Traditionally after an International, there will be a major reshuffling of players as teams start to restructure their line-ups to plan for the season ahead, and this year is no different!
TNC Predator (TNC Pro Team) have made the first official announcement with them picking up young starlet, Kim ‘Gabbi’ Villafuerte & Ex-Mineski player, Micheal ‘ninjaboogie’ Ross.
In an official post on their Facebook page, TNC Predator explained that Gabbi is an extremely versatile core player and will bring a lot of positives to the team while ninjaboogie will bring plenty of experience and leadership, acting as captain who will play position 5. This change will also see Carlo ‘kuku’ Palad play position 3 and handle the offlane position for the team.
TNC Predator Line-up
Kim ‘Gabbi’ Villafuerte - Position 1 Core
Armel ‘Armel’ Paul Tabios - Position 2 Mid
Carlo ‘kuku’ Palad - Position 3 Offlane
Timothy ‘Tims’ Randrup - Position 4 Support
Micheal ‘ninjaboogie’ Ross - Position 5 Support
The new line-up’s first venture will be into the recently announced Kuala Lumpur major. The team will need to qualify for the event through the regional qualifier as there will be no more direct invites to official Valve events, a change announced earlier today in Valve's official blog post.
With the new DPC season approaching, you can definitely expect more teams to announce their new roster soon enough. Do you think we will see any surprises?
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