G-1 Day 2: Groupstage over, Alliance moves on to the final

DK opts for the high impact trilane of Leshrac, Visage and Earthshaker and sends it down to the botlane versus Mushi's solo Weaver, whom they manage to kill a few times. The supports from Orange responds by picking up a kill on Burning aswell as on Super, thus ensuring that the top and midlane are won by Orange while leaving the offensive tri of DK as a lost cause, since the hero is basically lacking a snowball hero anyway. DK capitalizes on mistakes made by Mushi to get back into the game, Weaver keeps being a non-force. Although a few mistakes and overextensions the other way around actually grants Weaver a few good fights and Orange regains some momentum. However, Orange keeps making crucial mistakes, and Ky.xy gets picked off way too often, some if it due to missjudged initations by him. DK takes control of the fights in what is seemingly and even game and with a massively farmed Burning, they manages to breach the base, take down the heroes of Orange and proceed to destroy the buildings. DK takes the game.

It’s time for the big game, LGD vs Alliance. Both teams having a score of 3-0 currently, and have been showing impressive performances in all their games. LGD falls back on what appears to be the same strategy as they have been running all their games so far, focused around Kunkka and aggression. Although this game they decided to run safe lane tri and trade farm with the Phantom Lancer of Alliance. The game started out well for LGD, giving Bulldog a hard time bot aswell as taking down towers in a very crazy pace. Using smoke ganks and Kunkka’s X, they also find kills around the map, while Alliance fails their gank attempts due to Coco’s Rum and the general tankiness of Kunkka. LGD is in a good position and goes for applying pressure to the base using the farmed bear. However, during this, Lancer gets farmed and only teleports back in the last second while KotL + Clock stalls the push. Once the clash starts, s4 with his famous Magnus moves together with EGM's well stolen skills (such as Ghost Ship) helps defending the base and winning the clashes. LGD tries the same thing multiple times, not getting any farm to talk about while Loda just gets bigger and bigger. The rest of Alliance also gains advantage because of their successful defending and won clashes. Loda buys Boots of Travel and applies pressure everywhere, LGD are forced to teleport back atleast three heroes every time he approaches the base. LGD fail to keep it up forever, Alliance breach their base with hooks and skewers, takes down the barracks and the game is eventually won by Alliance. By winning the game, Alliance also won the group and are guaranteeed to play the final.

Invictus Gaming goes up against DK eSports, both teams having 0-2 since yesterday and both teams really need to win. IG seemed a bit lost in their first games both in terms of picks as well as play, very uncharacteristic of them. Ferrari plays Alchemist mid this game and goes for early rotations and ganks, more of a utility build. YYF plays really well during the start of this game, stacking an enemy creep camp and killing it off before hitting his own jungle to reach level 6 at minute 6 and pick up his dagger at minute 9. The trilane from DK bot gets disrupted by iG and DK feels severely crippled. The signature moves and rotations from iG seems to be back and track to some extent, they force the tempo of the game and seals the deal on all the clashes with great usage of both Alchemist aswell as Luna’s ultimate. iG takes the win.

LGD went for their Kunkka-focused line-up and for the offensive trilane once again. The game started out very well by some incredible juking and control by Sylar in the botlane when Fluff and Bulba teamed up to gank him. With Shadow Demon teleporting in, LGD gets the first blood. A similar situation happens a bit later but this time Liquid adds Korok in the mix. This doesn’t stop Sylar from controlling all of them like a pro, resulting in more kills going their way and none for Liquid. The trilane from LGD also finds kills top lane, being very aggressive. LGD getting a substantial lead and getting really tanky, especially with the buff from the Ghost Ship. Liquid tries out a few engagements but LGD heroes just won’t drop. LGD pushes out and the game is cut short.

For the first game of the day, Alliance started the day with an impressive excibition of their teamwork. The show started with a kill on the Dire courier by AdmiralBulldog's Nature's Prophet, who also scored the first blood with the help of Akke.

The choice of Phantom Assassin and Windrunner proved wise against the offensive trilane of the Malaysians, as the two elusive heroes avoided most of the kill attempts against them. The trilane of Shadow Demon, Gyrocopter and Sand King, that could otherwise destroy the enemy carry, could not play the game they wanted.

With the global presence of AdmiralBulldog and s4's teamfight control, Orange seemed to be in huge disadvantage in every teamfight. They chose to stop trying to get kills until they build a stable inventory and get back on their feet from the early game fiasco, forgetting that they were facing a hero Loda has mastered - Phantom Assassin. They even attempted to kill a 29 minute Roshan, spending two buybacks to prevent Alliance from stealing the kill. The Aegis on Mushi did not improve the situation, as Loda took Mushi down shortly after. Aided by the carries' excessive farm, Alliance's damage was getting too high for Orange to handle.

After a predictable Smoke gank against Alliance, the Malaysians realised their last hope had faded - Loda and the boys marched inside the Dire base, taking two sets of barracks and wiping Orange once again. The bottom barracks felt shortly after, with Loda showcasing the potential of his shiny inventory. Alliance takes the first game of Day 2.

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