Emotional championship of Vietnamese star – miCKe
As we know, in the early morning of September 16 (Vietnam time), TeamLiquid officially became the world champion of The International 2024 in the DOTA 2 category. It is worth mentioning that TeamLiquid's Carry player – miCKe was discovered to be a player of Vietnamese origin. According to miCKe's parents, they are both of Vietnamese origin, and this player and his family always communicate with each other in Vietnamese even though they have been living in Sweden for a long time.
miCKe's mother shared that the player's family always communicates with each other in Vietnamese and is always proud to be Vietnamese.
Therefore, miCKe and his teammates' championship at TI 2024 quickly became the focus of the Vietnamese gaming community. Especially when miCKe's mother celebrated with her son in a shirt with the Vietnamese flag, it has become an extremely beautiful image in recent times. This victory for TeamLiquid is even more meaningful when they defeated their “arch-rival” named Gaimin Gladiators. It should be noted that before TI 2024 took place, miCKe and his teammates had lost to this team in 5 Grand Finals since 2023.
TeamLiquid has overcome its “arch-rival” to win the well-deserved TI 2024 title
DOTA2 legend praises miCKe and his favorite champion Nature Prophet
In addition to the excellence of the TeamLiquid team, the audience also realized that this team has made great use of the strong champions in the TI 2024 meta. Typically, in the recent Grand Final, miCKe used Nature Prophet in all 3 matches and helped his team win convincingly. With the ability to farm extremely quickly and support strong combat anytime, anywhere, Nature Prophet in the hands of miCKe is considered a key factor helping TeamLiquid establish map control, overwhelming combat and winning the final victory.
Nature Prophet in the hands of miCKe completely dominated the match and led TeamLiquid to the championship.
Perhaps because he was so impressed with miCKe's performance, a legend of the DOTA2 village – Admiral Bulldog gave words of praise to the player on his personal Twitter page (now X). Admiral Bulldog even frankly shared that if other teams do not want to lose to TeamLiquid, it is best to ban miCKe's Nature Prophet in the future.
“You played against TeamLiquid. You didn't ban Nature Prophet because you thought you could counter him. TeamLiquid immediately picked Nature Prophet. Then you lost miserably to TeamLiquid. You should definitely ban Nature Prophet in your next match against TeamLiquid because you're not that stupid” – Admiral Bulldog couldn't help but exclaim after witnessing miCKe's excellent performance with Nature Prophet at TI 2024.
“Legendary” Admiral Bulldog praised miCKe's performance on Nature Prophet: “You played against TeamLiquid. You didn't ban Nature Prophet because you thought you could counter him. TeamLiquid immediately picked Nature Prophet. Then you lost miserably to TeamLiquid. You should definitely ban Nature Prophet the next time you play against TeamLiquid because you're not that stupid.”
Admiral Bulldog himself is called a “legend” of the DOTA2 village thanks to the champion Nature Prophet with the achievement of winning TI 2013. Perhaps when witnessing miCKe's excellent handling of this champion, he also saw the peak image of himself in the past. Therefore, Admiral Bulldog reused the comment that was used with him above to honor miCKe as a recognition of his junior's talent.
miCKe had a very successful tournament with TeamLiquid
In short, TeamLiquid's TI 2024 championship has helped miCKe and his teammates enter the temple of “legends” in the professional DOTA2 village. Hopefully, TeamLiquid will continue to maintain their current high performance in the future and achieve more success. It would be great if miCKe and TeamLiquid successfully defend their title in the upcoming season.
