Alliance, the former International 2013 Champion, is but a mere husk of its former glory. From once hauling title after title, to barely staying relevant in the Western European scene; Alliance really needs a revamp.
Alliance founder and CEO, Jonathan “Loda” Berg, posted a tweet about how upset he is about his team’s results. This all begs the question.
Can Alliance get good at Dota 2 again?
Deleted Tweet by Loda
As the saying goes, what goes on the Internet, stays on it. Even after Loda deleted it, several Reddit users managed to save a screenshot of it.
Image source: Loda’s Twitter page
Diving deeper into Loda’s full tweet, he voiced out that Alliance looked like a meme team, which is reasonable, considering Alliance is at the brim of getting eliminated from Division 2 bracket. That’s last place in the Division 2 of Dota Pro Circuit 2023 (DPC 2023) WEU Tour 3, which will mean Alliance has to play the open qualifier of next DPC season to qualify for Division 2.
Additionally, any expectations to qualify for the International 12 (TI12) is also out of question.
Watching Alliance, a team that once pioneered the split-pushing Nature’s Prophet strategy or “Rat Dota”, out of the scene will be heart-wrenching for its fans.
Alliance’s downhill performance in Dota 2
Contrary to popular belief, Alliance hasn’t been too far out of the league than most fans anticipated. Sure, many Alliance fans would have you believe that Alliance has fallen off since their TI3 victory and never recuperated.
Truth, is they do occasionally qualify for the International Championships afterwards, such as at TI6, TI9 and the most recent, TI10. Their TI10 run wasn’t too shabby either, which raked them ninth place and $800K in winnings. At the time, Alliance featured a solid roster of all-stars, such as Nikolay “Nikobaby” Nikolov, Gustav “s4” Magnusson and Artsiom “Fng” Barshak.
Fast forward to the DPC 2023, s4 still leads the Alliance team with new players. However, the performance has been sloppy at best. They struggled to be in the Division 1 bracket, and even if they do qualify, they fall back to Division 2 immediately afterwards.
Even then, perhaps the last straw for fans and Loda himself, was when Alliance might not even survive the Division 2 bracket in the latest Tour 3. With three losses in their book, bottom seeds might just be where they will ultimately be.
What went wrong for Alliance?
It’s a discussion that has boggled everyone on how Alliance can be so terrible at Dota 2. Considering the current Alliance roster is a seasoned squad with many renowned players, it’s difficult to find any excuse for their shortcomings.
Sure, the WEU scene hasn’t always been the easiest region to compete, especially when we have two WEU teams dominating both majors in 2023 already. However, Alliance needs to step up their game plan for the next DPC season because it’s all over for TI12.
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