OG DOTA 2

Team creation

DotA 2 discipline organization, two-time champions of The International 2018 and 2019. The team of professional esports players, created and currently deployed in Europe. The team was created in the summer of 2015 by such players as Tal "Fly" Aizik and Johan «n0tail» Sundstein, and then it was called (monkey) Business. At that time, the two best friends «Fly» and «n0tail» invited up-and-coming players to their team, which became «Miracle-», «Cr1t-» and «MoonMeander».

Early years

In the same year, a team that almost no one knew about became the European DotA favorites. The roster managed to take 3-4th place at MLG World Finals 2015 and unexpectedly for everyone to win the first-ever Major in Frankfurt organized by Valve. After winning The Frankfurt Major 2015, in the fall of that year, the team took on a new name OG and found a sponsor in the person of Hitbox. In 2016, the OG DotA 2 team won with high confidence in two more prestigious tournaments, namely Manila Major, ESL One Frankfurt. But despite the great season, the OG team matches at The International were not up to par. The team showed itself perfectly in the group segment, taking first place in the group. After this, something went wrong. And the OG team in DotA 2 could only take 9-12 place in the tournament. After this failure, MoonMeander left the team due to disagreements in the team. «Miracle-», «Cr1t-» also left the team in few days. As reported, Miracle- left the team because he was not satisfied with the result of their performance at The International.

2017-2019

The team quickly found a replacement for these players, and such players as Jesse «JerAx» Vainikka, Gustav «s4» Magnusson, Anathan «ana» Pham joined the OG team. This team once again showed excellent results by winning tournaments such as the Boston Major and Kyiv Major, and also took an honorable second place at the Dota 2 Asia Championships 2017. What gave the team a ticket to The International 2017. The International 2017 World Cup for the team turned out to be not as successful as the season as a whole. OG could only take 7-8th place. After such an unsuccessful tournament, Roman «Resolut1on» Fominok was decided to be removed from the team. He was replaced by Sébastien «7ckngMad» Debs, who was the team's coach. After which, the updated roster won the MDL Macau.

And in 2018, three months before The International began, the DotA 2 community began to discuss OG actively. The reason for this

was that the best friend with whom «n0tail» started his career and played a record number of matches decided to leave. The departure of Tal "Fly" Aizik from the team was called treacherous by many. The Fly and s4 players go to Evil Geniuses. In just a week, the captain of the team Johan "n0tail" Sundstein finds a replacement for them in the face of the old player Anathan "ana" Pham, who has not played for almost a year since in 2017 he took a break in his career. Also, one of the best players in this position in public was invited to the team in the mid lane.

Due to the failed season, the team did not receive a direct invitation to The International 2018, so the roster had to play in open European qualifications. Without losing even once, OG goes to the playoffs and then to the finals. In the finals, they defeated the Wind and Rain team and became the only European qualification team. The team fell into the group of the championship's favorites, to such teams as Team Liquid, PSG.LGD and Mineski. Despite formidable rivals, the OG team could get into the top four teams in its group. Since the OG team's composition was assembled in just a couple of days and only three months before The International, they were considered outsiders. And when OG came out victorious against EG and their former teammates Fly and s4, the community was just thrilled. In the finals, OG met with PSG.LGD, and even though everyone considered their team to be outsiders, they won. The series lasted as many as five matches.

In 2019, the team won the second The International in a row, which no one has previously succeeded. They did it with last year's squad. Now OG is the favorite of any championship.

2020

In January 2020, «ana» and «JerAx» leave the team. The first one took a break in competitive Dota, and the second one ended his career. Also, «сeb» moved to the position of a coach. The team included such players as «SumaiL», «MidOne», and «Saksa». But these changes in the line-up did not go well for the team, due to which «SumaiL» left the team in July, and «ceb» returned to replace him.

In September, the team's affairs began to improve. The team managed to take second place in the OMEGA League: Europe Immortal Division tournament and in December also the second place in the EPIC League Division 1.