posted by chrissibaldi,
Forget The International and get ready for the actual biggest event of the year: The Staff Cup! The iconic cup returns for its sixth edition! Thanks to organizer de Christian 'Kibyu' Blume, this saturday it is once more time for those who work behind the scenes to step into the spotlight and show the world what a hero truly needs.


It is part of an ancient tradition, old as civilisation itself: The Clash of swords! From great distances they have been summoned, the finest Dota 2 teams ever known, destined to battle at the Inter Staff Cup! 16 teams will wage war for their piece of the smallest prize pool in the history of competitive gaming. Who will emerge victorious? Welcome to the Staff Cup!

- Gabe N. Name changed by the editors


The action kicks off at 16:30 CEST this saturday with a groupstage followed by a single-elimination playoff with a best-off-three grand final. For the groupstage the 16 teams will be divided into four groups with two teams advancing from each one. Similiar to last season the gamemode for all three games is gonna be Captains Draft, so there won't be Shadow Shaman and Doom in every single game.

Biggest contender for the prestigious title is probably world4 guys, 1 girl and a DoTA Cup. Not only do they have two International participatiants amongst them (Toby and Cap), but also the only player, that ever got famous for not having a kill after being carried to victory by his team (Maelk) - which uhm, must be good for something. However, the French from fr Jeuxvideo.com(ex-Millenium) are looking to defend their title from last edition, where they managed to beat 4g1g in the grand-finals 2-1.


[i]4 guys, 1 girl and a Dota Cup is sort of ready!
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Participating Teams



You will find a list of the participating teams below. However, please take note that more teams such as BeyondTheSummit, Dota Cinema, ESL and especially two times finalist The GD Studio have been invited but had to decline due to schedule conflicts. Stay tuned as more information about Casters and the Groups will be posted soon!
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Dota2 Romania: Cry0nicS, Uncensored, The Omicron, Div, Fonz
Cyborg: Cyborgmatt (Manager), PyrionFlax (Coach), Sheever (Captain), Shane, SirActionSlacks, refleksy, tba
HighGroundTV: WhatIsHip, Maut, WEH, CruelGGs, tba
Twitch.Tv: Kaidence, VicTheSlik, Chirashi, NotMLee, BigRedClownShoe
WePlay.TV: WarLocK, Nexius, Hireling, Ch1Ch1, Bafik
D2l Scrub Squad: Ayesee, lectR, GenoZStriker, Ryan Johnson, Tralf
4 guys, 1 girl and a DOTA cup: Capitalist, TobiWan, Soe, Maelk, Holymaster
GosuGamers: Skim, TjernobylBarnet, Fantasy, Patrick Baitman, HellDisaster
readmore: luq-, Valicious, nebu, Mylife, domi
dota.2p.com: Scant, Noxville, Mikeylicious, SlashStrike, Kvothedota
Team Liquid: Heyoka, HotBid, TheEmulator, Ler, Firebolt
jeuxvideo.com: LuCiqNo, Amyga, marSu, Shiba, Hugo
Manager: Nestlik (MYM), tasty (3DMax), RusseD (NVMI), AnahRoniX (Empire), 'hagen' Stakić (Fnatic), Coach Mania
joinDOTA Forum: Woodsy, Aerendir, Greye, sseebbee, Epiphany
Fake 4g1g(joinDOTA Matchticker): Marisoe, Fenaelk, Phewitalist, nooBiwan, HolyGekons [i](nooDy, Gekons, Phew, fenfen, Orbion)[/i]
Dota2.ru: tba


Update

: Unfortunately ru SLTV had to withdraw from the most important tournament of the year and have been replaced by ru Dota2.ru. On the bright side: uk Cyborg have revealed their final lineup. Turns out they will be lead to battle by Mrs. Ravage herself: nl Jorien "Sheever" van der Heijden.

Coverage



Main Coverage of the event will be provided by noone else than the guy who managed to escape MMR hell: us SirActionSlacks, who will stream as many games as possible! Additionally many participating players will stream the games from their own point of view, so make sure to check out the Live&Upcoming tab on joinDOTA!

SirActionSlacks playing for Team Cyborg, he will start casting once they drop out! Check out all the streams assigned in the Live&Upcoming Tab or look for the games on DOTA TV

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Groupstage





Grid




Update: 2p victorious!



The sixth edition of the Staff Cup has come to an end. Once more, not a single team from joinDOTA was able to take home the title, where it actually belongs. Even our biggest hope world 4 guys, 1 girl and a Dota Cup was not ready enough to take it all. Especially after dk Jacob Maelk Thoft-Andersen stopped playing due to a lack of Pit Lord in the hero pool, there is no surprise they came short to world dota.2p.com - the later winner of the tournament. Their captain and now second time Staff Cup Winner Mikeylicious gave a short statement, what the victory meant to him and his team.

I want to thank Kibyu for organizing another awesome staff cup. We were preparing ourselves for several months because this is after all the biggest tournament of the year. After lots of roster changes we have finally set up the right chemistry in the team and won 5,000,000 virtual bragging right points, that I will spend at twitter, joinDOTA forums and twitch chat. I want to thank my teamm8s Scant, Noxville, SlashStrike and Kvothedota for carrying me into my 2nd staff cup victory. After winning my 2nd title I will most likely retire for the time being and reband 2 days before next staff cup announcement.

rs Milos "Mikeylicious" Nedeljkovic


This article was written by de Christian Baltes, joinDOTA's Senior Writer. Chris.Warrior has been at joinDOTA for nearly two years, making him our most senior editor. Besides living for DOTA 2, he is currently studying Media&Communication and has lived in the UK,France and Thailand for a longer period of time. Follow him on @chrissibaldi

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