ADVERTISING:

Following TI7, I was feeling incredibly burnt out. I’ve been playing competitive DotA without a serious break since before TI2. After coming back, I was fortunate enough to find teammates who were not only great players and people, but who were also able to push me to improve every day. The rate of team growth has been phenomenal and it’s been incredibly exciting feeling us improveI’m happy to say that we’ve been able to find an organization willing to support us that gives me the same feeling: Iceberg Esports. Both the players and Iceberg have our goals very well-aligned, so I am optimistic that we will grow into something special together. As an added bonus, I’m also very excited to play for my first Canadian esports organization.- Kurtis “Aui_2000” Ling

Six months ago, I couldn’t have imagined how far we’d come. With this team, not only is Iceberg on the same playing field as OpTic Gaming, Immortals, Fnatic, Evil Geniuses and the rest of the power organizations, but we’re building a Canadian identity. This team is Canadian-dominant, a first for professional Dota. Not only that, but this would make Iceberg the first Canadian organization to qualify for a Dota 2 Pro Circuit tournament.For me, bringing this team home to Canada was more about the Canadian community than anything else.We’ve seen the power of community just recently with the Cloud9 victory at the Boston Major, and how that performance seemingly united the North American CS:GO community, if just for a brief moment. Canadians deserve to have a team, an organization, that gives us that sense of community, and we have endeavoured to have Iceberg fill that role. This isn’t just the emergence of a new organization, this is the beginning of a new era for Canadian esports.- Daniel “Daname” Escott, Iceberg Esports CEO