‘We can’t hold it for certain’: Xakoda assured Virtus.professional will shuffle Dota 2 roster after TI11 failure

Virtus.professional did not qualify for Dota 2’s The Worldwide 11 after falling wanting the mark at The International 2022 Last Chance Qualifier. They misplaced to Crew Secret within the Higher Bracket Last and Crew Liquid within the Decrease Bracket Last, who each ended up qualifying for the distinguished occasion.

They carried out fairly properly all through the marketing campaign. However, Virtus.professional is a corporation with excessive expectations, and in consequence, it seems like they’re shuffling their roster.

Egor “Xakoda” Lipartiya, who performs assist of their crew, all however confirmed it on stream. “What’s going to occur with the lineup? I can say that we received’t hold it for certain,” he mentioned, based on a translation from escorenews.

Xakoda mentioned the org will launch extra particulars about it as soon as The Worldwide 11 is finished, which tends to be what occurs as soon as post-season Rostermania kicks in.

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It’s been some time since Virtus.professional had been thought-about to be among the finest groups within the skilled Dota 2 scene. They received a sequence of large tournaments in 2018, together with ESL One Katowice 2018, The Bucharest Main, ESL One Birmingham 2018, and The Kuala Lumpur Main.

However after that, they’ve fallen wanting the mark, putting fifth in The Worldwide 8, ninth in The Worldwide 9 the next 12 months, fifth at The Worldwide 10 in 2021, and failing to win any notable tournaments in between.

The Dota 2 roster has modified loads since then too.

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The present iteration, which consists of Roman “RAMZES666” Kushnarev, Danil “gpk” Skuti, Dmitry “DM” Dorokhin, Daniyal “yamich” Lazebnyy, and Xakoda, regarded promising on paper.

However, failing to qualify for The Worldwide 11 will not be one thing the heavyweight esports group is happy with, in order that they really feel one other change is to ensure that the Dota 2 crew.

Author: Ronnie Neal