PREVIEW: DOTA 2 PRIDE CHALLENGE – SINGAPORE VS MALAYSIA

Dota 2 Pride Challenge – Malaysia vs Singapore Preview

The Dota 2 Pride Challenge between Team Malaysia and Team Singapore will unfold in less than 12 hours. Here we have a short introduction of each team representing their countries and their lineups. 

 TEAM SINGAPORE

Zenith

The team with crazy tactics and unexpected lineups, this is how we all know Zenith. Remember the time when they did the “No Ban” on Invictus Gaming and other teams? An unorthodox but yet effective way of baiting the opposing team to be greedy as it opens up the hero pool a lot more.

Despite losing against DK in the losers’ bracket finals of the G-1 Asia Qualifiers and failing to qualify in the LAN Finals, they are one of the invited teams who will be competing in the prestigious The International 3. This just shows that they are indeed one of the best team in the world of Dota.

TEAM ROSTER:

• xy
• xfreedom
• ice
• iceiceice
• yamateh

First Departure

The team who has been in the top three of the last five GosuCup Asia, this just shows that they have what it takes to compete with other top tier teams.  They were able to clinch second place in the Armaggeddon Dota 2 Grand Slam Asia, they sadly lost to Invasion.MUFC (former ABC) in the grand finals but still had the opportunity to be sponsored by them. With that, it pushed them even more to practice and improve themselves. Expect them to be in any tournament or event possible and expect them to be in the running and never count them out. With their impressive performances, they were amongst the invited teams of the East Qualifier for The International 3.

TEAM ROSTER:

• Meracle
• Lubby
• poloson
• Scripted
• Infatuated

Neolution.International

Probably one of the underrated teams today, lead by the living legend himself ninjaboogie with his insane carrying capability. With their recent achievements of either Champion or 2^nd Runner Up speaks for itself and the Dota 2 Pride Challenge is no different as the International Squad will want to show what they are made of. With their impressive performances, they were amongst the invited teams of the East Qualifier for The International 3.

ROSTER:

• ninjaboogie
• hu Xiaoman
• Hachiko
• Lei
• ????

 TEAM MALAYSIA

NeoES.Orange

The team lead by the Mushi and indeed he shoulders a lot of the load when it comes to crunch times. But let’s not count out the four other members of the team as each player contributes a lot, especially when it is most needed for the success and bringing home the “W”.

A team that is really flexible, recalling the time when they picked the forgotten Mirana and laned Tide Hunter in the middle lane? They easily took down LGD.int during the finals of the GEST Challenge where they defeated them on the back of an epic comeback in game 2, lead by Mushi’s Morphling. This goes to show how calm this team is despite a bad start.

They are currently in the G-1 League finals together with 5 other teams who qualified. Just like Zenith, they are one of the invited teams who will be competing in the prestigious The International 3. This just shows that they are indeed one of the best team in the world of Dota.

TEAM ROSTER:

• net
• mushi
• xtinct
• ohaiyo
• kyxy

Invasion.MUFC

The team formerly known as team ABC were the Champions of the Armaggeddon Dota 2 Grand Slam Asia.  They went undefeated in the GEST April, where they impressively defeated the Mushi-less NeoES.Orange in the semi-finals and First Departure in the best-of-five Grand Finals to secure the title.

Despite failing to Qualifier in the G-1 League LAN Finals, they were among the teams who were directly invited to compete in the prestigious The International 3. That alone proved that they have the capability to compete with the best.

TEAM ROSTER:

• tfg
• ling
• HONTRASHPLAYER
• FzFz
• WinteR

Invasion.Gagbyte

A team that loves to pick hard carries such as Luna Moonfang, Faceless Void and Phantom Lancer, with Shadow Demon as their basic support hero to back up. So Basically when the game goes to late game, they have an anchor hero that can lift them to victory. With their recent victory in the Dota 2 The Rampage, they were able to defeat the Singaporean Squad First Departure 3:1 lead by DaN’s impressive plays.

TEAM ROSTER:

• Dan
• snow
• shengg
• Baby
• jab

Watch the exciting matches as RGN brings you LIVE stream of the Dota 2 Pride Challenge between team malaysia and team Singapore starting 4th May, 12pm (GMT +8)