Team Falcons keep the wins rolling, claim DreamLeague Season 22 championship title

Another grand final, different patch, different opponent, same outcome for Team Falcons.

Less than a month since they dominated the BetBoom Dacha Dubai tournament, Team Falcons repeated the feat with a crushing performance at DreamLeague Season 22 as they claimed the tournament victory with another 3:0 sweep.

Falcons made it to the DreamLeague Season 22 grand finals after an astonishing 7-0 series record in the second group stage. Their dominance in the groups was rewarded with a seed straight into the playoffs upper bracket finals where they took down BetBoom Team to make it one series away from the championship title.

BetBoom bounced back from the lower bracket finals by eliminating Xtreme Gaming. However, despite playing a total of four times against Falcons through the entire event, they still couldn’t find a way to break the MENA representatives.

Team FalconsvsBetBoom Team

Game one started with what has become an Oliver "skiter" Lepkoat staple at DreamLeague; a Sven draft. They made sure they had the initiation setups with a position 4 Batrider and saves provided by Shadow Demon, while the damage output was not something to worry about at any stage of the game.

In the second game, BetBoom tried to force something different from Falcons by first picking Timbersaw. The immediate answer came with a Gyrocopter pick from Falcons, a hero that only skiter played in Dubai a couple of weeks ago. After seeing the pick, BetBoom decided to switch things up and send Timbersaw to the mid lane instead of the offlane and claim the Sven for themselves.

However, the draft mind games didn’t work on Falcons, who played with an aggressive tempo from beginning to end to secure themselves a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five grand finals.

The final game of the night featured huge nuking damage coming from both teams and it started with a rather interesting first blood claimed by Stanislav "Malr1ne" Potorak in the mid lane.

But despite starting the game pretty frustratingly, Danil "gpk" Skutin proceeded to claim five kills in a row on his Leshrac and did everything in his power to prolong the grand finals. He had 82k damage done to the enemy heroes at the end of the match, the most done by anyone on the map, but his performance alone was not enough to stop Team Falcons from claiming another tournament title with a clean 3:0 sweep.

DreamLeague Season 22 final standings

• 1st place: $300,000 & 4,200 EPT points - Team Falcons
• 2nd place: $175,000 & 3,500 EPT points - BetBoom Team
• 3rd place: $120,000 & 2,800 EPT points - Xtreme Gaming
• 4th place: $85,000 & 2,240 EPT points - Team Spirit
• 5th place: $52,500 & 1,680 EPT points - Gaimin Gladiators
• 6th place: $47,500 & 1,400 EPT points - OG
• 7th place: $42,500 & 840 EPT points - Shopify Rebellion
• 8th place: $37,500 & 560 EPT points - Aurora Gaming
• 9th/10th place: $25,000 & 350 EPT points - Tundra Esports, Virtus.pro
• 11th/12th place: $20,000 & 175 EPT points - Azure Ray, Team Secret
• 13th/14th place: $15,000 & 98 EPT points - Heroic, Team Liquid
• 15th/16th place: $10,000 & 42 EPT points - 1win, G2.iG

Interviews from DreamLeague S22:

- Team FalconsSkiter interview: “It feels good to play each tournament on a different patch” 
- Mira: “The imposter syndrome will follow me forever” 
- Davai Lama: “You open a lot more opportunities for yourself by learning a new language”   
-  Bach: “I simply can't enjoy mobile games”    
- Ekki: “Now's the time when tier two teams can start emerging”     
- FNG: “It will take some time for me to practice and become relevant again”      
- Yopaj: “This year seems a lot more competitive”       
- Ceb: “I don't feel limits when it comes to Dota 2”        
- 33: “ It's going to take some time to get the playstyles in sync”        
- Ame: “I don't think I am as good as Yatoro thinks I am”