Kiev, Ukraine is the place to be this week, as 16 of the best Dota 2 teams meet in a four-days-lasting tournament with 20,000 US-Dollar at stake. With another six competitors announced, all slots in the participants list have now been filled.
Joining the already invited or qualified
Natus Vincere
SK-Gaming
Garaj Gaming
The Elder Gods
Wild Honey Badgers
Gamers League
Team Shakira
eSahara
Power Rangers
Dota Dinosaurs
... will be
EBIN
The Retry
Fos Style
IGG
Team Hungary
GoD
... to complete the D2SC lineup.
Loyal readers of this website should be wondering about the absence of Fnatic and NEXT.kz, who appeared as attenders in earlier news. While the reasons for NEXT remain unknown, sources within Fnatic informed us, that the team put thoughts to participate aside, due to Damir 'Mitch' Skaricic being unable to travel during the week, because of obligations at his school.
Kiev will be the DotA LAN-debut for EBIN and Team Hungary. Further, Russian veterans Vladimir 'PGG' Anosov and Ivan 'Vigoss' Shinkarev seem to have a new TR prepared for the upcoming D2SC, leaving two slots for IGG and Fos Style to make team list 16 and full.
UPDATE: Dutch DotA collective GoD are still looking for sponsorship to attend the tournament.
The Dota 2 Star Championship takes place from the 8th until the 11th of December.
Links
cyberarena.tv - Source
prodota.ru - teams with player lineups