Taiga saves his team from being eliminated!

January 22, 2020 Helvert Jess Tagaan

In the last best-of-one game in Leipzig, Virtus.pro versus Team Liquid, the CIS squad felt comfortable playing against the powerful Naga Siren-Disruptor combo, and chose to target Max “qojqva” Bröcker with their bans. VP’s plan was to counter the big combo with durable heroes that would be able to survive the initiations. They had Lifestealer and an interesting position five Enchantress and were able to win the safe lane with these two. VP’s durability scared Liquid to some degree, and although they were walking with five Aghanim’s Scepters in their inventories and even a Refresher Orb on the Disruptor, they were still reluctant to push the issue on the high ground. The game reached the 70-minute mark with an extremely tanky Virtus.pro lineup that was able to hold onto their top lane of barracks. Liquid’s Storm Spirit and Naga Siren died back in that fight and opened the path for VP to end the game right there. With three heroes watching how VP was gunning at the throne, Liquid’s Tommy “Taiga” Le on Dark Willow and Samuel “Boxi” Svahn on Slardar managed to save the day and stopped the VP push when the Throne dropped at only 280 HP. Virtus.pro was wiped by an Aghs-Hurricane Pike-Monkey King Bar-Moon Shard overfarmed Dark Willow and made the GG call at the 72-minute mark in an epic ending of the game and of the first day of the playoffs at the Leipzig Major.

Day two will bring to the spotlight Team Secret fighting against Fnatic, and the Dota 2 El Clasico Alliance vs Na’Vi in the upper bracket semi-finals, while in the lower bracket it will be Nigma fighting for survival against beastcoast and Invictus Gaming vs Team Aster.

source: vpesports.com