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Post TI shuffles are something we watch out for every year. Old team disbands, new team forms, roster changes, changing coaches or even organization, Post TI shuffle changes the whole pro scene every year. The fun part of the shuffle season? Obviously the rumors. However, a lot of time we see those rumors coming true and a lot of time teams come out and announce the rumors are false.
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The International 2018 was one of the best TI of all time, We saw teams like Virtus.Pro one of the favorites failing to live up to their expectation, we saw VGJ.S going to the top of the table out of nowhere, Evil Geniuses amazing comeback with 2 new players in the roster and OG with a new, mixed up roster coming in and taking the Aegis. I mean honestly, who really thought OG is going to win? Virtus.Pro and PSG.LGD was the two favorite to lift the Aegis. OG did not only shine with a newly made roster, they broke the Chinese curse. A pub player like Topson joined his first ever major LAN tournament and won it, became the world champion. Fairytale ending.
However, a lot of roster changes were predicted even before The International 2018 was over. So we decided to make a Top 10 roster shuffle list, the shockers, the disbands, the drama, let’s have a look to see who made it to our Top 10 Fall roster Shuffle List.
#1 Team Odium
The 2017-2018 season started as a pretty good season for Ilya “Lil” Ilyuk. But after an amazing start with Virtus.Pro he was traded away to Natus Vincere. While VP was the top-ranked team in the DPC, Na’Vi was still struggling. Unfortunately, the trade did not quite work out for Na’Vi. Even though Lil’s DPC point pushed them high on the DPC list but they did fall and even failed to qualify through the open qualifiers. In this situation, we knew a change is coming soon to the Natus Vincere roster.
When the CEO of Natus Vincere announced the roster for the team’s 2018-2019 season Lil was not mentioned in the roster along with Dendi and General. Soon after that Lil announced he decided to make a new team: Odium. General joined his side is his new team. Team Odium was a surprise of the shuffle season, many did predict Lil’s departure but nobody predicted he will come back with his own new team.
#2 Optic Gaming
Soon after The International 2018 ended there were rumors about Optic Gaming changing their roster. Some predicted the team will disband and the org will create a new roster. After a few days of The International A leaked screenshot from the teams Midlaner Quinn “CCnC” Callahan confirmed the rumors about Optic getting disbanded as the screenshot shows a steam chat between CCnC and BSJ. A Redditor took no time to screenshot it and post it on Reddit.
Right after the leak the team officially announced the disband news The official Twitter account tweeted:
“We would like to thank our 2017-18 DOTA roster for helping us enter the scene and for making an incredible run at TI. We wish them all the best as they continue to compete under different banners in the upcoming DPC Season.”
The team was put together by the legendary captain and former TI winner Peter “PPD” Dager. The roster was later picked up by Optic Gaming org. After “33” joined the team, the team performed pretty well but failed to live up to the expectations as they finished at the 7th-8th position in The International 2018.
#3 Natus Vincere
Honestly, we saw this coming. They way Navi failed the last few years the big change was coming. after General called out the CEO of his own team the future of him in the roster was not very secure. There were rumors everywhere on the internet about him leaving the organization. The rumors did come true. In the latest announcement regarding the new roster of Na’Vi the CEO of Na’Vi announced the roster does not include Dendi and General as well as Lil and coach XBOCT. They announced Magical to be their new midlaner while 4th position support was still not decided. This also Marks the return of Sonneiko. The CEO said the only good games and good patches Navi went through during these last few years when Sonneiko was part of the team. Apparently setting up a new roster is harder than we thought so they decided to choose a strong captain and build up the roster around him. Sonneiko was selected as the new captain of Navi for the 2018-2019 season.
#4 VGJ.Storm
There was a lot of rumors about VGJ.Storm after The International ended. People even said the team is going to disband and players will part their ways until Roman “Resolut1on” Fominok came forward and announced on Twitter that the roster is only having a change in the offlane and the rest of the team is staying together. Former Fnatic player Saahil “Universe” Arora will join the team as their new offlaner replacing Jingjun “sneyking” Wu.
The line-up managed to finish at top 8 at The International 2018. According to Resolut1on the future of the line-up is uncertain as they have not decided which organization or brand the team will represent in the upcoming season.
The Line-up will keep Jack “KBBQ” Chen as their manager. However, they will make some adjustments in the coaching department as they will bring in former EG player and TI winner Kurtis “Aui_2000” Ling as their coach who is also coming from Fnatic.
#5 DeathBringer Gaming
Zhang “Lanm” Zhicheng and Liu “Freeze” Chang joining a new team called DeathBringer gaming. Yang “MS” yongjie, Hu “Guvara” Sen and Xu “Hym” Jhi will be joining Lanm and Freeze in the roster.
Most of the players in DeathBringer Gaming came from different teams to form this new roster. Lanm joined from Vici Gaming after they finished 9-12th at The International, Freeze came from VGJ.Thunder placing even worse at 13th-16th. Ms came from Keen gaming who failed to qualify for TI8, Guvara and Hym came from EHOME.
