PriDe report: Swedes are out

No Swedish team remains in Prime Defending as Team Q and SK-Gaming were defeated in the loser brackets round 4 games. MYM vs Virtus.Pro was not played.

Winner brackets finals between Meet Your Makers and Virtus.Pro has been postponed to Saturday 23/02/08 15:00 CET. In the lower brackets fourth round has just been finished when The elder Gods from Romania defeated Swedish SK-Gaming. They will face Ukrainians from WolkeR-Gaming who managed to succeed against another Swedish team - Team Q.

Team Q vs WolkeR-Gaming

First blood came rather quickly, Axypa trying to disturb Jesse farming the scourge forest happened to be an easy prey as Penguin came to help his ally out. Ukrainians brought up Viper, by far the only reasonable counter against Shadow Fiend. Fiend usually gets some harass early until level 5-6, but then tends to dominate lane, if his opponents do not arrange successful ganks. However, from early levels Drake has superior damage, health and harass ability and when he turns level six, his Viper Strike means almost always a kill every time he manages to cast it on the Fiend. This plan Travka pretty much executed middle, opening the killing fiesta with hasted Twin Head at level 3. Dendi was playing a very dominant Sand King, roaming around the map, dodging projectile spells with Sand Storm and chaining some clever moves with his team mates. Replay, unfortunately, is not available due to Goblak having drop issues, but you can watch it via GG-TV

The elder Gods vs SK-Gaming

SK removed two most powerful spell tanks and spell caster eradicator - Nerub. On the other hand TeG removed two most powerful gankers and the best pusher. Hence Romanians went for three strong lanes and Luna jungling and later carrying, while SK concentrated on an AoE based line up with Magnataur initiation and Rikimaru prolonging the spell damage with his cloud, which initially was a very good idea facing a very fragile lineup, but supposing Riki enters the mid game fairly useful. Which he didn't. Freezer brutally executed the Dragon/Assassin lane he was facing starting with a double kill first blood and grabbing a fast unstoppable. Twin Head could not brace nor Riki nor himself from Queen's wrath, and loosing that lane cost Swedes the game. Rest of the game was just extension of that lost lane, mainly due to beautiful play by Freezer.
40 minute replay is available here, full game available on GG-TV.

Links
myMYM.com - source