One more day before PGL Arlington Major starts. I feel bad for Fnatic. They are yet to officially announce their needed 3-player stand-ins.
Really sucks that this upcoming major is plagued with lots of visa issues. I'm also waiting for their announcement regarding their stand-ins. Lots of options and free agents right now but team work and overall synergy would be sacrificed even if top pubstars agree to join them.
Another thing. I was surprised to see a new name representing North America. Did Quincy Crew disband or did they just rename it into Soniqs since all players are the same? I already forgot Valve's ruling on players leaving for another team. There are a lot of stand-ins in this last major and I can't wait to see how it works.
QC is just an organization created by Quinn and his teammates to qualify for Valve events. They aren't signed by anyone IIRC and are also not sponsored so it's just okay for Soniq to acquire them under their management.
calendar in the OP has been updated! thanks for reminding me, @arallmuus
looking forward to Arlington major. Heh, I just saw that RNG will have ana as stand-in, talk about strange crossovers in dota. Ame has a score to settle with ana TI18
Actually, I didn't expect that this kind of announcement is real I just see this lurking around in the different pages because we know Ana is just waiting for the OG again and many people ask why Ana makes a standin in the RNG well we know he take some pub games most of the time I saw Topson having a Rivalry in Mid with Ana at the same time still he knows how to play as a 2x TI Champion I guess for sure most of us here waiting for the comeback of the HumbleGod.
Ana is just a free agent right now looking for his fill of Dota 2 tournament hunger. He's still technically and mechanically strong in the game but I don't think his talents matches those of the young bloods of OG. Yuragi is quite consistent as a carry and his gameplay is 'just right' for OG. Also, ana already lost that drive to win TI. He's just doing it to get his fill, though I highly doubt that he'll ever commit to joining a professional team again to play Dota full time.
EDIT: just found out that Topson has been released by OG as he expressed his desire to compete for another TI. I wonder if he has Jerax, ana, n0tail, and ceb's number on speed dial to create a new team just to see if they still got it?