PSG.Quest deliver the biggest Riyadh Masters upset by eliminating Team Spirit

PSG.Quest reversed swept Team Spirit, the Riyadh Masters \defending champions, to send them home with just a top 8 finish.

Day 4 in the Riyadh Masters 2024 playoffs stage is once again filled with elimination matches. After Weibo Xtreme Gaming were sent packing by BetBoom Team in the opening series of the day, Team Spirit’s elimination came more like a shock. They were pitted against PSG.Quest, who won’t be this year at The International and therefore came to Riyadh to end the competitive season on a high note.

Team SpiritvsPSG Quest

Quest are the only team left in the competition that came from the play-in stage. But despite being the team with the most games played so far, through the past two days, they still had a few aces in their sleeves to reveal On day three they took OG by surprise with a Naga Siren Carry. Today, they ran the hero again and showed for the first time their version of a mid lane Sand King.

However, the series started with what was one of the biggest stomps witnessed on the main stage at Riyadh Masters. Team Spirit ran over Quest in a 20 minute game that really felt like it was over at minute 10. But coming back to their computers, Quest went with a first pick Sand King, which went mid lane in the hands of Tony "No!ob" Assaf, and put their faith once again in their Naga Siren strategy that eliminated OG.

Spirit tried to counter Naga with a Doom offlane and the Sand King with a Zeus match-up. But while their idea worked through the early laning stage, at the 17 minute mark PSG.Quest grouped in the mid lane to force the first big team fight of the game. They wiped Team Spirit and from there on, they got in full control of the map to even the series.

Despite banning Sand King in game one and then losing to it in game two, Team Spirit allowed Quest to run it again in the deciding game. The MENA representative also got to pick Naga once again and forced team Spirit to an incredibly fast paced Dota. No!ob started to rotate on his Sand King early in the game and kept on hunting for kills in all lanes to the point where none of Team Spirit’s cores could recover.

“Our drafts were just not good enough today,” said captain Yaroslav "Miposhka" Naidenov in his exit interview. “We didn’t find the right heroes to play against Quest.”

While Team Spirit heads home with a top 8 finish, PSG. Quest secured a top 6 placement and will return to the stage on Saturday for a MENA battle with Team Falcons, one of the main favourites at the title.