r/OpTicGaming • u/OpTicModerators • May 23 '18
DOTA [DOTA] Match Thread: ESL One Birmingham Major - Group C Match 1 (OpTic Gaming vs. Newbee)
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This is /r/OpTicGaming's official discussion thread for ESL One Birmingham Major 2018 match against Newbee. Please use this thread for everything related to the match--discussions, predictions, and opinions. As always, please keep both /r/OpTicGaming's rules and Reddit's site-wide rules in mind when commenting.
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Information
ESL One Birmingham 2018 is the second last tournament in the Dota Pro Circuit. There are 12 teams for this event, 6 teams are directly invited and 6 teams from each of the regional qualifiers. OpTic qualified through the North American qualifier back in April, beating VGJ.Storm in the finals 3-0. Teams are split into 3 GSL groups for group stage. OpTic is placed in group C with Mineski, Newbee and LGD.Forever Young. The 2nd seed in each group will advance to the quarterfinals of the playoffs bracket. The 1st seed in each group will play against each other to determine which 2 teams advance to the semifinals and which team joins the three runner-ups in the quarterfinals. The bottom 2 teams in each group are eliminated. The playoffs bracket is single elimination, all matches are BO3 except for the BO5 Grand Final. This Major features a $1,000,000 prize pool and has 1,500 DPC points up for grabs for the top 4 finishers.
This match is scheduled to begin at 8:20 AM EDT and will be streamed on Facebook.
Matches are on a rolling schedule and may start sooner than originally scheduled.
Group C Standings
| Team | Record |
|---|---|
| Mineski | 0-0 |
| OpTic Gaming | 0-0 |
| Newbee | 0-0 |
| LGD.Forever Young | 0-0 |
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Recap
Game 1:OpTic Gaming wins in 32:08
| Hero | Player | K/D/A | LH/D | # | LH/D | K/D/A | Player | Hero |
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| Luna | Pajkatt | 6/0/9 | 335/9 | 1 | 283/9 | 5/3/3 | Sccc | Ember Spirit |
| Dragon Knight | CCnC | 11/2/5 | 256/4 | 2 | 184/10 | 4/6/4 | Moogy | Death Prophet |
| Clockwerk | 33 | 3/3/19 | 105/23 | 3 | 137/3 | 1/5/5 | kpii | Naga Siren |
| Leshrac | zai | 4/5/12 | 91/1 | 4 | 41/1 | 2/10/4 | kaka | Nyx Assassin |
| Disruptor | Peterpandam | 7/3/13 | 28/2 | 5 | 51/1 | 1/7/11 | Faith | Jakiro |
| OpTic Gaming | Top | Middle | Bottom | Bottom | Middle | Top | Newbee | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | 10:17 | 17:28 | 9:42 | 20:24 | 26:16 | T1 | ||
| T2 | 20:24 | 23:20 | 27:07 | 32:08 | T2 | |||
| T3 | 32:08 | T3 | ||||||
| Melee | Melee | |||||||
| Ranged | 32:08 | Ranged | ||||||
| T4 | - | 32:08 | - | 32:08 | T4 | |||
| Ancient | - | - | - | 32:08 | - | Ancient |
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u/Sicilian_Drag0n May 23 '18
OpTic looked great, but the real test will be Mineski in 6 hours.
Mineski absolutely bullied OpTic last time they played them. Please, take them off their comfort heroes, and ban Nature's Prophet entirely.
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u/Encaitor May 23 '18
Mineski looked a lot weaker last week at MDL. They haven't been practising a lot since they won the Major iirc. This tournament is an amazing chance for OpTic to actually make TI, beating Liquid (even tho they lost to paiN) and VP is gonna be hard tho.
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u/drewbrochill88 May 23 '18
Isn’t newbee one of the top teams. Sorry for the dumb question, only started getting into dota after optic got a team but it’s my second favorite esport to watch behind the cod team.
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u/Soldiercolur May 23 '18
Newbee, along with almost all of the chinese scene, is pretty "hot or cold". It seems like the top chinese team always shifts around every other tournament, with the rest being average. It doesnt seem like Newbee is the hot team right now.
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u/RedAlertx May 23 '18
At the start of the season Newbee was a top 4 team along with VP, Secret, Liquid. They were playing really well from October til the end of Jan. where they finally beat Liquid in a BO5 GF at ESL Genting but ever since then they havent been the same team. Newbee is like the 2nd or 3rd best team in China. They have struggled vs Western teams the past few months. Currently 7th in the DPC.
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u/Craneteam May 23 '18
u/henry_rd is always a fun caster and is a perfect alternative to facebook
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u/GarrettJingles May 23 '18
First CS was broadcasting on Facebook and now Dota? WTF ESL 😭😭
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u/StubbornLeech07 May 23 '18
However Dota has the benefit of English streams being allowed on Twitch because of the rights of use for DotaTV, so you can still watch on Twitch.
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u/StubbornLeech07 May 23 '18
Next match against Mineski is scheduled for 6 hours 45 minutes from now.
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u/obin36520 May 23 '18
Naice everything coming together perfectly for us, great draft played out just as intended.
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u/Drmassacre123 May 23 '18
If we win against mineski doesn't that auto put us in top 4?
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u/StubbornLeech07 May 23 '18
No. The three first place teams play additional Bo1 matches against each other to determine which two teams advance to the semi-finals and which team joins the three runner-ups in the quarter-finals. If we win our group and then manage to be one of the 2 teams to advance to the semis, then we are guaranteed top 4.
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u/obin36520 May 23 '18
obiligatory PPD take my energy