The glory days won’t ever actually fade—or that’s no less than what OG desires its followers to assume because it formally confirmed a secondary Dota 2 roster that may function three members of its earlier Worldwide-winning lineups. Nevertheless it gained’t be working in the way in which many initially anticipated.
After just a few rumors and early registrations on the official Dota 2 roster registry leaked the lineup slowly, OG has introduced Previous G in the present day. It is a new roster that may run alongside the principle OG staff that retained a majority of its gamers from the 2022 Dota Professional Circuit.
This new lineup is considerably of a play on the ‘Previous however Gold’ lineup that made a run again in 2019 and should have been teased by n0tail in an October interview with Dot Esports, with the objective of giving a few of OG’s established legends an opportunity to proceed taking part in with different veterans in a extra substantial approach than simply ranked matches. And it truly is nearly one factor—having fun with Dota.
“This has nothing to do with OG proper now, as on this isn’t like a staff,” Ceb said. “We aren’t competing. We aren’t placing strain on ourselves. We’re not right here to carry out or attend tournaments. We’re actually simply chilling and taking part in some Dota.”
On this case, n0tail and Ceb are correctly stepping again into the competitors for the primary time since stepping again post-TI10 for some good occasions.
They’re joined by the returning Topson—who spent the ultimate a part of final season taking part in in Southeast Asia for T1—and MSS, who’s leaping over to Europe for the primary time since a short stint with mousesports in 2014. The latter can also be the second former Quincy Crew/Soniqs participant to depart North America after the roster cut up.
The ultimate key to the puzzle is a former rival from Jap Europe, Noone, with the previous Virtus.professional mainstay becoming a member of Previous G for a brand new method after a comparatively disappointing season and a half with Natus Vincere. It’ll even be his first time taking part in in Western Europe after virtually a decade of taking part in at a excessive degree in CIS.
With this staff, OG will likely be one of many few organizations fielding two rosters simultaneously with top talent, although it’ll function very completely different approach from how the previous OG.Seed was dealt with in that it’s all about enjoyable and technically has nothing to do with the org.
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In keeping with Ceb, that is only a approach for him to play with folks he enjoys taking part in with and are all able to “placing phrases to concepts” in a approach that isn’t simply the standard pub grind—as a result of even not taking part in competitively anymore hasn’t stopped him from being on the high of Europe’s rankings. At present, the staff has a set variety of video games in thoughts that they may play collectively at sure occasions of the 12 months, no matter if that sees them competing in a Battle Cup-type occasion, the DPC, and even the finals of a Main.
With this method in thoughts, Ceb did reassure followers that—regardless of the identify, which he had no half in selecting—the gamers concerned are nonetheless wired to play Dota a particular approach. This implies no outright trolling. Something they do to fiddle will nonetheless be messing round whereas attempting to win in their very own approach.
“Don’t hate on us after we lose as a result of we’re going to lose rather a lot [laughs],” Ceb mentioned. “Be prepared for that. We’re going to strive some loopy stuff. Simply naked with us and benefit from the try, don’t have a look at the tip of the street.”
Even with freedom as its fundamental method, the gamers are additionally open to try-harding like everybody else within the DPC once they get collectively to play. So if issues do find yourself escalating and turning into extra about bringing their distinctive Dota DNA to competitions correctly, the idea of Previous G and everybody concerned may have a say in the place issues go.
