The recent DOTA2 Arlington major games have all ended, and the 12 teams that have been directly invited to the TI11 international qualifiers have also been officially determined. Soon thereafter, the TI qualifiers and TI auditions for each division will usher in. These two events will become the last channels for other teams to enter TI.
After the direct invitation teams were confirmed, this year’s DPC points also lost their meaning. Previously, because substitutions would affect DPC points, some teams that wanted to compete for direct invitations from TI were relatively conservative in substitutions. After all, Substitutions will deduct corresponding points. If there are no serious problems within the team, they will not take the initiative to substitute. Otherwise, it may be the same as VP, because after two substitutions, FNC was blocked by FNC and was directly invited to TI by one point. Outside the ranks. But now that all direct invitation quotas have been determined, other teams that want to compete in TI can only do so through qualifiers and auditions, and it has nothing to do with qualifications and DPC points. As long as they are S-level and A-level teams in each major competition area All can participate in the qualifiers, so some teams seem to try to make heavy signings before the start of the qualifiers to increase their chances of qualifying for the preliminaries and auditions. T1 in the Southeast Asia Division is one example.
Just in the early hours of this morning, T1 issued an announcement on its official Twitter to welcome two new players: "Here, we would like to officially announce that two Dota2 players Ana and Topson (substitute) have joined the T1 team. Please join the T1 team at the upcoming event. Follow us in the Southeast Asian TI11 qualifiers. "In fact, yesterday, T1 posted a suggestive message on its official Facebook. T1 posted a picture of a ghost with the sentence "closer to ascension", which almost made it clear. Joined ana. Topson has previously stated that he is about to come back, so it is difficult not to think that these two players who have won TI double championships with OG will eventually join T1. Compared to Topson, Ana has recently competed in the Riyadh Masters with Liquid and the Arlington Major with RNG, and has much more recent game experience than Topson.
T1 was the best-performing team in Southeast Asia last year and got the top eight results in TI. However, this year T1 had problems with disagreements within the team. The former No. 1 player 23savage did not get along with a certain "veteran" in the team and eventually left Talon. T1 welcomed the addition of gabbi, but T1's overall performance seemed not as good as when 23savage was on the team. Instead, Talon quickly emerged from the A-level league and became a strong team in Southeast Asia. This is undoubtedly very embarrassing for T1. . At present, both FNC and BOOM in the Southeast Asian region have obtained direct invitation qualifications for TI, so T1 does not have many opponents in the qualifiers. With the addition of ana and topson, the Southeast Asian TI qualifiers seem to have concluded in advance. Now what kind of changes will T1 get with the joining of the OG champion dual-core? We'll see!
