In similar fashion to North America and SouthEast Asia Closed Qualifiers, the upper bracket winner started with a 1-0 lead in the final.
Keen Gaming started the playoffs incredibly well by whitewashing both ROYAL and Invictus Gaming in first and second round.
Invictus Gaming encountered ROYAL in loser bracket after lost against Keen Gaming in second round of the upper bracket. Then, Invictus Gaming eliminated ROYAL from the tournament within an hour by drafting Riki in both games.
Riki is rarely seen in professional matches, which was why ROYAL never banned the hero in game two after Riki dominated them in game one.
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After taking out ROYAL, Invictus Gaming started the final against Keen Gaming with a one-point disadvantage.
In the first game of the series, Invictus Gaming drafted Dark Seer immediately in first picking phase. Dark Seer is very strong in this patch and has a high win rate of about 57% in divine rank game.
Keen Gaming then picked Doombringer to sustain the laning phase against him with high health regeneration. Although Dark Seer was doing well and farmed in laning phase, but DoomBringer with extra gold comes from his first ability, Devour to provides him extra gold of 100 every forty seconds was having greater farm than Dark Seer.
Keen Gaming won the game when Doombringer had his Refresher Orb and casted two ultimate skills on different targeted enemies in team fight.
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In the second game, Invictus Gaming out-drafted Keen Gaming because Keen was too greedy with picks of Medusa and Lifestealer, who both require a lot of farms. Although they tried to balance it with Batrider as position three, they could not dominate the laning phase and were soundly beaten.
Moving to game three, the last game of the series. Keen Gaming started the draft with Disruptor then stole Dark Seer from Invictus Gaming to man up and clear out the treants summoned by Nature Prophet from Invictus Gaming in laning phase.
Nature Prophet suffered seven deaths in the game and Dark Seer accumulated net worth of 21700, being the top two net worth holders in the game under Ember Spirit. Without a doubt, Invictus Gaming lost the game because Dark Seer over-farmed thanks to Nature Prophet in early stage of the game.
Following Keen Gaming succeed into MDL Disneyland Paris Major, advancing into ESL One Birmingham 2019 only added evidence to show they are strong tier one in Dota2.
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Starting from the group stage, Alliance beat down Old but Gold in a best-of-one series and whitewashed The Pango in a best-of-three series to secure the first slot in the playoffs from Group A.
Alliance encountered Team Empire in the first round of the playoffs, trying a bold draft by picking Anti-Mage second while their enemy still had a lot of choice to counter the hero.
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Team Empire immediately picked Disruptor into Anti-Mage because Disruptor’s ultimate skill was able to silence Anti-Mage for five seconds.
Thanks to Disruptor, Anti-Mage was unable to farm and position himself in the team fight. Team Empire killed Anti-Mage six times and Anti-Mage was only able to farm his Black King Bar at the 34-minute mark.
Team Empire won the game because Anti-Mage could not carry the squad.
After learning the lesson that came from picking Anti-Mage, Alliance didn’t draft the hero in game two and game three.
Coming into game three, Qojqva, the position two player from Alliance, picked one of his best heroes, Storm Spirit. Despite the fact the hero is not popular in the current meta, Qojqva still carried Alliance and helped them win the game with Storm Spirit after earning 14 kills and contributed 19 assists to the team.
After eliminating Team Empire, they finally went to the Finals and battled against Old but Gold in a best-of-five series.
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Alliance finally revealed their secret strategy in the Finals, picking Earthshaker as position three or four, depending on the situation, and Vengeful Spirit as their position five.
These two heroes are not hot picks in the recent meta. This is the reason Old but Gold did not ban them at their first opportunity.
Alliance picked Earthshaker first in game two, three and four. Old but Gold had no idea which role Earthshaker was playing and Alliance was able to out-draft them in every single game.
These recent performances prove that Alliance are still a tier one side, despite their failure at the MDL Disneyland Paris Major Europe Closed Qualifier. We’ll keep an eye on their next few weeks with interest.
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