SumaiL misses second-straight Dota 2 TI following shock Chinese qualifier elimination

This year’s iteration of Dota 2’s The International will be missing one of the biggest names in pro-Dota as the regional last-chance qualifiers for the pinnacle event finally claimed a major scalp in Team Aster. Following defeats to Xtreme Gaming and Team Bright, Aster won’t be attending TI 12 in October.

In what was always going to be a brutal last-chance qualifier for the single Chinese spot up for grabs, Team Aster bowed out in back-to-back series on Aug. 19 and 20, leaving the door wide open for the likes of Xtreme or Azure Ray to capitalize—both of whom battled it out in the upper bracket on early Sunday morning.

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