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8 years ago

Prodota Gaming to play Major Open Qualifiers once again

Prodota Gaming finished their roster only a week before the Kiev Major qualifiers, therefore they will have to fight via open brackets.

After playing with a few stand-ins for the last couple of months, Prodota welcomes back an old friend of theirs, Alexandru 'ComeWithMe' Craciunescu, who will be playing the fifth position. For the mid role, Prodota introduces us to a new face, Micke 'mICKe' Nguyen, a 17 year old Swedish player who recently switched from Heroes of Newerth to Dota2.

Prodota Gaming current roster:

Albania Ylli 'Garter' Ramadani
Sweden Micke 'mICKe' Nguyen
Belarus Evgeniy 'chshrct' Kostroma
Sweden Aydin 'iNsania' Sarkohi
Romania Alexandru 'ComeWithMe' Craciunescu

Last year, for the Boston Major, Prodota Gaming started the trend of playing the open qualifiers in other regions . Back then, they were the first to announce, after checking with both Valve and FACEIT, their registration in the NA open qualifiers. Both rounds of the NA open qualifiers were won last year by European teams, Open Qualifiers 1 being claimed by Prodota Gaming at the end of a grand finals, against the casters stack from Vegetable Esports (Veggies) while Open Qualifiers 2 were won by Elements Pro Gaming at the end of the grand finals held against another EU representative, Kaipi.

This won’t be possible anymore, as it was already announced that the Kiev Major will feature a region lock. According to Milos Nedelljkovic, from FACEIT, a team will be eligible for a certain region if three of their players belong to that region, regardless where the organization or the team house is located.

For the Kiev Major, Valve has also added two new individual regions, CIS and South America, extending the traditional region qualifiers from four to six: Europe, CIS, China, Southeast Asia, North America, and South America. Having three European players in their current roster, Prodota Gaming will have to earn their Kiev Major regional spot via the European open qualifiers.

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