Team Liquid announces Dota 2 return with star-studded new roster Valve \/ Team LiquidDota 2 with a new star-studded roster ahead of the MDL Chengdu Major and the new Dota Pro Circuit season. After finishing runners-up at The International 9 off the back of a 3-1 defeat at the hands of back-to-back victors OG, the North American roster made the shock decision to release the championship squad amidst the preseason shuffle. Now TL have revealed their next steps in the Dota pro scene, signing the entire ex-Alliance squad and confirming the NA-based organization will continue to have a presence in European competitions and tournaments. Liquid\u2019s new lineup of stars has been together for a very long time. The core of the team entered Dota together two years ago, but before that, leading players Max \u2018qojqva\u2019 Br\u00f6cker, Michael \u2018miCKe\u2019 Vu, and Aydin \u2018iNSaNiA\u2019 Sarkohi all shone in S2 Games\u2019 Heroes of Newerth. Most recently, the roster \u2014 which also includes Samuel \u2018Boxi\u2019 Svahn and Tommy \u2018Taiga\u2019 Le \u2014 finished a disappointing 13-16th at TI9 under the Alliance banner, after a devastating misclick saw them select Gyrocopter instead of banning it against Royal Never Give Up. Organization co-founder Victor \u2018Nazgul\u2019 Goossens revealed in the team\u2019s announcement video that they were planning on growing the new roster for a handful of years at least, and would look to build a new lasting dynasty around iNSaNiA in-game leadership. \u201cHonestly, the players are awesome to work with, and we feel like with them we can establish something special in the next few years,\u201d the Liquid CEO said. \u201cIn Dota specifically, I believe it is a captain\u2019s game, and we put a lot of faith and stock in working closely with the team but also with the captain. We really want to make sure we can enable [iNSaNiA] with all his ideas that he has on how to make the most out of this team.\u201d TL is one of the biggest names in esports at the moment off the back of their Counter-Strike and League of Legends rosters finding major success and titles, and several successful campaigns at TIs. The illustrious org left the incoming players in awe, offlaner Boxi revealed. Read more: SirActionSlacks forced to sub in for NaVi – \u201cIt\u2019s a team that I think we all like, and have been following in different sports for a long time. When I was growing up it was one of the big names, so it\u2019s a cool thing to be playing in a team that when I was younger was like \u2018wow, that\u2019s like a top esports team\u2019,\u201d Boxi said. Team Liquid\u2019s former International-winning roster, including veteran captain Kuro \u2018KuroKy\u2019 Salehi Takhasomi and young star Amer \u2018Miracle-\u2019 Al-Barkawi, have yet to be signed by another organization since their departure from the NA team on September 13. Keep an eye of all the off-season player swaps with our Post-TI9 Roster Shuffle tracker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Team Liquid announces Dota 2 return with star-studded new roster Valve \/ Team LiquidDota 2 with a new star-studded roster ahead of the MDL Chengdu Major and the new Dota Pro Circuit season. After finishing runners-up at The International 9 off the back of a 3-1 defeat at the hands of back-to-back victors OG, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}