![]() Their group again featured 4 Friends + Chrillee, as well as ROOT Gaming and Out of Tangos. The team followed up their success at DreamHack Winter with their participation at Thor Open only two weeks later. The innovative Roshan bait strategy that was credited to s4 rose to instant fame and was rewarded with Team Liquid's Biggest Play 2012 Award. A strong Queen of Pain performance closed out the series with a 2-1 victory and their first title under their belt. With s4's three core heroes being a crucial part of No Tidehunter's game plan, EG denied all three in the final game. This play leg to two early kills for No Tidehunter, which allowed them to expand this lead and finally even out the series. ![]() Game two, with the tournament life on the line, s4 devised a high-risk opener revolving around AdmiralBulldog's Nature's Prophet suiciding to Roshan at Level 1 baiting EG into checking the Roshan pit and the rest of No Tidehunter backstabbing EG as they went to interrupt the alleged Roshan attempt. No Tidehunter fought valiantly, trying to pull the game back into their favor, but the strong team fight lineup centered around Faceless Void and Enigma ended up being too strong. The former went into EG's favor, after a string of unfortunate team fights, which led to a team whipe around the 20 minute mark with a 4-12 lead for the opponents. EG was wise enough to ban or firstpick Magnus, but s4 again just fell back on Templar Assassin in game one and Dark Seer in game two. Finally, in the Grand Finals, No Tidehunter was matched up against Evil Geniuses once again. Team Empire in the Semifinals chose not to ban Magnus and was quickly defeated 2-0. Against Absolute Legends in the Quarterfinals, s4's Magnus and Templar Assassin were banned and after another great Dark Seer performance and that hero also being banned, he closed out the series with a Beastmaster 2-0. In the Group Stage games, s4 played Magnus twice and fell back on Templar Assassin after Magnus was banned. Their group consisted of Evil Geniuses, 4 Friends + Chrillee and Rigg3D. Two weeks later, No Tidehunter participated in DreamHack Winter 2012, which was the tournament that made s4 famous for his Magnus play. Initial results included a first-round elimination at the joinDota Special Masters II and a second-place finish at AVerMedia Dota 2 Cup against Evil Geniuses, where s4 played Dark Seer and Templar Assassin exclusively. The roster changes caused the team to have to give up their spot for ESWC 2012. Subsequent statements were made by Loda saying that he wanted to play with s4, who he considered to be the best mid player in Sweden. Swedish veterans and former teammates Loda and Akke filled the spots. Kizzles retired soon after and Black^ left the team in October 2012 to join Team Zero. After winning their first tournament, The Revenge #1, they also qualified for ESWC 2012 and Thor Open 2012. Following this tournament, s4 left the team in September to form No Tidehunter together with AdmiralBulldog, EternaLEnVy, Black^ and kizzles. In the Loser's Finals, the rematch against mTw went in their favor, but they only managed a second place in the end. After beating uebelst gamynG and mTw, they were defeated by We haz Asian in the Winner's Final. ![]() A month after their new sponsorship the team participated in the Samsung European Encounter. Despite a disappointing DreamHack Summer 2012 for the team, where they only managed to win against Keita Gaming with two losses to Darer and mousesports, they were picked up by Copenhagen Wolves in July. However, after only 2 months Empire switched players again and s4 created The Tough Bananas together with Balsam who he knew from playing WC3 back in 2003. S4 started his Dota 2 career in early 2012 joining Team Empire who at the time were experimenting with lineups. S4 later played alongside Loda and Akke as well as strangby and Niqua in a team called Experience Gaming, before transitioning to Dota 2.ĭota 2 Breakout onto the scene with No Tidehunter (2012) Lions, with Reelo standing in for s4, would end up winning the tournament against a team comprised of Loda, Akke, H4nn1, Mag1X and Powzilla. His best heroes included the HoN equivalents of Leshrac, Tiny and most notoriously Beastmaster, a hero which he popularized with his play.Īfter qualifying for the NASL Season 2 Grand Finals in Ontario, California, he did not attend the main event and was consequently removed from the team. In HoN, s4 was best known for playing a utility core, most often in the middle lane. S4 played Heroes of Newerth in team ADON that was later picked up by Lions eSportsKlubb together with the Ninjas in Pyjamas players Era and jonassomfan, as well as Mynuts.
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