There is not much time between now and the first Dota Pro Circuit tournament, especially if you are a team one player short. Dota fast approaches!! signals Quincy Crew manager, Jack KBBQ Chen on his Twitter account when introducing a trial offlaner for DOTA Summit 11 Minor.

Jon SabeRLight- Volek of Team Singularity will join the North American squad in the coming days to begin the training for the Minor, a tournament which can turn into a true breakout for him.

SabeRLight- spent two years at the Czech team Hippomaniacs, a squad that has been pushing through lower tier events and open qualifiers for a while now. Dota 2 fans might remember them from the TI9 European regional qualifiers, where they took first place in the group stage and made it all the way to the playoffs lower bracket finals. They were finally defeated by Chaos Esports, the team which eventually took the one ticket to the pinnacle tournament of the year. SabeRLight- was the only player to leave the team in the post TI9 shuffle. He was signed by Singularity, where he teamed up with Steve Excalibur Ye and he placed second in the MDL Chengdu Major European qualifiers group stage. However, Singularity lost two series in a row in the playoffs and dropped to the Minor qualifiers. They werent the only team from the Major qualifiers to fight for a Minor slot, and once again they got bested by their European adversaries and missed the start of the DPC season entirely.

In the meantime, in the NA region, a newly formed squad was keeping the headlines, featuring the Hassan brothers, SumaiL and YawaR. The qualifiers rounds were the first official matches where the two brothers teamed up. But despite the hype created by the Quincy Crew line-up, the team didnt make it to the MDL Chengdu Major. Nonetheless, they did clinch a spot at the Minor preceding it. Although the DOTA Summit Minor is held on US soil and Quincy Crew have a real shot at winning it all and reach the first Major of the season, SumaiL was announced to have departed the team for a couple of reasons. There were fit issues, Jack Chen said last week. It is worth mentioning that SumaiL was playing for the first time in the carry role, while his brother was also at his first offlane experience. Besides that, the team manager mentioned later on in a Reddit thread that there was so much more besides what he Tweeted. There were some legal issues that added some additional complications, but cant really discuss that in public, he said, adding that its easy for people on the outside to wonder or even jump to conclusions.

With SumaiL unable to join Quincy Crew, the team will now have the young Czech offlaner, SabeRLight-, as a trial and will play with him at the upcoming Minor. The Dota Summit Minor will be the only DPC event held in the United States this season. It will unfold November 7-10, with eight teams fighting for the tournament title, which besides the $72,000, it also brings a ticket to the MDL Chengdu Major.

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Quincy Crew will play the Minor with Singularity's offlaner SabeRLight- - VPEsports