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After being added to OG\u2019s roster just months before TI8, Topson was a major factor in the team completing their Cinderella story and winning it all.\u00a0 This put him in rare company as a Royal Roader, or a player who was able to both attend and win their first International. Not only that, but he and his teammates were the first team in history to win a second International, and they did it in back-to-back seasons.\u00a0 Following the team\u2019s TI8 win, Anathan \u201cana\u201d Pham took an extended leave from competitive play, only returning nearly nine months later, just in time to help OG qualify for TI9. He said that he needed the time to find his motivation and spend some time focusing on himself.\u00a0 Likewise, Topson said he wants to take some time to focus on family while looking back at his career so he can better-set goals for the future. He thanked the fans for their support of his young career. The key factor fans should look at here is how Topson calls this break a \u201choliday.\u201d Unlike ana, who worded his statement like a retirement, it looks like Topson just wants a little bit of extra time for himself before making his return.\u00a0 This still means that OG is likely to sit out the first Major of the 2019-20 Dota Pro Circuit, just like they did last year, but Topson probably won\u2019t remain gone for as long as ana did. But after two straight years of playing at the highest level and winning the biggest prize, no one will really blame him for wanting a break.","apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/03140442\/48616417037_7582bafddd_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167145"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=167145"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=167145"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=167145"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=167145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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