With the end of The International 8, the traditional post TI shuffle period has begun.
Although Valve had announced that there would be no 'hard roster' locks this season, they did specify that teams would need to be registered by September 15th in order to be eligible for regional qualifier invite to the first Major and Minor qualifiers of the new DPC 2018-2019 season.
The first competitive DPC dates:
Sep 17-Sep 21: Major Qualifier
Sep 23-Sep 26: Minor Qualifiers
Oct 29-Nov 4: Minor Main Event
Nov 8-Nov 19: Major Main Event
September 15th - 
Ninjas in Pyjamas
NiP will be making their return to Dota 2 after a year away from having a team represent them in the DPC as they pick up the newly formed team Shangri La created by Peter 'PPD' Dager.
NiP Roster:
Marcus "Ace" Hoelgaard
Adrian "Fata" Trinks
Neta '33' Shapira
Martin "Saksa" Sazdov
Peter 'PPD' Dager
September 15th - 
paiN Gaming
It seems that paiN Gaming has welcomed a new lineup to represent them in the new DPC 2018-2019 season. According to the Majors and Minors registration page Quinn "CC&C" Callahan and his motley crew of North and South American players will be heading to Brazil to play under the organization's banner.
paiN Gaming roster:
Ravindu "Ritsu" Kodippili
Quinn "CC&C" Callahan
Adriano de Paula "4dr" Machado
Rodrigo Lelis "Liposa" Santos
Francis "FrancisLee" Lee
September 15th - Forward Gaming
About two weeks ago the team that was formerly known as VGJ.Storm had announced not only that they were replacing Jingjun 'Sneyking' Wu with Fnatic player Saahil ‘UNiVeRse’ Arora, but also leaving the organization.
Forward Gaming has now stepped into the mix as a new organization in esports and Dota 2 their first game.
Forward Gaming Roster:
Yawar 'YawaR' Hassan
Roman ‘Resolut1on’ Fominok
Saahil ‘UNiVeRse’ Arora
Arif 'MSS' Anwar
Avery 'SVG' Silverman
September 12th - 
DeToNator
After a few years of coaching and casting, Chan "WinteR" Litt Binn returns to competitive playing as part of DeToNator's new lineup with Steve "Excalibur" Ye and Axel "Pablo" Källman, Benhur "Benhur" Lawis and Ralph Richard "RR" Peñano.
DeToNator roster:
Steve "Excalibur" Ye
Benhur "Benhur" Lawis
Ralph Richard "RR" Peñano
Axel "Pablo" Källman
Chan "WinteR" Litt Binn
September 12th - Fnatic
Earlier this month Fnatic dropped three players from their roster. Replacing the three is now Pyo ‘MP’ Noa, Daryl Koh 'iceiceice' Pei Xiang and Anucha 'Jabz' Jirawong. They will join Abed 'Abed' Yusop and Djardel 'DJ' Mampusti who have both re-signed their contracts and will be led to victory by Kim ‘DuBu’ Duyoung at the coach's helm.
Current Fnatic Roster:
Pyo ‘MP’ Noa
Abed 'Abed' Yusop
Daryl Koh 'iceiceice' Pei Xiang
Djardel 'DJ' Mampusti
Anucha 'Jabz' Jirawong
Kim ‘DuBu’ Duyoung (Coach)
September 12th - Clutch Gamers
Giorgos 'SsaSpartan' Giannakopoulo and newcomer to the scene, InsaNe! from Myanmar will round out the new Clutch Gamers roster for the season.
Clutch Gamers current roster:
Lee 'kYxY' Kong Yang
'InsaNe!'
Nikolay 'Nikobaby' Nikolov
Haris 'SkyLark' Zafiriou
Giorgos 'SsaSpartan' Giannakopoulos
September 11th - compLexity Gaming
The North American team struggled in the last half of the season and wasn't able to qualify for TI8. After the disappointing season, the organization made some big changes to their lineup. With David 'Moonmeander' Tan, Adam 'Adam' Shah and David 'Moo' Hull leaving the team, three vacancies were open that would end up being filled by Jacky 'EternaLEnVy' Mao, Andrei “Skem” Gabriel Ong and Jingju 'Sneyking' Wu.
Current compLexity Gaming roster:
Andrei 'Skem' Gabriel Ong
Linus 'Limmp' Blomdin
Jingju 'Sneyking' Wu
Zakari 'Zfreek' Freedman
Jacky 'EternaLEnVy' Mao
September 11th - 
Team Secret
Replacing Fata will be the Swedish sweetheart, Ludwig 'Zai' Wahlberg who makes his return not only to the offlane role, but also to the organization. Zai was part of the lineup in 2015 from January through TI5 when he then returned to Evil Geniuses. Micha? 'Nisha' Jankowski, the Polish carry sensation will be replacing Marcus "Ace" Hoelgaard.
Team Secret Roster:
Micha? 'Nisha' Jankowski
Yeik Nai 'MidOne' Zheng
Ludwig 'Zai' Wahlberg
Yazied 'YapzOr' Jaradat
Clement 'Puppey' Ivanov
September 11th - 
Keen Gaming
After a less than successful season, Keen Gaming have taken things up a notch and pulled together one of most notable free agents, Hu 'Kaka' Liangzhi, and secured a loan from EHOME - Ren 'eLeVeN' Yangwei.
Keen Gaming roster:
Huo 'sss' Xiaolei
Zhai 'Ying' Jingkai
Ren 'eLeVeN' Yangwei
Hu 'Kaka' Liangzhi
Song 'dark' Runxi
September 10th - Team Aster
After a disappointing run at TI8 for most of the Chinese teams, many of the players have decided to try something new and break free of the traditional org contracts that have been dominant the last few years. Team Aster takes some of the most notable players from various teams for a shot at something more this season.
Team Aster roster:
LLiu "Sylar" Jiajun
Deng "Dstones" Lei
Lin "Xxs" Jing
Ye "BoBoKa" Zhibiao
Lu "Fenrir" Chao
September 10th - Vici Gaming
The new ViCi Gaming roster has pieced together parts of the original lineup with pieces of VGJ.Thunder and a newer player as the last ingredient.
ViCi Gaming Roster:
Zhang 'Paparazi' Chengjun
Zeng 'Ori' Jiaoyang
Zhou 'Yang' Haiyang
Pan 'Fade' Yi
Ding 'Dy' Cong
September 10th - 
Mineski
A few days ago Mineski announced that their run with Daryl Koh 'iceiceice' Pei Xiang, Michael 'ninjaboogie' Ross and Anucha 'Jabz' Jirawong had come to an end, leaving only Chai 'Mushi' Yee Fung and Kam 'NaNa/Moon' Boon Seng. Now they have revamped their roster to include Kim ‘Febby’ Yong-min and Damien 'kpii' Chok as well as welcoming a relatively new player Thiay 'March/JT' Jun Wen - formerly from Geekfam.
Mineski Roster:
Thiay 'March/JT' Jun Wen
Kam 'NaNa/Moon' Boon Seng
Damien 'kpii' Chok
Kim ‘Febby’ Yong-min
Chai 'Mushi' Yee Fung
September 9th - Team MangoBay
Team MangoBay is a mix of some of the staple European scene players joining the already stacked European region for the DPC 2018-2019 season. Most fans will recognize Pittner 'bOne7' Armand who will be assuming the offlane position.
Team MangoBay roster:
Filip 'Fey' Musialski
Ylli 'Garter' Ramadani
Pittner 'bOne7' Armand
Jan 'Qupe' Tinnemeier
Flash
September 9th - Newbee
After being knocked out of TI8 in the first round of lower brackets and struggling at the end of the season overall, the roster that had been together for two years and saw 2nd place at The International 7 had decided to make their first roster change in over two years. He "Inflame" Yongzheng and Tang "CatYou" Xiaolei have stepped in as replacements for recently departed Damien 'kpii' Chok and support player Hu 'Kaka' Liangzhi.
Newbee roster:
Xu 'Moogy ' Han
Song 'Sccc' Chun
He "Inflame" Yongzheng
Zeng 'Faith' Hongda
Tang "CatYou" Xiaolei
September 9th - former WAR team
This season, three of the WAR players are back together - Milan "MiLAN" Kozomara, Lee "Forev" Sang-don and Jonathan Bryle "bryle" Santos De Guia. This time, they have grabbed veteran NA player David "Moo" Hull who only recently became a free agent after playing for compLexity Gaming for two years. In addition, their former coach, Park "March" Tae-won, has now returned to the battlefield and is assuming the fifth position support role in the new lineup.
Team Roster:
David "Moo" Hull
Jonathan Bryle "bryle" Santos De Guia
Lee "Forev" Sang-don
Milan "MiLAN" Kozomara
Park "March" Tae-won
September 8th - Team Lotac
Team Lotac is a new team in the SEA region which is bursting with raw talent and energy. Boasting famed names and veteran players, the region just got even more competitive than it had been.
Team Lotac roster:
Marc Polo Luis "Raven" Fausto
Kee Chyuan "ChYuan" Ng
Khoo "Ohaiyo" Chong Xin
Nico "eyyou" Barcelon
Ng "YamateH" Wei Poong
September 8th - Clutch Gamers
With just a week left for the rosters to lock and nine days until the first qualifiers for the new DPC 2018-2019 season kick off, Clutch Gamers have revealed a partial roster. Keeping the Greek core player, the SEA team is rebuilding with a mix of SEA and Western lineup so far.
Clutch Gamers current roster:
Lee 'kYxY' Kong Yang
Nikolay 'Nikobaby' Nikolov
Haris 'SkyLark' Zafiriou
September 8th - Battle Arena Elites
With a respectable try for The International 8, Team Battle Arena Elites announced releasing their Dota 2 roster.
As a team who formed one week before the Ti8 SEA open qualifiers merging to the scene around legendary names and experienced players aiming for the dream that each and every player urge to achieve during their careers, they tried their best and secured themselves a regional qualifier slot. However, they were inches away from reaching the group stage phase.
Former Battle Arena Elites roster:
Chong “Ciaoba” Wei Lun
Hiew “AlaCrity” Teck Yoong
Khoo “Ohaiyo” Chong Xin
Lim “Net” Wai Pern
Ng “YamateH” Wei Poong
Chan “WinteR” Litt-Binn (Coach)
September 8th - Newbee
After a disappointing season and run at The International 2018, the second change to Newbee's roster sees kaka depart after over two years with the organization. Following the dismal results, they decided to make their first roster change in over two years as Damien 'kpii' Chok departed only a few days ago. Next in line is their support player Hu 'Kaka' Liangzhi who made the announcement in a post on his weibo account.
Current Newbee roster:
Xu 'Moogy ' Han
Song 'Sccc' Chun
Zeng 'Faith' Hongda
September 8th - 
Team Spirit
Leaving only Malthe 'Biver' Winther and Artsiom 'FNG' Barshak in the lineup from last season, the newly revamped roster adds three more European players to the mix - Oliver "oliver" Lepko, Leon "Nine" Kirilin and Mikki Mørch "HesteJoe-Rotten" Junget replacing the three CIS players Alexander 'DKphobos' Kucheria, then Ilya 'Illidan' Pivcaev, and Sergey 'G' Bragin.
Team Spirit Roster:
Oliver 'oliver' Lepko
Leon 'Nine' Kirilin
Mikki Mørch 'HesteJoe-Rotten' Junget
Malthe 'Biver' Winther
Artsiom 'FNG' Barshak
September 8th - Tigers
Tigers have re-emerged with two new faces. David "Moonmeander" Tan and Lai "Ahjit" Jay Son will be replacing Tr?nh "458" V?n Th? and Lee "kYxY" Kong Yang for the upcoming season.
Tigers roster:
Lai " Ahjit " Jay Son
Muhammad "inYourdreaM" Rizky
David 'Moonmeander' Tan
Kenny "Xepher" Deo
Sivatheeban "1437" Sivanathapillai
September 8th - Team Team
A new team has emerged in the NA region. Team Team pulls together four known US players and one top Brazilian to make a composition that hopes to take on the big dogs in the region for one of the highly coveted DPC LAN spots.
Team Team Roster:
Guilherme Silva 'Costabile' Costábile
Eric 'Ryoya' Dong
Braxton 'Brax' Paulson
Jason 'Newsham' Newsham
Michael 'ixmike88' Ghannam
September 8th - paiN Gaming
paiN Gaming have become the sweethearts of South America and the players have decided to make even more changes in hopes to grow in the new season - replacing Geytor "Duster" Pereira with their TI8 coach and veteran player Rasmus "MISERY" Filipsen. The group is also seeking out a new org to represent as well.
paiN Gaming new lineup:
William 'hFnk3' Medeiros
Omar 'w33haa' Aliwi
Otávio 'tavo' Gabriel
Danylo 'KINGRD' Nascimento
Rasmus 'MISERY' Filipsen
September 8th - Immortals
Immortals first season with a Dota 2 team was a roller coaster and mixed bag of results. Although they started out strong qualifying for events in the DPC, in the end, the team had mostly disappointing results at the LANs and was not able to qualify for TI8. The organization has opted to not renew their contracts and dropped the squad officially.
Immortals previous Dota 2 roster:
Eric 'Ryoya' Dong
Pyo ‘MP’ Noa
Taesung 'Velo' Kim
Kim ‘Febby’ Yong-min
Kim ‘DuBu’ Duyoung
September 7th - Burden United
Alexandru "ComeWithMe" Craciunescu has dusted off his old team tag and gets a new crew together for the upcoming season.
Burden United Roster:
Egor ".Ark" Zhabotinskii
Ivaylo "Mastermind" Petkov
Stefan "pwN" Pavlovic
Dmitry "UnderShock" Bolshakov
Alexandru "ComeWithMe" Craciunescu
September 7th - Na'vi
A week after the roster revamp was announced, Na'Vi has finalized the lineup to include Evgenii "Chuvash" Makarov in the support role and Andrey "Mag" Chipenko as the coach.
Natus Vincere roster:
Vladislav "Crystallize" Krystanek
Idan "MagicaL" Vardanyan
Evgeniy "Blizzy" Ree
Evgenii "Chuvash" Makarov
Akbar "SoNNeikO" Butaev
September 7th - Newbee
Damien 'kpii' Chok has announced his departure from the Chinese team after more than two years. After narrowly missing the championship title at TI7, Newbee made no roster changes going into the DPC 2017-2018 season. The new season started out strong but the team started to lose some steam and had a mixed record by the end. At TI8 their performance was disappointing but even more upsetting was the team being eliminated in the first round of the main event without having gained the advantage or finding their footing at all.
Current Newbee roster:
Xu 'Moogy ' Han
Song 'Sccc' Chun
Zeng 'Faith' Hongda
Hu 'Kaka' Liangzhi
September 7th - The Final Tribe
Almost two months ago, The Final Tribe had parted ways with Axel "Pablo" Källman. Now, as the DPC season is getting ready to roll, the Swedish team have completed their lineup, adding Rasmus "Chessie" Blomdin.
Final Tribe roster:
Adrian 'Era' Kryeziu
Pontus 'Frost' Frost
Jonas 'jonassomfan' Lindholm
Simon ‘Handsken’ Haag
Rasmus 'Chessie' Blomdin
September 7th - Vega Squadron
Failing to qualify for TI8 and falling short in the DPC season despite competing at several Majors of the years, Vega Squadron has revamped their roster, bringing in three new players to the mix including Yol, Flow, and StormC4t-.
Vega Squadron roster:
Nikita "Palantimos" Grinkevich
Duulat "Stormc4t" Subankulov
Alexander "Flow" Sazonov
Bakyt "Zayac" Emilzhanov
Vladimir "yol" Basov
September 6th - Team Empire
After failing to attend TI8, the Russian organization has decided to revamp their roster and rebuild around Yaroslav 'Miposhka' Naidenov who has been part of the club for over two years - including attending The International 7.
Official Team Empire current roster:
Zaur 'Cooman' Shakhmurzaev
Vladimir 'Chappie' Kuzmenko
Yaroslav 'Miposhka' Naidenov
Oleg 'sayuw' Kalenbet
Igor Andreevich 'Maden' Modenov
September 6th - Mineski
A great season but disappointing 9-12th place finish at The International 2018 sees three of Mineski's players depart from the team.
Current Mineski roster:
Chai 'Mushi' Yee Fung
Kam 'NaNa' Boon Seng
September 6th - TNC Predator
The day after releasing two players, TNC announced picking up both Michael “Ninjaboogie” Ross and Kim “Gabbi” Santos for the upcoming season.
TNC Predator roster:
Kim “Gabbi” Santos
Armel Paul “Armel” Tabios
Carlo “Kuku” Palad
Timothy “Tims” Randrup
Michael “Ninjaboogie” Ross
September 5th - PPD new team
Just moments after OpTic Gaming announced dissolving their Dota 2 team, despite a top 8 result at The International 2018, Peter 'PPD' Dager was already on social media advertising his new star-studded lineup. The roster includes two members from Team Secret, beating the European to the punch on announcing the departure of Marcus "Ace" Hoelgaard and Adrian "Fata" Trinks.
The team is not yet sponsored and looking to compete in either EU or NA.
New roster:
Marcus "Ace" Hoelgaard
Adrian "Fata" Trinks
Neta '33' Shapira
Martin "Saksa" Sazdov
Peter 'PPD' Dager
September 5th - OpTic Gaming
After a harsh start and great top 8 result at Ti8 for the team, Team Optic Announced that they released the whole line-up of the DPC 2017-2018. There's no word yet about Optic Gaming sponsoring new team but the members all seem to be going separate ways.
Former OpTic Gaming roster:
Per Olsson "Pajkatt" Lille
Quinn "CC&C" Callahan
Neta "33" Shapira
Ludwig "zai" Wahlberg
Peter "ppd" Dager
September 5th - TNC Predator
After two years on the team for each player, TNC has bid farewell to Sam "SamH" Hidalgo Sam and Marc Polo Luis "Raven" Fausto following a very disappointing year and 13-16th place finish at The International 2018. Their replacements have not yet been revealed.
Current TNC Predator roster:
Armel Paul "Armel" Tabios
Timothy "Tims" Randrup
Carlo "Kuku" Palad
September 3rd - Vega Squadron
After four years of competing under the Blue and White, Sharks banner, Semion 'CemaTheSlayer' Krivulya will not be part of the new roster for Vega Squadron.
According to the announcement, the new roster will be announced this week. Cema has already been identified as being a part of Ilya 'Lil' Ilyuk's new team Odium.
September 3rd - Odium
After a season of tension and frustrating end results, Ilya 'Lil' Ilyuk took it into his own hands to change his fate and created a new team. He has gathered seasoned players from across the CIS region to help him build something solid and his new 'family' for the upcoming DPC 2018-2019 season.
Odium roster:
Viktor 'GeneRaL' Nigrini
Ilya 'Lil' Ilyuk
Semion 'CemaTheSlayer' Krivulya
Andrey 'Ghostik' Kadyk
TBD
September 2 - Immortals
Just days after Eric 'Ryoya' Dong left the team, Kim ‘DuBu’ Duyoung also revealed he is in need of a new squad for the upcoming season.
Current Immortals roster:
Pyo ‘MP’ Noa
Taesung 'Velo' Kim
Kim ‘Febby’ Yong-min
September 1st - Fnatic
Following a disappointing 13-16th place finish at The International 2018, dropping in the first round of the lower brackets, Fnatic announced that they were keeping their two SEA players and dropping the three Western players - Johan 'pieliedie' Åström, Saahil ‘UNiVeRse’ Arora and Jacky 'EternaLEnVy' Mao.
Current Fnatic roster:
Abed 'Abed' Yusop
Djardel 'DJ' Mampusti
September 1st - Na'vi
After putting the entire roster on inactive status following their failure to qualify for The International 2018, the organization has revamped the roster to include some current, former and new players. Among those, Danil "Dendi" Ishutin is not included which ends his tenure with the legendary organization after seven/eight years of playing under their banner.
Current Na'vi roster:
Vladislav "Crystallize" Krystanek
Idan "MagicaL" Vardanyan
Evgeniy "Blizzy" Ree
TBD
Akbar "SoNNeikO" Butaev
August 31st - Immortals
Eric 'Ryoya' Dong is now looking for a team and no longer part of the Immortals lineup. Since the most recent roster lock in the early winter, the team qualified for DreamLeague Season 9 Major, ending with a 7-8th place finish eventually - but were unable to seize any other events during the last part of the DPC 2017-2018 season, including The International 8.
Current Immortals roster:
Pyo ‘MP’ Noa
Taesung 'Velo' Kim
Kim ‘Febby’ Yong-min
Kim ‘DuBu’ Duyoung
August 31st - compLexity Gaming
David 'Moonmeander' Tan has announced his departure from the organization, which leaves the North American organization with only two players left and two weeks to secure their new roster to compete in the first round of DPC events.
Current compLexity Gaming roster:
Linus 'Limmp' Blomdin
Zakari 'Zfreek' Freedman
August 30th - compLexity Gaming
After nearly two years, David 'Moo' Hull and compLexity have gone their separate ways after a roller coaster of a journey together.
Current compLexity Gaming roster:
Linus 'Limmp' Blomdin
David 'Moonmeander' Tan
Zakari 'Zfreek' Freedman
August 29th - VGJ.Storm
The roster, formerly known as VGJ.Storm, has swapped out their offlane player Jingjun 'Sneyking' Wu for Fnatic player Saahil ‘UNiVeRse’ Arora and will be looking for a new org to represent in the upcoming season. The team has also recruited Kurtis ‘Aui_2000’ Ling as the coach to help them on their new journey.
Current VGJ.Storm roster:
Yawar 'YawaR' Hassan
Roman ‘Resolut1on’ Fominok
Saahil ‘UNiVeRse’ Arora
Arif 'MSS' Anwar
Avery 'SVG' Silverman
August 29th - compLexity Gaming
The post TI shuffles have already started and compLexity is on the prowl for new players as the organization parts ways with Adam 'Adam' Shah. The North American team was able to qualify for The TI8 NA regionals from the open qualifiers but ended up taking a disappointing 5th place overall and failing to claim one of the three slots available to the region for the main event.
Current compLexity Gaming roster:
Linus 'Limmp' Blomdin
David 'Moonmeander' Tan
David 'Moo' Hull
Zakari 'Zfreek' Freedman
