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NoTidehunter advances to the upper final



NoTidehunter, being one of the most convincing teams of Europe lately, transitioned their dominance in StarLadder from online to offline as they took out Empire 2-0 today.

NoTidehunter vs Team Empire

NoTidehunter
       vs       
Team Empire




Game 1





A smoke gank from the supports of Nth past the second minute mark secures the first blood on Vigoss in the midlane, but the Living Armor keeps him alive just long enough for EGM to die to the tower afterwards. Despite that, Empire getting the most of the early laning phase, Blow getting massively farmed aswell as taking down the top tower quickly with Treant getting farm in the jungle.

Treant is constantly healing up towers, disrupting any kind of slower split push NoTidehunter trying to put down on the map. The big first clash goes down after 10 minutes game time and an Infested Magnus as initiation is too much for Nth to handle, they lack damage or lockdown to go through the Rage and loses four heroes without killing any in return. Nth realizes winning skirmishes will be tricky aslong as Empire gets the initiations so they use Prophet to grab towers while Treant is busy healing allies. Empire tries to push it through and kills the tier 3 middle tower after 22 minutes, and after that a clash breaks out. Empire overextending causing them to get greedy and going for kills and in return losing all of their own heroes. The networth at minute 25 is 15k for Lifestealer and 10k for Nature’s Prophet, Lifestealer carrying Midas, Phase Boots, Armlet, Desolator aswell as a Cuirass.

But Nth are doing what they can to defend their barracks and manages to kill everyone but Magnus after using some buybacks. After claiming Roshan Empire manages to take down the middle melee barracks, but the fights keeps on coming and they keep trading somewhat even. Loda’s Gyrocopter going for the strange build of Sange and Yasha into Ethereal Blade, to keep Lifestealer from killing him, while nuking at an enemy hero. Several big fights in a row ends with Bulldog and s4 sniping out heroes in the back after seemingly losing the fights, making it even. Bulldog manages to even out the barracks situation, destroying the bottom melee one while his team is keeping the heroes of Empire busy elsewhere on the map. This game contains some really intense clashes going back and forth, but great play from NoTidehunter wins them a clash without any real casualties, followed by s4 and Bulldog teleporting to kill barracks top as well as mid.

With only one barrack standing, Empire goes for the mid push to end the game but NoTidehunter stands fast, out-maneuvers them by disabling Lifestealer as well as the bear, keeping them out of the fight until they gets brought down. Empire calls the “gg” and first game goes to Notidehunter.



Game 2





Game 2 starts out with two kills going Nth’s way on the tri-vs-tri lane. After that though, it is Empire that manages to find the better farm for their core heroes. The early phase is going on in a quite static manner, with the big difference between the teams being Loda finding kills wheras Blow does not. Empire trying to grab frags on the contested trilane top, even sending up Queen of Pain there but it’s not going all that well, at most they grab a kill on Chen and losing a hero or two themselves - to Loda. Bulldog buys his dagger after the 16th minute mark and uses it to land a perfect Reverse Polarity in the Radiant jungle, resulting in a 4-0 clash for NoTidehunter. Quite surprisingly, Empire decides the game is over after that and Goblak calls “gg”. NoTidehunter moves on to the winner bracket final.






NoTidehunter showed off the shape of their slightly altered roster since last LAN, and it's a shape to fear. The first game was a close game and it looked like Empire was going to take it with an incredibly farmed Lifestealer but some impressive teamplay and decisions from NoTidehunter bagged them the game.

Tomorrow NoTidehunter will face Virtus.pro in the Winner Bracket final. The last time the two teams played one another was in Ritmix Russian Dota 2 League where VP was the winning team. Empire goes up against Fnatic in the Loser Bracket, the team losing that match is eliminated while the winner remains in the race for the title.

All the Star Series games will be broadcasted live by TobiWan and Sheever. The Russian stream will be provided by StarLadderTV with v1lat and CaspeRRR and mtrx4u.

Check link for brackets, VODs and full standings
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