[DotA] MYM Prime Nation 2: Group Stage

The Prime Nations qualifier is over, 8 teams survived the qualifier stage and we're off to the groupstage of this tournament. 24 teams will compete in the groupstage against each other to on the long sandy path to be crowned champion. The groupstage will consist of 4 groups with 6 teams each of which the top 2 will get a chance to fight their way through the playoffs.

player reaction can be found here

MYM Prime Nation 2 Group Stage Coverage

Looking at the group, it was clear: Group D was the hardest among all 4 group, with Malaysia, Singapore and Germany were grouped together with the powerhouse Russia. Malaysia was famed after the success of Kingsurf in the last Prime Defending 8, while Singapore was backed by Asian powerhouse team Zenith and Micronology. Germany have MYM aces LavenT and H4nn1 to back the nation, and expect another strong challenges from Poland which have switchBack member Darky and Fanat1c on their rooster. A truly incredible Group of Death, we're expecting a lot of interesting matches from this group.
My prediction: Russia may take the top, and I really hope Malaysia can snatch second spot. Germany and Singapore won't be an easy opponent for them.

Then to Group A. A 3-way battle between Sweden, Canada and USA. Sweden is expected to top this group, with the talent they have from SK.Gaming and Mouseport. Then what left is the fierce battle between USA and Canada. USA is strengthened with the return of coL.Fear and the addition of Merlini, while Canada put a lot of strong player in their rooster like Facch, miraclechipmunk, Zaku- m0-, Remstar etc (only naming a few of them).

Then to the other 2 group: Group B looks easy for Denmark (lol), and I expect second place going to Korea. Then group C: Other than Ukraine (which I expect to top this group), I'm not really familiar with the other countries in this group.

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Recap on the dramas seen during the Qualifier round: Among the (in) famous turbulence seen is the shocking default loss of Indonesia in their very first match against Kazakhstan.

From the reliable sources, Indonesia, whom as of current experienced heavy flood especially in Jakarta need to reschedule their match for SKOTH and Prime Nation 2. They have scheduled both matches on the same days, 3 hours apart of each other (SKOTH match first). Unfortunately, the flood cause internet disruption which was only managed to be repaired about one and half hour later. Indonesian played their scheduled match in SKOTH, and came for the PN2 match an hour late. By the time they arrive, they already got defloss. Such strict rule/desicion by admin saw one of the best nation in Asia got dumped right from the start without even considering their situation (flood). I feel sad for not being able to see Indonesia in action (since they got Asian powerhouse team XcN), I hope they can avoid such misfortune in the next Prime Nation.
Then another default loss was given to both Hungary and Norway for not playing their match in scheduled time, thus giving a free win to Belgium.

And finally, default win was given to Malaysia in their match against China, because China was using overseas player in their match. I'm not very clear with the detail, but as far as I concern the rule state that all you need to have is nationality for the given country, but you can still play even though you're overseas (eg: FiercE reside in USA, but he's a Korean so he's eligible to play for Korea).