SENHEISER Prime Defending 9

Right after the announcement of the Prime Nations cup the MeetYourMakers DotA crew opens the sign ups for the 9th edition of the SENNHEISER Prime Defending. The rules are almost the same as the ones of the Nations cup and just like the last times we can expect a lot of very interesting matches. Some of the most successful players in the history of the Prime Defending gave statements about the upcoming tournament:

Virtus.Jolie: I wanna say only one thing - WE WILL EAT U ALL, because VP title defending 4 started. And thanks a lot to MYM organisation for this beautiful tournament.

MYM|Maelk: Looking forward to the 9th edition of the Prime Defending tournament. Hopefully it will be even bigger than the past ones, with possibly 500 teams signing up? As ever, VP will be the hardest contender and I believe SK, Ks and Mouz is going to be a tought opponent for us as well.

more infos: MeetYourMakers
coverage: MYM SEINHEISER PRIDE 8

Prime Defending 9 Trailer, some highlights of top 4 teams in Pride 8:

Good luck for all participated team. 16 teams were seeded, based on their performance on Pride#8: Virtus.Pro (defending champion for 3 consecutive Prime), MYM (2nd place in Pride 7 and 8), KingSurf (Malaysian team, very impressive in the last Pride), SK.Gaming, eMazing Gaming, Serious Gaming, xLo.DotA, mKvL.Roa (another Malaysian team, seeded due to sP.Palit disband), Tomck.Net, Team Pandemic, Mouz.DotA, wickeD (ex-OKHO), hi2u, Just a Mix, Switchback and Zenith (seeded because Hard Team disbanded).
Too bad though, team XcN from Indonesia, one of the strongest challenger from Asia beside KingSurf was not able to participate in this tournament. Or else we might see even more interesting matches in this tournament. However, some people still rues over the rules which still ban the new heroes+Meepo.

btw this tournament will not conflict with MYM Prime Nation#2, as the groupstage will be held after the Prime Nation is over.