QPad Red Pandas proved their worth by taking down Team Empire in their debut. QPad Red Pandas is currently leading their group in Dreamhack Invitational grousptage.
In QPad Red Pandas debut yesterday, the newly formed team managed to defeat established CIS team, Team Empire in a three game thriller. Weh Sing 'SingSing' Yuen used Kunkka twice in the skirmish with Empire.
| Qpad Red Pandas vs Team Empire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 SeleCT SingSing Wagamama jrx Mini | vs |  blowyourbrain Scandal Silent Go[blin] Vigoss | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In Qpad Red Pandas debut into the competitive scene, they picked a fairly unorthodox AOE line-up going both Kunkka and Faceless Void. Kunkka laned in mid against Vigoss' Puck. QPandas support smoked up fairly quickly and took down Vigoss for the First Blood despite Kunkka missing his Torrent.
SeleCT overaggression on the off-lane proved fatal as Visage and Alchemist killed him before his teammates arrived. Both Chen and Shadow Demon died from Visage's high damage output too. Empire responded by taking down the tower after that. Free-farm Alchemist is now up to 91 creep kills at 14 minutes.
The game fell into a stand-off until Empire decided to go into the Rosh pit. All hell broke loose for the Russians as Singsing hits a big boat and took down the Dark Seer and Puck. All of QPandas was very low on health but big plays came out from the Chen, sending the Faceless Void back to base at the brink of death. All of QPandas retreated safely. Alchemist also lost his Aegis in the fight.
It was all downhill from there for Empire as they struggled to regain the lead. QPandas won another teamfight in the bottom lane, took down their first tower at 24 minutes, and eventually Roshan, and the game afterwards.
Empire took the First Blood just two minutes into the game in a trilane versus trilane situation with the Russians, having a slightly higher burst damage than QPandas.
The lane was so bad for QPandas that they sent Night Stalker to protect Luna at the first night time. The help worked to a certain extent as they took down the Wisp, but the Luna still fell to the Keeper of the Light. Chaos Knight is up to five assists at this point and no kills.
With such a bad start, QPandas switched their strat to DK's signature 4 protect 1 with some great success. They managed to pick off a few heroes who crossed the river at the expense of their own, the Luna gets time to farm though.
QPandas was making their comeback into the game as they picked off a few more of Empire's heroes who are behind enemy lines. A big fight broke out in the mid lane and was very much in favour of QPandas until the Keeper of the Light's Illuminate killed two of QPandas' supports. As the fog cleared, only Wisp was alive for Empire.
Empire had enough of the shenanigans and grouped up at top to push down QPandas' towers. QPandas attempted to defend their outer towers but ended up just extending Empire's slight gold lead. Empire took down two towers and was up by 12,000 gold in 22 minutes.
QPandas lost another teamfight in the Radiant jungle and Empire rolled into the Dire's base with a 20,000 gold lead.
After much success with their trilane versus trilane situation in game two, Empire once again used the offensive trilane with Gyrocopter, Keeper of the Light and Jakiro. Knowing that the lane was lost, QPandas supports rotated top and left the Faceless Void to fend for himself in the safe lane. However, QPandas got the First Blood on Warlock. Warlock died again shortly after although he did nearly took down the Brewmaster with him.
QPandas' small lead was diminished as the supports walked towards bot to help the Faceless Void while Empire's supports walked top to kill Brewmaster. The kill is 4-2 in favour of QPandas but Empire was up by 1,500 in gold, 7 minutes into the game.
Nyx Assassin spearheaded the ganks for QPandas in the mid-game. QPandas extended their kill score lead to 8-2 and Empire responded by grouping to push down towers.
24 minutes into the game, QPandas' Faceless Void was looking to get out of hand with Black King Bar and Maelstrom picked up. Empire forced a push and caught QPandas out of position and won the teamfight although Kunkka bought back and got a revenge kill on the Dark Seer. QPandas lost another team fight just minutes later in the Dire jungle because of their positioning.
Third time was the charm for SingSing. He finally landed a perfect ultimate and QPandas took down the whole of Empire in a swoop. Consequently, QPandas took down the Roshan and gave the Aegis to Kunkka.
Empire failed to keep their gold lead and QPandas won two more teamfights before walking into Empire's base.
The VOD of QPad Red Pandas debut against Empire is available here.
With the game over, QPad Red Pandas is now leading Group A with Team Empire following closely behind.
The only team who has not played a single game in the group is Team Liquid who will be playing two of their match-ups tonight against QPandas and Virtus.Pro.
The games are set to start at 18:00 CET and 21:00 CET respectively.
All the games of the Dreamhack Invitational will be casted live by The GD Studio.
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