PGL Wallachia Season 4: Who Are Edge?

For the most part, the field of participants at PGL Wallachia Season 4 includes familiar names. Squads like Team Liquid, Team Falcons, Team Spirit, and more are the marquee teams of the $1 million Dota 2 LAN event. But there’s one club in particular that doesn’t jump out at anyone that isn’t a hardcore South American Dota fan: Edge.

Coming in from the Americas regional qualifier, this roster is probably completely alien to majority of the Dota 2 community. So just who are these guys anyway, and do they even stand a chance in this tournament?

Who’s in the Edge Roster?

The team’s full lineup, in order of their positions (1 through 5), is as follows:

• Yheremi “payk” Arroyo
• Jean Pierre “PiPi” Valente
• Pablo Cesar “Vitaly” Angulo
• Miguel “Michael-” Gomez
• Junior Jhon “Yadomi” Rimari

Payk and Friends

Looking at Edge’s roster, there’s one player that I’d say is pretty famous even to those that don’t pay too much attention to the South American scene, and that’s payk. Formerly a member of the beastcoast lineup that made it to The International in 2024, payk is one of the youngest professional players hailing from South America.

Prior to PGL Wallachia Season 4, he was seen playing at Wallachia Season 2 as a member of Mosquito Clan, which got signed as Edge just yesterday, April 19th. The entire roster was acquired as such by their new organization with only one change in between: that being the departure of team captain Farith “Matthew” Puente.

🔥 New name, same winning spirit.

The team that began its journey as Mosquito Clan now marches under the banner of @EdgexEsports!

💪🏼 Together, we went through early victories, tough losses, and unbelievable comebacks — proving that a team’s character is forged not only in… pic.twitter.com/72xS5L63Bm

— Mosquito Clan (@MosquitoesClan) April 19, 2025

The rest of the lineup is composed of regional mainstays that have shown up in a few premier LANs over the past few years. Mid laner PiPi was a member of Infinity when they placed within the top eight spots at PGL Wallachia Season 2 late last year, which was honestly quite an impressive result for a South American team. Vitaly, meanwhile, was a part of the Hokori squad that qualified for TI11.

Michael- is the lone non-Peruvian on this roster (he hails from Bolivia), and he comes in replacing Matthew in the position 4 spot. According to his Liquipedia page, this will be his first ever appearance in a tier 1 LAN setting — which should give him plenty of experience moving forward in his career. Prior to joining Edge, he was seen on other orgs like Infinity, Hokori, and Infamous — and he mostly played in the now-defunct Dota Pro Circuit South American regional league.

Finally, there’s Yadomi, who plays the hard support role for the team. He played for BOOM Esports at Elite League Season 2 last year, where he and the rest of the team actually made it all the way to third place in front of the hometown crowd in Lima, Peru. This makes him the most successful member of the team if we’re just talking about pure results and not career winnings.

How Cooked Are They at PGL Wallachia Season 4?

Honestly, very.

Edge are more likely to bomb out of this tournament in the bottom eight spots, or even the bottom four based on group stage scoring. This team just doesn’t really have the talent and experience needed to make a deep run in a tournament with monsters like PARIVISION and Tundra Esports in the mix. This trip will be more like a learning experience for them, unless they somehow manage to upset the best teams in the field — like how their compatriots in HEROIC did in this very same tournament last year.

But if everything goes as normal, I don’t see them making it into the playoffs in Bucharest. The pool is just far too shark-infested for them to really get anywhere without a miracle or five happening in between each day of the competition. Still, at least they’re guaranteed to win $10,000 if they don’t place any higher than 15th/16th place.

🧊 @parivisiongg stay flawless with another 2-0 — this time over @EdgexEsports!

2-0 record and looking sharp in the Swiss Stage 🔥#PGLWallachia pic.twitter.com/KnPq76JkAd

— PGL DOTA 2 (@pgldota2) April 20, 2025

And, well, things have pretty much been going as normal thus far. They beat Xtreme Gaming yesterday in three games, which wasn’t that big of a deal given how absent that squad has been as of late. Then, they ran into the ESL One Raleigh champions PARIVISION in their next match, and got thoroughly smacked in two games.

So like I said, it would take several upsets of epic proportions for Edge to do well at Wallachia. Stranger things have happened in professional Dota before, though, as their friends in HEROIC proved before them. But they’re called stranger things for a reason, so if you’re going to bet on any of the matches at Wallachia Season 4, you should probably do so going against Edge. Unless you just hate money.