The International invites DK

posted by Jaywalker, 1 year ago

It is groundbreaking news.

DK is the first team to be invited for The International held in Seattle this year.

The team has received the first invitation from Valve to participate in the prestigious Dota 2 LAN to be held in Seattle this year. Although there is no official confirmation from Valve, DK has published photos of their invitation letters and announcing this news via their official Tencent Weibo.

Super, Zippo, LongDD, BurNing and rOtk with their invitations

The International invitation letters for DK

We have managed to contact BurNing and he gave us the following humble statement:

When we received the invitation naturally we felt excited and exhilarated. But after settling down, we know we shouldn't be happy this early. Getting a Visa is no easy task, our performance are of no competition to the top teams in Dota 2 right now. We will increase our efforts to train and improve our skills.

It is an exciting moment as all teams will be nervously anticipating an invite and hoping to participate in the event that had featured the prize pool of $ 1.6 million. It is unknown if more teams have received their invitations, stay tuned as joinDOTA bring you updates of more teams getting one of the coveted slots.

DK team roster:

Zhilei 'BurNing' Xu

Xiang 'LongDD' Huang

Xiong 'Zippo' Zhou

Fan 'rOtk' Bai

Junhao 'Super' Xie

Sources: DK official Tencent Weibo

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#101

Trick wrote at 09.05.2012, 16:53 CEST:

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

#102

OverDoseeD wrote at 09.05.2012, 17:23 CEST:

Na' Vi Easy Win.

#103

Lactose wrote at 09.05.2012, 17:29 CEST:

Mouz, you better sign up your 5th player soon.

#104

TheHansen wrote at 09.05.2012, 17:45 CEST:

Oh gawd. Gief to mTw and Mouz!

#105

DanniCU wrote at 09.05.2012, 17:48 CEST:

china has few teams which focus dota2

#106

Quelm wrote at 09.05.2012, 17:49 CEST:

Rewarding hard work and commitment to Dota2.......oh wait!!

#107

Maldin wrote at 09.05.2012, 18:00 CEST:

Mooob schrieb:
Navi deserved it more!

And why do you assume they didn't receive it already? :S

#108

ViaDolorosa wrote at 09.05.2012, 18:37 CEST:

Congratulation to DK, hope they will show spectacular performance!

#109

Burger3ater wrote at 09.05.2012, 18:45 CEST:

Hahahaha LongDD is so small, looks a dwarf ... with googles he would look like Sniper

#110

lolimtesla wrote at 09.05.2012, 19:14 CEST:

Osom envelopes.

#111

PekenWoW wrote at 09.05.2012, 19:31 CEST:

I HOPE MOUZ BE INVITED, IM FAN OF NAVI, BUT SINGSING IS AWESOME

#112

Black.Afghan wrote at 09.05.2012, 19:41 CEST:

all u fanboys having a nerdgasm.

#113

Raistelin wrote at 09.05.2012, 19:48 CEST:

congratulations DK, good luck in getting a Visa and hope to see you in top form at the International 2

#114

DjuguluMutkA wrote at 09.05.2012, 20:45 CEST:

Damn awesome!

#115

-MgZ_ wrote at 09.05.2012, 20:50 CEST:

Kai_BG schrieb:

-MgZ_ schrieb:
Can't wait for idiotic fanboys to explode when their favorite euro team gets rape by some chinese team in TI 2.

if you mean dk by that they have a long way to go they lost to ehome to orange they need to train alot before they are at navi lvl

Well yeah, you're right. Still, I believe they will improve a lot before TI 2.

#116

Tr00 wrote at 09.05.2012, 22:18 CEST:

I'm not Na'vi fanboy actually - but talks about DK as a top of TI2 seems to be naive for me.
Difference bw Dota1 and Dota2 is too huge, that's why I don't think that DK will manage to improve as necessary in time. However I still hope for Titan clashes throwout the whole tournament. So, GL DK!!!

#117

Wifiwi wrote at 09.05.2012, 22:33 CEST:

FunktionOne schrieb:
europians have delay on US east about 200-300ms and australians have about >150ms
go and watch some stream man...

You are so wrong man, we get 300 ping in USWest and like 400 on US east. Stop talking shit out of your ass mate.

#118

Crissae wrote at 09.05.2012, 22:50 CEST:

-MgZ_ schrieb:

Kai_BG schrieb:

-MgZ_ schrieb:
Can't wait for idiotic fanboys to explode when their favorite euro team gets rape by some chinese team in TI 2.

if you mean dk by that they have a long way to go they lost to ehome to orange they need to train alot before they are at navi lvl

Well yeah, you're right. Still, I believe they will improve a lot before TI 2.

Yea, right now, they are an A++ team capable of beating A teams like MTW, Mouz, etc but im sure they will hit S class when given time.

Seriously the improvement they have shown from their first dota 2 game to their latest is simply amazing.

To all those who are talking shit about DK, go watch more dota 2 tournaments instead of being narrow-minded.

#119

longbeard wrote at 10.05.2012, 03:49 CEST:

The seal is a nice touch, can't wait for this tournament. My only hopes aside from what we already know from last year is less streaming problems, and maybe some more exciting picks. I remember the first DoTa2 match I saw had a Tiny in it, and almost no Tiny picks since then. Stuff like that can make every match more exciting. Hoping for some Sylla picks this time around.

#120

mimesis wrote at 10.05.2012, 07:28 CEST:

TheHypnoToad schrieb:
so they just started playing dota 2 and are the first to recieve the invitation? kk, makes sense

It does. It will increase chinese publicity of dota 2, give them a solid chance to get visas sorted and get DK focused on playing and practicing dota 2.

#121

Meamorez wrote at 10.05.2012, 07:31 CEST:

Look like they invite the team using GG.net Dota 1 rank