The final day is halfway over and Secret is one game away from going throught the groupstage undefeated. At the other end of the spectrum, NewBee is fighting to not finish last.
Read quick summaries about the played games:
- Day 5, part 1: Round Robin, round 35-37
- Day 4, part 2: Round Robin, round 31-34
- Day 4, part 1: Round Robin, round 27-30
- Day 3, part 2: Round Robin, round 23-26
- Day 3, part 1: Round Robin, round 19-22
- Day 2, part 3: Round Robin, round 16-18
- Day 2, part 2: Round Robin, round 13-15
- Day 2, part 1: Round Robin, round 10-12
- Day 1, part 3: Round Robin, round 7-9
- Day 1, part 2: Round Robin, round 4-6
- Day 1, part 1: Round Robin, round 1-3
- Day 0: Wildcard qualifiers
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Round 38
A very aggressive line-up from CDEC gets punished for overextending just a little bit and patient play from NewBee give them the edge in the game as a farmed Medusa turned out to be unstoppable for CDEC. The former LGD Academy squad fell behind in farm too quickly. The draft from NewBee was designed to work around the Medusa and it paid off, as CDEC did not find an opening to take her down later on, meaning she could unleash her potential and eventually forced CDEC to admit defeat.
Vici Gaming started off well, with a farming Axe and an offlane Enigma, securing good farm on all lanes and making sure to get crucial items such as Mek and Blink Dagger up fairly early. Vici was able to burst down single targets quite easily and were able to back it up with AOE control from Enigma and Earthshaker, but Puppey's Chen made sure to keep his teammates alive and zai's Clockwerk was able to always break Vici Gaming's gameplan with crucial Hookshots onto Black's Sniper. Vici Gaming gave away a huge lead after getting picked off multiple times and eventually they lacked the damage, especially since Secret had no problems bursting the Sniper. Vici Gaming had no other choice but to call gg.
EG opted to counter the Medusa from Big God with a support Naga, who would use her Song to disengage from every Medusa Stone Gaze. While that certainly worked, Big God was able to outplay EG in teamfights outside of Stone Gaze. Especially rOtk on his Batrider and a Shadow Shaman performance from LaNm ensured to disable the very elusive line-up from EG. Big God slowly sieged the highground and EG had only few answers left and eventually had to tap out.
Round 39
HyperGloryTeam vs. Vici Gaming 0-1
Vici Gaming pick up their signature Terrorblade and an in general hard to kill line-up with a defensive Support Venge and an offlane Centaur. HGT picked a strong teamfight line-up, but never really found an opening to capitalize on it. Vici slowly but steadily pushed in HGT and built an advantage, but a teamfight gone wrong brought HGT back into the game. Vici Gaming pushed the issue once again, this time around more coordinated and with additional items, such as BKBs on their cores to negate the impact of HGT's Brewmaster, and won not only the next teamfight but also the game.
EG put out aggression from the first minute and tried to take away the space that C9's line-up needed to come online. SumaiL's Storm Spirit found himself an early triple kill and snowballed from there. C9 quickly lost towers and lives and found themselves on the verge of losing. A good teamfight brought them back into the game and they were able to farm up crucial items, but EG played it patiently and experienced, waiting for the right moment to force the issue. The Europeans needed a perfect game to bring it home, but failed to do so and thus lost.
Rave vs. EHOME 0-1
Rave stayed true to themselves with a very aggressive line-up and was able to grab good pick-offs in the midgame. Thus, their advantage grew and the team was able to dominate the game. An attempted highground push is however completely turned around as EHOMe fight their way back into the game. Due to having a Troll Warlord, EHOME was able to take down objectives quite easily and suddenly Rave found themselves two sets of rax down. The lategame potential for the Korean based team was not nearly as threatening as the double Doom from EHOME and Rave had to concede.
Round 40
Invictus Gaming vs. HyperGloryTeam 0-1
Starting off with a first blood on IG's Shadow Fiend at minute one, HGT snowballed from there and methodically disassembled IG in this game. At 20 minutes, most of IG's tower were down, HGT decided to take Rosh and push high ground. But after the Rosh, HGT did not manage to get anything done due to their lineup's lacking of high ground push strength. Following this, HGT made a few mistakes and got picked off; as they were coming back, they lost a decisive fight and allowed HGT to get megas.
Arguably the closest game of the tournament, with Cloud9 winning only by 500 health on their throne. Starting off with an exciting early game, with the score being 4-1 to LGD at five minutes, the game evolved into a constant string of back and forth team fights in the mid game. But as Cloud9 killed the fourth Rosh, they managed to use the aegis and cheese to break the highground of LGD after catching Lycan without buyback ready. After Lycan respawned, C9 backed off into their base and LGD tried for C9's highground, they won the fight and tried to take the throne. However, in their base, EE boots of traveled into it and started taking tier fours and throne. This resulted in a base race that came down to EE's last minute Desolator purchase that allowed him to push faster than the other five heroes in C9's base.
All hell breaks loose on TongFu as HR bring the aggression to the Chinese in typical Hellraisers fashion. Ganking, diving towers and crazy crits, the Russians brought it all with them. TongFu had a difficult time keeping up and while they managed to find small trades, those were not enough to compensate for the immense farm lead. It was Hellraisers who took home victory.
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