MineskiX and Execration forced to replace players for Shanghai Major Regional Qualifiers
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MineskiX and Execration forced to replace players for Shanghai Major Regional Qualifiers

January 6th, 2016 Tournaments 0 comments

MineskiX and Execration find themselves in a tight spot. Matchfixing scandals from at least one year ago have resurfaced during the Shanghai Major Open Qualifiers. After Team Redemption was disqualified during the first day of the Shanghai Major SEA Open Qualifiers after receiving a lifetime ban from Valve sponsored events, more players were removed from the event. Recent open qualifier winners, MineskiX and direct invite team Execration were informed they each needed to replace one of their players to keep their spots in the Shanghai Major SEA Regional Qualifiers.

January 4th, Team Redemption was disqualified from the Shanghai Major SEA Open Qualifiers.

Team Redemption and Arrow Gaming had received a lifetime ban in 2014, following a match-fixing scandal. Valve had issued the team and organization a permanent ban from any Valve-sponsored tournaments. However, the team was able to register and start playing in the Shanghai Major SEA Open Qualifiers on the FACEIT platform, under the name TR. The situation was brought to the attention of FACEIT admins after a few rounds and the team was disqualified.

MineskiX and Execration

Following the conclusion of the first round of Shanghai Major SEA Open Qualifiers whereas Mineski-X landed the first Shanghai Major SEA Regional Qualifiers available spot, after defeating Extremist Dota2, 2:1, in the finals, Valve issued additional names of players to be removed.

According to Mineski.Net, VALVE had sent organizers in SEA region a “list of players banned from participating in the majors due to them being implicated in similar scandals.”

Included players caught up in the list from valve was Mark Anthony “Jacko” Soriano currently on MineskiX and Mark “Byb” Gavin on direct regional invite team -Execration. Both players were already set up to play in the Shanghai Major SEA Regional Qualifiers.

Jacko and Byb were both involved in a matchfixing scandal on #322 during November 2014. Eight players admitted to betting against their teams in select matches and throwing in exchange for Dota 2 items. 16 year-old Mark Anthony “Jacko” Soriano was given a nine-month ban because of his age.

MineskiX have announced their replacement player on facebook earlier.

We would like to announce the replacement for our Mid player Mark Anthony ‘Jacko’ Soriano due to the rules set by Valve. Adrian ‘Ysaera’ Wui will be joining us for the upcoming Major Regional Qualifiers. We will try our best in the qualifiers and give our best!
We hope Jacko stay strong and we will try our best to help him in the future

Both MineskiX and Execration will continue in the Shanghai Major SEA Regional Qualifiers taking place between January 7-10th.

MineskiX

MineskiX was the first team to grab a spot in the Shanghai Major SEA Regional Qualifiers. It is a mix of familiar faces, including Chan “WinteR” Litt Binn, Joel Chan “XtiNcT” Zhan, Fadil “Kecik Imba” Bin Mohd Raziff, and Michael “ninjaboogie” Ross.

Adrian “Ysaera” Wui will now become the fifth player.

MineskiX will go up against MVP.Phoenix, TnC, Signature Trust, Fnatic, Satuduatiga, Execration, Mineski, First Departure, and one other team still to be determined, in the Shanghai Major SEA Regional Qualifiers, scheduled to take place between January 7-10.

Shanghai Major Regional Qualifiers

Forty teams will participate in the Regional Qualifiers – 32 invited and 8 slots reserved for the winners of the Open Qualifiers:

Each of the four regional qualifiers (Americas, China, Europe, Southeast Asia) will feature eight invited teams. In addition, Open Qualifiers will be held for all regions. The winners from the four Open Qualifiers will earn the 9th and 10th spots of each of the four Regional Qualifiers. Registration is now open.

Each region consists of two round robin groups of five teams. The top two teams from each group will advance to a double elimination bracket.

The winner and runner-up of each region will receive Shanghai Major invites.

Shanghai Major

Dota 2 Mercedes Benz Arena for Shanghai Major

The second Dota 2 Major will be held in Shanghai, China at the Mercedes-Benz Arena – an indoor arena located on the former grounds of Expo 2010 in Pudong, Shanghai, China, with a seating capacity for 18,000 people. The total prize-pool of $3,000,000 is a fixed amount and Perfect World will be in charge of production.

Perfect World and MarsTV had partnered up to organize The Dota 2 Asia Championships (DAC) in January-February 2015, known to some as “The International of the East”. The tournament was set up to be very similar to The International. The starting prize fund was set at $250,000 USD, but through crowdfunding of compendium sales, the prize-pool reached $3,057,519.

Perfect World also hosted the The International 5 Chinese qualifiers.

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