The semi-finals have concluded and Alliance and Team Dignitas remain victorious. A chain of events and delays led to the postponement of the grand finals for Thursday.
Alliance and Team Dignitas battled through the semi-finals of Dreamhack Invitational today and after much delay, both teams have reached the grand final of the tournament.
As the day is getting late for teams to continue playing, the grand final is scheduled for Thursday, 18th April, 20:00 CEsT. The best-of-five will conclude then with TheGDStudio once again delivering the coverage.
The winner of the tournament will walk away with $2,500 and also a priceless invitation to Dreamhack Summer later this year.
| Fnatic.eu vs. Alliance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 1:2 |  | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Alliance was comfortable giving space to Era's Alchemist in return for farm on the Gyrocopter. Trixi being able to pull the creep wave however gave him some decent farm on his Lone Druid and Fnatic got the advantage early on. In addition, s4's Batrider did not manage to be effective, taking away a lot of Alliance's ganking potential. A farmed Era and the stacked armor reduction from Fnatic's side gave the European mix the edge in teamfights and the Swedes went down.
With a stand-in for AdmiralBulldog, Alliance fell back on their Phantom Lancer to carry the game while Fnatic relied on split-push and a possibly late-game carry Tiny. It was rather equal in early engagements but PL got stronger and stronger. The miss chance from KotL's Blinding Light was a huge factor and contributor in the Swedes' teamfights, preventing Tiny from unleashing his full damage output. Game 2 went to Alliance.
In the third game, Alliance opted for a much more aggressive playstyle and early kills on their aggressive trilane gave them a big advantage. Era and Notail were shut down by a fast Orchid from Loda and the Swedes snowballed easily with a lot of track kills. Fnatic did not get back into the game properly, lacking key items on key heroes and they couldn't keep up with the aggression and pace.
| Liquid vs. Dignitas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 0:2 |  | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dignitas and Liquid were on par throughout most of the game, trading blows quite even. Liquid however got a bit careless and was easily picked off, giving away farm and space for Dignitas. Most of all, Dignitas secured themselves an easy Roshan and snowballed from here on. A push on the bottom lane could not be stopped and after a short downtime, Dignitas came back for the mid rax, forcing out the gg.
Game 2 started very good for Dignitas as well. Sneyking found a solo kill against Korok's Storm Spirit and it looked to be a promising start. Korok thought otherwise and a teamfight on the bot lane turned disastrous as Korok manages to claim a Rampage. Despite having wiped the enemy line-up, Liquid could not bank properly on their advantage. Further teamfights engaged and Dignitas won most of them with good Dark Seer Walls and his Mek. Sneyking played a crucial part in most teamfights as well with clutch silences and ultimates. Liquid however managed to fight back and it looked fairly equal at some point but the Aghanim's on Universe's Dark Seer gave them the edge, claiming game 2.
| DH Invitational prizes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Placings | Team | Prizes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st place | $2,500 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd place | $1,500 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd-4th |  Fnatic.eu | $1,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd-4th |  Team Liquid | $1,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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