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Despite overperforming at The International 2019, Mineski is the first organization to make changes to its roster as the shuffle for the 2019-2020 Dota Pro Circuit begins.
- Mineski is an esports organization established on February 14, 2004 in the Philippines. It is the largest esports organization in Southeast Asia, with over a hundred branches across the region, including a professional Dota 2.
- In a 3-2 victory over LGD Gaming, Mineski won the 2018 Dota 2 Asia Championships. It marks the first major win for a Southeast Asian team, a hard-won title for a few veterans, and a sign that the Dota landscape is not as set in stone as some might think.
- A Philippines-based e-sports community. Includes professional gaming news, a forum, information on their team and their cyber cafes.
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After rejoining the organization in the middle of the season to help patch up a struggling team, Michael 'ninjaboogie' Ross Jr. is the first Dota 2 star to hit free agency today.
Ninjaboogie left Mineski in September 2018 after spending two years with the organization, heading to join regional rival TNC Predator. After that experiment fell apart mid-season, Mineski approached him and offered him the position of captain while rebuilding its roster.
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Several other player changes saw Mineski struggle to build an identity and truly compete against top-level competition, but by the time they reached the Southeast Asian regional qualifiers for TI9, they put it all together.
After barely squeaking into TI9 following a close battle with Team Jinesbrus' roster of veterans, Mineski shocked a lot of fans by taking games off of both Team Liquid and Team Secret to make it into the main event. Once there, the team played their hearts out, looking calm under pressure when they eliminated Natus Vincere and gave Secret one hell of a fight.
But after their own departure from the event, exiting in a tie for ninth place, rumors started popping up about the team disbanding. It was an odd rumor considering how well the team played after being together as a five-man squad for such a short amount of time, but Mineski has never been known to stay stagnant.
One day after TI9 officially concluded, ninjaboogie made his departure official in a post on his public Facebook page.
'This year has had many highs and many lows for me, but I'm still proud of all that I've achieved with all my various teammates,' ninjaboogie said. 'Shoutout to Mineski, Kenchi, 71, Mushi, and Zak for looking after me during the season. Thanks to all my fans for sticking with me through it all, it means a lot to me.'
He ended the post with the phrase LFT, meaning he's already on the market looking for a team to play for as other rosters begin their own shuffling of talent. But ninjaboogie wasn't the only one to post this message.
Both Ryan 'Bimbo' Jay Qui, otherwise known as Raging Potato, and Nikolay 'Nikobaby' Nikolov put up their own LFT messages, showing that Mineski has already parted ways with three of its players.
Nikobaby specifically played well to close out their TI9 run, so a team will likely pick him up once the roster changes finish across the Dota 2 scene. If not, he's the perfect candidate to join a squad with other free agents who are left behind in the SEA region.
There were a lot of surprising exits at The International 2019, so expect several other teams to follow suit in the coming days and weeks.
The post TI9 shuffle has started taking shape. There are a lot of rumours out there but one of the first ones that can be confirmed is that Michael ‘ninjaboogie' Ross will be parting ways with the Filipino team, Mineski. The information was revealed by ninjaboogie on his Facebook page when he addresses the season, thanked a few people who helped him out and at the end, mentioned he was looking for a team.
Ninjaboogie started the season with TNC, but when things didn't really go as planned, he left the organization. Mineski was the team with which he played in the 2017-2018 DPC season and won the DAC 2018 Major. As fate would have it, Mineski would be the one which took him to TI9 as well! Quite unexpectedly, the team made it out of the group stages, survived the best of 1 elimination game againist a resurgent Na'Vi before playing the game of their lives to give Team Secret a scare in the lower bracket. They lost 2-1 to Secret but earned the respect of the entire community.
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Mineski has not released any statement, so it is unknown on whether they will be releasing the entire roster or it is just ninjaboogie that is parting ways with them. Currently, their roster still has-
- Nikolay ‘Nikobabay' Nikolov
- Kam Boon ‘Moon' Seng
- Damien ‘kpii' Chok
- Ryan Jay ‘Bimbo' Qui
However, Nikobaby did post ‘LFT' on his Twitter accound, which might be a hint that the entire roster may be on its way out.
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— Nikobaby (@NikoDOTA) August 26, 2019https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsAs more roster changes and players leaving organizations are announced, VPEsports will be bringing you all the details.
