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Secret, OG and Evil Geniuses' new rosters will all play on LAN in China next week at the third MDL event organised by Mars TV.


The big debut for the new rosters of OG, Secret and Evil Geniuses

The 2016 Mars TV Dota League (MDL) will be the first competitive LAN of the new season after a six-week down period following The International 6 in August. The event is also noteworthy as it will mark the first appearance for the new rosters of us Evil Geniuses, eu Team Secret, eu OG and kr MVP Phoenix* in a LAN setting.

Team Secret, OG and Evil Geniuses have yet to play a competitive match since TI6, and the fact all three will make their debut at the same event should ensure avid viewership. What is more, Evil Geniuses' new captain dk Andreas 'Cr1t-' Nielsen will make his debut in his new role, and could end up facing his former OG team-mates at the Chinese event.

Cr1t's first event as captain of Evil Geniuses
Cr1t left OG in the recent autumn reshuffle to join the TI5 winning organisation, where he takes over from us Peter 'ppd' Dager, who left the active roster to move into management.

Meanwhile Fear's move to coach made room for the return of ca Artour 'Arteezy' Babaev, who was in fact the winner of the first MDL event in the spring of 2015 during his time with eu Team Secret.

A fresh start for Team Secret at MDL 2016
Team Secret will also field a very different line-up to the one that competed at TI6, with only captain ee Clement 'Puppey' Ivanov and support se Johan 'pieliedie' Åström remaining from the previous roster.

Fnatic's my Yeik Nai 'MidOne' Zheng joins Secret as a replacement for Arteezy, while MVP's kr Sang-Don 'FoREv' Lee and kr Pyo 'MP' Noa fill the spots left by the departed us Sam 'Bulba' Sosale and ca Jacky 'EternaLEnVy' Mao.

Last year Team Secret made four changes to their roster post-TI and quickly hit the ground running to win the Nanyang Championships and place 2nd at the Frankfurt Major. Whether Puppey has found another winning formula with Secret's new additions this season will be a compelling storyline for the MDL 2016.




Can OG survive post-Miracle?
eu OG are the third Western team at the MDL and were perhaps hit the worst during the reshuffle, losing their most consistent players jo Amer 'Miracle-' Al-Barkawi and dk Andreas 'Cr1t-' Nielsen to rival teams.

In the reshuffle OG managed to entice two highly experienced players to join their ranks and fill the space left by Miracle and Cr1t. TI3 winner and Alliance drafter se Gustav 's4' Magnusson and Team Liquid's fi Jesse 'JerAx' Vainikka both joined the team along with au Anathan 'ana' Pham.

au Anathan 'ana' Pham is the unknown factor in OG's new line-up, and his only real prior competitive experience is six games for cn Invictus Gaming, only one of which iG won. He will be taking over the mid role from Miracle, who left OG to join eu Team Liquid.

OG's previous offlaner was ca David 'Moonmeander' Tan, who was released from the team post TI6, and OG captain Fly explained in an interview with Redbull last week (thanks thgirb for the link), why S4 would be moving to fill the void in the offlane. "He wanted to try something different this season. Generally in the current meta, the offlane is the spacemaker, which suits s4,"said Fly.




Participating teams and a reminder of their rosters
The four invited teams will be joined by the top seeds of the DPL (Newbee and Vici Gaming) along with two teams from the MDL Chinese Qualifiers.

Invited teams
us Evil Geniuses: Arteezy, SumaiL, Universe, Zai, Cr1t
eu OG: Bigdaddyn0tail, S4, Ana, Jerax, Fly
eu Team Secret: MentalProtector, MidOne, Forev, Puppey, Pieliedie
kr MVP Phoenix*: Qo, DuBu, Febby, Velo, Reisen

Invites from DPL
cn Newbee: uuu9, sccc, kPhoenii, Kaka, Faith
cn Vici Gaming: zYf/End, Mikasa, Yang, Fy, ddc

MDL Chinese Qualifiers
cn iG.Vitality: Yuno, Fran (standin), InJuly, Super, Mang0
cn LGD.Forever Young: Monet, Super, Xiao8, Yao, Lpc

This will be the third MDL event, with the most recent MDL Winter 2015 taking place in January of this year, which ended in a 3-0 victory for EHOME over runners-up us Evil Geniuses. MDL 2016 will take place in Xiamen from September 28th to the 2nd October, at the Xiamen International Conference & Exhibition Center. The prizepool for the tourmament is $250,000.

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