The PuckChamp team will now represent the esports organization NAVI in Dota 2
Their first major competition as the new NAVI roster will be the ESL One Bangkok 2024 LAN tournament, which features a prize pool of $1,000,000.
PuckChamp secured their spot in the championship through a closed qualification for Eastern European teams, dominating teams like One Move, NAVI Junior, Outsiders, and L1GA Team. In the final, they defeated 1win with a commanding 3:0 score.
NAVI Dota 2 roster:
- Shad (Indji “Shad” Lyub)
- sanctity- (Sukhbat “sanctity-” Otgondavaa)
- BOOM (Myroslav “BOOM” Bitsan)
- QBFY (Vitaliy “QBFY” Ivanov)
- kaori (Oleh “kaori” Medvedok)
- Coach: Sword_Art (Vitaliy “Sword_Art” Petkin)
NaVi welcomed new players to their Twitter account with a short post and on their website they describe all the details and are proud of their new players.
Two players from PuckChamp’s roster, BOOM and sanctity-, along with coach Sword_Art, have previously competed for NAVI this season. Carry player Shad made a notable appearance in the top 3 of the PGL Wallachia Season 2 tournament as a stand-in, while kaori impressed in the previous season with PSG Quest, finishing 7-8 at Riyadh Masters 2023. QBFY, a young talent from Ukraine, has played for Monte and Palianytsia before joining the roster.