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Dota 29 years agoAndreea "divushka" Esanu

MVP.Phoenix finishes second in wildcard qualifier

At the end of a very long day for both of the teams left to battle it out for the last spot in the main event of The International 5 MvP Phoenix is the 16th team to play in Key Arena, joining group A as Wild Card#2 winners.

Today was full of ups and downs for the Koreans who made their debut in the Wild Card competition against Team Archon with an unusual Phantom Assassin pick for Sun "QO" Kim in the mid lane and a safe lane Gyrocopter for Damien "kphoenii" Chok who snowballed  quite fast and took the first game.

Even though they lost the second game after a heart-stopping base race, MvP.Phoenix claimed the series with a 2-1 score and advanced to the second round in the upper bracket where they faced CDEC Gaming. During the laning phase of both of the games played in the series, they dominated the young and talented Chinese squad but they lost in the end due to a debatable greedy Bloodstone first item choice for QO’s Storm Spirit in game one, while in the second game they couldn’t stop the split push dished out by CDEC’s Broodmother and they were forced to drop to the Lower Bracket.

In the Lower Bracket they faced one of the favorites for this competition, Vega Squadron and the first game of the best of three series went terribly wrong for MvP.Phoenix who found themselves outdrafted and seriously outplayed by Vega and their experienced offlane player Andrey "Mag" Chipenko (Darkseer) who delivered the perfect Wall of Replica combo into Winter Wyvern's ultimate so that Queen of Pain's scream would just wipe four players at once.

Coming into the second with the elimination spectre looming above their heads, MvP.Phoenix had the most exciting game of the entire day that almost ended up with yet another base race after 57 minutes of very intense DotA. After they managed to get an early first set of racks the game was won without a doubt by the Febby - March duo, Io and Bristleback, who were constantly relocating to Vega’s base, not allowing them to make a decisive five man push at any point in the game. Despite the fact that they played an amazingly good defensive game, Vega Squadron couldn’t take the enemy ancient not even with a Divine Rapier on Pasha’s Ember Spirit. 

The “Do or Die” last game of the series proved to be too much to handle for the Russian squad who looked very emotionally marked by their loss in the second agme. They got outdrafted by the Koreean squad who chose Omniknight for their last pick to nullify the entire Vega draft that was relying only on physical damage, and in the end they got outplayed once again by the Bristleback- Io invincible duo in only 32 minutes.


 


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