![]() ![]() The team played phenomenally, suffering only a single loss en route. ![]() Then again, it's not like NoPing Esports did not earn their spot at the WePlay AniMajor. This honor belongs to Thunder Predator, a team that, unfortunately, failed to make it out of the qualifiers. NoPing Esports isn't even the best Dota 2 team in South America. NoPing Esports NoPing e-sports is lucky it'll play directly from a spot in the Playoffs. Unfortunately, it'd take a herculean effort from beastcoast to even make it past the likes of Team Liquid, Evil Geniuses, and PSG.LGD, among others. This is especially since beastcoast will be playing from the Group Stage, so that's one less hurdle they'll have to tackle. beastcoast hosts some pretty good Dota 2 players and beastcoast can make a deep run at the WePlay AniMajor. But, on the other hand, the team has also had nothing to show for having stuck together since, which definitely isn't a good thing. beastcoast K1's performance will determine the fate of beastcoast at the WePlay AniMajor.īeastcoast comes from the weakest of the six competitive Dota 2 regions and the only thing that the team has going for it is that they've all played together since after TI9 in 2019. The worst part is that AS Monaco Gambit is playing in the Wild Card stage, so it'll have to jump through a couple of hoops to make it to the Top 8.Ĭonsidering all that has happened so far, don't bet on AS Monaco Gambit making it far at the WePlay AniMajor. Two key players in Vladimir "None" Minenko and Akbar "SoNNeikO" Butaev just left, so the team is now stuck playing with two stand-ins. AS Monaco Gambit After losing two key players, expecting a lot from AS Monaco Gambit is foolish.ĪS Monaco Gambit finds itself in an unenviable position heading into the WePlay AniMajor. But, as it is, Execration would be lucky to make it out of the Wild Card stage. The team fields one of the youngest rosters at the WePlay AniMajor as three of its players are either just 19 or 20. It'd be nice to see Execration make a nice run if only for a feel-good story. However, when the player with the most experience in your team is longtime Execration player, Kimuel "Kim0" Rodis, who is now the coach, and you're flying halfway across the globe as a relatively unproven team, things don't exactly bode well for you and the rest of your squad. This isn't necessarily to say that Execration is a bad team. Unfortunately, Execration will have limited chances to show its capabilities.Įxecration beating Fnatic in a tiebreaker game to qualify for the WePlay AniMajor is more of a testament to how far the former top Dota 2 team from Southeast Asia has fallen and less about how well Execration is playing. If you'd like to know how every Dota 2 team at the WePlay AniMajor stacks up, scroll down to see our WePlay AniMajor power rankings.Įxecration As a team, Execration has a lot to prove at WePlay AniMajor. Some teams are just plain better, whether it's because of the talent on their roster, experience, skill, chemistry, and all of the above. With that said, as much as every Dota 2 team may want to win big at the WePlay AniMajor, not every team is built equally. This means that every Dota 2 team will be gunning for as high of a spot as possible. Although a huge chunk of the $500,000 prize pool is nice to have, most teams will probably want to go home with as many valuable DPC points as possible.Īt the moment, only a handful of Dota 2 teams are guaranteed a spot at the $40 million Dota 2 tournament after successful showings at the ONE Esports Singapore Major 2021. Evil Geniuses might have already qualified for TI10, but a win in Kyiv will provide them a huge boost in confidence as the boys in blue prepare for August.Īs the second and last Major of the 2021 Dota Pro Circuit, the WePlay AniMajor will serve as the last chance for many of the Dota 2 teams playing at the tournament to qualify for The International 10 in August. WePlay Esports, the prominent Kyiv-based tournament organizer, is finally getting a chance to host its first Dota 2 Major and it's a big one.
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