White off

Let’s start the team analysis with possibly the strongest teams of the competition, White off and Team Ukraine. White off comes to WESG with possibly the best Russian players of competitive Dota 2. Out of the six participating players, four of them hail from Virtus.Pro, the only team besides Secret, who have secured the spot for The International 9. The only player of VP who is not competing for White Off is No[o]ne as he is in Team Ukraine.

Team Ukraine

Speaking of Team Ukraine, in our understanding, they could possibly the team that contests White Off in the final of the WESG 2018. The side includes some of the best players, like GeneRal, ALOHADANCE and the previously mentioned, No[o]ne. In the last year for Team Ukraine played Roman Resolut1on Fominok, Vladimir No[o]ne Minenko, Andrew Ghostik Adam’s apple, Ilya Lil Ilyuk, and Ivan ArtStyle Antonov. The team took third place and received a quota for the world finals, but did not go there, because the players did not have time to issue Chinese visas. But now Team Ukraine will be aiming to take on the world.

It will be interesting to see the mid laner playing against his VP teammates. Even the bookmakers believe in our opinion. On the eve of the start of the LAN finals of World Electronic Sports Games 2018 by Dota 2, bookmakers’ analysts rated the participants’ chances. In their opinion, the favorite is White-off. Team Ukraine Yellow comes in second place with Gorillaz-Pride and Australia.

We believe that in the final these two teams will host one of the best games of the year. White off should cruise to the final unless the Russians play some uncoordinated games like we have seen the VP side doing in none DPC competitions. While Team Ukraine should also progress to the finale but will need to play their hearts out. Unfortunately, we will not be seeing Dendi in the colors of Ukraine since he is not in the roster.

TNC Predator

We are not seeing TNC in the top two or three since the squad will not be competing with all of its players. Mark “Raven” Fausto will play for TNC Predator at World Electronic Sports Games 2018. He will replace Carlo “Kuku” Palad, who will miss the tournament because of the Chongqing government’s ban. The organization announced this on Twitter.

Fausto was a member of TNC from October 2016 to September 2018. Now the player competes for Lotac. Together with the team, he could not pass any qualifications to the tournaments of the DPC series.

No Kuku

In December 2018, Kuku went into inactivating because of a racist scandal involving him. Palad insulted the Chinese player during the match, after which Valve banned offlaner from participating in The Chongqing Major. Instead of Kuku, Rio “ryOyr” Hasevag competed at the tournament.

Now instead of ryOyr, we will see Raven. Despite the absence of Kuku, we are going against the bookmakers and we believe that TnC will still shine. The side will progress from the group stage and might win a few playoff games here and there unless they meet White off or Team Ukraine. TnC have the tough fortune of being in the same group with White Off but still, we will get to see them in the Playoffs, at least.

EHOME

One of the dark horses of the competition in our opinion is EHOME. They are the champions of Bucharest minor and will be looking to make a strong run in the competition since they have the home crowd advantage. We count them as dark horses since the side is none to be quite unpredictable.

After a rough start to their 2018-2019 DPC campaign, the side seemed to have emerged from the depth in the past couple of months. Some might even say they are the best Chinese team at the moment, however, at the moment, they can’t take on the teams of the West. But still on their day can beat any team. Xiao8 and the gang will surely be aiming for a strong finish to the WESG 2018 campaign.

Nolifer5

Nolifer5 got a slot in the main stage of WESG, winning the qualification for Central Asia: the Kyrgyz mix turned out to be stronger than COMEBACK from Uzbekistan and the Kazakhstan team of Aibek Naive- Tokayev PATRIOT. The team will be aiming to escape the group stage, since, in the past few hours, Support, Bakyt Zayac Emil Tzanov of The Pnago received a visa to China. He will perform at World Electronic Sports Games 2018 as part of the Nolifer5 mix. This was announced by The Pango manager Igor “Bad Playa” Gorevoy. So, it will be an interesting bet to make on the Nolifer5 side since they are better equipped now with very decent support.

Keen Gaming

Keen Gaming’s latest roster includes TI7 Runner-up, Kaka who was once the part of team Newbee. The young lad left the team and formed the squad with his old fellows, old chicken and old eLeVeN. Now the trio seeks the grab the title in their bag since they have relatively an easy group. They did lose one match against Team Australia but struck back hard by winning two matches against Team Germany under 36-minute-mark. By the looks of their current performance, we shall definitely see them competing in the playoffs of the tournament.