Absolute Legends drops Dota 2 team - confirmed

After losing its sponsor, the team goes back to its previous name - Natural 9 and parts ways with two of its players.

Absolute Legends

BVM - a new team is formed

A new Swedish team consisting of some of the former Keita players as well as some new interesting personalities.

Copenhagen Wolves reunites part of the old monkeybusiness

It has been revealed that Copenhagen Wolves will participate in the Star Series season 3 with a slightly changed roster. However neither the organization, nor the players have confirmed it.

Darer changes the entire Dota 2 squad - confirmed

After a disappointing performance at TI2, the management of the organization decided to part ways with the team led by ArtStyle and acquired a new Bulgarian team.

EHOME loses PCT - confirmed

The Chinese organization parts ways with PCT due to poor form and troubles with motivation.

Team Empire with three new additions - confirmed (in Russian)

The CIS team forms a new strong Russian-Ukrainian squad by adding some well known players.

Evil Geniuses release two players

Bulba and Universe are no longer part of the American team, according to the Star Series season 3 line-ups.

Fnatic welcomes back Trixi - confirmed

The Finnish player returns to his former organization, but for the first time playing for Fnatic's European Dota 2 division.

Team Infused releases Dota 2 squad - confirmed

Making only one change to their squad, the all-Swedish team stays together and will be known as Skånes Elit until they find a new sponsor.

Infused

Team Kharkiv - a new team is formed - confirmed

Captain ArtStyle has formed a new all-Ukrainian team who is going to compete in Star Series season 3 as well as ESWC Ukraine qualifiers.

Moscow 5 with a completely new team - confirmed

Shortly after M5 released their previous team, they have announced a new squad consisting of some familiar players.

Mousesports with a temporary line-up - confirmed

A lot of changes in mouz's squad - only the duo SingSing and SexyBamboe to stay while being joined temporarily by new teammates.

mTw releases 4 players - syndereN the only one to stay - confirmed

mTw counts on Danish captain syndereN to build a new and strong Dota 2 squad.

MUFC replaces two players - confirmed

The Malaysian organization makes a couple of changes in its Dota 2 team due to unsatisfactory results.

Quantic is temporarily joined by 1437 and UNiVeRsE - half-confirmed

Both players will be playing as stand-ins in the beginning.

The Retry - a "new" team is formed - confirmed (in Russian)

There's an old saying in the Eastern-European culture. It states: "PGG + 4" and it comes back when it's needed.

The Russian organization announces two new teams, one of them being an all-ladies Dota 2 squad.

Virtus.Pro

Team Y - a new team is formed

ComeWithMe has gathered a handful of star players who became free agents after The International.

Team Zenith's future remains unclear - hyhy announces retirement

The Singaporean team loses its superstar hyhy, who has recently retired.

With the end of The International, the prohibition for roster changes of the participating teams was lifted which shook up the whole scene. A lot of the TI2 teams, as well as some of those which didn't participate in the tournament, have suffered many changes in just two weeks. Some of the rumors circulating within the community have turned out to be true, others - false, and some teams even managed to surprise everyone.A few days ago almost nothing was known as only few organizations had actually confirmed changes in their teams. With the announcement of the third season of the Star Series, starladder.tv and joinDota have revealed a lot of line-up reshuffles - some of them were confirmed afterwards by the organizatons or the players, but others are still considered just rumors.In the next few lines I'm going to summarize every roster change that has occured in the days after The International until now.entered the Dota 2 scene after acquiring a young and very talanted Australian team, calledNatural 9 back in January. They were dominating the scene, introducing some new strategies and were considered as favourites even against titans such asNa`Vi. However, they suffered a drop in their form and couldn't recover from it. This resulted in a disappointing performance in the two most important LAN events of the year - Dreamhack Summer 2012 and The International. Having not won any major online tournaments as well, the organization decided to release the team. The Australians decided to go back to their previous name - Natural 9 - and parted ways with two of their players - Trong 'Snoopy' Truong and Scott 'bLeek' Jensen left and will be replaced by only one player - Anh 'GET-LOST' Tran to complete the 5-man roster.is a newly formed team whose first appearance will be in the Star Series season 3. Captain Henry 'henrydickenson' Dickenson will be leading a six-man team with 5 Swedes, some of whom were part of the already disbanded Keita Gaming. Debut as a pro-player will be making a known to the community face - Johan 'Weppas' Westberg , who is also working for the GD Studio and is sometimes seen to co-comentate tournament matches.have been showing quite an increase in their form recently - as a result they took the prestigious 2nd place at WCG SEE. The team led by Alexander 'CalculuS' Rathcke has invited two very known Danish players to join - Mikkel 'miGGel' Berg and Christoffer Borregaard 'Ryze' Winther . An interesting fact is that this Danish trio has been part of the successful teammonkeybusiness which have won several tournaments, being sponsored by different organizations in the past.have decided to undertake a whole new direction by releasing their previous Dota 2 squad consisting of CIS superstars such as Ivan 'ArtStyle' Antonov and Sergey 'God' Bragin . Since they couldn't live up to the expectations and underperformed at TI2, the management decided that it's time to find new challenges with a new team. Darer has replaced the team with a new and unknown to the scene Bulgarian squad who will have to prove that they have what it takes to be in the pro-scene.will no longer count on Zhang 'Perfect_CaT' Miaolong who has left the team. According to managerWen Yi '71' Tang, the main reasons were his mediocre performance as well as some issues with his motivation. EHOME is definitely going to find a replacement, but for now the team wants to solve some strategical issues (such as player roles).has been joined by two of the former Darer Entertainment players Gleb 'Funn1k' Lipatnikov and Arthur 'Goblak' Kostenko as well as Airat 'Silent' Gaziev who was part of the TI2 team of Moscow Five , which disbanded shortly after the tournament. Goblak will also be the new captain and drafter of Empire. The team has released Andrew 'ALWAYSWANNAFLY' Bondarenko and Maxim 'Jackal' Doroschenok in order to make place for its new additions.are going to keep their three core players, looking for replacements for Sam 'BuLba' Baird and Saahil 'UNiVeRsE' Arora who have left the team after TI2. However nothing is official yet and the organization remains silent over this matter for now.have got a lot of history with Kalle 'Trixi' Saarinen during the big Heroes Of Newerth days. The Finn was part of the highly successful HoN Fnatic team, but have left in order to try his luck at Dota 2. With the retirement of Jascha 'NoVa' Markuse , Trixi has been invited to join Fnatic once again and compete for their Dota 2 division. Fnatic's LAN debut will be at Dreamhack Valencia 2012 in just a few weeks.dropped their Dota 2 squad since there have been disagreements between the organizaton and the players. The roster will remain almost the same as they will only replace Jerry 'EGM' Lundkvist with Alexander 'PiNoY' Pettersson , who stood-in during Dreamhack Summer 2012. The team will be known as Skånes Elit in the future.is the newest addition to the pro-scene as it was very recently announced that Ivan 'ArtStyle' Antonov has built a new team. He will be joined by his former teammate at Andrew 'ALWAYSWANNAFLY' Bondarenko and a duo from team TTFU . Team Kharkiv will take mTw 's spot at the Star Series season 3, because of mTw's recent disbandment and lack of current players.dropped their Dota 2 team recently which was led by one of the most controversial personalities in the scene - Vladamir 'PGG' Anosov due to various reasons such as poor performance and lack of discipline. Now the Russian organization has announced that it has acquired a new squad consisting of four of zNation 's players as well as Andrew 'Dread' Golubev to complete the 5-man roster. The new M5 have already made their debut in the Star Series season 3, grabbing 2 wins out of 2 matches.open a new chapter in their history by releasing Theeban '1437' Siva and Nicolae Alexandru 'ComeWithMe' Craciunescu while Dominik 'Black^' Reitmeier 's future remains unclear. The team has been known for its constant roster changes in the past - something which stopped during the months before The International. However, it has been announced post-TI2, that mouz will part ways with their players, keeping only the famous Dutch-Chinese/Arab duo Wehsing 'SingSing' Yuen and Alaan 'SexyBamboe' Faraj . In order to be able to compete in the upcoming tournaments, they will be joined by a German trio consisting of TI2 stand-in Alexander 'Alex' Reinhardt who was the captain of uebelst-gamynG and former mTw support player's Dota 2 team will no longer consist of the players we used to watch in the last half year. The French trio Sébastien '7ckngMad' Debs and Calonne 'Funzii' Thibault as well as Rene 'Kebap-' Werner have parted ways with the organization and their captain Troels 'syndereN' Nielsen . The team won several important tournaments with this roster, the most memorable of them being the win against Natus Vincere in the Dreamhack Summer 2012 Grand Final. It has been announced that syndereN will be forming a new team under the mTw tag but any further information is to be released.is one of the few Asian teams to suffer from major roster changes post-TI2. Although the team didn't get the chance to participate in the tournament due to a logistics mistake, they have been unsatisfied with their overall performance. As a result of that Nick 'Silvercross' Chang Sheng Lim and Daniel Wei Khit 'TFG' Wong will be leaving and will be replaced by Khoo 'Ohaiyo' Chong Xin andemerged with a slightly changed line-up in the Star Series page, where Michael 'Mikey' Wunsch and Sebastian 'Matrim' Sundström were replaced by former mousesports captain Theeban '1437' Siva and ex- Evil Geniuses player Saahil 'UNiVeRsE' Arora . As of now, nothing has been confirmed by Quantic Gaming yet, but 1437 has tweeted that he is indeed playing with the team. The team has already made its debut with the two stand-ins in the Star Series season 3.is a known name within the pro scene. Every time the Russian captain Vladamir 'PGG' Anosov gathers few talented players ready to upset the big names, The Retry is reborn. Shortly after PGG's departure from Moscow Five after The International, he formed a new team consisting of some unknown but potentially good players. He has done it successfully before, so it wouldn't be a surprise if PGG leads his new teammates to new highs.have confirmed in the early days of September that they have formed a new Dota 2 female team consisting of known to the Russian scene ladies. Just a few days ago, it was also confirmed that the male team is also set to a comeback, keeping only Yaroslav 'NS' Kuznetsov and Alex 'Santa' Koltan from the previous roster. They will be joined by Sergey 'KSi' Kuzin who is also going to be the new captain, as well as by two other players.is a completely new team, whose line-up was revealed for the first time in the Star Series season 3 webpage. By leaving mousesports , Romanian captain Nicolae Alexandru 'ComeWithMe' Craciunescu has confirmed the rumors that were floating around the social media. He is now reunited with his fellow country man and former teammate in Dignitas Florin Razvan 'Freezer' Stoica as well as three Russian players who ended up without teams after The International. Former Darer Entertainment player Sergey 'God' Bragin and a duo from Moscow Five 's TI2 team - the DotA legend Ivan 'Vigoss' Shinkarev and Igor 'Admiration' Kalnysh complete the 5-man roster.has seen brighter days. Right now the situation with the SEA team is unclear, as there are a lot of questions to be answered. In a recent statement, Zenith's captain Han Yong 'hyhy' Benedict Lim , has announced his retirement from professional gaming, leaving the captain slot to Daryl Koh 'IceIceIce' Pei Xiang . Although the squad grabbed the prestigious 5th/6th place at TI2, the players as well as the fans had the feeling that the Singaporean team could do more and compete for a top-3 place. Apart from hyhy's leaving, it is also unclear whether formerSK Gaming superstar Jonathan 'Loda' Berg is going to continue playing with Zenith and is that going to be possible if he returns back to Sweden.Sources: