March 29 ended Parimatch Dota 2 League Season 2. FlyToMoon scored a strong-willed victory in the final, yielding Virtus.pro in the course of the series with a score of 0: 2. Ilya ALOHADANCE Korobkin confirmed that the team is worthy of receiving invites from tournament operators. Virtus.pro demonstrated that it has not yet returned to the form that the team had before the canceled major in Los Angeles. About this and much more – in our material.
ALOHA was right
Last weekend FlyToMoon fought on two fronts: in the playoffs of the Parimatch League and in the media space, proving to tournament operators that the team deserves invites for the upcoming championships from ESL and WePlay !. On March 27, ALOHADANCE tweeted that his team did not receive invitations to the upcoming tournaments, although, according to him, the FTM is no less, and perhaps more than many, worthy of invites. I couldn’t immediately prove my words – the team lost the first match Hellraisers with a score of 0: 2.
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ALOHA continued to insist on his position on Twitter, and his team transformed into a lower grid. All three FTM cores took turns “salting” the game, and there were much less unsuccessful team fights with poor positioning.
The first two cards of the final FTM failed. Analysts noted a weak draft: Virtus.pro looked an order of magnitude stronger and more confident. Korobkin admitted that he was already preparing for 0: 3 and tweets that invites to the team can not be issued. However the third card V-tune on Riki took control – with 25 murders, he never died. In many ways, the fourth game was a turning point, in which Virtus.pro immediately seized the advantage. No[o]ne on Razor he brought out almost twice as much gold from the center line as Kunkka, who Zayac Rubick also steal ships constantly, arranging FTM funerals in the early teamfights. but Iceberg was able to return to the game, collecting BKB and Aghanim’s Scepter. The main power of Virtus.pro was concentrated precisely in Razor – after No[o]ne was killed, the team could not do enough damage. After several unsuccessful fights, Virtus.pro lost its advantage, while over the course of the game V-Tune overtook Cooman over the farm, which is why the Gyrocopter could not cope with the Phantom Lancer.
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Having won the fourth card, the FTM caught a wild courage, and in the decisive confrontation Iceberg on Queen of Pain destroyed Virtus.pro, ending with statistics 16-0-10. Now it’s hard to disagree with ALOHA: during the tournament, his team really showed that they deserve invites.
Virtus.pro and the rescue of the enemy Queen of Pain
A series of six easy victories and an unexpected failure – the path of Virtus.pro to the Parimatch League turned out to be really convoluted. In an interview with Cybersport.ru Solo He said that the players were upset because of the cancellation of the major, went home and did not train for more than a week. This affected the team’s performance in the tournament. WeSave! Charity playbut to the Parimatch League, according to Berezin, Virtus.pro came up prepared and motivated. The first six cards in the championship confirmed this – the team was head and shoulders stronger than the opponents and finished the game in 20-30 minutes.
I don’t feel like thinking about what happened in the final after the second card. Players will probably talk about this over time. The defeat of the FTM for Virtus.pro, of course, is not a tragedy – nevertheless, according to Solo, Dota is now extremely diverse, and therefore no team can be several goals stronger than others. However, the way the team gave this finale is alarming.
After the third card, Virtus.pro began to make mistakes unusual for it. If optional death No[o]ne, who went out to farm at the center with a recharge on BKB, is particular, then Decrepify in Queen of Pain in the fifth game is a consequence of communication problems.
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On the decisive map, Virtus.pro took Troll Warlord for Cooman and Pugna for Resolut1on. When the FTM seized the advantage and began to push, the desync began in the actions of this pair. Twice in a fight, Iceberg survived after Pugna threw Decrepify and Troll Warlord could not do damage. In the first case, in these few seconds presented, Queen of Pain managed to eat cheese and jump out.
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At the beginning of the playoffs Dmitry LighTofHeaveN Kupriyanov said that Virtus.pro does default and stable things, but in the final just the team didn’t have enough stability. Solo team for three days of the playoffs showed two completely different levels of the game. Virtus.pro, despite the defeat, remains one of the leaders in the region, but the team still has some weaknesses.
HellRaisers and the sick Nix
The defeat of HellRaisers in the match against FTM came as a surprise to many. The team Alexandra Nix Levin see you with Nigma was a winstrike of nine victories. HR during this time managed to beat almost everyone in the CIS, including Virtus.pro (2: 1) and Natus vincere (3: 0). The team was even close to defeating Nigma in the best-of-5 format series, which ended up with a score of 3: 2.
If the cancellation of a major hit on the motivation of the same Virtus.pro, then tournament quarantine had almost no effect on HR. The team approached the playoffs of the Parimatch League in great shape and began the tournament with a victory over the FTM, albeit obtained in a bitter struggle. Almost the entire first HR card was inferior, losing about 10-15 thousand gold, but one successful fight on Roshan and the Ultimate Disruptor with Aghanim’s Scepter turned everything upside down – Iceberg died after the ransom, xannii Aegis took, bought Divine Rapier and finished the game.
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