With the progress of time, there are still two days to usher in the official kick-off of the Dota 2 Stockholm major, and the Stockholm major has become the first major event of this year's DOTA 2 in the event that the first major was cancelled due to the epidemic. Unfortunately, due to the severe domestic epidemic situation, the four Chinese teams that had originally qualified for this major finally announced that they did not qualify for this major. In the past year, the Chinese team won all the major championships twice, so this time there are no Chinese teams participating, which teams have become the favorites to win the championship?
Spirit
First of all, when it comes to the favorites of this major, then Spirit, who won the TI10 championship last year, must be the team that has the most attention. After the end of TI last year, many teams that achieved good results even in TI10 have been replaced or even reorganized, and only Spirit and LGD have not made any personnel adjustments among the top eight teams in TI10. Although Spirit lost to Tundra in the final of the fifth season of the Abyss League, this year's Dubai Invitational was a 0-2 loss to BOOM and only finished fourth. However, in the DPC series in Eastern Europe, Spirit did not give the opponent any chance. He remained unbeaten in seven regular season games in his first season, and won the playoffs 3-0 against VP, the former hegemon of Eastern Europe. And because the international situation forced a long delay in the second season, spirit, although the first game was abnormal, but finally played all the way to the loser group to get the second qualification for the major, so Spirit almost maintained the state when he won the championship last year.
EG
EG made adjustments to the third position this year, and Comrade Sanbing, an old acquaintance of the Chinese audience, eventually left the team and was replaced by the addition of Nightfall. After just experiencing the substitution, EG seems to be slow to find its form, and finally achieved the third place in the league in the regular season of DPC's first season, and also lost 2-3 to TSM in the playoffs and failed to take the top spot. To know that in the past two years, EG can be said to be the only hegemon in the North American division, and such a performance is undoubtedly a decline in strength. However, after entering the second season, the new Nightfall and teammates became more and more cooperative, and eventually EG returned to the top of the table with a record of 6 wins and 1 loss. Although the EG did not perform well in TI10, the EG reached the final day in the two majors held last year, so the EG in the major should indeed not be underestimated.
AND
After the end of TI last year, OG finally replaced the team that had brought TI two consecutive championships to the team, forming a new lineup with five newcomers as the core. Newly formed lineups tend to go through a period of pain, and the new OG is no exception. In the first season of this year's DPC, OG performed mediocrely with 4 wins and 3 losses to reach fourth place, and lost 0-2 to GG in the playoffs and only moved one step forward to take third place. But after entering the second season, OG became unstoppable, with a record of 6 wins and 1 losses that put them at the top of the Western European zone, and last year TI had proved that a young and talented young team had a chance to chase the championship throne. However, according to the current news, OG's fifth-digit Misha may not be able to participate in this major because of visa problems, and if the final situation is determined, ceb will be put back on the temporary firefighting, and the impact on OG is obviously not small.
BOOM
The audience in Eastern Europe completed the ultimate dream of a ten-year crown last year, and the spirit brought the most beautiful fairy tales to the audience in their own division, and many people were laughing at whether it would be the turn of the Southeast Asian division this year. And now BOOM is the most anticipated team in Southeast Asia, after jackky joined the team this year, BOOM's state has been very hot, in a variety of online and offline competitions have been amazing play, the core of the team yopaj has played a memorable performance many times. In the first season of this year's Southeast Asian DPC, BOOM won the first place with 6 wins and 1 loss, and then beat last year's best performing team in Southeast Asia, T1, to the top of the division in the playoffs. This season, BOOM is also 6 wins and 1 loss, although it ranks second, but the only defeat is because of lateness, in other words, BOOM has not lost a single game in the second season of DPC.
It may be too early to say that BOOM has become a world-class powerhouse, but there is no doubt that BOOM has the potential to make a blockbuster.