On December 15, 2023, Beijing time, the Dota2ESL Kuala Lumpur station is in full swing, and the competition has entered the knockout stage, LGD of the three teams in China was eliminated in the group stage, IG lost to GG in the first round of the knockout round and fell into the lower bracket, while AR defeated Falcons in three games to advance to the second round of the upper bracket。
Since 2018, CNDOTA's best performing team in TI has always been LGD, after all, it has reached the finals for three consecutive TI editions, and such a stable performance is quite explosive in all regions. However, in last year's TI International Invitational Tournament, LGD, which played with the original team of the TI10 runner-up lineup, only won the top six places due to the player's state problems and the inadaptability to the version, while Aster, who was once difficult to win in foreign wars, performed exceptionally well and finally won the third place, which is also the best result since the establishment of Aster, and many people expect Aster to become a stable and strong team like LGD this year.
However, this year's Aster team can only be described as turbulent, with the retirement of the mid-laner ORI, Aster's performance in the tournament has declined very significantly, and at the same time, there are very serious intra-team problems in the team, and finally Aster's DPC points are only one place away from the direct invitation, and the state of TI China qualifiers is extremely poor, as the favorite Aster did not even enter the finals, and Aster fell apart after the transfer period began, and many players from the original team left the team, and Monet joined the IG team, XXS joined the AR team, plus Boboka, who left Southeast Asia from Aster and returned to China to join IG, Sumail, who has left the team, Aster's original lineup this year has all collapsed. What I didn't expect is that although these players have performed poorly with Aster this year, they have all performed very well after going to the new team, which is also the reason why IG and AR have shown good competitiveness in ESL Kuala Lumpur this time.
In this case, netizens began to analyze the specific reasons for Aster's poor performance this year, it is known that XXS, Boboka, and Monet are performing very well, and the impact of the ball as the fifth position is definitely not as big as the second position, is it true that the culprit of Aster's lack of TI this year is actually Sumail?Although this is just the analysis of netizens, it is still very reasonable, not that Sumail's personal ability is not strong, but Sumail does not know Chinese and it is very difficult to communicate with the team, which also makes it difficult for Aster to compete with world-class teams. In fact, the biggest problem with Aster's previous lineup was the middle lane, Aster has never had a first-line No. 2 position except for the ORI period, and when ORI is in the team, Aster breaks through the team history and hits the top four in TI, which can also show that the strength of other players is indeed good.