Maelk

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.

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.

Retirement
After retiring from professional Dota, Maelk focused on casting.

BTo

 * Gold medal icon.svg Pick League II (2005)
 * Gold medal icon.svg Pick League III (2006)
 * Gold medal icon.svg Pick League IV (2006)

MYM

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

Ravens

 * Gold medal icon.svg ESL Premiership Season 2 (2009)
 * Gold medal icon.svg ESL EMS Season 4 (2009)
 * Silver medal icon.svg Dreamhack Summer '09 (2009)
 * Silver medal icon.svg Gamescom '09 (2009)
 * Silver medal icon.svg ESL EMS Season 3 (2009)

MYM

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

EG

 * Bronze medal icon.svg The Defense (2012)

Denmark (National Team)

 * Silver medal icon.svg Prime Nations #1 (2007)
 * Bronze medal icon.svg Prime Nations #2 (2008)

Trivia
Term "Maelk Award", which some players might use, refers to jD Masters Semi Finals, where Evil Geniuses faced Mousesports. After an extremely long game, Maelk, playing Venomancer, finished the game with 0/20/21 stats, while still winning the game, almost every fight being focused first and acting as his team's sacrificial lamb.

In general, to receive this imaginary award, one has to play in team-matched game and fulfil those conditions:
 * Play as Venomancer
 * Finish the game with 20+ deaths and 0 kills
 * Win the game