After 2 days of intense games, the tournament is finally over. It took 2 days instead of initially planned 3-day schedule, so the teams had to show some stamina to play for about 12 hours straight.
GEST: The challenge took place on 5-6, December. The format was Double elimination with best-of-three series, while the Grand Finals was Bo5 with 1 game winner bracket advantage. All games were casted by LD and co-commentated by Bulba, EternalEnvy and Luminous. Here is the list of those who participated:
Orange Esports
- Ice
- Xtinct
- Yamateh
- KyXy
- iceiceice
MUFC
- Sharky
- Net
- Ling
- Ohaiyo
- xFreedom
LGD Gaming China
- xiao8
- Yao
- Sylar
- SC
- DDC
LGD Gaming International
- MiSeRy
- Pajkatt
- God
- Brax
- 1437
There were some great games with huge turnarounds, so it was definately worth a watch. The grandfinal was like "a family fight": LDG.int met LGD.cn. The latter came out of the losers bracket so they had a 1 game disadvantage.
After quite an easy win for the international squad in the first game, many would think that it is already decided. But don't you ever try to underestimate Chinese - they made it even at 2-2 and we had to see the match point game. LGD.int won that 5th game in a quite stylish (we can say that they have their own style now) manner, impressing a lot of people and taking the $1500 prize.
Source: DotaTalk
VoDs: LD's Youtube channel