Manila Major Qualifiers SEA winners: Mineski to play Majors on home turf

The Manila Major Qualifiers SEA winners for the final day of the competition has been decided! Mineski is the only regional team to qualify for the Manila Major in the Philippines, after overpowering TnC Pro Gaming 3:0 in the Manila Major Qualifiers SEA Grand Finals.

Mineski ang nagwagi. They are the home team for The Manila Major. pic.twitter.com/fazDEZwkEb

— Wykrhm Reddy (@wykrhm) May 6, 2016

Mineski have emerged the Manila Major Qualifiers SEA winners – the result they were definitely hoping for. The team will be playing in front of the home crowd at the next Major, aiming to make the country proud.

The Filipino squad will join Team Secret, Team Liquid, Evil Geniuses, MVP.Phoenix, Wings Gaming, ViCi Gaming Reborn, Fnatic, OG, compLexity, Na’vi, LGD Gaming, Alliance, Newbee (the winner of the Chinese qualifiers), winner of the EU qualifiers and the winner of the NA qualifiers for the main event scheduled to take place between June 7-12th, at the Mall of Asia in Manila, Philippines.

One from each of the regions will qualify to compete for the $3 million prize-pool.

Manila Major Qualifiers SEA results

Manila Major Qualifiers SEA Upper Bracket Finals

After a relatively even start to the first game between TnC and Mineski, Mineski seized the lead and appeared to have secured themselves the victory. About 35 minutes in, TnC surged forward and completely took control of the match and turned the game to their favor until they secured the win in an incredible comeback. The second match of back and forth exchanges and leads, Mineski tied up the series with their victory after taking a critical team fight around minute 35. The deciding game laning stage and early game was very even with a slight advantage for Mineski. It wasn’t long for TnC to take control of the situation and retain it until the very end. In just over 30 minutes they convincingly secured themselves the Grand Finals.

Manila Major Qualifiers SEA winners finals results:TnC are the first team to advance to the Grand finals. Mineski has dropped to the lower bracket finals.

Manila Major Qualifiers SEA Lower Bracket Finals

Mineski bested Orange.Taring 2:1 pushing forward to represent the Philippines on home ground at the next Major. The Filipino team took the first match of the series from the start. A fantastic game by Ryan “Bimbo” Jay Qui on Mirana helped lead them to success. Taring was not about to let go so easily of their dreams and lashed back in the second game. Spectacular performances by Byron Young “Syeonix” Meng Keen on spectre and Ng “YamateH” Wei Poong on CLinkz led the Malaysian squad to an easy victory. Mineski fought back hard in the deciding game and completely overwhelmed Taring in only 30 minutes for the victory.

Manila Major Qualifiers SEA Lower Bracket finals results:Mineski advance to the Grand finals. Orange.Taring has been eliminated.

Manila Major Qualifiers SEA Grand Finals

The first match of the series started out looking to be anyone’s for the taking. Mineski started to pull ahead and by 20 minutes in, they secured a significant lead, control and raced to the finish line. Bimbo had another stand out game on Queen of Pain going 16:2:5 by the end. The second game all three cores on Mineski did fantastic job, leading the networth charts and the team to victory. The last game took only 20 minutes for Mineski to secure. They swept right through TnC at a staggering pace and claimed their place at the next major at home.

Manila Major Qualifiers SEA winners: Grand Finals

• Mineski lands the coveted spot for the Manila Major from the Southeast Asian region.

Manila Major Qualifiers SEA winners: Winning team

Mineski

Dota 2 Mineski at ESL One Manila press conference

In the winter season leading up to the Shanghai Major, Mineski was consistently besting the SEA giants, Fnatic, for the qualifier spots in LANs. They were quickly rising to the top in the region and making an international name for themselves. Unable to lock up any major achievements, the Filipino team experienced some roster changes, welcoming Benhur “Ben” Lawis and Jun “Bok” Kanehara to the mix.

In an effort to grow the local scene and showcase regional talent, a local Filipino Dota 2 team was given their own set of qualifiers for ESL One Manila to determine one team to compete alongside some of the best Dota 2 teams in the world. Mineski was able to best their regional rivals, TnC Gaming, 3:1, in the best-of-five grand finals, seizing the place in the main event for the Philippines.

Mineski roster:

Ryan Jay “Bimbo” Qui
Benhur “Ben” Lawis
Jessie Cristy “JessieVash” Cuyco
Jun “Bok” Kanehara
Julius “Julz” De Leon

The Manila Major

The third Dota 2 Major will be held in Manila, Philippines, at the Mall of Asia – an indoor arena within the SM Mall of Asia complex, in Manila, Philippines. A rather new, state-of-the-art building, the arena has only been inaugurated in 2012 and has a seating capacity of 16,000 for sporting events, and a full house capacity of 20,000.

The total prize-pool of $3,000,000 is a fixed amount and PGL will be in charge of production.