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The former Dota legend dk Brian 'MaNia' Strandby and the rest of Liang Hao were picked up by FlipSid3 two days ago, and earlier today competed for the first time under their new organisation in the ESL One EU qualifiers. The team is a mix of familiar Danish faces, including the likes of dk Jon 'BabyKnight' Andersen and dk Marcus 'Ace' Hoelgaard. Blast from the past
Former 2007 MYM Dota 1 team with Mania infront of Merlini. See anyone else familiar? (GosuGamers.net)

Flipsid3 competed under the name dk monkeybusiness* and later dk Lianghao*. Now the Danish squad have been picked up by dk FlipSid3 Tactics*, a North American e-Sports organization who picked up their first Dota 2 team in June 2013. Since then they have sponsored multiple squads including a Danish one with a few players that are currently on the roster.

The team enjoyed decent success recently after winning Iron Trophy Europe and qualifying for the main EU ESL One Frankfurt qualifier, for which only four teams progressed to the main qualifier. Their first match as Flipsid3 earlier today ended in defeat after a 2-0 loss to Alliance in the opening round. However, there is still hope for them in the lower bracket, and with victories against ru Moscow 5, eu hehe united and world BBC, could become a stable team now they have found sponsorship.

For those who were around in the days of the Dota 1 competitive scene there might be a special affinity with the team, given it features Mania. Mania returned to competitive play two weeks ago after retiring in 2013 after a brief stint in Dota. His professional career goes as far back as 2005 in Dota 1, where he gained critical acclaim as part of the highly respected Meet Your Makers roster, which dk Jacob 'Maelk' Toft-Andersen, de Kai 'H4nn1' Hanbueckers and us Ben 'Merlini' Wu were also a part of. (pictured above)

FlipSid3 rosterdk Brian 'MaNia' Strandby (Captain)
dk Jonathan 'unicorn' Arge
dk Malthe 'Blan' Zimakoff
dk Jon 'BabyKnight' Andersen
dk Marcus 'Ace' Hoelgaard
dk Christoffer 'Ryze' Winther (Substitute)


This article was written by pl Jędrzej Smaruj, joinDOTA's Senior Writer.Proxy has gotten into eSports in late days of SC:BW, then he got absolutely consumed by SC2:WoL. After TI2 he started following Dota 2. If he isn't doing any Dota related stuff at the moment he is probably playing poker, watching cycling or trying to figure out IT for his university.Location: Gdańsk, PolandFollow him on @ProxyPL.

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