[DotA] MYM Prime Defending #8

SENNHEISER Prime Defending #8

The highly famous and biggest online DotA-Tournament in the world is back and ready to take it to the next - 8th - round.



And the prediction from SK Gaming source:

Group A: This group contains the Prime Defender Virtus.Pro. This is the second PriDe they won in a row and I have no doubt that they will be taking the first place. Notable teams are FF and maybe OKHO which has Zydu former sP[Palit]Kow3 player. Still the second place will belong to the now reborn Team Q with many new players from TPD and BTB.

1. Virtus.Pro
2. Team Q

Group B: Here we have one of the top teams in the world MYM.DotA and the newly but heavily trained Xero Skill. MYM.DotA hasn't been performing at their best lately. They lost to ieS in ClanBase EuroCup XV and also got a red card for not signing their players to their roster. Xero Skill was formed for the previous PriDe and since then they haven't stopped training. You can find XsK members spamming "Searching 5v5 xl ggc SKILLED" at any hour of the day as they have members from all over the world with no time problems. The only other team worth mentioning is RusMafia (RM). They have former sP[Palit]Kow3 player Astra, former DoTa[] (PriDe #4 winners) player DOTA[LUCKER] and some known russian players from the elite league of the world IHCS. Xero Skill might pull an upset beating MYM.DotA but I still predict MYM.DotA taking the first place and Xero Skill taking the second place.

1. MYM.DotA
2. Xero Skill

Group C: No one really knows if eMazing Gaming is at their top shape as they don't scrim so much but last PriDe they surprised everyone by being the first american based team ending in third place after beating SK Gaming. Next seeded team is the most famous team at the moment in the DotA scene BTB. They recently added KANGA former TeG player who got caught maphacking in TFL DotA and got banned from PriDe tournaments and IHCS aswell. Despite their shady addition they're still a great team however this group won't be easy for them. FD, Traffic and BGs (with some of the old members of Dancing Ponies) might steal the second place from the seed BTB. I predict eMazing Gaming coming on top of the group with maybe one loss and BTB taking the second place as they seem very motivated despite the bad comments from the community.

1. eMazing Gaming
2. BTB

Group D: No matter what biased this sounds the top team SK Gaming will be taking the first place (maybe they'll fall to Ks as they lost to W4s| last PriDe :P). Ks is the team that created a huge upset last PriDe taking down sP[Palit]Kow3 however I don't think it was too much merit of them but more mistakes on the sP[Palit]Kow3 side. TeG (winners of Prime Defending Extreme) will be making their comeback taking the second place.

1. SK Gaming
2. TeG

Group E: As I mentioned in group B ieS defeated MYM a few weeks ago. They recently added KuroKy ex-WE player and are surely the #1 team from Germany after WE's disbandment and will be taking the first place. Excello pulled some upsets like defeating eMazing Gaming in the first round of the HTGL Playoffs but at the same time they lost to w4sp in ClanBase EuroCup XV. I can't say they are a stable team but the rest of the teams won't be a problem for them.

1. ieS
2. Excello

Group F: This group will be one of the hardest groups ever. We have four very good teams that will be battling it out to qualify for the playoffs. Hard Team recently lost ArtStyle to BTB. Despite that they always had a 6-man-roster so they might be the same as before. hi2u is considered one of the best american teams but recently they lost to a Pandemic "B" team in the HTGL playoffs with a quite shocking lineup. zEn|†h is now no longer Mizencrononith. They are the best of the best from Singapore and I predict them taking the first place in the group. The fourth team I haven't mentioned is Ben. As many of you don't know them because they don't participate in the bigger leagues they are a pretty good team that could create an upset and maybe take the second place. However my prediction for the second place goes to hi2u.

1. zEn|†h
2. hi2u

Group G: sP[Palit]Kow3 has gone through many roster changes but in the end they are the #2 Russian team. ff with the leader of the old team Dancing Ponies and some of the members and Dn are good teams but they can't really defeat sP[Palit]Kow3 or the new TPD. defective Gaming is seeded but they aren't getting out of the group. TPD with their new leader DijonGenie has made some questionable additions making their roster look promising or just decent sometimes. That's why I predict sP[Palit]Kow3 taking the first place and TPD taking the second place.

1. sP[Palit]Kow3
2. TPD

Group H: RedBeaR previously known as D4 will be taking the first place in this group with ease. TRP is somehow similar to Team Sloth (they have Soth the best host in the world and BuM-SPaNKeR). Everyone had high hopes on Team Sloth but in the end they didn't make it out of their group. StarsVD is seeded but I don't know if they're really a top team, some of their performances have really let me down (such as the old solo Visage top by nc.dude in the last PriDe playoffs). If Paulyan is playing for RoA then they may take the second place. My prediction for the second place goes to them.

1. RedBeaR
2. RoA

source: SK Gaming

All the best for all teams participated. My highest hope lies in Virtus Pro as the Prime defender, but also want to see more from MYM and SK, and also those teams from Malaysia.