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Dota 27 years agoIsaac "RedCrayon" Celis

The Boston Major: MVP.P falls as OG eliminates them 2-0

The last series of the day saw OG and the Koreans in a fight for their lives at the Boston Major. Despite their aggression, MVP.P fell to OG 2-0, opening the path to the next stage for the guys in green.  

Game One

In game one, OG started off with the classic Shadow Demon-Luna combo that saw great success in the group stage and in today's earlier series. Meanwhile, MVP Phoenix surprised yet again with a first pick Vengeful Spirit, going for an early-midgame end with a last pick Sniper. OG also surprised at the end of the draft, with a brilliant last pick Ember Spirit for the young Anathan 'ana-' Pham.

The early game started off as expected, with MVP looking for pick-offs, applying aggression all over the map. MVP found first blood on Johan 'N0tail' Sundstein when he got caught out buying a tp from the side-shop. OG answered back quickly with a kill on Sun 'QO' Kim in the mid-lane via a smoke from Jesse 'JerAx' Vainikka and Tal 'Fly' Azik. From the eight minute mark, MVP decided to five man and began pressuring OG's mid tier one tower, finally taking it at around 11:30. However, all that time spent gave OG space to farm, and despite MVP's continual aggression, the game seemed to tilt in OG's favour.

OG showed their farm advantage in a great engagement at 13:20, sandwiching MVP in the bottom lane, pushing their net worth and exp lead even further. With the team fight loss, MVP looked in dire straits—underscored by the fact that even at 16 minutes, Dooyoung 'DuBu' Kim's Vengeful Spirit had still not reached level six. However, MVP seemed to bounce back quickly, as they took OG's bottom tier two tower at 18, a few minutes after the disaster. OG gave chase but lost four in the process, underestimating Yongmin 'febby-dieu' Kim's tanky Abaddon, and the physical damage output of Sang-Don 'Forev' Lee's Weaver and Taesung 'Velo' Kim's Juggernaut.

MVP capitalized off OG's mistake, and QO picked up an early BKB, looking to end the game before the Luna-SD combo starts rolling. MVP smoked up and caught three from OG at 25, prompting them to siege OG's bottom high ground. Despite taking the tier three, MVP overstayed their welcome and OG held, losing no barracks and starting their own momentum. OG continually split the map with that momentum, and with their cores well-farmed, they methodically took down MVP's towers and barracks. Without any way to clear the pesky Luna illusions, and with their cores under farmed, MVP called gg around the 40 minute mark.

Game Two

Game two saw MVP go for a much more mobile draft, picking up Mirana for Forev, and Pudge for febby. OG, much like game one, went for quite a standard draft, picking JerAx's classic and well-loved Earth Spirit, Terrorblade for N0tail, and Axe for Gustav 's4' Magnusson.

MVP looked to start the aggression much earlier than in game one, as an aggressive smoke by DuBu and febby gave them the first blood on N0tail's TB, in the process, febby was killed via a timely tp from JerAx. Continuing the aggression, MVP rotated mid shortly after and killed ana-'s Invoker, they then focused on the bottom half of the map, where Velo struggled against the s4 and Fly dual lane. With pressure off of him, N0tail simply free-farmed as the solo Forev was unable to contest against him, casting a foreboding shadow for the late game. This trend continued with the rest of the OG squad, and despite MVP's aggression—using four smokes by the 10 minute mark—the Europeans stayed relatively even in farm and exp. Much like game one, as the contest wore on, OG continually got ahead. To make matters worse, DuBu fell behind in levels once again: level five at the 20 minute mark.

At 12, OG smoked and found two from MVP, which transitioned into a mid tier one tower. MVP quickly retorted, and took four from the Europeans, allowing them to Roshan at 15, however, two heroes and the aegis were lost right after. Shortly after, OG caught out QO's Weaver but lost two towers top in the process. As the game dragged on, MVP's aggression and continual pressure seemed all for naught as OG took four at 22:30 without the Warlock golem. A number of other fights followed the engagement, but a brilliant trap at 28 sealed MVP's elimination. Ana- played possum, which allowed OG to catch MVP off-guard, taking four, a set of barracks, and after a few more minutes, the win. Despite their aggression and Korean blood, MVP were simply too under farmed to deal with the immense pushing power and lead from the OG lineup.

Unlike previous Valve events, we bid farewell to MVP Phoenix after this loss in the cutthroat single elimination bracket. Tomorrow, four more will be eliminated, and will join MVP, compLexity Gaming, Wings Gaming and iG Vitality in elimination.

The first series tomorrow is set to start at 4:00 pm CET, with Digital Chaos up against Team Faceless, it can be watched live here.

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Isaac "RedCrayon" CelisLoL refugee. DOTA lover. EE fanboy. Hit me up about anime, dota and anything else you can think of

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