The second day of Red Bull Battle Grounds has started. Four teams still has lives remaining and by the end of the day it will be only two.
For those unfamilar with the format of Red Bull Battle Grounds, five teams from five regions are each taking part of the challenger phase. In a certain order, teams take turn challenging another team of their choice. Each team may reflect the challenge upon another team instead of accepting it but they may only do so once. The reflector is marked with a Linken's Sphere in the table below. A team that loses three teams are eliminated from further competition, each life are marked with an Aegis in the table below. The phase ends when only two teams remain. Those two teams will then play the finals on Sunday.
This is the second day of the phase, first day can be read about here.
| TEAM | LIVES LEFT | CHALLENGES |
|---|---|---|
 |   | 6 |
 |   | 2 |
 | | 5 |
 | | 2 |
 | | 3 |
After the six matches yesterday, the second day was quite a bit shorter and the challenger phase ended with the minimum amount of total matches. Team Secret and Invictus Gaming advance to the finals without having suffered any losses and without having broken too much sweat. Both teams only played two matches each, namely their own challenges. Invictus played versus Hellraisers both games and while the first game was a very one-sided story, Hellraisers did put up some resistance in the second one by showing what an Aghanim Centaur can do. Secret played had both their challenges reflected as both Rift and iG preferred Secret facing MY. Secret drafted similar heroes both encounters and showed an all around solid team effort to ensure both victories.
Seeing those two teams move on to the finals is barely coming as a surprise for most people even if fans would have preferred the teams to lock horns with one another at least once prior to that. Worth noting is that the underdogs could have tried to play out the two favourites against one another using the reflectors. However, both Hellraisers and MY ended their run with their reflectors unused and Summer's Rift reflected Secret off to MY instead of forcing them to play Invictus Gaming.
Out of the nine matches played, MY was playing in six of them due to the nature of the format and the choices of the teams participating. Each challenge won (and life kept at the end) rewards the team with an approximate amount of $1,900 thus already enrichening iG and Secret with $9,500 each as both teams kept all three lives and won two challenges each.
The much anticipated best of five finals between iG and Secret will be played on Sunday.
Day 1 Challenges
| Challenger | Challenged | Winner | Match link |
|---|---|---|---|
| MY | Summer's Rift | MY | > link < |
| Invictus Gaming | Hellraisers | Invictus Gaming | > link < |
| Hellraisers | MY | Hellraisers | > link < |
| Team Secret | Team Secret | > link < | |
| Summer's Rift | Hellraisers | Hellraisers | > link < |
| MY | Summer's Rift | MY | > link < |
Day 2 Challenges
| Challenger | Challenged | Winner | Match link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invictus Gaming | Invictus Gaming | > link < | |
| Hellraisers | MY | MY | > link < |
| Team Secret | Team Secret | > link < |
