Execration - Philippines — Dota 2 team

Execration or Xtcn is a professional Dota2 team. It was created in 2014 in the Philippines. Throughout its existence, the organization has preferred local players. It is quite difficult to call this team a top team, but at tier-2 and tier-3 tournaments, it sometimes showed good results. As a result, during its existence, Execration was able to win more than 800,000 USD in prize money.

History of creation

The release of the project was presented on June 1, 2014. The team's first roster looked as follows:

• Kim0;

• Foxx;

• Ewe;

• RR;

• Abeng.

Beho was the coach of this team. Execration began to show good results in the Southeast region, already in the first months of its existence, winning a slot for a fairly decent tournament StarLadder Star Series Season 10 - Lan Finals.

The results get even better after Doc and Primo join the team. These players have shown synergy in previous teams, so the Xtcn bosses decided to focus on the time-tested duo.

The team began to demonstrate the first serious results at the highest level in 2016. As a result, she gets to The International 2016. However, she could not reach the group stage of the best tournament.

It was at that time that the team had the opportunity to gradually approach the status of a giant in the cult game, but the scandal with the player BYB and fixed matches played an important role. Although, before the start of Fall Major 2016, the replacement for Rapy was made, however, it was not possible to get to the status tournament due to visa problems.

Since then, the team regularly participates in championships of various levels, but cannot consistently demonstrate high results. To date, her maximum is a victory in several small tournaments with a small prize pool. In 2022-2023, the team achieved two victories at DPC SEA. First in the second division, and then in the first. As mentioned above, the team's best result, regardless of the final place, is The International 2017. There it took 13-16th place. Due to the loss of Team Secret, the Asian team could not advance to the group tournament. But 123 thousand dollars in prizes for this team became a real success. Currently, Execration does not shy away from participating in tournaments where winnings of 500-1000 USD are at stake.

Logo

The Execration organization tries to demonstrate its fighting nature through its logo. If you look at the image, you can see a stylized face. For most users, it evokes associations with ninjas or other warriors of the Asian region. If you look closely at the image of the nose, you can come to the conclusion that it is a skull. Moreover, the wound in the upper right corner also tells about it. In general, the image consists of two parts.

The author mixed green and blue colors to get a rather interesting shade. It's not very flashy, so it shows Execration's true intentions.

There are no text elements on the logo of the organization. From this we can conclude that the emphasis was on the visual component.

Prizes

The team continues the process of forming and finding the optimal composition. Therefore, it does not grab stars from the sky, which is reflected in the total prize money. During its existence, XctN received approximately 802 thousand dollars. Which is a pretty mediocre result for Dota2.