For viewers and fans alike it is definitely fun to have a deep high level of teams within its competitive league, but in the case of Dota 2’s The International 2022 qualifiers, there was a single team that absolutely stomped the competition: Royal Never Give Up.
Royal Never Give Up only lost a single game in a total of four series before finishing out the qualifier with a 3-0 win over Xtreme Gaming, who most fans thought was the last team that could stand up to them, thus claiming the region’s final secured The International invite.
Since rebuilding its roster from scratch after The International 10 with experienced ex PSG.LGD trio Somnus, Chalice, and xNova as their main core Royal Never Give Up has only placed outside of the top five once, which was the Arlington Major where they played with an emergency substitute.
Royal Never Give Up was arguably one of the strongest teams in the game within the 2022 Dota Pro Circuit season but due to COVID and travel restrictions, they were only able to attend the Arlington Major, where they ultimately finished in a tie for ninth.
Nevertheless, Royal Never Give Up now joins PSG.LGD and Team Aster as the official Chinese representatives for The International 11 set to start in October, however, there is a possibility a fourth roster is able to attend out of the same region. Both Xtreme and Vici Gaming will be going to Singapore and will battle it out against the second and third-place teams from each of the remaining regions in a Last Chance Qualifier event.
Going into our second qualified team, under the Soniqs brand, the ex QC roster achieved a 9-2 record throughout the NA regional qualifier, demolishing Nouns 3-0 in the repeat of the upper bracket finals to secure one of the last spots for The International 11.
The entire NA competition went about how most fans and viewers expected it, as Soniqs, nouns, and Wildcard Gaming dominated their own brackets until at last, they had to face each other. Nouns in fact completed a 2-0 win against Soniqs in a rather close series where Gunnar and his team made a comeback in both games at the last 10 minutes of each one.
That same performance did not repeat in the grand finals, with Soniqs closing game one and then demolishing Nouns in the last 2 games rather quickly to close the finals out.
For YawaR, MSS, and Quinn this will be their third consecutive The International event together with their third different team sponsor, having competed already as “Newbee” during The International 9 and completely independent as “QC” at The International 10. The most experienced of them all is definitely MSS as it is his fifth straight TI, he played The International 7 under Cloud 9 and The International 8 with VGJ.Storm.
Similar to what we mentioned above, Nouns and Wildcard aren’t finished for the season just yet, with both going to Singapore for the International 11 Last Chance Qualifier. Don’t forget to bet on esports at BetUS Sportsbook & Casino. We’ve plenty of dota odds for you to consider.
