Maurice "KheZu" Gutmann has joined Fighting PandaS on a trial basis, to compete in the upcoming Minor, the StarLadder ImbaTV Dota 2 Minor Season 3.

KheZu to Fighting PandaS

After the abrupt departure of Jacky "EternaLEnVy" Mao and Jingjun "Sneyking" Wu from Fighting PandaS, after already qualifying to the next minor in the DPC Season, Kurtis "Aui_2000" Ling had stated he was looking for substitutes as soon as possible, and within less than 12 hours, Oliver "skiter" Lepko was added to the roster. Now that KheZu has been registered under Fighting PandaS, this means that all NA teams competing in this round of the DPC will be at least 40% non NA players.

This means the roster we expect to see at the Kiev Minor attempting to qualifier for the Major will be as follows:

Oliver 'skiter' Lepko Jonathan Bryle 'Bryle' Santos De Guia Maurice 'KheZu' Gutmann David 'MoonMeander' Tan Kurtis 'Aui_2000' Ling

This brings much discussion to the Dota 2 community on the state of the NA scene, due to the lack of new NA talent being brought to these DPC competing rosters. This player acquisition has just been another long line of EU transfers to NA, and is seemingly no stopping anytime soon. More to discuss on this topic in future articles.