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Rattlesnake eliminates Quantic from The International 3


In the battle of unorthodox drafts, Rattlesnake came out on top, beating match favourite Quantic Gaming 3-1 to secure the final spot in The International 3.

Although having lost their chance to compete for the million, Quantic will still be staying in Seattle till the end of the event. As for Rattlesnake, the latter will be placed in group B to face Invictus Gaming at 20:00 CEST tomorrow.

Group A

Group B

 

It's the holy grail of The International 3 coverage!

 

Match report

Game one

Pre-creep spawn:  Clinkz picked up the Double Damage rune and nearly killed Weaver who was competing for it. Weaver narrowly escaped and salved up.

5:09 - Quantic got overaggressive and sacrificed all three tri-lane heroes for Nyx Assassin. Rattlesnake drew First Blood.

6:30 - Quantic got some revenge kill on mid-lane. The score is now 3-3.

8:00 - Rattlesnake took down Quantic's top tier-one tower after killing Dark Seer. Tier-two tower was damaged significantly but Rattlesnake backed off as Quantic arrived.

11:00 - Rattlesnake finished top tier-two tower and middle tier-one tower as well.

15:00 - Rattlesnake traded Nyx Assassin for Enchantress and Visage. Subsequently, Rattlesnake took down the bottom tier-one tower. The Chinese attempted for tier-two but Quantic managed to defend it. Quantic's counter-attacked and took down Rattlesnake's bottom tier-one. They sacrificed the Clinkz for it though.

17:53 - Big fight broke out on the middle lane. Rattlesnake managed to defend their tier-one but the Shadow Fiend died in the process. This is Shadow Fiend's fourth death.

21:51 - Batrider doing a lot of work for Quantic, this time, they picked off Dragon Knight. Rattlesnake's top tier-two tower fell shortly after.

25:46 - Another huge fight occured as Rattlesnake were killing Roshan. Batrider got stunned before the fight began and things quickly turned sour for Quantic despite the buybacks. Quantic lost everybody except for Clinkz who escaped by popping his BKB. Rattlesnake took down Roshan. Aegis to Shadow Fiend.

31:43 - Rattlesnake's smoke gank was successful in picking off the Visage. Despite backdoor protection, Rattlesnake pushed middle tier-two and took it down after Quantic's big effort in stopping it.

33:15 - Quantic blew the Replica Wall and lost another fight on the Dire side of the map. Enchantress, Batrider and Visage died. Rattlesnake took down middle melee barracks.

37:06 - Rattlesnake introduced their new gem at the Rosh pit. Dark Seer made an epic vacuum, vacuuming all of Rattlesnake to the low ground but it was still not enough. Quantic lost yet another fight, losing four heroes in the process. Dark Seer escaped. Rosh went to Rattlesnake. Aegis went to Shadow Fiend.

42:00 - Rattlesnake rushed into the top lane and engaged Quantic way past the tier-three tower. Clinkz and Enchantress melted immediately. Both had no buybacks and Quantic called gg.

 


 

Game two

03:00 - With the help of an invisible rune, Tidehunter picked up the First Blood on Puck.

05:00 - Nature's Prophet couldn't do much against Rattlesnake's safe-lane trilane. Quantic's bottom tier-one tower went down.

08:06 - Two for one trade on the bottom lane. Nyx could have sniped Prophet but lost sight of him as he walked uphill. Nyx and Bane died to kill Prophet.

11:06 - Quantic killed Gyrocopter, Nyx and Tidehunter on the bottom lane. Rattlesnake tried to push top but Quantic popped the glyph and denied the tower.

14:00 - First full fledged team fight broke out. Keeper of the Light's Blinding Light pushed Bane into the trees and trapped him among the trees. With no teleport or Quelling Blade, he stood there as the rest of his teammates fought 4v5. All five of Rattlesnake died.

19:30 - While Rattlesnake headed into Quantic's jungle, Quantic moved into the Rosh pit and took down Roshan. The Aegis was given to Chaos Knight.

22:00 - Quantic took an uncontested bottom tier-one tower. They faced some late retaliation at the tier-two and quickly took care of it. Tier-two went down as well.

24:20 - Quantic took two uncontested outer towers on the top lane.

29:00 - Rattlesnake stopped Quantic's gg push on the middle lane off a great Ravage and Call Down.

30:16 - Quantic killed Roshan and the Aegis once again, went to Chaos Knight.

36:15 - Aegis expired. Quantic did not attempt to push with the Aegis.

37:55 - Rattlesnake smoked and nearly picked off Io. The latter tethered away and Quantic turned around to fight Rattlesnake. Despite all the AOE's dropped, four of Rattlesnake died.

39:29 -  Quantic took no time rushing up Rattlesnake's base. The battle broke out at the rax and Quantic overwhelmed Rattlesnake. Rattlesnake called gg.

 


 

Game three

3:35 -  Quantic initiated on Rattlesnake and while they took their time to kill Crystal Maiden, Visage drew First Blood on Leshrac.

5:20 -  Beastmaster solo kills Dark Seer on the middle lane. Roar came after the Surge.

07:00 - Roar once again went down on Dark Seer. With the help of the Crystal Maiden, Rattlesnake secured the second kill on Dark Seer.

08:20 - An engagement broke off at the bottom lane and this time, Quantic came out on top. Quantic dived the tier-one tower to secure three kills. Io died after Gyrocopter teleported in. Score is 4-4.

09:50 - Another fight happened on the bottom lane. Both teams traded two heroes in the skirmish. Crystal Maiden died a minute later to Sven-Io relocate.

12:30 - Rattlesnake traded Gyrocopter for three of Quantic on the bottom tier-one tower. The tower subsequently fell.

14:35 - Rattlesnake pushed the top tier-one tower. Quantic tried to trade towers for it but an immediate teleport to the middle lane resulted in the death of three Quantic heroes. Io and Sven relocated in to kill the Chaos Knight but Sven could not get away in time as he died with one second left on Io's relocate. Rattlesnake took Roshan.

17:50 - After killing Gyro's Aegis, Quantic ran from the Rattlesnake's reinforcement. Quantic nearly got the turn around as Sven cut them off on their path back but a misclick on the Storm Bolt (on the boar) resulted in the death of four Quantic heroes.

21:00 - In desperate need to win a fight, Quantic smoked and were able to pick off the Chaos Knight. However, they still lost the fight with the Gyrocopter coming in and Chaos Knight buying back. After the Sven went down, they chased the Lich for a long while before killing him in the Dire jungle.

26:10 - Rattlesnake denied bottom tier-one tower. Rattlesnake took down Roshan without any disturbance from Quantic. Gyrocopter took the Aegis.

29:19 - Quantic finally got their Chain Frost bouncing. The Chain Frost bounced between Chaos Knight and Gyrocopter while Sven with God's Strength started chopping away. Gyrocopter, Chaos Knight and collateral damage Crystal Maiden in their attempt to push high ground.

33:01 - Rattlesnake destroyed Quantic's final outer tower.

37:55 - Gyrocopter picked up Satanic after surviving a two for two trade on the middle lane. Rattlesnake strolled into the Rosh pit and took down Roshan. Aegis to Gyrocopter, Cheese to Chaos Knight.

41:10 - Together with the Aegis and the Cheese, Quantic finally pulled off a successful push. Rattlesnake used the Roar on Sven and with that, Gyrocopter was able to regen to full hp with Satanic and fight Sven. They killed Sven and took down the middle rax. Quantic tried to defend as Rattlesnake went for the bottom rax but fighting against Aegis and Cheese was just too much.

 


 

Game four

Pre-creeps spawn: Rattlesnake ran dual lane of CK and AA mid while Keeper of the Light and Storm Spirit went up against Nature's Prophet on the bottom lane.

02:37 - Chen smoked mid to gank the Chaos Knight but was unsuccessful in doing so as Rattlesnake backed off.

05:20 - Storm and Keeper of the Light secured their second kill on Prophet. Keeper of the Light's mana leak build ensured that Prophet couldn't get away while Storm vortex'd Prophet as he tried to teleport out.

06:59 - Rattlesnake secured two kills on opposite side of the map. Ancient Apparition on Queen of Pain and Weaver on Tinker. Score is 4-1 in favour of Rattlesnake.

09:00 - Prophet narrowly escaped Storm. Storm missed and overload and Prophet got away on 10 hp. The Illuminate was less than a second late to clip as well.

11:38 - After getting juked by Weaver on the top lane, Queen of Pain picked up a double kill on Chaos Knight and Ancient Apparition. Three heroes were present for the kills.

16:00 - Long drawn out fight came to an end with Rattlesnake coming up on top just slightly.

17:30 -  All hell nearly broke loose when Rattlesnake found out Quantic were sneaking Roshan. Rattlesnake did not engage Quantic in the Rosh pit but used Storm to stop them from claiming the Aegis while Chaos Knight farmed bot.

21:00 - Quantic performed a 5-man gank on Weaver but the slippery hero narrowly escaped.

22:00 - Realizing Weaver was low, Quantic moved into the Rosh pit but was once again stopped by Rattlesnake.

22:50 - Quantic finally picked off the Keeper of the Light and Storm Spirit. Quantic proceeded to take down Roshan. Aegis to Tinker.

25:19 - Rattlesnake picked off Prophet and Queen of Pain separately. Quantic's middle tier-two tower went down.

27:52 - Rattlesnake traded Chaos Knight for Prophet. At the same time, Weaver brought Quantic's bottom tier-three tower to 1/5 its health.

30:00 - The score is 23-13 after Rattlesnake picked off Chen and Prophet in separate occassions.

33:00 - In just four minutes, Prophet has died a grand amount of four times. Things are looking worse and worse for Quantic.

35:00 - Rattlesnake finally jumped into Quantic's base and Rattlesnake won the game convincingly.

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