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Dota 28 years agoAndreea "divushka" Esanu

EHOME’s adversaries for the MDL Winter grand finals have been decided

It is the day of the finals at the MarsTv Dota 2 Winter League, a western lower bracket opening series between OG and Evil Geniuses will decide who faces EHOME in the best-of-five grand finals.

Game One:

In the first game of the western semifinals in Wuxi, OG brought their old fashioned and reliable Io - Tiny combo into play, but Evil Geniuses was prepared to play against it, drafting with a ganking and team fighting orientated line-up.

Old man’s Enigma got a very good start, getting involved in a first blood at minute two. This was followed by a second kill in the middle lane which got him level six at five minutes and a Mekanism at seven minutes.

With those two team fight tools secured so early, EG was able to group up and force OG to fight when they were not ready for the unrelenting aggression.

On the back of continuous scouting from Peter 'ppd' Dager’s Treant, Artour 'Arteezy' Babaev’s pickoffs were a very easy task to accomplish, propelling the kill score to 13-1 in EG favor 17 minutes into the game. Four minutes later, Evil Geniuses was already pushing high ground with a BKB Enigma; needless to say, they took game one in a more than convincing manner.

Game Two:

A similar story could be told for the second game of the semifinals; both teams went with slightly different hero choices. The draft constants were Io for OG and Enigma for Clinton 'Fear' Loomis.

Evil Geniuses's early rotations once again forced OG into a difficult position where they could neither defend towers nor safely farm their jungle. This allowed EG's Ravage into Black Hole combo to come online whilst OG’s under leveled supports were struggling for what scrapes of XP they could find. However, the support's efforts were futile as they found XP too little to late, being unable to make the difference in team fights.

The game ended under 30 minutes with EG proceeding to the MDL Winter grand finals where they will face EHOME.

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