Dota 2 History Vici Gaming

1 dota 2 history

1.1 2012
1.2 2013
1.3 2014
1.4 2015

dota 2 history
2012

vici gaming founded on october 21, 2012 of “fengdidi”, had played in pandarea gaming under name panpan, handpicking highly skilled players highly ranked on chinese dota ladder @ time.

the players had no previous professional experience @ time exception of sydm had played under banner of tyloo. mid lane player cty had shown promise winning 1v1 tournament organized 2009, in beat famous players ferrari_430, sylar, hao, , other top chinese players shortly before getting recruited.

the team qualified 2012 g-league season 2 beating noah s ark in preliminaries.

2013

on january 28, vici signed greedy, captained famous yaphets online/backup squad. rest of team consisted of xiaotuji, maybe, nl_ks, , captaingivemeball. focused on dota, although have since expanded dota 2.

on march 1, vici signed zsmj, built dota 2 squad. believed zsmj brought of teammates project chisbug him vici gaming, of 1 sgua_li. in following weeks, vici gaming made roster adjustments, dropping players in private while sending out public notice interested players contact them.

on march 28, announced carry player zsmj replaced mid player sydm , former carry cty picked mid role.

in june 2013, following elimination international 2013 qualifiers , disappointing finish outside playoff places in dsl, vici gaming announced departure of team executive, pandapanpan, , team manager, nada. replacement mikasa, had played substitute vg.

on october 31 sylar joins teams new carry player, not in starting lineup 2 months due contract terms , tutu remains play on ongoing 2013 wpc ace dota2 league.

in december 2013, vici gaming traveled poland compete in raidcall ems fall lan finals, joining ranks of teams alliance, natus vincere, , dk pioneers in east-west tournament participation. vici go on take first place @ ems 1 fall. following this, team traveled kingston hyperx dota 2 league in las vegas., subsequently fall top of dota 2 due lack of direction , poor player performances. despite placing @ many events vici not achieve title in ti3 ti4 season.

2014

on april 16 announced former ehome player qqq joining vg coach.

at end of april 2014, vici gaming received invitation international 2014, go on place first in group stage , second overall. lost newbee in finals 3–1.

on august 17 rotk announced retirement. august 26 - sylar leaves team, , black^ , iceiceice join. vg looked strong new lineup rest of year, best chinese team.

in mid december travelled los angeles compete in summit 2 , strong favorites defeated cloud9 championship 3-1.

2015

vg had strong 2015 season. in february, reached finals of dota 2 asian championships ( biggest event outside of international ) not effort, lost shockingly 0-3 evil geniuses in grand finals, since defeated them 2-0 day before. next international being months away, shook things vg , must ve started analyzing future , possibilities. on march 11 hao joined vg, replacing black^ in carry position, after month of speculation , rumors going on. on march 15 team announced creation of youth squad, vg.p. on april 27, vici won starladder xii after defeating invictus gaming 3-1. 1 of officially invited teams international 2015 complete prize pool of $18,377,817 , on july 2 confirmed ve obtained usa visas, needed participate in event. ended losing lgd gaming finish 4th , securing $1,562,114. during first day of international 2015, vg became first team outside of europe obtain verified tag on facebook, , third after fnatic , gambit gaming. after annual post-ti break/shuffle period, hao returned newbee , vg acquired xu burning zhilei , yang yj pu. finished 2nd in nanyang championships, falling 2-3 secret in grand finals. proceed participate in first ever major valve in frankfurt, germany. finished in 5th place $205,000 in winnings.

on december 1, vg signed league of legends player easyhoon mid player reported salary of $860,000.