Hidden Cup's Darkhorse

Just something I stumbled upon while watching old Hidden Cup games. While dogao's performance in recent tournaments has been lukewarm (highs: Battle of Africa, lows: RBW1/3), his history in the past two hidden cups has been fairly strong. (The following is not super in depth, just a talking point I am keen upon)

Hidden Cup II- dogao returns to the game, qualifies, and defeats Villese 3-1 in the opening round. In the quarters, he throws everything at Liereyy forcing a game 5. Unfortunately, he also becomes part of Hidden Cup history with one of the biggest throws ever; snagged five relics in a Slavs v. Berbers matchup (!!!), but he got exceptionally greedy with tech switches and lost what was to be a game ending advantage. While I mean to take nothing away from Liereyy, dogao was only one poor decision from challenging TheMax in the semifinal which I believe he had more than a decent shot to win (though that's pure speculation).

Hidden Cup III- Once again blitzes through qualifying. Dominates TheMax in R1 (2 Finns in 2 Hidden Cups) before besting MbL in 5. In doing so he prevents Norway from having two semifinalists in each Hidden Cup*. He is the only qualifier (of 8) to defeat a non-qualifier and does so in consecutive years. It is an inauspicious end in the semis however: he runs into Viper and only snags one game in a best of 7.

Point being, dogao has dominated qualifiers and was inches from being a two time semifinalist (something only achieved by TheViper and MbL). You certainly can pick apart my fairly Swiss Cheese argument and I don't think he should be a favorite to win. I just wanted to shine a light on someone who has never garnered significant consideration and would typically be mentioned behind the likes of Yo, TatoH, DauT, MbL, and TheMax.