After a disappointing 17-18th place finish at The International 2022, Talon makes changes to its roster for the upcoming season.
Talon Esports will be fielding new players in their lineup to start the DPC 2022-23 season starting in January. Damien "kpii" Chok and Brizio "Hyde" Budiana will no longer be part of the roster.
The team didn't see good results at ESL One Malaysia.
“We don't really have any excuses, we just kind of played poorly and had bad strategies,” kpii said to GosuGamers in Malaysia after Talon got eliminated, adding that the team was also “just not disciplined enough.”
Two weeks later, Talon Esports came prepared to take the TI11 qualifiers by storm, focused on their own game rather than what others do, and reached the grand finals without dropping a single game through the upper bracket series up to the grand finals.
But their excitement to compete at The International was short-lived as their journey was cut short, ending in 17-18th place. The team got caught up in a best-of-three tiebreaker to get out of the group stage and ultimately lost to Entity.
Talon Esports current roster
Rafli Fathur “Mikoto” Rahman
Nuengnara “23savage” Teeramahanon
Worawit “Q” Mekchai
The organization is expected to finalize its roster in the coming weeks before the start of the new DPC season.
DPC 2023 Preliminary Schedule Winter Tour
- Open Qualifiers: December 11-13, 2022
- Closed Qualifiers: December 14-15, 2022
- Division 1 Regional League Tournament: January 9-29, 2023
- Division 2 Regional League Tournament: January 30 - February 19, 2023
- Major Tournament: February 24 - March 5, 2023
