A new era for syndereN, No Diggity wins Epicenter European qualifiers

After the Spring Shuffle, syndereN and Era seem to have started a much more successful project than the one they put together in the winter season.

Reinstalled to a playing position in December last year when he assembled Steak Gaming with Adrian 'Era' Kryeziu, Troels 'syndereN' Nielsen struggled to make an impact with the team, and the next shuffle window saw them disband. However, syndereN and Era stuck together and tried one more time to make a real competitive comeback, this time alongside Maximilian 'qojqva' Bröcker, another player making his return to the scene.

The three Dota 2 veterans were joined at No Diggity by one of the most successful HoN players, Maurice 'KheZu' Gutmann. Khezu joined the Dota scene before the Winter Major shuffle at the end of last year, but unfortunately for him the plans didn’t work as intended and he ended up playing for COOKISS after the roster lock deadline.

To complete the lineup, Yazied 'YapzOr' Jaradat was brought in, and a beautiful comeback story has begun for one of the most beloved casters we have.

EPICENTER

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At the Epicenter European qualifiers No Diggity marched through the double elimination bracket. They defeated both Vega Squadron and Team Spirit 2-0 and didn't drop their first game (but not the series) until they faced Power Rangers, in the upper bracket semifinals.

However, Power Rangers survived the lower bracket finals against Danish Bears and rejoined No Diggity in the grand finals to contest the one ticket available for the trip to Moscow this summer at the largest prize pool tournament outside Valve’s events, Epicenter.

Despite a few rookie mistakes from No Diggity, they managed to dominate the new PR roster, and after dropping the third game of the series, they composed themselves and focused on securing the first trip to an event from a player perspective in a very long time for both Era and syndereN.

Winning the European qualifiers for Epicenter doesn’t mean that No Diggity is already qualified for the actual LAN. The Epicenter format includes a wild card competition where the four teams that won their respective region qualifiers will play each other in a GSL group. The top two teams from the GSL group will join the six directly invited squads and will play on the big stage of Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia.

Epicenter is set to commence on May 9th with the wild card group, although sadly the games will be played behind closed doors. The four teams that won the regional qualifiers and will take the trip to Moscow to dispute the two spots available for the LAN event are:

compLexity Gaming
Newbee
Fnatic
No Diggity