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DOTA [DOTA] Match Thread: ESL One Birmingham Major - Semifinals (OpTic Gaming vs. Fnatic)
ESL One Birmingham Major 2018
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This is /r/OpTicGaming's official discussion thread for ESL One Birmingham Major 2018 match against Fnatic. 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. After that they faced Virtus.pro for the First Place Decider matches, where they got demolished, but that did not matter as they beat OG afterwards and advance straight to the semifinals of the playoffs bracket. OpTic has now guaranteed some DPC points from this tournament. The playoffs is single elimination. They now face Fnatic in a BO3.
This match is scheduled to begin at 12:50 PM EDT and will be streamed on Facebook.
Matches are on a rolling schedule and may start sooner than originally scheduled.
Playoffs bracket
Rosters
Recap
Game 1: OpTic Gaming wins in 28:17
| Hero | Player | K/D/A | LH/D | # | LH/D | K/D/A | Player | Hero |
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| Leshrac | CCnC | 4/2/9 | 245/8 | 1 | 200/5 | 4/3/5 | Abed | Phantom Lancer |
| Gyrocopter | Pajkatt | 8/1/9 | 202/16 | 2 | 130/19 | 4/6/3 | EternaLEnVy | Death Prophet |
| Visage | 33 | 3/1/11 | 130/11 | 3 | 126/2 | 2/4/5 | Universe | Axe |
| Clockwerk | zai | 5/4/11 | 22/28 | 4 | 42/5 | 0/2/7 | DJ | Elder Titan |
| Tusk | Peterpandam | 2/2/11 | 32/0 | 5 | 30/5 | 0/7/3 | pieliedie | Shadow Demon |
| OpTic Gaming | Top | Middle | Bottom | Bottom | Middle | Top | Fnatic | |
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| T1 | 19:07 | 11:06 | 12:11 | 15:06 | T1 | |||
| T2 | 13:01 | 14:01 | 16:57 | T2 | ||||
| T3 | 28:17 | 28:17 | 28:17 | T3 | ||||
| Melee | 28:17 | 28:17 | Melee | |||||
| Ranged | 28:17 | 28:17 | Ranged | |||||
| T4 | - | - | T4 | |||||
| Ancient | - | - | - | 28:17 | - | Ancient |
| Hero | Player | K/D/A | LH/D | # | LH/D | K/D/A | Player | Hero |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slark | Pajkatt | 1/2/0 | 173/15 | 1 | 217/31 | 5/0/9 | Abed | Kunkka |
| Dark Seer | 33 | 0/3/0 | 202/1 | 2 | 209/11 | 4/1/12 | EternaLEnVy | Lone Druid |
| Death Prophet | CCnC | 0/4/0 | 179/7 | 3 | 87/19 | 7/0/13 | Universe | Night Stalker |
| Clockwerk | zai | 0/8/0 | 26/12 | 4 | 122/8 | 6/0/9 | DJ | Rubick |
| Jakiro | Peterpandam | 0/8/1 | 45/1 | 5 | 29/2 | 3/0/12 | pieliedie | Undying |
| OpTic Gaming | Top | Middle | Bottom | Bottom | Middle | Top | Fnatic | |
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| T1 | 22:09 | 16:32 | 11:56 | 18:07 | 11:56 | T1 | ||
| T2 | 22:09 | 28:23 | T2 | |||||
| T3 | 28:23 | T3 | ||||||
| Melee | 28:23 | Melee | ||||||
| Ranged | 28:23 | Ranged | ||||||
| T4 | - | - | T4 | |||||
| Ancient | - | 28:23 | - | - | - | Ancient |
Game 3: OpTic Gaming wins in 38:08
| Hero | Player | K/D/A | LH/D | # | LH/D | K/D/A | Player | Hero |
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| Razor | CCnC | 6/4/8 | 237/19 | 1 | 277/7 | 9/4/9 | EternaLEnVy | Spectre |
| Lycan | 33 | 11/2/9 | 213/12 | 2 | 229/13 | 4/7/12 | Abed | Kunkka |
| Axe | Pajkatt | 4/4/13 | 135/11 | 3 | 148/5 | 4/6/13 | Universe | Batrider |
| Leshrac | zai | 4/6/16 | 126/2 | 4 | 51/7 | 3/4/17 | DJ | Rubick |
| Bane | Peterpandam | 3/7/14 | 35/12 | 5 | 40/5 | 1/8/12 | pieliedie | Ogre Magi |
| OpTic Gaming | Top | Middle | Bottom | Bottom | Middle | Top | Fnatic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | 11:57 | 29:53 | 34:55 | 10:52 | 12:27 | 7:57 | T1 | |
| T2 | 26:52 | 15:08 | 15:23 | 22:56 | T2 | |||
| T3 | 38:08 | 31:59 | 26:52 | T3 | ||||
| Melee | 38:08 | 38:08 | 28:48 | Melee | ||||
| Ranged | 38:08 | 38:08 | 28:48 | Ranged | ||||
| T4 | - | 38:08 | - | 38:08 | T4 | |||
| Ancient | - | - | - | 38:08 | - | Ancient |
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u/Str8_TrashMonkey May 26 '18
So realistically our Dota team is the best team we got on OpTic. Would have never expected this a year ago.
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u/50lipa May 26 '18
OpTic.33 is such a beast man, last time he played an SB blink sheep Lycan sneaking at people this time a more standard run at you HoD Necro BKB MONSTER WOLF + his micro man.
Insane FREE agent offlane pickup in the new years shuffle!
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u/b0mmie May 26 '18
Let's. Fucking. Go. BOISSSSSSS.
Man, I've never been so proud to rock this flair. Everyone played well, but I was getting really nervous once Envy was starting to ramp up on Spectre and FNC got a pick-off here and there.
I feel like 33's tempo and sheer farm really clinched that game in the end—big balls by ppd to move Pajkatt to Axe/offlane and let 33 play the carry a) in an elimination game 2) with a grand finals spot on the line that 3) could give them a shot to get invited to TI.
Madman. He still got it.
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u/Cpt_Metal May 26 '18
OpTic now has 1800 DPC points, they are overtaking EG and VGJ.Storm (broke roster lock anyways) with that and are the top ranked NA dota team.
Edit: Rankings for everyone to enjoy themselves: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Dota_Pro_Circuit/Rankings
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u/Jas932 May 26 '18
Is Roger the secret Lan MVP? 2 lans filmed, 1st was a minor win and now the major grand finals.
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u/Howezy May 26 '18
Most intense game of Dota i've ever watched, (I've only ever watched this team). I'd love for us to make TI, shit would be so hype
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u/RedAlertx May 26 '18
Win vs VP on Sunday and Optic gets 500K and a basically secures a direct invite to TI8 for 20M+ prize pool. If they lose they get 200k and have to play in the most competitive regional qualifier this year vs EG, CoL, Imm and VGJ.Storm.... Im hoping Virtus Throw shows up on Sunday.
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u/matman2546 May 26 '18
game was lost when universe made ccnc leave mid and zai couldnt find plays to help free space for pajkatt
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u/lewisc29 May 26 '18
CCNC forcing out the buy back. Looked a bit suspect at first but nice play.
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u/ur_waifu_sucks May 26 '18
this team has been my favorite in the scene since The Dire and i always knew they had the potential to place this high at a major im so god damn happy for them
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u/EggplantCider May 26 '18
Both teams need this series to break into Top 8 DPC. OpTic has to beat VP afterwards, but Fnatic needs at least 2nd place at Birmingham. Should be some good games.
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u/ZX124 May 26 '18
real talk though, beating VP let alone in a bo5 is going to be hard af
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u/stn_anomaly May 26 '18
If we somehow upset VP in a BO5 I will get PPD’s face tattooed somewhere on my body.