The 18 teams who will be competing this year in DOTA 2 TI8
There are 18 teams will be competing this year for the title of DOTA 2 World champions in The International 8 (TI8).
The full list of attendees was completed, after the qualifiers for The International 8 concluded. The final contestants from North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia were able to secure their spot at the multimillion event after nearly a week’s worth of intense competition.
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The last three teams to secure their spot at The International 8 were North American favorites OpTic Gaming, three-time Valve Major Champions OG, and Filipino superstars TNC Predator. The 18 teams attending The International 8 aren’t all too surprising, given a majority of them were in the the top 20 when it came to Dota 2 Pro Circuit points (DPC).
The full list of teams is as follows:
Qualified via DPC points
- Team Liquid
- Virtus Pro
- VGJ Thunder
- Mineski
- PSG-LGD
- Team Secret
- Vici Gaming
- Newbee
Qualified via regional qualifiers
- Evil Geniuses
- OpTic Gaming
- VGJ Storm
- WinStrike
- OG
- Fnatic
- TNC Predator
- Team Serenity
- Invictus Gaming
- paiN Gaming
Out of all teams that had to qualify, OG’s run through the European qualifier is the most notable. Having lost founding player Tal “Fly” Aizik and long-time offlaner Gustav “s4” Magnusson on May 25, OG had to quickly assemble a makeshift roster for the European qualifier. Despite this OG proceeded to dominate the European qualifier, playing a perfect group stage and only dropping two maps in total during the playoffs.
The 90 players in attendance will now have roughly a month to prepare before they embark on the most prestigious journey a DOTA 2 player can take.
DOTA 2 World championship The International 8 (TI8) set to be starting from 20 to 25 August this year.
