)
  •  JotM (Egor Surkov)
  •  TpoH (Maxim Vernikov)
  •  NS (Yaroslav Kuznetsov)
  •  ALOHADANCE (Ilya Korobkin)
  •  Inmateoo (Dmitry Filinov)

• Commentators:
  •  BafiK (Alexey Bafadarov)
  •  CaspeRRR (Roman Lepokhin)
  •  4liver (Anton Pavliukovets)
  •  Olsior (Mykhailo Zvieriev)
  •  GodHunt (Viktor Volkov)
  •  Lex (Alexey Filippov)
  •  Adekvat (Rustam Mavliutov)
  •  v1lat (Vitalii Volochai)
  •  Maelstorm (Vladimir Kuzminov)
  •  4ce (Nikita Kotkov)

• Hosts:
  •   (Du Junnan)
  •  BBC (Zhang Hongsheng)
  •  Mashall (Ma Shaowei)

• Content Creators:
  •  Pepper (Chang Li-chen)
  •  Dove (Zhang Tiange)

• Group Stage Casters:
  •  YammerS (Mi Hongwei)
  •  Eve (Kang Zhexi)
  •  Lulu (Ding Yinlu)
  •  M4 (Sun Yabin)
  •  Snow (Li Jiawei)

• Analysts:
  •  Ferrari_430 (Luo Feichi)
  •  LavenderAA (Li Qiming)
  •  Ams (Chen Juan)
  •  xiao8 (Zhang Ning)
  •  璨璨cc (Shi Cancan)
  •  跳刀跳刀丶 (Zhou Yang)
  •  iceice (Li Peng)
  •  Yuno (Wang Jing)
  •  DC (Dong Can)
  •  BurNIng (Xu Zhilei)
  •  Sccc (Song Chun)
  •  Faith_bian (Zhang Ruida)

• Commentators:
  •  CD (Tao Wei)
  •  FreeAgain (Hao Peng)
  •  Mrrr (Meng Rui)
  •  MS (Xiang Yu)
  •  SDN (Shi Danni)
  •  Wind (Wang Zhibo)
  •  kiko (Quan Bing)
  •  ZSMJ (Gong Jian)
  •  梦罗克 (Zhou Yang)
  •  SanSheng (Wang Zhaohui)
  •  ddc (Leong Fat-meng)

Timeline[edit]

• March 25th — Xcalibur joins as a Sub.
• August 23rd — MoonMeander becomes inactive while Cr1t- and Miracle- leave.
• August 25th — MoonMeander joins Digital Chaos.
• August 31st — JerAx, s4 and ana join the team.

• August 17th — OG parts ways with ana who announces a one-year hiatus from competitive Dota.
• September 1st — Resolut1on joins the team.

• March 17th — Resolut1on leaves the team. Meanwhile, coach 7ckngMad will stand-in for the team.
• May 28th — s4 and Fly leave for Evil Geniuses.
• June 4th — ana and Topson join the team. With these additions, N0tail moves to hard support and 7ckngMad will be offlane.
• November 19th — ana leaves the team and becomes the official substitute.
• November 27th — Pajkatt joins the team.

• January 3rd — Pajkatt leaves the team.
• January 4th — iLTW is loaned from Espada.
• March 12th — iLTW leaves the team.
• March 13th — ana returns to the active roster.
• April 30th — Sockshka joins the team as coach.

• January 25th — ana will take a break until the next season.
• January 26th — JerAx retires from the competitive scene.
• January 27th — Ceb steps down from the active roster.
• January 28th — SumaiL joins the team as carry.
• January 29th — MidOne and Saksa join the team as offlane and support, respectively.
• July 25th — Ceb returns to the active roster while SumaiL is removed.

• March 22nd — The team part ways with MidOne.
• April 11th — ana returns to the active roster.
• June 14th — ana retires from the competitive scene.
• June 15th — SumaiL joins the team.
• September 24th — It was revealed that Misha had assumed the position of head coach for the past three months while Sockshka has been moved to assistant coach.

Format[edit]

• Participants
  • Eighteen teams
    • Four teams each from Western Europe and China
    • Three teams each from Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe
    • Two teams each from North and South America
• Wild Card – June 2nd — June 3rd, 2021
  • Six teams on a single round-robin
  • All matches are Bo2
  • Top two teams advance to the group stage
  • Remaining teams are eliminated
  • Click here for tiebreaker rules

• If there is a tie along the Group Stage and elimination divider, additional Bo1 tiebreaker match will be played
• For other ties (in order of importance):
  1. Head-to-head result
  2. Results against lower seeded team
  3. Time Rating
  4. Coin toss
• If a tie can be broken along the way, the process is restarted (back to head-to-head result)

• Group Stage – June 4th — June 7th, 2021
  • Eight teams on a single round-robin
  • All matches are Bo2
  • Top two teams advance to the upper bracket of the playoffs
  • 3rd to 6th place teams advance to the lower bracket of the playoffs
  • Remaining teams are eliminated
  • Click here for tiebreaker rules

• If there is a tie along the Upper Bracket and Lower Bracket or Lower Bracket and elimination divider, additional Bo1 tiebreaker match will be played
• For other ties (in order of importance):
  1. Head-to-head result
  2. Results against lower seeded team
  3. Time Rating
  4. Coin toss
• If a tie can be broken along the way, the process is restarted (back to head-to-head result)

• Playoffs – June 9th — June 13th, 2021
  • Double-elimination bracket
  • All matches except Grand Final are Bo3
  • Grand Final is Bo5

Io, the Wisp[edit]

Io is everywhere, and in all things. Denounced by enemies as the great unmaker, worshiped by scholars as the twinkling of a divine eye, this strange Wisp of life-force occupies all planes at once, the merest fraction of its being crossing into physical existence at any one moment.

Like the great twin riders Dark and Light, and yet another ancient traveler whose true history is lost to the ages, Io the Wisp is a Fundamental of the universe—a force older than time, a wanderer from realms far beyond mortal understanding. Io is nothing less than the sum of all attractive and repulsive forces within the material field, a sentient manifestation of the charge that bind particles together. It is only in the controlled warping of these forces that Io’s presence can be experienced on the physical plane. A benevolent, cooperative force, Io bonds its strange magnetism to others so that the power of allies might be enhanced. Its motives inscrutable, its strength unimaginable, Io moves through the physical plane, the perfect expression of the mysteries of the universe.

Timeline[edit]

• September 21st — ixmike88 leaves the active roster to pursue other Dota activities.
• September 22nd — In a player swap with Team Dignitas, Korok is traded for waytosexy.
• September 25th — Former mousesports player qojqva joins the team.

• March 26th — Liquid parts ways with FLUFFNSTUFF.
• April 14th — DeMoN joins Liquid.
• July 29th — DeMoN’s contract expires, and, with no new contract, he leaves Liquid.
• August 4th — Liquid announces wayto is leaving the team.
• August 29th — Liquid announces that BuLba and qojqva have been released, and the team would be going inactive.
• October 7th — Liquid announce that TC has officially left the organization.

• May 10th — Heen joins the team as coach.
• August 31st — JerAx leaves the team to join OG.
• September 1st — FATA- announces that he is taking a break from competitive play.
• September 16th — Miracle- and BuLba join the team.

• January 1st — After two months of inactivity, BuLba registers with Team Onyx.
• January 2nd — GH officially joins Team Liquid.

• June 12th — Team Liquid parts ways with MATUMBAMAN.
• June 20th — w33 completes the roster for the upcoming EPICENTER Major.
• September 13th — The roster departs the organization.
• October 2nd — Team Liquid announces a new roster consisting of the former Alliance squad.

• April 23rd — Boxi went inactive to spend time with his family, SumaiL will stand-in.
• June 8th — Coach Blitz confirms Boxi’s return to the active roster.
• June 15th — BSJ joins the team as a streamer and content creator.