The first Dota 2 major after The International 6 (TI6), Boston Major will take place between December 7-10th, at the Wang Theater, in Boston. The Boston Major teams – Sixteen of the best Dota 2 squads in the world will square off over the course of four days, for a chance to win the Eagle Song trophy. The Boston Major prize pool is a cool $3 million.
The Boston Major teams are getting read with the groups now set. The action gets underway Saturday, December 3rd, at 10:00 EST/16:00 CET with the group stages. Check out The Boston Major teams, groups, schedule, format, brackets, streams, talent list, prize pool distribution and betting odds!
The hype train has arrived, carrying on it the Boston Major!
This weekend kicks off the first Dota 2 Major post TI6. The event is featuring new teams, new rosters and an entire new format.
Starting with a four split group stage and single elimination brackets – the competition will be fierce with everything on the line.
Sixteen Boston Major teams – Wings Gaming, Digital Chaos, Evil Geniuses, Newbee, EHOME, LGD Gaming, OG, MVP.Phoenix, NP, compLexity Gaming, LGD.FY, IG.VItality, Ad Finem, Virtus.Pro, Team Faceless and Warriors Gaming.Unity will compete in the group stages between December 3-4th and then take the final steps of this journey December 7-10th.
Whether you are heading to the Boston, or planning to lay back and enjoy all the action online here is a list of everything you need to know about Boston Major: groups, schedule, format, brackets, broadcasts, talent list, teams, prize pool distribution and betting odds.
Boston Major teams
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Eight invited Boston Major teams: Wings Gaming, Digital Chaos, Evil Geniuses, Newbee, EHOME, LGD Gaming*, OG, MVP.Phoenix
Eight qualified Boston Major teams: NP (Boston Major Americas Qualifiers), compLexity Gaming (Boston Major Americas Qualifiers), LGD.FY (Boston Major Chinese Qualifiers), IG.Vitality (Boston Major Chinese Qualifiers), Ad Finem (Boston Major Europe Qualifiers), Virtus.Pro (Boston Major Europe Qualifiers), Team Faceless (Boston Major SEA Qualifiers), Warriors Gaming.Unity (Boston Major SEA Qualifiers)
*LGD Gaming replaced Execration due to visa delay. Both LGD.FY and IG.Vitality will be using two stand-in’s each also due to visa issues.
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Boston Major betting odds: Wings Gaming and Virtus.Pro are deemed “most likely to win”
The odds on some of the most well-known betting sites favor Virtus.Pro and the TI6 championship team Wings Gaming. compLexity Gaming appears to be the potential underdog or dark horse – coming in last place at the sites. China seems to be the region, followed closely by Europe most likely to take the prize.
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Boston Major schedule: Six days of back-to-back action
December 3-4 – Boston Major Group Stage
December 7-10 – Boston Major Main Event
All matches start at 10:00 EST/16:00 CET and will be on a rolling schedule, meaning back-to-back matches all day long.
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Boston Major Group Stage: Establishes the seeding for the Main Event
The sixteen Boston Major teams will be split into four groups of four. No teams will be eliminated during this phase of the competition. However, the teams’ group stage performances will be of great importance to their main event treks, seeing that the group stage establishes the seeding for the main event. Top seed of a group will get a random 4th seed from another group. Same process with the remaining 2nd and 3rd seeds.
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Boston Major teams: Groups
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Boston Major Group Stage format
Sixteen teams have been split into four groups of four.
GSL Format
All matches are best-of-three series
All 16 teams will advance to the Boston Major Main Event.
Top seed of a group will get a random 4th seed from another group, as will 2nd seed be placed with random 3rd seed from another group.
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Boston Main Event: Sixteen teams will battle it out over the course of four days
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Sixteen Boston Major teams will play a single elimination bracket, over the course of four days.
All matches will be best-of-three series.
The Boston Major Grand Finals will be best-of-five.
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Boston Major prize pool
The Boston Major is set at $3 million dollars- just as with the previous major events.
Boston Major prize pool distribution
1st place – 33.33% – $1,000,000
2nd place -16.5% – $500,000
3rd/4th place – 8.33% – $250,000
5th-8th place – 4.17% – $125,000
9th-16th place – 2.08% – $62,500
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Boston Major Streams
Boston Major English streams: Main Channel, Stream 2, and Stream 3
Boston Major Russian streams: Main Channel, Stream 2, and Stream 3
Boston Major Chinese streams: Main Channel, Stream 2, and Stream 3
LIVE ON DOTA2.COM: The games will be broadcast live through Steam Broadcasting on DotaTV. Up-to-date tournament standings and options to track a variety of other stats will be provided.
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Boston Major talent: Well-known personalities return, new faces come to light
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Alex “Machine” Richardson has been chosen to be the official host of the Boston Major.
The CS:GO host and commentator will be making his big debut in Dota 2.
Machine has gained traction and popularity in the CS:GO scene with a professional and entertaining approach. Establishing himself as both a fountain of knowledge and beloved meme generator, he has been involved in almost 20 of some of the largest events in CS:GO and Call of Duty in the last year alone.
The Boston Major will also be the first time since the first International that no stats-person will be on hand.
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Boston Major teams: Catch up on on the contenders’ recent performances
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Wings Gaming (Boston Major Invites – China)
Wings Gaming did not make any changes heading into the Fall Major 2016 season. The TI6 championship team had decided to keep their roster intact.
From unknowns to infamous in the course of one year, the Chinese stars soared above the rest to bring a tale of comradery, innovation and passion to the stage.
Formed in August 2015, the Chinese then team made a clean sweep over Team Liquid, 3:0, in the Grand Finals of ESL One Manila. They walked with their first championship title as a team and the $100,000 first place prize.
The team was directly invited to the Manila Major where they had a disappointing finish taking 13-16th place. Their next premier LAN event – Nanyang Dota 2 Championships Season 2 brought back to the forefront the infamous drafting and strategies that Wings became known for and an astounding second place finish.
They then amazed fans around the world once again when they outplayed OG 3:1 in the grand finals of The Summit 5 for the trophy and title.
Their greatest accomplishment being TI6.
By upsetting the TI5 champions – Evil Geniuses and sending them to the lower brackets, Wings Gaming had become the first team to advance to the Grand Finals and secure themselves a top two finish overall. They overpowered Digital Chaos 3:1 for a spectacular finish and crowning achievement.
Already this season they have taken their first championship title for the year at Nanyang Dota 2 Championships – Cruise Cup #1 and Northern Arena BEAT Invitational LAN.
Wings have received a spate of recognition and awards lately.The team was nominated for the prestigious Laureus Awards, alongside well known athletes and sports teams from across the world and and Games Awards 2016.
Wings also received a certificate from the Guiness World Records for winning the largest single prize in esports – $9,139,002.
Wings Gaming roster:
Zhou “bLink” Yang
Zhang “bian” Ruida
Chu “Shadow” Zeyu
Zhang “Innocence” Yiping
Li “iceice” Peng
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Digital Chaos (Boston Major Invites – NA)
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Only hours after David “Moo” Hull revealed he had been kicked from the second place TI6 team – Digital Chaos, the organization announced his replacement as none other than David “MoonMeander” Tan – who had been released from OG only two days prior.
The changes in roster composition came to a surprise to many as the team had a dramatic run through the TI6 lower brackets to upset Evil Geniuses and assume second place.
This season has been relatively quiet for the team – they took 5-6th place at The Summit 6 and 4th in the offbeat favorite- Elimination Mode 2.0.
New Digital Chaos roster:
Aliwi “w33” Omar
Roman “Resolut1on” Fominok
David “Moon” Tan
Martin “Saksa” Sazdov
Rasmus “MiSeRy” Filipsen
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Evil Geniuses (Boston Major Invites – NA)
Arteezy and Zai
The long time captain Peter “PPD” Dager transitioned out of the team into a business management position with the brand.
Andreas Franck “Cr1t-” Nielsen stepped into the rather large shoes left open with PPD’s departure. Hailing from one of the most successful teams of the 2015 -2016 year, OG – Cr1t- was part of history as the only team to claim two Valve sponsored championship titles – Frankfurt Major and Manila Major.
For the third time, Artour “Arteezy” Babaev dons the blue jersey for the organization. The famed Canadian player has had an on and off again relationship between Team Secret and Evil Geniuses since 2014.
Saahil “UNiVeRsE” Arora, Syed Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan and Ludwig “zai” Wåhlberg have remained with the team.
Evil Geniuses were close to getting their names written on the Aegis of Champions for the second time. Not close enough, though: they fell to Digital Chaos in the Lower Bracket Finals and placed third overall.
They have since taken first place at MDL 2016 – a strong start to the new season, followed up by 4th at Northern Arena BEAT Invitational, 3rd at the Summit 6 and 2nd in Elimination Mode 2.0.
New Evil Geniuses roster:
Artour “Arteezy” Babaev
Andreas Franck “Cr1t-” Nielsen
Saahil “UNiVeRsE” Arora
Ludwig “zai” Wåhlberg
Syed Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan
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Newbee (Boston Major Invites – China)
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Big changes for Newbee were made for the Fall Major 2016 season as the team replaced three of its members – Zhang “Mu” Pan, Chen “Hao” Zhihao and Wong “ChuaN” Hock Chuan.
Mu retired less than a month after Newbee’s captain and carry Hao announced his break from competitive gaming for the upcoming Fall Major 2016 season or longer. ChuaN is also on a break, having not registered for any team for the season.
Veteran player Zeng “Faith” Hongda, along with Song “Sccc” Chun and Xu “uuu9” Han will be the official replacements for the Fall Major 2016 season.
Faith participated in the first five Internationals with various teams – taking the championship title at TI2 as part of the Invictus Gaming lineup. Playing professional Dota 2 since 2011, he is both highly decorated and experienced, bringing forth a great wealth of skill and talent. He started his career in 2011 on a team known as TyLoo – one of the teams invited to the first International based off of their reputation for being one of the best Chinese teams in DotA 1 in 2011.
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Newbee took 9-12th place at TI6 after being eliminated by Team Liquid 2:1 in the second round of the lower brackets.
The Chinese team has had an equally strong showing already, barely a hint of struggle with the new additions in the roster. Newbee has already been quite busy, claiming two second place finishes at LANs – MDL 2016 and Nanyang Cruise Cup and several first place finishes in regional events and qualifiers.
Newbee roster
Zeng “Faith” Hongda
Song “Sccc” Chun
Damien “kphoenii” Chok
Hu “Kaka” Liangzhi
Xu “uuu9” Han
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EHOME (Boston Major Invites – China)
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EHOME seized 5-6th place at TI6 after being wiped out 2:0 by Digital Chaos in the fourth round of the lower brackets.
The Chinese giants have made two changes to their lineup for the Fall Major 2016 season. Liu “Sylar” Jiajun and Liu “Garder” Xinzhou have replaced Daryl “iceiceice” Koh Pei Xiang and Lu “Fenrir” Chao.
Earlier in September Sylar joined the EHOME roster alongside returning members Wang “old chicken” Zhiyong and Ren “old eLeVeN” Yangwei.
Sylar assumed the carry role left vacant as Daryl “iceiceice” Koh Pei Xiang left to SEA to create his new team – Team Faceless with Dominik “Black^” Reitmeier, Wong “NutZ” Jeng Yih, Anucha “Jabz” Jirawong and Toh “Xy-” Wai Hong.
EHOME secured their spot at Summit 6 LAN, eventually taking 7-8th place and seized third place at Northern Arena BEAT Invitational.
EHOME roster
Liu “Sylar” Jiajun
Wang “old chicken” Zhiyong
Ren “eLeVeN” Yangwei
Zhang “LaNm” Zhicheng
Liu “Garder” Xinzhou
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OG (Boston Major Invites – EU)
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Following TI6, it was announced on OG’s facebook that the European organization bid farewell to Andreas Franck “Cr1t-” Nielsen, David “MoonMeander” Tan and Amer “Miracle-” Al-Barkawi.
To help them accomplish their goals, OG recruited Gustav “s4” Magnusson – recently departed from Alliance and Jesse “JerAx” Vainikka who had just parted ways with Team Liquid earlier in the same day.
The most surprising addition to the team is Anathan “Ana” Pham, a relatively unknown face for Western fans. Ana is an Australian who has been spending time in China as part of Invitcus Gaming roster as substitute while Luo “Ferrari_430” Feichi was absent.
The player centered organization is the first team to win two Valve championship titles but slid into a disappointing 9-12th place finish at TI6.
This season the team has taken took third place at MDL 2016, second at The Summit 6 and the championship title for Elimination Mode 2.0.
OG roster
Johan “BigDaddy” Sundstein
Tal “Fly” Aizik
Gustav “s4” Magnusson
Jesse “JerAx” Vainikka
Anathan “Ana” Pham
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MVP (Boston Major Invites – SEA)
The MVP Phoenix roster retains three of its longstanding, core members – Kim “QO” Seon-yeop, Kim “Febby” Yong-min and Kim “DuBu” Doo-young, as the organization heads into the Fall Major 2016 season.
Joining the three Koreans will be two known members of the organization – Kim “Velo” Tae-sung and Lee “Reisen” Jun-yeong from MVP.Hot6ix – taking the place of Lee “FoREV” Sang-don and Pyo “MP” No-a who both joined Team Secret for the new season.
Reisen is a Korean player who began his career in 2013 with a team called Eyes of Tiger Hammer. He joined the MVP organization in November 2013. Velo is an Australian player who started out with Spac_Creators following TI5. Only staying with the team for about one month, he was then picked up by MVP.Hot6ix, in December 2015.
MVP.Phoenix rounded out their successful year with a commendable 5th-6th place at TI6.
Most recently the Koreans landed second place MPGL and 7-8th at MDL 2016.
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Kim “Febby” Yong-min
Kim “QO” Seon-yeob
Lee “Reisen” Jun-yeong
Kim “Dubu” Dooyoung
Kim “Velo” Tae-sung
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LGD (Boston Major Invites – China)
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LGD Gaming finished 9-12th place at TI6 after they were knocked out of contention in the second round of lower brackets by Digital Chaos 2:0.
The epochal Chinese team has chosen to rebuild their entire squad around star player Lu “Maybe” Yao.
The highly skilled and talented veteran has been surrounded by CDEC.Youth players Wang “Ame” Chunyu, Chen “Xz” Zezhi and Chen “Victoria” Guanhong as well as ViCi Gaming.Potential player Zijia “Jixing” Shang.
At the end of August, Sun “Agressif” Zheng reported he had parted ways with the organization. Xue “September” Zhichuan has moved to CDEC and Zhang “xiao8” Ning is part of the new LGD Forever Young squad. Lei “MMY!” Zengrong has gone ‘inactive’ since TI6.
LGD Gaming roster
Wang “Ame” Chunyu
Chen “Xz” Zezhi
Chen “Victoria” Guanhong
Lu “Maybe” Yao
Zijia “Jixing” Shang
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Team NP (winner of Americas Boston Major Qualifiers)
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On September 9th Jacky “EternaLEnVy” Mao revealed his new lineup and brand – Team NP.
Earlier, EternaLEnVy had indicated he planned to make a new team, comprised of players not necessarily as known and made more with those he enjoyed playing with than stars. The new line-up still boasts known and respected players from across the region with big plans to become a top team.
The team has had a strong presence, dominating qualifiers for LAN spots including ESL One Genting 2017 and The Summit 6 – eventually taking 5-6th place in the BTS event. They replaced Digital Chaos at Northern Arena BEAT Invitational, ultimately taking second place and resulting in them dropping out of DreamLeague Season 6.
Team NP roster
Jacky “Eternal Envy” Mao
Kurtis “Aui” Ling
Theeban “1437” Siva
Arif “MSS” Anwar
Avery “SVG” Silverman
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compLexity Gaming (winner of the Americas Boston Major Qualifiers)
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For most of The International 6 regional qualifiers, coL looked confident, consistent and composed. Had they not dropped a game to FDL during the Round Robin stage, they would have been the first team to qualify for the main event in the Americas region. Unfortunately, they were left with a Wild Card spot and, once in Seattle, they failed to advance to the group stage and main event.
Following TI6, The compLexity Gaming 2017 roster brought three new faces to the organization. David “Moo” Hull, Justin “jk” Rosselle and Antonio “canceL^^” Mihai joined core members Kyle “melonzz” Freedman and Zakari “Zfreek” Freedman.
Jaron “Monkeys-Forever” Clinton registered with the team as their official substitute player on November 10th when jk was moved to inactive status after some internal concerns.
The revised team took 7-8th place at Northern Arena BEAT Invitational, immediately following their roster change.
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Kyle “melonzz” Freedman
Zakari “Zfreek” Freedman
David “Moo” Hull
Jaron “Monkeys-Forever” Clinton
Antonio “canceL^^” Mihai
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Virtus.Pro (winner of the European Boston Major Qualifiers)
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On June 30th, Sneg1 dissolved the entire Virtus.Pro roster after the team’s lamentable track record last season and failure to qualify for The International 6.
The new roster led by Alexey “Solo” Berezin was revealed early August, prior to the post-TI6 reshuffle.
VP took their first title for the new season in BTS EU series #4.
The team has risen to the ranks of being considered one of the most feared opponents lately. Following their first title, the continued by taking the qualifier spots for The Summit 6, Dota Pit Leagues Season 5, Boston Major, and ESL One Genting 2017. THey then took second place DreamLeague Season 6 and another championship title – at The Summit 6.
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Alexey “Solo” Berezin
Ilya “Lil” Ilyuk
Roman “Ramzes666” Kushnarev
Pavel “9pasha” Hvastunov
Vladimir “No[O]ne” Minenko
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Ad Finem (invited to the European Boston Major Qualifiers)
Ad Finem have been an imposing force in the European region since their inception, when Giorgos “SsaSpartan” Giannakopoulos had once again formed an all-Greek squad, on December 4th, 2015, just in time for the Shanghai Major roster lock.
Ad Finem means “to the end” and the team has always had their sights set on their end goal. They have been a stable and constant fixture in the European Dota 2 scene. Since the all Greek squad was formed, they have not made any roster changes and have been a source of pride for their nation.
Their TI6 qualifier run was thrilling, demonstrating a vast improvement in the team’s level of skill and synergy. They laid low following their failure to advance to the main event and re-emerged post TI6 stable as ever. They most recently placed 9-12th at BTS Europe #4, 5-8th at FACEIT invitational, 7th in DreamLeague Season 6, 5-6th at Northern Arena BEAT Invitational and 4th at Royal Arena.
Ad Finem roster:
Giorgos “SsaSpartan” Giannakopoulos
Omar “Madara” Dabasas
Xaris “SkyLark” Zafiriou
Dimitris “ThuG” Plivouris
Verros “Maybe Next Time” Apostolos
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LGD.Forever Young (winner of the Chinese Boston Major Qualifiers)
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LGD Gaming has split the roster into two – one being built up around Lu “Maybe” Yao with the second one, LGD Forever Young – being spearheaded by famed talent Zhang “xiao8” Ning. The new squad features Yao “Yao” Zhengzheng and Xie “Super” Junhao.
The squad was then completed by lesser known players, Luo “lpc” Puchao and Du “Monet” Peng.
The team has had a strong presence in the regional qualifiers and events, falling short of placing in desired results.
The group will be playing with two stand ins for this event due to visa issues. When LGD.FY first encountered trouble they immediately contacted Valve – which in turn allowed two substitutes instead of the one stated explicitly in their substitute rules. Luo “lpc” Puchao and Du “Monet” Peng have been replaced by the veterans Yang “Zyf/End” Pu and Liang “DDC” Faming – on loan from Vici Gaming.
LGD.FY Boston Major roster:
Zhang “xiao8” Ning
Yao “Yao” Zhengzheng
Xie “Super” Junhao
Yang “Zyf/End” Pu (substitute)
Liang “DDC” Faming (substitute)
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IG.Vitality(winners of the Chinese Boston Major Qualifiers)
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IG.Vitality was created in March 2016 for the Manila Major/TI6 roster season.
As one of the few teams to not make any changes to the lineup in the post TI6 season, continuing to play with the same roster.
IG did not have any representation at TI6. The Vitality squad had a strong presence during the season, participating in various regional events and qualifiers.
The young squad had encountered their own visa issues recently – forcing them to take on their official substitute and one other to replace super and Dogf1ghts.
Xu “BurNIng” Zhilei is the official substitute for the team, currently playing for the main squad of Invictus Gaming. Fu “Q” Bin is also on loan from the main squad to fill the final place as approved by Valve.
Invictus Gaming.Vitality
Zhang “Yuno” Chengjun
Xu “Sakata” Zichen
Yang “InJuly” Xiaodong
Su “super” Peng
Gao “Dogf1ghts” Tianpeng
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Team Faceless (winners of the SEA Boston Major Qualifiers)
Daryl “iceiceice” Koh, Dominik “Black^” Reitmeier, Wong “NutZ” Jeng Yih, Anucha “Jabz” Jirawong and Toh “Xy-” Wai Hong joined forces to compete in SEA as Team Faceless.
Four of the players have had participation at The Internationals – iceiceice attended The International 2011 with Scythe Gaming, taking third place, sixth place at TI3, fourth at TI4 and TI5; Black^ competed at TI2 and TI3; NutZ in TI5 and Xy TI1, TI2, TI3.
The mix of players made their debut shortly after forming in September in the ROG Masters qualifiers. They took 5-8th place in the event after dropping to Mineski in the quarter finals.
The team has since reigned supreme in the SEA region – the team took their first championship title for PDCup SEA and qualified for the Summit 6 (taking 7-8th place), Boston Major and Dota Pit Season 5 LAN.
Team Faceless roster
Daryl “iceiceice” Koh
Dominik “Black^” Reitmeier
Wong “NutZ” Jeng Yih
Toh “Xy-“ Wai Hong
Anucha “Jabz” Jirawong
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Warriors Gaming.Unity (winners of the SEA Boston Major Qualifiers)
The Malaysian team had participated in the SEA Manila Major regional qualifiers and TI6 SEA Regional qualifiers in the past. For the Boston Major the team had to come to the regional qualifiers through the open brackets.
The Malaysian team didn’t drop a single match after cruising through the best-of-one elimination series and then sweeping through Acion Arena 2:0 in the semi finals and Fire Dragoon Esports in two very quick matches in the finals.
Since August, the team has won at least five minor tournaments in the region.
WarriorsGaming.Unity roster
Lai “Ahjit” Jay Son
Kam “NaNa” Boon Seng
Chua “KaNG” Soon Khong
Tue “Ahfu” Soon Chuan
Jian Wei “xNova-“ Yap
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The Boston Major
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The Boston Major main event will be held between December 7th-10th, at the Wang Theater, in Boston, USA, with a set prize-pool of $3,000,000. Sixteen teams will compete in the main event hosted by PGL and Valve. Wings Gaming, Digital Chaos, Evil Geniuses, Newbee, EHOME, LGD Gaming, OG and MVP.Phoenix have been directly invited to the event. Team NP, compLexity, LGD.FY, iG Vitality, Ad Finem, Virtus.Pro, Team Faceless and WarriorsGaming.Unity have all qualified for the event. The group stage is set to take place between December 3rd-4th.
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