Virtus.pro join the ranks of DAC 2018 invites

Perfect World have already invited three Chinese teams to their Major in March, the Dota 2 Asia Championships 2018. Now, Virtus.pro have joined their ranks as the fifth direct invite and second Western squad competing. #2018DAC The 5th directed invites of DAC 2018 goes to https://t.co/NaYXwJd5EV @virtuspro pic.twitter.com/fJoQwBg2s3— Perfect World_DOTA2 (@PWRD_DOTA2) January 9, 2018

The Perfect World Twitter account was created after direct invites started to be handed out, but posts on the official website confirm that

Invictus Gaming,

Team Liquid,

Newbee and

Vici Gaming have already been invited.

Virtus.pro have maintained an extremely high level of performance in the Pro Circuit, especially considering the fact that they played two LAN events in December with their coach

Ivan 'Artstyle' Antonov standing in for star support

Aleksey 'Solo' Berezin. Their latest event was one of those two LANs, DOTA Summit 8, where VP took 1st place after beating

Fnatic 3-1 in the Grand Final.

The CIS squad haven't played any matches since DOTA Summit since they've either been directly invited to or are not participating in any of the currently running qualifiers. Their next appearance will be at ESL One Genting 2018 on Jan 23-28.

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