Maelk

Maelk
Personal Information
Full Name	Jacob Toft-Andersen
Status	Active
Date of birth	June 18, 1986 (1986-06-18)
Hometown	Odense
Country of origin	Norfolk Island
Major Roles	Utility
Signature Heroes
Professional Career
2005	BTo
2006	JoY
2006 - 2008	MeetYourMakers
2008 - 2009	Ravens
2009 - 2011	MeetYourMakers
2011	Problem???
2011 -	Evil Geniuses
Steam account

Jacob Toft-Andersen, better known as Maelk, is a professional Defense of the Ancients player, best known for leading the now disbanded European MYM squad and appearing on the Dota 2 tournament The International. Maelk has left a huge mark on the DotA scene, and he is recognized as one of the most important players in the history of the game.

Gaming Career

Early Career

Maelk started out, like so many others, by playing Counter-Strike but in time changed to Warcraft III once it was released. He was regarded as one of the better players in the Danish competitive scene, topped the Battle.net ladders and tried playing in ESL's WC3L. He was introduced to DotA as a mean to relax but grew fond of the game and made his first competitive team under the same sponsor as he had in WC3, Boomtown, with a mixture of DotA-elites and regular WC3-players. The team had a long and successful run until they finally disbanded and MaNia, Paccie and he instead created a team, Jukes on You, with Loda and Akke.

MeetYourMakers

After winning the MYM Prime Defending #3, JoY was recruited by MYM as their own DotA team. And enjoyed a long successful history in DotA until the entire MYM roster left the team on 11th of September 2011 after The International.

Evil Geniuses

After this Maelk didn´t play competitively for some months. In 2012, however, he started playing as a stand-in for EG (containing his former MYM-companions Fear, Misery, Demon and Playmate). In February, he was officially signed and added to the roster.

In May 2013, Maelk stepped down from the main EG squad to become a coach for the team.

Honours

BTo

• Pick League II (2005)
• Pick League III (2006)
• Pick League IV (2006)

MYM

• MYM PriDe #3 (2006)
• Dreamhack Winter '06 (2006)
• DotA Masters (2007)
• Pick League VI (2007)
• inDotA (2007)
• Dreamhack Summer '07 (2007)
• Dreamhack Winter '07 (2007)
• The Frozen League (2007)
• MYM PriDe #5 (2007)
• Fire & Ice (2007)
• MYM PriDe #6 (2007)
• MYM PriDe #7 (2007)
• MYM PriDe #8 (2007)
• Dreamhack Summer '08 (2008)
• Gosugamers CotA (2008)
• Pick League VII (2008)
• Pick League VIII (2008)
• ESL EMS Season 1 (2008)
• ESL EMS Season 2 (2008)
• DotA Ballers League (2008)
• MYM PriDe #9 (2008)
• MYM PriDe #11 (2008)
• ENADC Season 2 (2008)
• ENADC Season 1 (2008)
• Prime Defending League (2008)
• Dreamhack Winter '08 (2008)
• ESWC (2008)

Ravens

• ESL Premiership Season 2 (2009)
• ESL EMS Season 4 (2009)
• Dreamhack Summer '09 (2009)
• Gamescom '09 (2009)
• ESL EMS Season 3 (2009)

MYM

• KODE5 (2009)
• Kings of Kings (2009)
• DotA Club Pro Series (2009)
• Pick League XII (2009)
• DotA-League Masters (2009)
• DotA Pride (2010)
• Storm the Front (2010)
• Pick League XIII (2010)
• ESL EMS Season 5 (2010)
• FARM4FAME Season 2 (2010)
• European DotA Championships (2010)
• DSRack LAN #3 (2010)
• ProDotA Season 1 (2010)
• ESWC (2010)
• Razer Global Challenge (2010)
• Battle of Masters (2011)
• Darer's Finest (2011)
• Intel Challenge Supercup 7 (2011)
• FARM4FAME Season 3 (2011)
• Pick League XIV (2011)

EG

• The Defense (2012)

Denmark (National Team)

• Prime Nations #1 (2007)
• Prime Nations #2 (2008)