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Dota 2 news week in review: February 20

For those who might have missed the most important news from the past week in the competitive Dota2 scene, here is a short recap.

Tournament news:

SL i-League StarSeries S3: groups are drawn

The two directly invited teams, OG and Wings Gaming are placed in different groups, for obvious reasons, while the rest of the six qualified squads have been drawn and paired randomly. In group A, the Southeast Asia qualifiers winners,TNC will face against OG in the beginning, and iG.Vitality will be playing their first series against Team Secret. The other group will kick off with Vici Gaming J taking off against Team Liquid while Wings Gaming will be fighting against Digital Chaos.

Kiev Major main event rescheduled

Initially scheduled for April 20-23, the Kiev Major has been pushed for the last weekend of April, from 27th to 30th at the National Palace of Arts Ukraine. Tickets will go on sale on February 22 at 10:00 10:00 a.m. Eastern European time via Karabas. For each of the days leading to the grand finals the ticket costs ?130 (~5$), while the grand finals ticket is ?400 (~ 15$.

ESL announce a new event, The Masters

Dota 2 events are what we love most and ESL have decided to announce their latest one, The Masters. The event will take place from May 26th – 28th 2017 at the SM Mall of Asia arena and boasts a prize pool of $250,000. While the format of the tournament is unknown at this moment in time, we do know that there will be 8 teams participating of which the first has already received their invite – that being Evil Geniuses.

OG defend their Elimination Mode title

The third edition of Elimination Mode saw OG crowned as Champions at the end of an exciting Bo5 grand finals between the Europeans and compLexity Gaming.

Elimination Mode 3.0 final standings:

1st place: $12,000 OG
2nd place: $8,000 compLexity Gaming
3rd-4th place: $2,500 Onyx, Alliance
5th-6th place: WanteD, Ad Finem
7th-8th place: Team Freedom, Ninjas in Pyjamas

Team announcements:

canceL^^ left  compLexity Gaming

Following the recent qualifiers results from DAC and SL i-League StarSeries Season 3, coL’s mid laner canceL^^ decided to take a break from competitive Dota2. After the official announcement of his departure from compLexity Gaming, Mihai 'canceL^^' Antonio released a 15 minute vlog on his youtube channel in which he explains all the reasoning behind his decision. You can find the full vlog below:

Infamous take their chances with newcomers

In a rather interesting turn of events, Alexis 'Greedy' Ventura, who registered with Not Today for the Kiev Major, will now rejoin Infamous. They are a team he is more than familiar with, his break out moment being registered with them back in 2015, at the Frankfurt Major. Greedy will be taking the mid lane role at the revamped Infamous while the offlane will be taken by Leonardo 'Mandy' Viana. Mandy is not the only youngster Infamous is taking their chance with this season, the fourth support spot being filled with Romel 'Wu' Quinteros, a 17 year old player who has been proving himself over the past couple of months at Infamous Black, the organizations’ secondary Dota 2 team.

Infamous roster from position 1 to 5:

Peru Benjamin 'Benjaz' Lanaos
Peru  Alexis 'Greedy' Ventura
Brazil Leonardo 'Mandy' Viana
Peru Romel 'Wu' Quinteros
Peru Christian 'Accel' Cruz

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