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Player Information
Name:
Sylvester Hoelgaard
Nationality:
Born:
April 19, 1992 (age 31)
Region:
Europe Europe
Years Active (Player):
2011 - 2014
Current Role:
Alternate IDs:
LINK, LinkLink
Approx. Total Winnings:
$2,782
Links
History
Dota:
2009-03-?? — 2009-??-??
2009-??-?? — 2010-??-??
2010-??-?? — 2011-09-04
Dota 2:
2010-??-?? — 2011-09-04
2011-09-04 — 2011-09-??
2011-09-?? — 2011-11-12
2011-11-12 — 2012-01-30
2012-01-30 — 2012-02-21
2012-02-21 — 2012-04-29
2012-10-01 — 2012-11-17
2012-11-17 — 2013-03-??
2013-05-12 — 2013-07-24
2013-07-26 — 2013-10-16
2013-10-16 — 2013-12-19
2014-03-31 — 2014-07-27
Upcoming Matches
No Upcoming Matches

Upcoming Tournaments
No upcoming tournaments

Sylvester "Link" Hoelgaard (born April 19, 1992) is a retired Danish player who last played for Meet Your Makers.

His brother is Ace.

Biography[edit]

DotA[edit]

Link started playing Dota in 2004. He describes his first year with the game:
"6 years ago I played a lot of TD with my friends on bnet. DotA was getting hosted more and more frequently and I decided to join a game by myself, i hated it cuz i died all the time n probably left a lot of games. Then I got my first killing spree with Bloodseeker n have been hooked since then."[1]

Link started his competitive Dota career in a team called "Back To Basics", in early 2009.[2][3] He moved on to play with "RapE" before joining NORDIC-eSports.

Dota 2[edit]

Link's Dota 2 career began at The International 2011, where his team NORDIC-eSports were a reserve team. He left them not long after the event to join another all-Danish team, NeVo.[4][5] NeVo were shortly thereafter dropped by their sponsor and changed their name to monkeybusiness. They attended ESWC 2011 and achieved 4th place.

In November 2011 monkeybusiness were picked up by SK Gaming.[6] They went to DreamHack Winter 2011 where they finished 3rd. This was to be their only notable result under the SK tag however, as the organization dropped them in January 2012.[7] This would be the start of an intense period of sponsor switching for the Danish squad. They played for DD.Dota for about a month and were then picked up by Quantic Gaming.[8] They stayed there for two months, and then the full squad except for Link in April 2012 joined Eclypsia.[9]

Link went teamless for a while during Summer 2012, as he did his army duty.[10] He played as a stand-in for The Tough Bananas (later known as Copenhagen Wolves) a few times.[11] After a while he grew into the squad on a permanent basis, and when the team was picked up by Meet Your Makers in October 2012 he was officially on the six man roster.[12] The MYM roster did not work out as planned and in November they combined with ShibaGaming to form a new version of DD.Dota.[10] Link and some fellow Danes stayed on the team until March 2013.

In May 2013 Link was announced on Lions Pride's new roster.[13] Despite no notable tournament finishes the team remained together even though they lost their sponsor, and subsequently changed name to Team Life, in July 2013.[14] The following month Link's brother Ace joined the team replacing Mini, which made the roster all Danish.[15] It also meant that the team had one carry player too much, and so Link switched to playing support.


Trivia[edit]

  • Link was voted the cutest girl in Dota 2 for 2012.[16]

Achievements[edit]

DatePlaceTierTournamentTeamResultPrize
2014-04-087th - 11thTier 1DreamLeague Season 1DreamLeague Season 1
Meet Your MakersMeet Your Makers
2/-/12Grp S.$8,000
2013-10-244th - 6thQualifierRaidCall EMS One Fall Group StageRaidCall EMS One Fall Group Stage
mousesportsmousesports
2/-/1Grp S.-
2013-10-202ndMonthlySteelSeries Euro Cup #2
mousesportsmousesports
1 : 2
PoseidonPoseidon
$200
2013-09-212ndTier 3StarLadder ProSeries Season 7StarLadder ProSeries Season 7
Team LifeTeam Life
0 : 2
Oslik GamingOslik Gaming
$500
2013-09-151stTier 3Netolic Pro League #3 WestNetolic Pro League #3 West
Team LifeTeam Life
3 : 0
For Sweet RevengeFor Sweet Revenge
$500
2013-09-082ndMonthlySteelSeries Euro Cup #1
Team LifeTeam Life
2 : 3
KaipiKaipi
$250
2012-03-042ndTier 1The Defense Season 1The Defense Season 1
Quantic GamingQuantic Gaming
2 : 3
Natus VincereNatus Vincere
$3,299
2012-02-021stTier 3D2E Challenge
DD.DotaDD.Dota
2 : 1
Team InfusedTeam Infused
$1,311
2011-11-263rdTier 2DreamHack Winter 2011DreamHack Winter 2011
SK GamingSK Gaming
2 : 0
Team ShakiraTeam Shakira
$2,138
2011-10-254thTier 1Electronic Sports World Cup 2011Electronic Sports World Cup 2011
monkeybusinessmonkeybusiness
(mb)
1 : 0
GamersLeagueGamersLeague
-
Extended list of results

Interviews[edit]

2013[edit]

2012[edit]

2011[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Hendrik "chsn" De Backer (2012-03-16). "Streamer spotlight: Quantic.Link". SK Gaming. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  2. Hoelgaard, Sylvester (2012-06-15). Link: I learned invaluable lessons. Interview with Calvin "Jaywalker" C. joinDOTA. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  3. "NORDIC-eSport Facebook page". 2011-09-04. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  4. Ronaldo "Vashyron" Bammann (2011-09-04). "NORDIC's CalculuS and Link move to Nevo". GosuGamers. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  5. Samuel "DarthBotto" Horton (2011-11-12). "SK Gaming signs ex-monkeybusiness". SK Gaming. Retrieved 2013-05-13.
  6. Duncan "Thorin" Shields (2012-01-30). "SK's Dota 2 team has been released". SK Gaming. Retrieved 2013-05-13.
  7. Kai "Treble1999" Chua (2012-02-21). "Quantic-Gaming pick up DD". GosuGamers. Retrieved 2013-05-13.
  8. "Kere" (2012-04-29). "Quantic Gaming roster joins Eclypsia". Eclypsia.com. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  9. 10.0 10.1 Sovann "Skim" Kim (2012-11-17). "dd.Dota to combine ShibaGaming and MYM". GosuGamers. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  10. Kai "Treble1999" Chua (2012-07-12). "Copenhagen Wolves return with TTB". GosuGamers. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  11. "corni-" (2012-10-01). "MYM 2012 - The Comeback to Dota2!". myMYM. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  12. Eric "reinnnn" Khor (2013-05-10). "Lions Pride returns with Link and Danish squad". GosuGamers. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  13. "Tezzeret" (2013-07-26). "eL'Pride folds, Dota 2 team leaves". joinDOTA. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  14. Johan "Sun_Tzu" Järvinen (2013-08-21). "Ace new fifth for Team Life". joinDOTA. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  15. http://forum.gamesports.net/dota/showthread.php?3706-hottest-girl-dota-player/page32