Garena Star League 2013 Participants announced

In one week Bangkok, Thailand will host the "Asian DreamHoN" tournament with the best Heroes of Newerth teams from around globe. Now the entire list of teams from Thailand, NA/EU, Malaysia, China, Russia and Vietnam.

GSL 13 Participants

Disco Oh Yeah qmq Eiieiz

Kimochi Xunwu Team Work

Khun Seuk Sadood Ruk Perfect XXX

Shooter eSports Orange eSports

siMZ Invasion eSports

Cyber Zone SSOP

Thailand Kai Gor Dai iMpunity

MiTH.OHP nxL Focus eSports

Neolution eSports.MRR FriendsForever

Yamaha.s2y Cats Gaming

Paroma Stay Green

Raider by EMP Trademark eSports

Sören “Fantasy44” V. <p>[b]Favorite Teams in HoN:[/b]</p> <p>[f]Malaysia[/f]<span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2;">Orange eSports<br /> [f]Thailand[/f] Turtle Master<br /> [f]Indonesia[/f] Insidious eSports</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2;">[f]United States[/f] stayGreen<br /> [f]Europe[/f] Internet Gangsters<br /> [f]Sweden[/f] Lions eSports</span></p>

As a international observer the names of most of the participants don't ring a bell. From the 15 Thai teams only Neolution eSports.MRR has gained notoriety through their good performance at DreamHack Winter 2012. They came in as a clear wildcarder without anyone having intel on them, but they proved to be a strong team to beat. As a matter of fact the team placed third in the strong Group B with competition like Trademark eSports, Tt eSports, QsQ and vTi.Dynasty. They recorded a clean victory over vTi and secured ties against Trademark eSports and QsQ, only losing a total of one group stage match. Now they will get another shot at proving themselves when the international competition with Trademark eSports and Stay Green comes to their home turf.Alongside MRR teams like MiTH and Kimochi might be familiar names to the international scene from past tournaments. MiTH is a respected multi-gaming organization originating from Thailand, while Kimochi was one of the exhibition partners for the big Smackdown Challenge between iMpunity and Zenith back in the Summer of 2012.The rest of the squads has not played on international turf or against teams of a wider popularity. The only sneak peak that the scene in North America and Europe already got at them, was through the outstanding trailer that Garena released earlier this week.The same unknown attribute applies to the Chinese competitors from SSOP. The Chinese scene will make their debut in this tournament and might be able to catch some people by surprise. Complementing the SEA portion of the tournament are the two Malaysian teams with the powerhouse Orange eSports and the new team of community icon PixieBaby - Invasion Gaming. Alongside them FriendsForever from Vietnam and the Indonesian team of nxL Focus eSports and the Singaporean squad from iMpunity will attent. All those teams have gained some attention with their appearance in the Smackdown Challenge as well.In addition to that the Russian powerhouse Cats Gaming will join the tournament, but without their long-time player GuessWho, who is not going to make the trip to the capital of Thailand. His replacement will be Quaix, the same replacement that had made the trip to Jönköping, Sweden to attend the DreamHack Winter in place of GuessWho.The tournament will officially start on March, 30th with the Group Stage. After that the entire Playoffs will be played on March, 31st with a Best of One mode until the Lower Bracket Finals and the Upper Bracket Finals. Those matches will be played in the Best of Three format, the Grand Final will feature a Best of Five setting.Coverage from the event will be supplied by several streaming outlets. Honcast will be at the venue and most likely cover the two international teams in their quest to conquer the SEA fortress. A Thailand announcer team, a Russian caster team and a Chinese casting team is also expected.GosuGamers will have a Coverage Hub available for the event with all streams and up to the minute results from the mega event on Asian soil.Information from officials