Things looked good for beastcoast in the draft, Héctor Antonio “K1” Rodríguez landed Sven, a hero he’s more than comfortable on. While beastcoast were the favorites of many heading into this series, Alliance showed why they continue to maintain their status as one of Dota’s most storied teams.
Lower Bracket Highlight: Quincy Crew’s come backĪll our Lower Bracket series were packed full of excitement but watching Alliance and beastcoast duke it out to stay alive at TI was definitely one of our highlights. Here’s two of our favorite Lower Bracket moments. Lower Bracket Game 4 ends with securing their victory and continuing their fight for survival in the Lower Bracket. And EG managed to keep themselves in the game, claiming their victory over Elephant. Alliance reigned triumphant over beastcoast. We saw Fnatic shatter Undying’s shot at a share of the USD $40 million dollar prize. Every team that’s made it to TI’s main stage deserves to be there, but not all of them can advance toward the aegis. Round 1 of our Lower Bracket were of Bo1 series, which is always a bittersweet affair. OG barely managed to land a kill on the board at all the final score was 42-5 when Secret closed out the game just shy of 28-minutes.įnatic, Quincy Crew, Alliance and EG survive LB Round 1 Then he just rolled through everything OG threw at him, he was undefeatable, going 13/0/18. He gave his team a boost through the lanes, blocking Topias “Topson” Taavitsainen Hoodwink out of valuable early farm. YapzOr’s Windranger was instrumental in setting up some of the vicious pickoffs and team fights we saw through this game.Īnd if you start to notice a lot of mid lane Tinkers in your pubs, you can thank Nisha’s performance for that. But the picks from Yazied “YapzOr” Jaradat and Nisha definitely spelled trouble for OG. A Clinkz for SumaiL once again made OG’s draft look formidable.īut Secret weren’t looking too sloppy either, with team captain Clement “Puppey” Ivanov running his signature Enchantress and Matu taking babby’s first Ursa this time around. However the hero landed on Martin “Saksa” Sazdov and N0Tail ran his Legion Commander. It looked like both teams picked a lot of comfort heroes through the draft, and many were expecting to see a N0Tail Elder Titan this game. If Game 1 had us breaking out the copium, we needed more in the tank for Game 2. Secret swiped the first win of the series at 40-minutes. Secret’s map control and mobility once they’d hit their timings was just too much for OG. With Secret ahead with an 11k lead in the net worth by 35-minutes. With the help of Michał “Nisha” Jankowski’s never-ending remnants on Ember, (he went 20/22/3 this game), the turnaround from the 30-minute mark was hard and fast. Marking it the first time OG have faced the LB Gauntlet since 2017. OG’s Upper Bracket dreams ended today after they fell, 2-0, to Team Secret in our second series of the day. Upper Bracket Highlight: Team Secret knock out OG Invictus Gaming took Game 3 with a 38-kill lead, claiming the first victory of the day and keeping themselves snug in the Upper Bracket for now. That line up would spell disaster for just about any team.
A comfortable draft saw Jin “flyfly” Zhiyi score a Specter, as well as Storm Spirit for Zhou “Emo” Yi and Phoenix on Hu “kaka” Liangzhi. Invictus Gaming brought the series to a tie just before the 49-minute mark.īut it was Game 3 where the Chinese team really pulled out all their stops. Spirit never really clawed the lead back, although they did manage to hold out for a solid slog. The Chinese team played with discipline and defense managing to take control of the map once things moved out of the laning phase. But Invictus weren’t about to make another mistake. Spirit came back into Game 2 ready to take it as well, snatching first blood. It was a daring, and maybe somewhat cheeky move, but it gave them the Game 1 victory. The bold strategy was capitalizing on their high ground win, pushing straight for T4’s instead of taking iG’s Barracks. Illya “Yatoro” Mulyarchuk’s Morphling scoring a Double Damage rune was the good fortune.
Our day opened with a cracker of a series Team Spirit faced off against Invictus Gaming and stole the first match with a combo of good fortune and bold strategy.