Team Liquid eliminates Team Secret at The International


Team Liquid improves their record to 9-0 in the main event as they dominate Team Secret and secure a top-three finish at The International 2019. For the third year in a row, Secret is headed home after falling to their European rivals on the biggest stage in Dota 2. Game one was a trade-off between the two legendary captains as Clement “Puppey” Ivanov brought home Io and Omniknight, but had to watch as Kuro “KuroKy” Takhasomi secured Chen. And as has been the case throughout TI9, Liquid managed to take a surprising last pick, throwing Aliwi “w33” Omar onto his signature Meepo. The early game was even, but it wasn’t meant to last as Liquid quickly pulled ahead and started pressuring...

The Beasts are out! Team Secret joins the dropouts.


Despite having a good DPC season for  Team Secret, it seems that this is far as they can get into The International. Somehow they managed to place 4th and lose to Team Liquid who by far their toughest opponent ever faced on. Have they ever disappointed the fans? Well some of us due to their lack of performance displayed during The International while performing at their peak levels through out the season's Majors and Minor tournaments.   Nevertheless they beaten down one of the Chinese favored team Vici Gaming with a 2-0 standing under 30 minutes of gameplay. Something the fans looked forward to Team Secret's performance too. As dominant as they looked in the lower bracket, they fell short...

The International 2019 : Main Event (Day 5)


So many heartbreaks and losses experienced today as we saw one of the most iconic teams dropped out in the tournament finishing only at 5-6th. Evil Geniuses losses to Team Liquid with a devastating 2-0 standing with no hope of a comeback during the match. It would seem to be a one-sided said by most of the viewers around the world. Infamous on the other hand also dropped out together with EG, but it seems that this was a huge milestone for them as they finished with only few resources they had just to qualify and earn the respect of dota fans this far. But tomorrow, as the two last days of The International remains, Two teams will also go...

Villains are out! Evil Geniuses drop from The International


  As difficult as it seems, Evil Geniuses had been eliminated from The International 2019 by Team Liquid. With the hopes of reclaiming the aegis of champion once more, they were stopped and demolished with a 2-0 standing. Artour "Arteezy" Babaev heartbreaking loss took a toll in his career now that they only finished top 6 with what seems for the fans that he performed poorly in the entire run. Finishing top 5-6th, will Evil Geniuses comeback stronger? or shall we witness the inevitable fate of changing rosters. However they may not be re shuffling as we have yet to see them as five in Singapore to train 5 national dota2 teams at Razer's SEA Games Esports Bootcamp. The boot...

First teams to direct invite to IEM


According to the initial information of ESL, Team Liquid and Astralis are the first teams to receive direct invites to the next Intel Extreme Masters (IEM). Both teams are now excited fighting for the trophy which will be take place to Beijing-Haidan, China.

The Bearers of the curse. Will it break? or the curse lives on.


One thing made more apparent this year is the invincibility of Team Secret and Virtus.pro. These beasts were the first to secure the first two slots to this year’s The International after appearing in two consecutive grand finals of a Major tournament. Though they’ve already achieved the goal everyone else was clamoring for even before the season reached its halfway point, the powerhouses’ dominance didn’t stop there. Team Secret and Virtus.pro closed the 2018-19 Dota Pro Circuit as the first and second seed, respectively. When it comes to The International, however, it becomes a whole other story. Both teams have a history of underperforming during the annual Dota 2 world championship no matter how strong they were in the preceding...

CS:GO Fnatic new potential roster


Upon reaching all fourteen CS:GO Majors this year, The news follows of disappointing results of Fnatic failing to reach a Major for the first time in the history of the competition after finishing in fourth place at the recent Europe Minor. Fnatic still disappoint and their effort aren't sufficient enough to secure a place at the Major. Fundamentally, both management and players agree that this is unacceptable of the standards and set their selves and of the black and orange in general. On the official statement of Fnatic in their Twitter account. They announce the initial changes of their CS:GO new rooster as Simon ‘twist’ Eliasson and Richard ‘Xizt’ Landström will moved in their bench. Richard ‘Xizt’ Landström stated: “I'm thankful...

FIBA: Clarkson has well wishes for Gilas


Clarkson is in the original 19-man Gilas team for the upcoming FIBA World Cup in China and naturally, the plan was for him to pair up with Andray Blatche to form a deadly 1-2 combo. (PSC file photo from Asian Games)   Gilas Pilipinas is moving on from Jordan Clarkson. Clarkson is in the original 19-man Gilas team for the upcoming FIBA World Cup in China and naturally, the plan was for him to pair up with Andray Blatche to form a deadly 1-2 combo. However, the Philippines is sticking to Blatche as its guy for the naturalized player spot and Jordan, who is Fil-American but not counted as a local by FIBA, is once again left in the dust. “I...

Villains sent to the Lower Bracket at TI9


Kindly remind us again what year is it, because, from what we’re seeing, OG and Evil Geniuses are facing off once again in the semifinals of a TI. A full year after OG defeated Evil Geniuses en route to writing arguably the biggest underdog story in esports history by winning The International 2018, these two Dota 2 teams are back at it again. The only difference is that, this time, there are no underdogs. Although one could argue that OG, the defending champions, are technically underdogs heading into TI9 after barely receiving a direct invite to the event, no one making a sound and logical betting prediction tomorrow will think that following OG’s performance over the past few days. After all, we just saw OG...

The International 2019 : Main Event (Day 4)


The International 9 Main Event Day 3 Standings! The 3rd day of the playoffs has been a wholesome battle between monstrous teams. Déjà vu is the word that we're looking for to describe the result of the day 3 matches as Vici Gaming was easily flushed out to the lower bracket by their fellow chinese team PSG.LGD securing the 3rd spot. The match-up that dota2 fans are looking forward to as EG failed to claim their revenge towards OG with an intense battle and indirect trash talking with each other throughout their best of three series. It is again the rematch of the TI8 runner up PSG.LGD versus the current grand champions OG. Also an extraordinary fight between Team Secret...

The International 2019 : Main Event (Day 3)


The International 9 Main event standings! Day 2 has it's ups and downs following with huge upsets from top tier team losing to underdogs, emotional loss has been witnessed today by most of the fans from around the world as we saw our favoured teams walk away with a devastating loss and a heavy heart knowing they won't be continuing their run to claim the Aegis of champion. Virtus Pro and TNC Pro bids farewell of this main event but surely they gave all of their best to hold on but unfortunately in run short as the other teams perform better. However, lower bracket matches will be more intense as we will witness tomorrow who will stay and who will...

The International 2019 : Main Event (Day 2)


The International 9 Main Event Day Standings! The Main Stage day 1 kicks off with a lot of surprises and immense clash of talents from all of the match-ups today. Four teams ended up bidding their farewell to the Aegis of Champions. Fnatic on their unanimous loss on Team liquid, Keen Gaming in their early game advantage turned upset against Infamous, Na`Vi in their GG Push failure against Mineski and an upsetting draft error of Alliance compromising their victory against Royal Never Give UP. As Wykrhm Reddy said "anyone is gonna beat anyone" at The International 9, PSG.LGD gives a convincing victory against Virtus Pro and an acrobatic win of Vici Gaming against TNC Pro knocking both Virtus Pro and...

The International 2019 : Main Event (Day 1)


TI9 Group stage has ended and the Main event starts on August 20 with sixteen teams in contention. The International is in a league of its own as it boasts the biggest prize pool in esports. The sixteen teams remaining at TI9 all have a chance to possibly win the Grand Finals. Last year, OG was on the verge of disbanding before they qualified for TI8. Fans and analysts did not consider OG to be a favorite for TI9 and yet the European team surprised one and all with their performance. They took home the lion’s share of the $25,532,177 prize pool. The International 2019 Brackets Valve announced the TI9 brackets after the Group Stage. Round one of the Lower...

Team Secret vs TNC TI9


Team Secret vs TNC Match Winner - Team Secret Both teams have been acknowledged as fierce and tough competitors in the dota2 scene though team secret is more intimidating than TNC considering their current stance in the group stage. Team secret's run in The International 9 group stage has been an amazing start for the team making them strongest contender within their bracket. With their 4-0 (8points) standing, they've proven themselves to be upright by unanimously defeating Alliance, Newbee, Keen Gaming and the TI7 champions Team liquid. TNC on the other hand struggled a little bit in their past performances having an upset loss towards Mineski (2-0). Amidst immense work against tough teams Keen Gaming (2-0), LGD (1-1), Alliance(1-1) and...

The Bracket of Death, Bracket B


We all know that bracket are distributed equally, but we can't help and notice the teams in bracket B are all strong. We can't even count out the South American Team Infamous. This bracket will be full of bloodbath from day 1 to day 3. Many items will be lost and predictions proven wrong. We have EG the Villains, Fnatic the SEA TITANS, Infamous the Underdogs, NAVI the Fan Favorites, NIP the Masterminds, OG the TI8 Champions, RNG the Darkhorse, VG the CHINESE #2, and lastly Virtus.Pro the Major Slayers. Anyone can win in this bracket but we all know who's gonna be at the top 1st  = VG because this chinese team is very consistent and has a very...

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