Meet GH: the legendary Arab Dota 2 support player and his road to fame
We already spoke about many big names in the world of eSports from the region, such as the Syrian Romanian W33 in addition to the other Dota 2 Arab legend Miracle. Now, it’s time to learn more about the amazing Team Liquid’s support player Maroun “GH” Merhej.
Known to players and fans as GH, Maroun Naeem Merhej or Maroun “GH” Merhej, he’s a Lebanese player who is renowned for his high skills and constant distinction.
He began to steal the lights and gain popularity when he was part of the Wired Gaming team and managed to win the MSI BEAT IT 2014 Middle East qualifiers. After that, he moved to the Lebanese organization E-LAB, which is considered by many to be the first organization in the Middle East Sponsors a special team of Dota 2 championships.
In fact the popularity of the player did not stop at this achievement but increased significantly after his stunning performance in getting more than 9,000 MMR in the board of the best Dutta 2 players from matchmaking servers and thus managed to reach one of the highest score points in Europe In its entirety.
Sometimes the player depends on the mid solo style of play in the regular games, but when it come to professionalism and competitiveness he often take the role of “support”, the same role he plays with the best international teams at the moment, Team Liquid.
On January 2, 2017, the player achieved his great achievement by joining the European team Team Liquid to officially replace Kanishka ‘Sam’ “BuLba” Sosale. The team benefited greatly from the arrival of the player and it is clear to everyone that their performance improved greatly after this contract , Where they managed to win two previous online qualifiers earlier this year 2017, in addition to a victory in the LAN event in February 2017.
The legendary player, accompanied by his team, received an invitation to participate in the Kiev Major, where they finished the fifth and eighth mattresses, and then continued to shin together to gain recognition in the arena of global competition for the game Dota 2, after winning four consecutive events in the LAN and lately the world’s largest tournament The International 2017, This was considered to be GH‘s first The International, and he ended up winning a huge prize worth $ 10 million with his team.
The player was feared by his opponents and enemies during the big tournament, and the apparent diversity of Team Liquid helped create a better kind of flexibility to respond to the many battles they had won.
It is worth mentioning that the player has won several other championships before this global competition: DreamLeague’s seventh season, EPICENTER 2017 and StarLadder i-League Invitational # 2, and they finished second in the European Dream League , And at the beginning of this year they managed to win the third season of StarLadder i-League StarSeries and at the end of last year 2016 they won the third season of DreamLeague.
GH is best known for his frequent use of three hero characters in DOTA 2: Io, Keeper of the Light and finally Earthshaker.
Interestingly, Team Liquid now combines two of the Dota 2 legends from the Arab world. We have a unification of Arab power, with the well-known GH we also have the famous Jordanian-Arab player Amer Barkawi or Amer-Miracle- Al-Barkawi.
