The second match of the day will see Evil Geniuses take on Big God. The Chinese had the upper hand in the groupstage - will history repeat itself?
Main Event Day 2 schedule (CET):
Secret vs. Vici Gaming 1-2
EG vs. Big God 2-1
Hellraisers vs. Rave 12.30
iG vs. LGD 13.45
Natus Vincere vs. HyperGloryTeam 15.00
Cloud9 vs. EHOME 16.15
Game One [W: Evil Geniuses]
The game started off very stale, with little aggression from either team. Both sides were content with farming up their heroes, but EG proved to be more efficient. The North-Americans started to pick off heroes on the back of SumaiL's Storm Spirit and were thus able to contain Big God's farming capabilities. Big God tried to go for pick-offs themselves, but they either failed or were unable to take objectives afterwards. EG pushed in and a crucial Fissure from PPD prevented multiple heroes from teleporting back to the base, as EG took the bottom rax. A horrible engagement later and Big God called gg, knowing they couldn't come back from this.
Game Two [W: Big God]
Big God picked a very push orientated line-up with a lot of sustain. The laning stage went quite well for them as they shut down SumaiL's Storm Spirit by controlling the runes and xiao8 performing well on his Razor. EG's Fear was able to farm uncontested but BG pushed early on, taking EG's space quite quickly. EG could not take the teamfights early on and when they did, the sustainability from the Chinese proved to be too tough to deal with, as the North-Americans could not trade favorably. A midlane siege from Big God took down the rax and when an EG engagement fails, Big God take another lane and the game.
Game Three [W: Evil Geniuses]
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