Post-TI5 Shuffle Predictions

So ixmike is complaining about about something regarding his status as a salty, fedorable-tier scrublord which reminded me it's that time of year again, the shuffle is nearly upon us.

With that in mind, what do you expect to see in this year's shuffle? Will Na'Vi/Alliance finally kick XBOCT/Loda to the curb? Which TI5 team will be the first to disband? Will compLexity and Archon finally bring about some form of stability to the merry-go-round that is the American Dota scene? Will ixmike actually be on a roster?

What do you think will come about from the great shuffle?

Secret in it's current form will break apart, since s4, RTZ and Zai have removed a lot of stuff from there Twitters related to Secret. Zai to finish school, and s4/RTZ who knows?

I think Na'Vi has confirmed some roster changes will take place.

I think Alliance had as well, but I think I heard that Bulldog will stay on the team whatever happens.

EG - Fear might be retiring, but that's the only change I could really see happening.

NiP - Hopefully nothing.

c9 - Probably something, I don't see the roster being that stable after that TI performance, and I want NoTail to go somewhere where he can play to his full.

Anything in the Eastern scene? I have no idea. No idea at all.

C9 will either stick it out and it will be a ****ing roller coaster or they wont get there **** together before roster lock and will either have kicked someone or they will have all 5 and be salty as ****.

Secret will either disband or stick.... i think Zai might go though... i dunno what will happen with them they are so like shaky i feel they were favourites like HUGE favs and they smashed the groups then got cocky and lost it all.... honestly i see puppey and S4 either staying or going... i dunno.

Alliance is alliance... nothing will change there

EG is going to stick for this year and next TI... Fear might stick for the Majors then either leave b4 next TI or stay till next TI then call it quits... personally i would love to see him go into a coaching role in EG and have RTZ join EG, but RTZ wants to go back to mid i heard so i dunno if that will happen.

CDEC might either blink poof away or stick and become a force but i dunno.

next major patch will be in september or october so usually a month or 2 before the Majors which is in November? if i think correctly.

Empire is going to keep doing there thing they seem like a solid unit.

LGD will shuffle some.

i think the 4 majors will be TI, DAC, ESL or a european one. and then maybe a south american one? i dunno but EURO DAC AND TI ARE LOCKED B O Y S ! ! !


im just super pumped for the next patch.

Lemme tell you whats gonna happen next patch.

Oh i see greater ganking rewards. And tower bounty is gonna be increased,liek a lot.

Personally i would like to see glyphs even when t2 are taken down

#kyphoidSaidIt2Me

RTZ goes to EG in place of Fear, but he'll have to start playing pos. 1 instead of mid.

This is the first time I'm hearing about a roster lock date. Is there some reliable source for this?

"You're only as good as your team is KappaPride" -rtz 2015 post TI
So yea, stuff will happen in secret for sure.
V1lat had a post on twitter about the CIS reshuffle (posibilities).
As for china, I'm pretty sure IG will shuffle because they got 5 star player and no results (kinda like secret).

I think RTZ will leave secret. I don't know what exactly, but something is different about him compared to the other guys on the team. His style of play is just different I feel.

If RTZ leaves Secret, so will Zai.

Originally, Secret wanted to keep Notail and only get Zai in place of Simbaaaaa. But since Zai wanted RTZ, so Kuro stepped down from pos.1 and they kicked Notail.

Now they just need to get notail back along with any decent offlaner, so Kuro can play carry.

In the words of SirActionSlacks:

"RTZ does not care about teamwork. RTZ is a killer. RTZ is the kind of guy who denies all of your last hits before he kills you just to make fun of you, and RTZ wants to 1v1 solo mid the best and **** all over them, then down an entire bottle of Jack Daniel's and tackle somebody. He is a beast.

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It is hard to stay mad at a guy for doing what he is passionate about. And for RTZ, that is brutally murdering any idiot who dares stand in his lane."

This, of course, is exactly team secret's MO. They're crazy, unpredictable people. Not only that, but he is playing with what is possible the most individually skilled team in the world. S4 is the pro that other pros would die to play with, Zai is RTZ's better half and probably one of the best offlaners in the world, Kuroky has been the star player of over five teams, and carried them all to victory, having played every role everywhere in Esports, and Puppey is the mastermind of the competitive scene, unpredictable and experimental, but it always works. There couldn't be a better team. All of them have been to an international, and two of them have won internationals, almost single-handedly.

Considering that he came from team EG, and EG would have him back in a heartbeat, I wouldn't be all that surprised if he went back. He doesn't go anywhere without his better half, Zai. His departure was a package deal, and they will not break up the group. It isn't uncommon for RTZ and Zai to run into a group of 3 or 4 people, kill a few, and escape with their lives. They do this about once a game.



The thing is, team secret has won EVERY SINGLE LAN THAT THEY HAVE ATTENDED SINCE 6.84! I don't think that RTZ is getting bored yet. After all, DotA is a little bit too EZ 4 RTZ.