QPAD's captain Niklas 'Wagamama' Högström will be casting The International 3 together with Toby 'TobiWan' Dawson. They will join LD & Lumi and Ayesee & Draskyl as English casters for the event.
After dropping out of the Western Qualifiers of The International 3, QPAD Red Pandas have been through a bumpy ride. Their captain Niklas 'Wagamama' Högström, however, will still attend the main event in Seattle as joinDOTA just announced that he will be joining Toby 'TobiWan' Dawson as co-caster.
This completes the list of English casters for the event: BeyondTheSummit's LD and Luminous will cast together while Ayesee and The GD Studio's Drasyl will form the other casting team.
JoinDOTA has also taked the chance to interview the Swede Wagamama. Here is an excerpt of the interview; you can read the full story over on their page!
Were you surprised when Toby informed you he wanted you to join him for Seattle?
A little bit maybe, but I feel we had a really good time casting everytime that I joined him. I was more happy than surprised!
Have you talked to Toby about whether you will try to get in some more casting together before TI3?We talked about it, and we will definitely try to get some games where we can just cast together again to get a good flow together.
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Who will benefit more from resetting the clock right now? The West as the strategies the Alliance employed at G-1 are now obsolete, or the East as they get to tackle the new patch without having to spend the time making up for any developments in the West that they neglected?
The clock is not really reset, it’s a lot of changes for sure, but the overall playstyle is what is most important. The west and east have the same time to adapt to the changes, I think its more about who finds the best style for this patch and less about who finds the best things to exploit
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