{"id":32628,"date":"2026-01-16T09:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/?p=32628"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:48:29","slug":"davai-lama-is-benched-by-heroic-after-not-making-it-to-dreamleague-season-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/davai-lama-is-benched-by-heroic-after-not-making-it-to-dreamleague-season-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Davai Lama is Benched by HEROIC After Not Making it to DreamLeague Season 28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HEROIC, one of the best teams in South America,<strong> was unable to qualify for DreamLeague Season 28<\/strong>. The squad made a lot of mistakes that ultimately cost them the match against Peru Rejects. Following this defeat, the organization decided to bench Cedric \u201cDavai Lama\u201d Deckmyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HEROIC Benched Davai Lama<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In just four months, we secured another international title.<br><br>However, due to recent challenges with performance we\u2019ve made the difficult decision to move <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Davai_Dota?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Davai_Dota<\/a> off the active roster.<br><br>We want thank Cedric for his contributions, wishing him nothing but the best in the next\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9JMsqTEMnq\">pic.twitter.com\/9JMsqTEMnq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; HEROIC Dota 2 (@heroicdota2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heroicdota2\/status\/2011891366305861829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 15, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <strong>official announcement<\/strong>, the organization made the decision \u201cdue to recent challenges with performance\u201d. HEROIC thanked Davai Lama for his service and wished him nothing but the best. In other words, he will most likely<strong> depart from the club in the near future<\/strong>, and we would not be surprised if we see him back in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The<strong> Belgian star<\/strong> was a part of the club for around two years, although he has always been \u201con and off\u201d. In fact, he <strong>rejoined <\/strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"><strong>sh<\/strong><\/span><strong>ortly after The International 2025\u00a0ended, but it seems\u00a0<\/strong>his time was short-lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HEROIC had a <strong>fairly good start<\/strong> to the season after securing a few good results. However, the most recent disappointment seemed to be the final straw for the team. <strong>HEROIC was unable to secure<\/strong> the only<a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/dota-2\/dreamleague-season-28-qualifier-preview\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/dota-2\/dreamleague-season-28-qualifier-preview\/\"> South American slot for DreamLeague Season 28<\/a> and will miss out on the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/dota-2\/the-hottest-upcoming-dota-2-tournaments-in-2026\/\">upcoming Dota 2 tournaments<\/a>, we expect HEROIC to announce the new player soon. The team will have to p<strong>repare for the ESL One Birmingham South American qualifiers<\/strong> because they start on January 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fans will definitely keep an eye on HEROIC because the organization has proven to be really good. The team delivered <strong>many consistent results <\/strong>last season and even won the first Tier 1 trophy for South America. This happened after the team triumphed at the PGL Wallachia Season 6 in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEROIC, one of the best teams in South America, was unable to qualify for DreamLeague Season 28. The squad made a lot of mistakes that ultimately cost them the match against Peru Rejects. Following this defeat, the organization decided to bench Cedric \u201cDavai Lama\u201d Deckmyn. HEROIC Benched Davai Lama According to the official announcement, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":32630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[260,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-32628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-dota-2","9":"tag-dota-2","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32632,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32628\/revisions\/32632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}