Announcement of MDL Macau Direct Invite

After six teams passed the qualifications of China, Europe, CIS, SEA, North America and South America, some might ask who got the MDL Macau Direct Invite, and finally MDL Macau also announced the last 2 teams to get a direct invite as well as complete the 10 participants who will last a few more days. These two teams are Virtus Pro and LGD Gaming. With this, the MDL Macau participants who will compete in the next few days are complete.

Virtus Pro profile to MDL Macau

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Virtus Pro are currently leading the points standings after they beat Team Secret at ESL One Hamburg, where they earned a total of 750 points in the Dota 2 major tournament. In addition, the 3-4 rank they got on AMD Sapphire DotaPit Minor made Virtus Pro get pretty good points to be able to sit at the top of the standings.

In addition to getting a direct invite at MDL Macau, Virtus Pro also gets a slot in the DOTA Summit 8 and DreamLeague Season 8 tournaments which will be held quite close to the MDL Macau tournament.

LGD Gaming profile to MDL Macau

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This team is an elite esports team from China who has strong strength, although they did not get a good result at Perfect World Masters, don’t forget that they are the second winner in the PGL Open Bucharest tournament.

In addition, they are the fourth winner at The International 7 and also get a slot at Dota Summit 8

MDL Macau 2017

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Previously Virtus Pro and LGD Gaming got direct invites, the last team to make sure to attend was Natus Vincere with the victory they got due to a bug between Phantom Lancer and Shadow Demon which eventually became the root of the crash problem.

To enliven MDL Macau, his party has announced several famous figures who will attend this event. Among them is Fan ‘rOtk’ Bai who is the coach of the VGJ Thunder team as well as a great offlaner in China. There is also Xu ‘BurNing’ Zhilei, a former Invictus Gaming player who is a Dota veteran in China who is currently not active as a player or as a coach. These two players are here to enliven the MDL Macau event because they are considered to be very experienced players in China

In addition to these two players, there is also Gosh who is a famous TV actor and also Mario Ho Yau Kwan who is also a famous billionaire and also the son of Casino owner Stanley Ho.

The following is the complete composition of the MDL Macau 2017 participating teams

Virtus Pro (direct invite)
LGD Gaming (direct invite)
LGD Forever Young (Chinese qualifier)
OG (European qualifiers)
Natus Vincere (CIS qualification)
TNC (SEA qualification)
VGJ.Storm (North American qualifier)
Infamous (South American qualifier)

The MDL Macau Minor Tournament has a total prize pool of USD300,000 (approximately IDR4.05 billion) and 300 points to be accumulated in the total points to determine the direct invite to The International 8. The tournament itself is planned to be held on 8-10 December 2017.

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