Team Spirit were ruthless in their destruction of STARK, taking them down 3-0 in less than two hours, taking home the $3500 first place prize.
Despite being formed only this month, Artur 'Goblak' Kostenko and his men marched forwards without mercy, securing their 13th tournament game win in a row. With this result, Team Spirit walks home with the $3,500 prize pool and STARK eSports settles with thier $1000. As for the loser bracket finals, Fantastic Five edged out PRIES Gaming 2-1 in the best-of-three and claims the third place prize of $500.
The matches between STARK and Team Spirit and F 5 and PRIES concluded the European portion of the ProDota Cup. The next match of the ProDota Cup will be for its American division, four teams will be competing for their share of the $5,000 prize pool. The loser bracket finals will be a best-of-three between VoidBoys and T Show on the 23rd of December at 23:00 CET; winner gets $500, loser gets nothing. The grand finals will take place after the best-of-three on the 24th of December at 2:00 CET, the match will be a best-of-five between Shazam and E.Wolves; the winner gets $3500, the loser gets $1000.
Game analysis - E.Wolves, Void Boy favorites:
Based off past performances, the loser bracket finals will be a in favor of Void Boy as they have shown the potential to take down teams with star players such as Wu 'Sneyking' Wu in Power of Friendship (VB won 1-0) and Brain 'Fluff' Lee in Team Archon (2-1). Meanwhile, T Show recent games show them having lost to Levithan (0-1)and paiN (0-1), two comparatively weaker teams to Archon and PoF.
As for Shazam vs E.Wolves, E.Wolves have the advantage, having recently won a best-of-three against Shazam 2-0 in the MarsTV Dota2 League. In addition, Shazam have struggled against other strong South American teams like Not Today, losing 1-0 to them twice.
