What's going on with Team Spirit's season?

Team Spiritis the defending champion of the Aegis.

They dropped only two games in the entire tournament and became just the second organization afterOGto win TI twice.

But this year, Team Spirit has had a mediocre season at best.

The Curse of the TI Champions

No other event rivals The International.

It is the pinnacle of all (Dota 2) events.

When a team seizes the Aegis, dreams are made.

But the interesting thing about dreams, is they don’t last.

And more often than not, after the champions leave the stage things aren’t the same anymore.

The 2022-23 Season had been quite a journey for Team Spirit.

The team made just one roster change following TI11.

And then the team shifted into first gear.

Starting in July, they won the Riyadh Masters, DreamLeague Season 21, and ultimately The International 2023.

This year isn’t much different.

Poor performance and results have been marring Team Spirit’s reputation and dampening morale.

He also didnt exclude the possibility of disbanding when and if the team needed it.

Whether they do well at Riyadh Masters or not doesn’t matter as much.

Team Spirit has already secured their ticket to Copenhagen to defend their title once again via direct invite.

The critical question remains: can Team Spirit break the TI curse this year?

Since then, TI moved to Singapore in 2022 and last year it returned home, to Seattle.