Since days the community was awaiting rumors to be confirmed. The Chinese team LGD Gaming hiring international DotA2 stars and hereby expanding internationally seemed to be at first a little unbelievable, but all little information which leaked out every day made it impossible to deny anymore.

Behind closed curtains, the community knew about LGD Gaming’s interest, later on it leaked out that the players would fly to China today in order to sign contracts. A couple of hours after that the Canadian team member Theeban ‘1437’ Siva went on Twitter and confirmed it.

Alright guys… so i guess its all out. The rumours are true. LGD int is happening and I will be a part of it !

— Theeban Siva (@LGD1437) 16. Oktober 2012

It used to be all Chinese team. Now LGD decides to go International. As Per Anders ‘Pajkatt‘ Olsson Lille and Rasmus ‘MiSeRy‘ Filipsen have been spotted in LGD’s Dota 2 Team Profile while playing public game. As rumors were speculating around SGamers/Gosugamers website that LGD  has new rosters. LGD decides to go all North-American and Europe team based.

The roster has been confirmed to be :

• Per Anders ‘Pajkatt’ Olsson Lille (Sweden)
• Rasmus ‘MiSeRy’ Filipsen (Denmark)
• Sergey ‘God’ Bragin (Russia)
• Theeban ‘1437’ Siva (Canada)
• Braxton ‘Brax’ Paulson (USA)

It remains yet undisclosed, who of the players will be taking which role within the team. Furthermore it will be a quite risky engagement to hire players from all over the globe, having huge time zone differences.