Photo courtesy of Evil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses, Forward Gaming and MOOA will kick off their journey in this year’s DPC season at Kuala Lumpur Major main event.
Evil Geniuses appeared to be a step ahead of the herd throughout the entirety of Kuala Lumpur Major North America Qualifiers. The surprise of the qualifiers was the play of MOOA. Many figured that Evil Geniuses, Forward Gaming and compLexity were shoo-ins for qualification. However, compLexity was upset by MOOA, a team created out of the remnants of Wind and Rain and experienced a valiant run through European qualifiers for The International 2018. They lost in the finals to the current International champions, OG.
Forward Gaming, formerly VGJ.Storm, continued where they left off and with a new face. Saahil ‘UNiVeRsE’ Arora joined the squad post International shake up. Unfortunately, the move has not helped them capture an elusive series victory against Evil Geniuses thus far. They may have that opportunity once again at the main event.
Kuala Lumpur Major boasts a prize pool of $1,000,000 and 15,000 DPC points and this year every team gets a taste.
Evil Geniuses Roster:
Artour 'Arteezy' Babaev
Sumail 'SumaiL' Hassan
Gustav 's4' Magnusson
Andreas 'Cr1t-' Nielsen
Tal 'Fly' Aizik
Forward Gaming Roster:
Yawar 'YawaR' Hassan
Roman 'Resolut1on' Fominok
Saahil 'UNiVeRsE' Arora
Arif 'MSS' Anwar
Avery 'SVG' Silverman
MOOA Roster:
David 'Moo' Hull
Jonathan 'Bryle' De Guia
Lee 'FoREv' Sang-don
Milan 'MiLAN' Kozomara
Park 'March' Tae-won
The Kuala Lumpur Major details:
- Qualifier
- 15 teams qualify through regional qualifiers: three teams each from Europe, China, and North America and two teams each from CIS, Southeast Asia, and South America
- One team qualifies as the champion of the preceding Minor
- Open Qualifiers start September 10th in each region
- Closed Qualifiers take place from September 16 to 21st
- Group Stage
- November 9 and 10th
- Playoffs
- November 11-18th
- The final three days will be held in front of a live audience at the Axiata Arena.
