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GosuGamers DotA Awards 2008
» Christian "ctc-noob" Andersen
9th February 2009 - 41546 hits, 128 coms

We are happy to announce the winners of the GosuGamers DotA Awards 2008.






1. Kuroky 396 (52%)
2. Loda 170 (22%)
3. Light of Heaven 88 (11%)
4. Yamateh 74 (10%)
5. Angel 39 (5%)

Carrier of the Year



Kuro Salehi 'KuroKy' Takhasomi. Photo by: DotA-League.com
Every team needs a farmer to carry their team to victory and especially in 2008 with the era of 52e, the carry was really important. The title for the best carry of the year 2008 is given to Kuro Salehi 'KuroKy' Takhasomi. This German joined Mousesports in the middle of 2008 and the next half a year Mouz.DotA was the team to beat and KuroKy was the one to outfarm, but only a few managed to do so.

Mouz won titles in ESL Major Series II, Dota Master 9, Farm4Fame #1 and Pride 11, all with Kuroky as an all-round carry player. Mouz has always been a top team but they never had as much success as the time with KuroKy as carry. It wouldn't be true if you said that this success is the work of KoruKy alone, but he is without doubt a major part of it.

As the second best carry we have Loda, who managed to carry for SK and making the team one of the most successful team both in the beginning of year in the days of 48b and in the beginning of the 52e-farming era.

Yamateh got 3rd as the carry of Kingsurf, who got second in ESWC. Yamateh has always been notorius for his farming abilities, but haven't manage to get as much success as Kuroky and Loda. The story of Light of Heaven, farmer of rush3d, is almost the same as Yamateh and as 5th we have Met's Danish farm boy Angel, who carry Met to a 4th and a 3rd place in Pride #10 and #11.


1. NS 303 (39%)
2. Maelk 189 (24%)
3. Pusher 143 (18%)
4. papaxiong 89 (11%)
5. Axypa 51 (7%)

Supporter of the Year



Yaroslav 'NS' Kuznetco. Photo by: firstblood.ru
Besides a carry, a team needs a supporter to make sure that you have the map-control. To do that Yaroslav 'NS' Kuznetcov has been voted as the best.

In the beginning of the year NS was playing in Virtus.Pro and was in the days of 48b one of the best team illustrated with a 3rd place in PriDe #9 and a victory at Asus Spring 2008. After Virtus.Pro disbanded, NS joined another Russian team, Rush3d and managed to win Asus Summer 2008 and Asus Autumn 2008.

At 2nd we have Maelk, who used to be a more or less carry for MYM, but with the addition of Fear, Maelk has played more gank and support and done it very well. MYM has also 3rd place Pusher, who was added to MYM after ESWC and have fed and warded MYM to victory ever since. Papaxiong is playing the support for Kingsurf and has been a really stable support for yamateh and the other stars of KingSurf giving him a 4th place. At fifth place we have Axypa, who supported WG to a 2nd place in both Pride #9 and Pride #10.


1. Vigoss 466 (60%)
2. Mania 189 (26%)
3. Merlini 88 (11%)
4. Miracle 65 (8%)
5. miGGel 35 (5%)

Ganker of the Year



Ivan 'Vigoss' Shinkarev. Photo by: firstblood.ru
To exploit the map control gained by your supporter and to win time for your carry, you need a ganker. The ganker is the one who needs to make action on the map and needs to be and the move all the time. As the best ganker in 2008 we have Ivan 'Vigoss' Shinkarev.

Like NS, vigoss was playing for Virtus.Pro in the beginning of the year and he was perhaps the most feared individual player in the first half of the year. Vigoss somehow manage to be all over the map all the time and at the same time get a lot of farm. After Virtus.Pro disbanded vigoss had a break, but returned at DTS Chatrix, but the version had changed and the ganker wasn't that important anymore and we did not see the same vigoss that we was used to in the good old Virtus.Pro days. But then 57b was introduced and vigoss joined KingSurf.International and he found his old level and once again we have vigoss as one of the worlds most feared gankers.

As runner-up we have Mania and Merlini, both MYM players. These two players manage to make action for MYM both in 48b, 52e and 57b. At 4th place we have the the former Mouz and now KS.int player Miracle and at a 5th place we have miGGel from the Danish team Met.


1. Maelk 311 (40%)
2. Loda 189 (22%)
3. Drayich 88 (21%)
4. Jolie 92 (11%)
5. Yamateh 39 (4%)

Captain of the Year



Jacob "Maelk" Toft-Andersen. Photo by: GosuGamers.net
To win a game you need to have the right heroes and you need to make the right moves at the right times. That's the job of the captain and the title of the best Captain 2008 goes to Jacob 'Maelk' Toft-Andersen, who is probably one of the most well-known names within DotA.

Maelk managed to lead his team to the finals in almost every tournament the participated in. They started the year by winning Pride #9, but when 52e was introduced, MYM had a hard time. But Maelk led his team back on the winning track and with some wise changes in the team MYM was back. Maelk made the infamous Pitlord turtle strategy popular and even though a lot of people were complaining about the missing action in the games, Maelk manage to make result for the team and getting 2nd in ESL Major Series II, 2nd in Dota-Master 9 and winning the DreamHack Winter 2008.

At 2nd we have Loda, who has captained SK-gaming to great victories in Pride #10 and DreamHack Summer. Drayich has been voted 3rd as the former leader of Mouz. At 4th we have Jolie, the former leader of Virtus.Pro and now leader of KingSurf.International. Fifth place went to Yamateh from KingSurf.


1. KingSurf.Int 354 (45%)
2. MYM 280 (36%)
3. SK 78 (10%)
4. Kingsurf 40 (5%)
5. Met 24 (3%)

Team of the Year



KingSurf International. Photo by: DotA-League.com
And the best team in 2008 is Mousesports, who later changed organisation to KingSurf. The team was in the top in the begining of the year and even better in the last half of the year. Mouz won tournaments like ESL Major Series II, Dota Master 9, Farm4Fame #1 and Pride 11 and as Ks.int they got even stronger with the addition of some of the best players in the world. In the end of 2008, Ks.int was the most feared team in the world.

The only team who manage to threaten the winners in 2008 was MYM. Accustomed to ending second, MYM ended second in the GosuGamers voting as well.. At a third place we have SK-Gaming, who was the most dominating team in the middle of the year, but in the end of the year they had a hard time. KingSurf did also a really nice job this year and is rewarded with a 4th place and as the 5th best team this year we have Met.

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#51 ArtUNit (Junior Moderator) 2 years ago
coool gratz~
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#52 HiepSiMeo 2 years ago
vigoss is no.1 ganker!Very good!
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#53 nyamka_wu 2 years ago
yes Ks.int KuroKy nam shaa
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#54 Sn4k3y 2 years ago
lol some argument going on here
I vote this as the thread of the year
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#55 db 2 years ago
worst awards ever
2008? more like 2009
wheres hanni btw?
why met and thier players?
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#56 winaitip 2 years ago
So what about MYM's DOTA finest players.
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#57 oakye 2 years ago
#49/ #50: you guys rock! ^^

My first comment was banned although I didn't use any fowl language and was simply expressing my opinion. I'm glad to see other ppl think the same.

Now to re-iterate: this was a popularity contest, of that there is no doubt, so Malek..Melak..Mekl you PHAIL! Ppl hate you so deal with it. Your ginger so you should know a thing or two about that.. :)

Also #50: you can't show what you don't have now can you? ^^

KuroKy for president!
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#58 pixel_alireza 2 years ago
gl kuro in 2009
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#59 Madara 2 years ago
Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
MYM supposed to be the best team when it comes to DOTA,SC and WC3
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#60 OenyiL 2 years ago
yeah..vigoss always dominating .. 4ever
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#61 H4chiRoku Denied comment. 2 years ago
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#62 JoeDoe 2 years ago
#61 i think you got me wrong. in fact i agree with most thing maelk wrote. all im saying is that it's really stupid to complain about a community vote not being objective!
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#63 devanandbhagwat 2 years ago
#61

you are a f_cking retard that needs to know how to read/write/comprehend english. go read my post again you fool and not just the first 2 lines.
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#64 Golem- 2 years ago
HAHAHAHAHHAHA ks.int best team of the year, GOSUGAMERS USERS HOW LONG IS A YEAR FOR YOU? 2 MONTH..HUH? or 3??
Doesnt matter, how many public players we got here? well too many..want prove? check out the votes :D:D:D:D
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#65 Mokeba 2 years ago
nice
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#66 H4chiRoku 2 years ago
hehehe
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#67 artyy 2 years ago
lol maelk if this announcement is ridicoulus to you then what are we supposed to say about the article that mym published a month ago where every mym player was 1st? ROFL
This is at least way more unbiased/real than that one
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#68 Golem- 2 years ago
at least mania is a way better years ganker then vigoss, who wasnt playing the whole year w/e ur opinion
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#69 RamiZ 2 years ago
#59 MYM doesnt have anymroe SC and WC3 team....Just DOTA out of that three...

Btw @ Praemium....Kuro played POTM,Admiral,Tinker,SF,QoP,Meepo....Do you need more Carries???

Plz get you facts before posting.....
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#70 pombaa 2 years ago
Very Nice, the only thing I don't agree is Mania that could be in first place in category "Ganker", and Vigoss in second place....
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#71 devanandbhagwat 2 years ago
#69 add templar assassain to that list
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#72 Praemium 2 years ago
#69 more of 50% of those are semi-carrys, and he didn't even play them all well. Admiral/geo he played a better then average, for the rest of those, there are at least + 30 players i could name that played them better. also , kuro been in the scene for 4-5 months, that's not even the half of the year.

LoH/loda/chu/H4nn1 been here all the time and so has Yamateh and they all played by far better.
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#73 serial 2 years ago
#72 Every game I see against Ks.int they ban Meepo, because of KuroKy.

By the way, there was a game where KuroKy had more creep kills than Playmate w/ SA and H4nn1 with Brood together
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#74 forge_ 2 years ago
2009
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#75 RamiZ 2 years ago
#72 Your post dont have point at all........He play Carries,gg no re...that is what im trying to say...Btw in game vs SK,he was DUAL lane SF with Zeus,and he manage to outfarm whole his and enemy team...as #73 said Meepo always banned,his Admiral is ok,He DOESNT MISS arrows with Potm,in game vs Srs he manage to hit some "imposibble" arrows,like for example killing Nerubian in front of Fountain...his Tinker is decent,you see a lot of Tinkers these days,but i saw Only Chu's that is something near Kuro's and that in only 1 Game!And his QoP as far as i saw wasnt that good,but he was Joking around with 5 Nulls and Dagon!(WTF)?...so Kuro actually plays Carries,or semi-carries w/e it is the same cuz they are not gankers nor supporters...I agree that Kuro is in the scene last 5-6 Months,and i agree that this poll is kind of stupid,but we are not talking about the poll,you clearly said in your posts what does Carries Kuro plays?Well afaik only non-Carry that he played was Puck and Sand King,myb there are more but i really cant remember...
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#76 lordofheroes 2 years ago
puppey > maelk and hanni must be in this list!
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#77 aljun0219 2 years ago
All your comments are based on your own opinions. But at this point, im on maelk's side. He is right. The votes werent based on the whole year of 2008. When was Kuroky, Miracle, Vigoss, Puppey, Jolie in one team? About early of december? It states that it was the last month to end for year 2008. And this awards states that of the whole year of 2008. Wow. Really all you guys voted from this community are not wise.

Though the odds are of that Ks.Int being the most famous and well known team for their great players, it does not mean they were all in one team during the whole year of 2008. Please do comment on this question of mine...

What if this year, From this day on, till the 1st anniversary of the Ks.Int being as one team of vigoss,kuroky,puppey,jolie,miracle they are dominant but when a new team comes on the midst of december and will be stronger than Ks.Int and will be voted the team of year 2009 instead of Ks.Int? Ks.Int fans: How would you feel??


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#78 Solerme) 2 years ago
i think that everyone must respect other opinion, no matter who you are...
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#79 EuroUSrNoobs 2 years ago
This thread, and all the replies, only goes to show that what ive been saying the whole year round is true. Europeans are dumb and they suck in Dota. And of course because u people cant even see past your own backside's, you'll never be able to accept that Asians RULE. And Maelk, if you are reading this, can you please state for the record that in a LAN tourney, Asians will PAWN u and all your Euro's ARSE. Its funny how you come on in here and thrash everyone, but at the same time try to make ourself look good, without actually acknowledging who the best teams are. Really, I think the one that is dumb is u :)

Cheers!
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#80 tornado 2 years ago
ONLY Dadash <3 KURO <3
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#81 RamiZ 2 years ago
#79 plz dont post this Bullshit and go play Spectra with Double Battlefury as ASIANS know how to do it well -.-,i watched how KS got RAPED by KS.int yeah it was w/o Yamate so what?They are still THE ASIANS WOOOOW.....I dont think that any of Asians teams can beat now Ks.int....so plz gtfo with your retarded commnets....
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#82 skirmish 2 years ago
this "of the year" should be changed to "of the month"

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#83 cnu_wg 2 years ago
EHOME.71: Gosu selection I have something to say

Europe and the United States DOTA:

Am glad that everyone can remember a number of senior clubs DOTA team name, such as SK MYM MOUZ EG they participate in many of the world's online events, and people feel embarrassed that each team during the year achieved in total prize money but a mere few thousand dollars. Listen, no matter how good their organizations, cycle time, whether there are television and video as a network of export, or possession of a gambling Web site or the hardware vendor product support, I will race with prize money as a measure of the importance of standards, which even affected DOTA like CS, W3, like moving toward a true professional.

The line on the international tournament, the organizers do not prefer the use of sponsorship funds other than reimbursement of CS team project overhead, and therefore they have to pass on the right and risk the country level units onto a result, just as everyone can see, Brazil has Hosted by the ESWC2009 no. 距今 Ago, only Chinese place in the mid-year event ESWC2009 have DOTA project.

At this time, high reward business event should become an international team of choice, SMM for the championship out of the 10K USD attractive price, but you ... ... a smile, the organizers promise SMM2009 bonus will be higher, and I look forward to watch GosuGamer nominated to the "international team" to participate in the competition. Of course, if Europe really high prize tournaments, I promise my players will appear in court up to defend China's honor.

Asia DOTA:

Since October 2007 eHome into DOTA the area, a large number of events and millions of supporters so that I am heartened that in China, Singapore, Malaysia will give the audience crazy players more incentive to show, go Athletic, Hutchison live, it is wonderful.

KS had to endure under the delayed 300ping defeat SK, the other party even suspect that these Asian boys really have their own description as lag, through server-side query, I think SK's management team will enjoy a conference fury.

Impreza is also online on the event also alerts the international team have required extremely careful and take up the same score of 1 means that any "international team" have to grasp at the BO (x) of the game to overcome their?

ESWC San jose 2 Asian team in the final convergence, which allows Europeans criticized race non-stop system, and after numerous interviews time and again that the world's most powerful DOTA Clan is not Asian, I must say that this is ridiculous and without logical!

Let us look at the 2008 event in Asia and the rise of the team kept it for their promotion of DOTA in the world have made an outstanding contribution, please ! Here is a paradise for DOTA!

China DOTA:

DOTA map of the Chinese version of the download volume of not less than 3,000 million per year times still showed the form of incremental growth;
When the DOTA team eHome into colleges and universities around the time, sought after by students, cheers and applause;
When you enter Google.com "EHOME SNOY" and "SK LODA" when compared with the discovery of you will be surprised.
SNOY performances VOD in colleges and universities in a competing site power can be achieved 460,000 downloads, remember that I am referring to a website

; EHome of the DOTA team in 2008, made pre-tax prize money 27692 USD;

(Sorry I do not have the same data and display of such CANT excellent demeanor)

PGL 2008 PGL 2008
5,000 5,000

WCG 08 BJ WCG 08 BJ
20,000 20,000

WCG 08 CHN WCG 08 CHN
10,000 10,000

WCG 08 ASIAN WCG 08 ASIAN
26,000 26,000

CIG 2008 CIG 2008
10,000 10,000

G league #1 G league # 1
6,000 6,000

G league #2 G league # 2
6,000 6,000

CDL 2008 CDL 2008
3,000 3,000

UUU9 2008 UUU9 2008
3,000 3,000

TDC 2008 TDC 2008
3,500 3,500

GOA #1 GOA # 1
1,200 1,200

GOA #2 GOA # 2
1,500 1,500

SMM 2008 SMM 2008
72,000 72,000

WGT 2008 WGT 2008
20,000 20,000



But when I see 08 year GosuGamer Published vote, Asia is the only nominated KS and their team members Yamateh, the feelings of that moment is indescribable. Obama is like the United States only buy American made goods, all countries and institutions have raised the barriers to trade protection against it. Sports are also required to do so.


I clearly remember KS.int captain MGC08 interview Jolie, he clearly stated SNOY GK LONGDD PD some players have the strength of ID. PV team also relied on a good performance achieved more attention, with the 2009 in Shanghai, the new team set up, China is bound to occupy the seats is more important.


For any technical or objective reasons, I must point out that the information given by GosuGamer allow sponsors and millions in China and Asia dotaer disappointed. We love DOTA instead of Europe and the United States, Asia, China, but the world .


EHOME 71

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#84 philosophymushroom 2 years ago
don't be so serious, my compatriot
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#85 RamiZ 2 years ago
#83 if your post was to prove that Asians are good in dota,there is no doubt, they are, and to prove that this poll is bullshit,no doubt, yes it is, but why you are posted like comment with 23424982349 paragraphs XD you could xplain it a lot easier and faster...
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#86 skirmish 2 years ago
i feel you #83 take it easy man, this isnt official. its more like public vote.

honestly this poll, or news in the main page caused a heep of upsets. the amount of EU games coverage in gg dot net > Asia/Aus games. thus the popularity is really more towards EU teams.

In addition, playing with high latency is practically useless even with anti-spike and tunneling, discouraging inter-continent games. I certainly hope there will be more international lan events this year without retard rules, eg. eswc bo1 its so stupid. totally dissappointed in eswc officials and organizers.

so just treat it like paparazzi magazine coverage, for the sake of entertainment.
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#87 fatalbrutal 2 years ago
I hope there will be an offline tournament where KS.int will play against Ehome, Fnatic and KS. If the asians win against kuroky, puppey & co: how sick do they have to be?
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#88 Oldblood 2 years ago
i cannot understand this "Yamateh has always been notorius for his farming abilities, but haven't manage to get as much success as Kuroky and Loda".
??? KS ESWC Second place? and in autumn after the join of Hyhy, DkMage, Bouncy they played so long so awesome f4f 4 or something their game against mym.
#81 Ks with same latency (lan) would win against Ks.int in my opinion.
If Ks is in good shape last time the laag fun.
One for sure Yamateh is better as Vigoss now or Kuroky.
(Player of Year in my opinion 2009 Yamateh)
And how many lan events did we see there Asians take part last year?
ESWC was one and Ks and Zenith did it so... on lan Asia > Europe
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#89 skirmish 2 years ago
#88 i think they are almost on the same level, judging only on their teams' form at the point on match, careless mistakes and perhaps rune luck will determine who will emerge the winner.
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#90 winaitip 2 years ago
#50 that's why he lost ks.int 2 games in a row, in same tournament. And lost from pick to the end of game.
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#91 komodojoe 2 years ago
Kuroky > Vigoss > Jolie > all
and then some people wonder why ks.int is the best...

go for it ks.int, you are a legend
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#92 SE7EN-1 2 years ago
I wonder why people think that Vigoss is a good player...
I dont think so at least!
Kuroky,loda,maelk,playmate,... these are real players which are open minded!
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#93 skirmish 2 years ago
#92 RamiZ is better than vigoss in all ways, except in dota.
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#94 lungo 2 years ago
why must there be a discussion in every DotA thread? my fucking god, this is fuckd up
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#95 Mourn 2 years ago
in 2009 the best captain should be puppey
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#96 d3athtreath 2 years ago
well, Maelk is right.. But the GosuCrew is also right.. don't take it too much personal.. this poll as we all know.. is not really accurate.. and the public just voted for their favorite players..

But of course, put yourself in Maelk's shoes.. maybe he just felt bad because the poll is not really that fair.. and I'm a big fan of MYM
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#97 RamiZ 2 years ago
#93 LOL XD i never said that,nor that i play better then any of them....I just point something obivious....You cant judge which team will beat whch if they dont play...they did play,Ks.int vs KS...and Ks.Int won....i just responde to the guy that talk BS about that euorpeans Sux in Dota thats all....Well now i think that Ks.int>Ks....but who know there is a lot of luck in dota so we will know only if they play few normal games....
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#98 UrE 2 years ago
Well, I'm missing H4nn1 in the list of top carry but if u list H4nn1 at that list he deserves something like rank3. But everyone knows that KuroKy is the unreached #1 in Germany followed by H4nn1. So where to rank him?
Mb ganker would fit more but nvm.

And KuroKy isnt that unknown if you remember the time when World Eaters dominated everything in competitive DotA and where Kuroky did play under.
Looking at his age he is the best player throughout DotA.

Flame me for being a fan of KuroKy since he played under the tag of WE :D

But Mealk is right about the other categories. KS.Int/Mouz wasnt the best team in 2008 and Vigoos should be ranked 2nd or 3rd.
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#99 kisame 2 years ago
i'm pride for you ALL
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#100 zilitO 2 years ago
Maelk GOsuw ^^! GL MyM team !
 

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