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Dota 28 years agoAndreea "divushka" Esanu

The Summit 5: Virtus.Pro win the European qualifier

Regional qualifiers for the fifth iteration of The Summit 5 finished on Sunday with Virtus.Pro claiming the European spot for the LAN event.

After a very good performance in phase two of the European qualifiers, the Greeks from Ad Finem fell short against Virtus.Pro in the Grand Finals. The Russians received a tier two invite for The Summit 5 regional qualifiers and had to fight their way to Los Angeles from the first phase of the competition. They’ve joined Team Empire, Ad finem and Alliance in phase two after a perfect run in the opening stages, where they didn’t drop a single game and reached the grand finals from the upper bracket.

Ad Finem started with an impressive win against Team Empire but couldn’t resist VP in in the upper bracket final. However, they defeated Alliance 2-0 in the lower bracket and rejoined Artsiom 'fng' Barshaks' team in the Grand Finals. The best of five final act of The Summit 5 European qualifiers started off smoothly for VP who took game one, however Giorgos 'SsaSpartan' Giannakopoulos and Omar 'Madara' Dabasas got their hands on their by now signature Disruptor and Slark for the next two games and took the lead, with the caveat that VP was forced to play the last couple of minutes of the third game with four men as Ilya 'ALOHADANCE' Korobkin lost his internet connection. 

Everything returned to normal for VP with the fourth game and they tied the series. With a last pick Clinkz for ALOHADANCE that shut down all Ad Finem’s combos in the decisive game five, Virtus Pro secured their spot at The Summit 5 LAN.

The Summit 5 will be held at the famous BTS house in LA from 13th to 17th of July with eight teams fighting for the $100,000 prize pool. For now only the four qualified sides are known, with the four directly invited squads yet to be announced.

The Summit 5 participating teams:

TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
United States Digital Chaos
China Wings Gaming
Malaysia Fnatic
Russia Virtus.Pro

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