Dota 2: Liquid withdraws from DreamLeague Minor, team coach Heen enlists in the military

Liquid’s only chance to qualify for the first Major of the 2018-2019 season is to win the DreamLeague Season 10 Minor, which will take place later this month, starting October 28.

However, recently, the team has announced that they will withdraw from the event for “health” reasons.

Unfortunately we will not be attending the DreamLeague Minor at the end of this month for health-related reasons.

GLHF to the teams still attending!

— Team Liquid (@TeamLiquid) October 11, 2018

At the same time, according to a source from Esports Heaven, Liquid’s coach also left his current position to join the military service in Korea. Although this information has not been confirmed by Heen or Liquid, but according to Twitter, this coach is actually participating in “military training”.

will do a short stream (very tired from military training)
experimenting with different OBS settings
starting in 5 minhttps://t.co/UMVAzWXL5v

— Heen (@Heen1337) October 11, 2018

After Liquid withdrew from the DreamLeague Season 10 Minor, MangoBay, the team that lost to Liquid in the European Qualifiers would theoretically receive the remaining spot, but due to the team’s recent disbandment, Team Lithium will be the team to fly in. Switzerland. Lithium was formed after TI8 and was the team that knocked Liquid out of the Kuala Lumpur Major European qualifiers. Lithium did not qualify for the Major, but it will be a second chance when the team is invited to join seven other teams at the DreamLeague Minor.

Team Lithium lineup:

Omar “Madara” Dabachach
Anas “MagE-” Hirzallah
Maurice “KheZu” Gutmann
Verros “Maybe Next Time” Apostolos
Petu “Peksu” Vaatainen

DreamLeague Season 10 Minor will run from October 29 to November 4 with a total prize pool of $300,000 and 500 DPC points. More importantly, the winning team will qualify for the Kuala Lumpur Major, which takes place at the end of next month.

Here is the list of teams participating in DreamLeague Season 10:

• Royal Never Give Up (Chinese Qualifier Champion)
• Tigers (Southeast Asia Qualifier Champion)
• Infamous (South American Qualifier Champion)
• compLexity Gaming (win North American qualifier)
• ROOONS (won North American qualifier)
• Natus Vincere (CIS Qualifier Champion)
• The Final Tribe (won European qualifiers)
• Team Lithium (Replaces Team Liquid)

According to VPesports