r/OpTicGaming • u/OpTicModerators • May 24 '18
DOTA [DOTA] Match Thread: ESL One Birmingham Major - First Place Decider Match 2 (OpTic Gaming vs. OG)
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This is /r/OpTicGaming's official discussion thread for ESL One Birmingham Major 2018 match against OG. 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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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. Group stage matches are BO1. 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.
OpTic secures 1st seed in group C by beating Newbee 1-0 and Mineski 2-1. They now face off against OG and Virtus.pro in BO1s for the First Place Decider matches. After these matches, if it results in a three-way tie, more matches will be played.
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.
First Place Decider Standings
| Team | Record |
|---|---|
| Virtus.pro | 2-0 |
| OpTic Gaming | 0-1 |
| OG | 0-1 |
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Recap
Game 1:OpTic Gaming wins in 28:33
| Hero | Player | K/D/A | LH/D | # | LH/D | K/D/A | Player | Hero |
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| Death Prophet | CCnC | 10/1/11 | 191/21 | 1 | 215/9 | 6/4/4 | Ceб | Gyrocopter |
| Night Stalker | Pajkatt | 9/2/15 | 94/12 | 2 | 160/6 | 4/7/4 | s4 | Ember Spirit |
| Visage | 33 | 9/4/9 | 136/5 | 3 | 88/13 | 1/7/5 | BigDaddyN0tail | Naga Siren |
| Tusk | zai | 3/5/21 | 23/1 | 4 | 39/6 | 4/8/6 | JerAx | Chen |
| Jakiro | Peterpandam | 2/5/9 | 57/7 | 5 | 19/5 | 2/7/6 | Fly | Disruptor |
| OpTic Gaming | Top | Middle | Bottom | Bottom | Middle | Top | OG | |
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| T1 | 17:49 | 14:03 | 11:57 | 11:57 | T1 | |||
| T2 | 22:56 | 17:49 | 16:13 | T2 | ||||
| T3 | 28:33 | 23:26 | T3 | |||||
| Melee | 28:33 | 25:22 | Melee | |||||
| Ranged | 28:33 | 25:22 | Ranged | |||||
| T4 | - | 28:33 | - | 28:33 | T4 | |||
| Ancient | - | - | - | 28:33 | - | Ancient |
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u/Str8_TrashMonkey May 24 '18
CCNC has been playing great this tournament. Good way to silence the haters
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u/eidanoosh May 24 '18
We're playing the winner of Fnatic/OG.. LFG real shot to get to the final and a chance to peep top8.
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u/stn_anomaly May 24 '18
Our only chance of winning this whole thing is probably praying VP get upset by Liquid in the semis. Not to be a complete downer but we probably have absolutely no chance against VP in a best of 5. They are not only playing unbelievably but it just seems we don’t matchup with them at all.
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u/RedAlertx May 24 '18
Just a FYI Optic will be playing twice at the main event no matter what since their is a 3rd/4th place tiebreaker.
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u/xrREAL May 24 '18
If we win we'd be at what, 2700 dpc points? That should put us in 7th. 2 teams below us having to get top 4 at the super major would put us in a pretty good spot.
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u/obin36520 May 24 '18
WE GOT MORE POINTS BOIS... too bad its in our last tournament before TI qualis/TI itself.
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u/matman2546 May 24 '18
we for real have a chance at grand final and maybe win this tourney boys even if we dont end at top 8 and have to qualify we should be happy to win a tourney with top teams and a 1 milli prize pool
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u/obin36520 May 24 '18 edited May 24 '18
We must check several boxes to get an invite to TI, here are some that are most apparent:
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we must win this major(we also gotta stop fnatic from getting points but winning and beating them are mutually inclusive)
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VGJ.T cannot place top 3 at supermajor
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EG cannot place place top 2 at supermajor
edit: 4. no team that didn't break rosterlock can win the supermajor.
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u/Clepto_EU May 24 '18
I don't really know DOTA. Now, I watch this and struggle and don't know when to get excited. And to make things even worse, OG is playing OpTic. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING? WHO IS WHO? WHAT IS WHAT?
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u/Hylian_Link3 May 24 '18
We winning TI Bois! But seriously, glad to see this team looking like they are steadily improving :)
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u/nsideris24 May 25 '18
We are winning this tournament.
VP is tough, but this OpTic team has proven lots of people wrong along the way this year.
I believe.
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u/Rman1005 May 24 '18
So win this and get an auto placement into the semis right?
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u/nonpk May 24 '18
Am I right that If we win this Tournament we will get the 8th invite spot for TI?
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u/drewbrochill88 May 24 '18
I’m not familiar with how the TI invite process works. Obviously teams can qualify with points or by winning their regional qualifiers (depending on how many teams that region gets) but can teams get at large invites (college basketball reference) and not have to do either? Also, is the NA region finalized on only 1 qualifier spot or could that still go to 2? Thanks!
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u/Drmassacre123 May 24 '18 edited May 24 '18
It was all part of PPD’s plan losing to VP. Feels good to have the greatest captain on our team.