Chapter Three: Starting from the Team Nobody Bet On

When the Major qualifier groups were announced, Harbor Wolves appeared in the last line of the bracket like an auto-filled footnote. When the official win prediction dropped, even the local forum that supported them went quiet for a second. 4.7%. Lower than almost anyone had dared guess for a “temporary North American second-tier stack.” Twitch chat reacted first. NA Dota is dead. 4.7% LOL Who even are these guys? Caleb throw incoming. The casters on stream didn’t say it quite that harshly, but the tone was worse because it was polite. One analyst looked at the draft and said Harbor Wolves had no real hero pool depth, no true game-breaking core for TI-level matches.