All the latest confirmed and speculated roster changes in one place.
Team Empire (05.09.2015: Confirmed)
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In the last day of the shuffle period Team Empire have announced their final fifth player but they can’t lock the new roster as Andrey 'The_apathy' Aleshkov already signed up on the majors registration list with his previous team, aSpera.
Team Empire have officially announced the departure of their offlaner yoky and one of the supports, ALWAYSWANNAFLY and welcomed a new rising star to their roster, Ivan 'ubah' Kapustin.
Team Empire roster:
Airat 'Silent' Gaziev
Roman 'Resolut1on' Fominok (c)
Ivan 'ubah' Kapustin
Ilya 'ALOHADANCE' Korobkin
Andrey 'The_apathy' Aleshkov
Dmitryi 'Fervian' Rudnev (Substitute)
CIS Rejects (03.09.2015 Confirmed)
A new CIS team has registered on the list for the upcoming Major featuring well known players from the region like Gorec, Vanskor and Alwayswannafly. CIS Rejects is a mix of Russian and Ukrainian experienced players who do have a lot of tournaments under their belt.
CIS Rejects roster:
Artem 'ARTES' Gorobey
Bohdan 'Iceberg' Vasylenko
Ivan 'Gorec' Kartankov
Andrey 'ALWAYSWANNAFLY' Bondarenko
Ivan 'VANSKOR' Skorokhod
Natus Vincere (02.09.2015 Confirmed)
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02.09.2015: Andrew 'PSM' Dunaev was announced as the fifth Natus Vincere player. Ivan 'Artstyle' Antonov will remain with Na’Vi as a substitute player.
Natus Vincere roster:
Alexander 'XBOCT' Dashkevich
Danil 'Dendi' Ishutin
Gleb 'Funn1k' Lipatnikov
Akbar 'SoNNeikO' Butaev
Andrew 'PSM' Dunaev
High Council of Wizards&Priests (01.09.2015: Confirmed)
Yet another completely new team registered on the upcoming major list. High Council of Wizards&Priests will represent North America and features a few well-known names in the pro scene.
High Council of Wizards and Priests roster:
Ioannis 'Fogged' Loucas
Mason 'Mason' Venne
Aaron 'Clairvoyance' Kim
Scott 'Chad' Jensen
Jimmy 'DemoN' Ho
Cloud 9 (01.09.2015: Confirmed)
Cloud9's DotA2 team has officially disbanded. The owner of Cloud9, Jack Etienne, said that the organization will be sponsoring a new DotA2 team in the future. Although no "official" reasons have been given for the team disbanding, but it is speculated that the team's poor performance at The International 5 is a core reason.
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01.09.2015: On a Facebook post made by Theeban "1437" Siva (ex Team Secret coach) he announces that he will be leading the new line-up for Cloud 9. With their brand new Dota 2 lineup, Cloud 9 will represent North America from now on.
Cloud9 roster:
Ravi 'Ritsu' Kodippili -carry
Braxon 'Brax' Paulson - mid
Arif 'MSS ' Anwar -offlane
'SVG' - support 4
Theeban '1437' Siva - support 5 (captain)
Chase 'Loomdun' Stearns – coach and substitute
4Clover&Lepricorn (30.08.2008 Confirmed)
The announcement of 4 Clover & Lepricorn as the last team to participate at the LAN event in Slovenia next week, also reveals the team’s new roster with the ex Alliance mid lane player Per Anders 'Pajkatt' Olsson in it.
4Clover&Lepricon roster:
Alaan 'SexyBamboe' Faraj
Jerry 'EGM' Lundkvist
Per 'Anders' Pajkatt' Olsson
Martin 'Saksa' Sazdov
Uros 'Swiftending' Galic
5Jungs (29.08.2015 Confirmed)
With the invited teams for ESL One Europe main qualifiers announcement yet another brand new squad have been revealed. It’s Kuro’s stack, 5Jungs. Two of the old Mousesports TI players are now reunited as Kuro 'KuroKy' Takhasomi brought Adrian 'FATA' Trinks into his new project. Jesse 'JerAx' Vainikka is now back on European soil and he will make his debut with 5Jungs.
5Jungs roster:
Kuro 'KuroKy' Salehi Takhasomi
Adrian 'FATA-' Trinks
Jesse 'JerAx' Vainikka
Lasse 'MATUMBAMAN' Urpalainen
Ivan 'MinD_ContRoL' Borislavov
Monkey Business (28.08.2015 Confirmed)
Announced on their newly created Facebook and Twitter page, Monkey Business is a new team consisting of players from well known teams such as Complexity and Cloud9 (before disbanding). The team is mostly EU based with three of their players being from Euopean countries.
Monkey Business's roster:
Amer 'Miracle-' Barqawi
Johan 'N0tail' Sundstein
David 'MoonMeander' Tan
Andreas 'Cr1t' Nielsen
Tal 'Fly' Aizik
Alliance (27.08.2015 Confirmed)
Although many have been hoping to see an entire TI3 Alliance line up reformed it is now clear that it won’t be happening in this season. After he spent one year trying something different with team Secret, s4 is now reunited with his former team mates Loda, Bulldog and Akke
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27.08.2015 Alliance announced the new roster: Loda, Akke, s4, AdmiralBulldog, Mynuts
18.08.2015: On their official website Alliance announced the departure of Per Anders 'Pajkatt' Olsson from the team.
Alliance roster:
Jonathan 'Loda' Berg
Gustav 's4' Magnusson
Henrik 'AdmiralBulldog' Ahnberg
Johan 'Mynuts' Andersson
Joakim 'Akke' Akterhall
Fnatic (26.08.2015 Confirmed)
The new Fnatic line up consists of three Malaysian players, one form Philippines and one from Europe. Ten days after three players were dropped from the roster Fnatic rebuild their team with the addition of Wai Pern 'Net'Lim, Djardel Jicko 'Chrissy/DJ' Mampusti and Dominik 'Black^' Reitmeier.
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26.08.2015: The rumors regarding Dominik 'Black^' Reitmeier joining Fnatic turned real as the organization made an official announcement about their reformed DotA squad.
16.08.2015: Mushi remain at Fnatic - Confirmed
17.08.2015: kyxy out of Fnatic - Confirmed
17.08.2015: KyXy, KecikImba, Johnny out of Fnatic - Confirmed
24.08.2015: Black^ is rumored to be joining Fnatic
We're proud to announce the new #FNATIC Dota 2 squad! Welcome @BlackDotA2, Net & DJ. » http://t.co/HlwQ3Ffh5v pic.twitter.com/oD3U9EIJRO
— FNATIC (@FNATIC) August 26, 2015
Fnatic roster:
Chai 'Mushi' Yee Fung
Chong Xin 'Ohaiyo' Khoo
Dominik 'Black^' Reitmeier
Wai Pern 'Net' Lim
Djardel Jicko 'Chrissy/DJ' Mampusti
MvP Phoenix (26.8.15: Partially rumored)
Although no official announcement has been released yet, sources close to the team hinted that Kim 'QO' Seon-Yeob has plans to leave South Korea in the coming months.
His teammate Tae Won 'March' Park declared in his TI5 official interview that it was his last International as he is forced to commit the next two years for military service. Even though he stated he sees no point in continuing with the team for the months left from this year’s competitive schedule, he is now still unsure whether or not he will continue playing.
Apart from that, Nutz is also reported to have left for Singapore and kphoenix is currently looking for a new team. Considering so many from from MVP.Phoenix are leaving, there is a real possibility that MVP.Hot6 members and MVP.Phoenix will be combined into one team.
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16.08.2015: NutZ leaves the team - Confirmed
26.8.2015: March and QO registered as primary members of the team's existing roster
26.8.2015: Heen registers as primary member of MVP.Phoenix
Speculated MVP.Phoenix roster:
Kim 'Febby' Yongmin
Taewon 'March' Park
Sun Yeob 'QO' Kim
Lee 'Heen' Seung Gon
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LGD Gaming (18.08.2015: Confirmed)
According to Dimitri Vallette, event manager for MarsTV, LGD is looking to create another international squad. This time the team will be located in Europe or North America.
Alright. I'll break the news. @LGDgaming want to make an international team (again), this time the team will be in Europe or NA.
— Dimitri Vallette (@GodBlessMali) August 18, 2015
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28.08.2015 LGD’s captain Zhang 'xiao8' Ning decide to step down along with Yao 'Yao' Zhengzheng. rOtks’s EHOME teammate, ddc is joining him at LGD.
24.08.2015: In a long, emotional weibo post rOtK announced that he decided to leave EHOME and join LGD after some differences between him and team's management.
[DOTA2] Most of you guessed it, ddc will also be joining the LGD roster alongside rOtk! Yao and xiao8 wish them the best of luck #weareLGD
— LGD-Gaming (@LGDgaming) August 26, 2015
LGD Gaming roster:
Liu 'Sylar' Jiajun
Lu 'Maybe' Yao
Lei 'MMY' Zengrong
Bai 'rOtk' Fan
Liang 'ddc' Faming
FireDota (24.8.15: Semi-confirmed)
Team Liquid is planning to make their return into the professional DotA 2 scene. According to an inside source of Gosugamers, Brian 'FLUFFNSTUFF' Lee and Jio 'Jeyo' Madayag are working together to build up the new Liquid roster.
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24.08.15: A team named FireDota, consisting of Jio 'Jeyo' Madayag and Brian 'FluffnStuff' Lee, signed up for the Dota2 Major.
FireDota's Dota2 Major roster:
Brain 'Fluff' Lee
Eric '747' Dong
David 'Mo' Hull
Jio 'Jeyo' Madayag
Bryant 'Whitebeard' Lehwald
William 'Blitz' Lee (Sub)
Vega Squadron (23.08.2015: Confirmed)
Vega Squadron has released an update on their website saying that their Dota2 roster will remain unchanged. Vega has already signed up for the first ever Dota2 major.
Vega Squadron's roster:
Semion 'CemaTheSlayer' Krivulya
Andrey 'Mag' Chipenko
Vladimir 'No[o]ne' Minenko
Pavel '9pashaebashu' Hvastunov
Alexei 'Solo' Berezin
Invictus Gaming (23.08.2015: Rumored)
Image from ImbaTV's youku
According to an interview with Wong 'ChuaN' Hock Chuan, he is considering retirement if he does not get to team with the players he wants to play with, namely Xu 'BurNIng' Zhi Lei and Luo 'Ferrari_430' Fei Chi.
Although initial reports stated that BurNing will not be leaving iG, GosuGamers have received information that BurNing has left the team for Vici Gaming
Current IG roster:
Luo 'Ferrari_430' Fei Chi
Wong 'ChuaN' Hock Chuan (possibly retiring)
Luo 'Luo' Yinqi
Zeng 'Faith' Hong Da
Team Secret (22.08.2015: Secret reforms with new squad)
Many people speculated that Secret will be making some roster changes but a complete disbandment would be rather surprising considering the pool of players available for Secret to pick to rebuild their team. But, according to Ukrainian caster Vitali 'v1lat' Volochai, all five members of Team Secret could be departing from the team.
Even before the TI5 to start, Ludwig 'Zai' Wåhlberg stated in an interview for DotaBlast that he is considering taking a year off to continue his studies. The announcement of Arteezy joining Evil Geniuses hinted that Secret may indeed be losing all their players.
In a recent Facebook post by Team Secret, they stated the following: " As well Artour leaving the current roster, Ludwig "zai" Wåhlberg will be taking a step back from his active role in our roster […] As for Team Secret we are not quite ready to announce all of our plans yet. We will have more to announce later in the month."
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22.08.2015: A new roster was announced with Clement 'Puppey' Ivanov being the only remaining player from the original roster.
Current confirmed roster:
Clement 'Puppey' Ivanov
Rasmus 'MiSeRy' Filipson
Jacky 'EternalEnvy' Mao
Johan 'Pieliedie' Åström
Aliwi 'w33haa' Omar
London Conspiracy (18.08.2015: Confirmed)
London Conspiracy officialy anounnced that they droped their Greek Dota2 squad as the team felt that they needed a fresh start under the name of Gold Boys. LC is looking forward to sponsor a new Dota 2 team.
Current London Conspiracy roster:
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Current Golden Boys roster:
Greg “Keyser Soze” Kallianiotis,
Omar “Madara” Dabasas,
Xaris “SkyLark” Zafiriou,
Giannis “SKANKS224″ Theodoridis
Verros “Maybe Next Time” Apostolos
Virtus.Pro (19.08.2015: Confirmed)
Virtus.Pro announced via twitter that they will make no changes to their roster.
Don't worry, there will be no changes in @TeamVirtuspro Dota 2 roster
— Team Virtus.pro (@TeamVirtuspro) August 18, 2015
Virtus.Pro Roster:
Sergey 'God' Bragin
Ilya 'Illidan' Pivcaev
Alexander 'DkPhobos' Kucheria
Ilya 'Lil' Ilyuk
Artem 'Fng' Barshak
Evil Geniuses (15.08.2015:Confirmed)
One of the few teams that no one was expecting to undergo roster changes, the winners of this year's International $6.8 million prize, Evil Geniuses announced that they replaced their support Kurtis 'Aui_2000' Ling with Artour 'Arteezy' Babaev.
i have been kicked from eg after winning ti. i actually hate people
— Aui 2000 (@Aui_2000) August 15, 2015
With Clinton 'Fear' Loomis looking forward to undergo a surgery for his arm problems that kept him away from the competitive scene for a year, the unexpected kick was probably a must to do move to make sure the carry role in the team is covered.
Current EG roster:
Syed 'Suma1l' Sumail Hassan
Peter 'PPD' Dager
Clinton 'Fear' Loomis
Saahil 'Universe' Arora
Artour 'Arteezy' Babaev
Image from DK Facebook
According to an inside source, DK are currently looking to form another Dota2 team and are willing to pay large amounts of cash to achieve this goal, signaling the probability of this team containing multiple star players. Gosugamers are currently unaware of the players which have been approached.
An inside source has informed Gousgamers that EHOME are looking to form another Dota2 squad. It is unclear which region this new EHOME squad will be from and what the purpose of the squad will be.
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