All good things come to an end

The fifth leg of Farm4Fame: Second Blood has come to a close, with DDT triumphing over TheSHIT! with two convincing wins.



TheSHIT!'s form has been impressive of late, and after pulling through against DIPS, the team and their fans believed that they were ready to take on DDT, who are rumoured to be the best European team around at the moment, in the finals.


GAME ONE:

Lanes
TheSHIT!	DDT
Sentinel syndISTHESHIT (Mid) 13abyISTHESHIT (Bot) XoYISTHESHIT (Jungle) DrayISTHESHIT (Top) FireISTHESHIT (Mid)	Scourge MiioMiio|Ducky (Top) AEON.MiSeRy- (Mid) LiveAndLetLODA (Top) MYM|miGGel (Bot) Ks^Miracle.se (Jungle)
Mode: -cm Map: 6.66b
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The biggest mistake that TheShit made in this game was opting for a Warlock/Witch Doctor lane, which isn't nearly aggresive enough to hamper Morphling's farming, especially when it is Loda's. Things didn't at all well for TheShit as Baby's Storm was practically food for Miggel's Sven, being constantly ganked and not allowed to farm one bit. Earthshaker and Mirana were not nearly as successful as they should have been, failing multiple chances to kill Misery.

Storm and Shadow Fiend are both heroes which need to be shut down early or they'll take an iron grip on the game; the deciding factor in this match up was the fact that Baby's Storm was destroyed bottom, while Loda and Misery were allowed to farm up and pick off the Sentinel's heroes.

Sentinel were planning on relying on the massive team fight combo of Warlock, Witch Doctor and Earthshaker to tear the Scourge apart, allowing Mirana and Storm to clean up the spoils, but in order to control the game, one must control the lane stages; and frankly, a Warlock/Witch Doctor lane just doesn't cut it. Miggel completely shut down Baby, with a nothing short of superb Sven, which meant that TheShit didn't have a chance. Due to lack of lane control, Misery and Loda were able to do what they do best; farm up and rip their opposition apart.

GAME TWO:

Lanes
DDT	TheSHIT!
Sentinel AEON.MiSeRy- (Mid) Ks^Miracle.se (Roaming) LiveAndLetLODA (Bot) MiioMiio|Ducky (Top) MYM|miGGel (Top)	Scourge syndISTHESHIT (Bot) XoYISTHESHIT (Top) 13abyISTHESHIT (Mid) FireISTHESHIT (Top) DrayISTHESHIT (Roaming)
Mode: -cm Map: 6.66b
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Having been beat convincingly in the first game, TheSHIT! had everything to lose. The went with an extremely aggresive lineup, hoping the halt DDT's carries in their tracks. Juggernaut was used as a ganker instead of a hardcore carry, and this was executed extremely well by TheSHIT!, with Drayich grabbing a number of early game kills. Drayich was able to gank any lane and almost always grab a kill as Scourge's heroes synergised well with Juggernaut's bladespin.

In a short amount of time, TheSHIT! were on top of the game, harassing DDT left right and centre, especially Misery's Shadow Fiend. Having said that, Miggel was farming pretty well with Panda, surviving a number of ganks top. DDT had their backs against the wall, but thanks to some solid farming from Loda and Misery, they were able to out farm and out carry the Scourge.

Some poor decisions and team battle initiations put TheShit in more trouble than they deserved. The fragile Storm and Windrunner were no match for the farmed up Sentinel side, especially since Juggernaut was extremely underfarmed due to the gank role he played, not even having a battlefury after 30 minutes. Once Misery and Loda had their core items, they were able to kill off TheShit and push forward and win the game.

The performance provided by DDT has proved to everyone that they are seriously contenders for the F4F: Second Blood trophy. With this win, DDT has reached the same number of points as MYM and Nirvana.int, making the last leg of the "qualifier tournaments" a flat out race to see who takes the number one spot going into the playoffs. Stay tuned to GosuGamers for coverage of Farm4Fame 2.5.