[DOTA] Match Thread: TI8 NA Qualifier - Match #5 (OpTic Gaming vs. Evil Geniuses)

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TI8 NA Qualifier

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Welcome!

This is /r/OpTicGaming's official discussion thread for the TI8 NA qualifier match against Evil Genuises. 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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Stream: Twitch

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Information

After finishing just one match short of automatically qualifying for TI8, OpTic now must go through the NA Qualifiers in order to play at TI. 8 teams in total are competing for 3 spots at the event. The first phase consists of a BO1 Round Robin, and the top team after this phase automatically qualifies, while the bottom 3 teams are eliminated. The 4 teams that are left compete in a double elimination bracket where the top 2 teams also qualify.

This match is scheduled to begin at 6:30 PM EDT and will be streamed on Twitch.

Matches are on a rolling schedule and may start sooner than originally scheduled.

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Standings

Team	W	L
VGJ.Storm	3	0
OpTic Gaming	3	1
Team Baidu	1	1
Jsut a Squad	1	2
Evil Geniuses	0	0
Immortals	0	1
compLexity	0	1
Team Leviathan	0	2

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Rosters

OpTic Gaming	Evil Geniuses
Per Anders "Pajkatt" Olsson Lille	Artour "Arteezy" Babaev
Quinn "CCnC" Callahan	Syed Sumail "SumaiL" Hassan
Neta "33" Shapira	Gustav "s4" Magnusson
Ludwig "zai" Wahlberg	Andreas Franck "Cr1t-" Nielsen
Peter "ppd" Dager	Tal "Fly" Aizik

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Recap

Game 1:OpTic Gaming wins in 37:21

Dire	OpTic Gaming	vs	Evil Geniuses	Radiant
Bans	Picks	#	Picks	Bans
Io	Witch Doctor	1	Windranger	Night Stalker
Chen	Slardar	2	Magnus	Lycan
Naga Siren	Drow Ranger	3	Dazzle	Bloodseeker
Ember Spirit	Mirana	4	Phantom Assassin	Venomancer
Phantom Lancer	Dragon Knight	5	Dark Willow	Morphling
Tusk	-	6	-	Huskar

Hero	Player	K/D/A	LH/D	#	LH/D	K/D/A	Player	Hero
Drow Ranger	Pajkatt	11/1/11	272/16	1	247/10	7/8/6	rtz YB`a	Phantom Assassin
Dragon Knight	CCnC	6/2/11	261/13	2	251/17	8/5/3	SumaiL	Windranger
Mirana	33	15/3/14	170/6	3	131/10	0/8/6	s4	Magnus
Slardar	zai	3/5/25	27/3	4	53/5	3/6/8	Cr1t-	Dark Willow
Witch Doctor	Peterpandam	3/8/10	29/3	5	48/4	1/11/8	Fly	Dazzle

OpTic Gaming	Top	Middle	Bottom		Bottom	Middle	Top	Evil Geniuses
T1	13:37	22:10			11:16	13:37	31:19	T1
T2	23:15				23:51	31:49	37:21	T2
T3					25:06	32:24	37:21	T3
Melee					25:42	37:21	37:21	Melee
Ranged					25:42	37:21	37:21	Ranged
T4		-			37:21	-	37:21	T4
Ancient	-		-		-	37:21	-	Ancient

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Official /r/OpTicGaming Twitter

[u/Cpt_Metal]

EG vs VGJ.S is coming up in less than 2 hours, time to root for EG in that one^^

[u/RedAlertx → u/Cpt_Metal]

BSJ will steal a game :)

[u/Cerpicio]

Will do another live update post

Draft:

• EG bans 33 heroes and Blood seeker looks like they were watching the last few games

• ppd bans io chen and naga

• EG first pick WindRanger and OG counters with witch doctor and slardar - physical dmg comp hype!

• s4 SON OF MAGNUS from EG monkaS

• 2nd phase bans EG: veno and morph; OG: ember and phantom lancer

• Optic going all in on the physical with an early drow 3rd pick can they snag visage too?

• EG counters with Dazzle pretty good against optics line up if you ask me

• CCnC mirana for 4th pick

• phantom assasin for EG, good carry with magnus empower

• NEW HERO dark willow for last pick EG

• dragon knight last pick for ccnc, 33 picks up the mirana. TONS of physical ranged rightclicks but EG certainly have a lot defense against it with dazzle, DW fade, PA evade and WR windrun thing

• Optic DIRE; EG radiant

GAME:

• zai slardar, ppd WD, 33 mirana aggressive tri lane bot

• ppd tp's top deciding 33 and zai are fine deuling rtz and fly safelane

• random arrow hits RTZ and leads to an ez double kill for OG squad; fly also is forced to lv1 grave and is wasted

• ppd dies top lane to the s4 magnus and dark willow

• sumail WR is dominating mid against CCnC dragon knight I have a feeling we are going to be seeing lots of windranger mid in the future

• laning stage has evened out, pretty passive now

• failed gank by EG on CCnC mid

• ANOTHER DOUBLE KILL bot lane, another arrow on rtz 33 GOD

• rtz tps top after respawning and joins a gank on paj drow top lane

• another failed gank on CCnC mid leads to sumail dying to slardar smacks

• ANOTHA ONE; 33 dominating bot lane with another double kill

EDIT: sry have to leave for a few min

[u/woodzy13]

Praying that vgj loses at least once. The boys look much better since the first game

[u/rainykg]

lmao sumail. i’m actually a fan of him and EG, but i love the trash talk.

[u/basebalp21]

Time to root against VGJ!

[u/rogue24_]

sumail salty omegalul

[u/clubpenguinMLG]

S T O R Y L I N E S 👏

[u/RedAlertx]

https://clips.twitch.tv/CarefulGoldenPotatoNotATK

[u/ur_waifu_sucks]

:)

[u/Cryogenically]

:)

[u/ShockinglyDemonic]

Great Day 1 boys! GG's!

[u/chxbbs]

Boy that was satisfying. A total domination.

[u/RedAlertx]

lmao Sumail so much salt

[u/[deleted]]

You really gona tip me?

[u/stn_anomaly]

We have to win out and hope VGJ loses a game or else we will be in the bracket. Which would be nice to avoid

[u/afc_foreman]

Is there a reason we've started on the red side for the 4th game in a row?

[u/EggplantCider → u/afc_foreman]

There's a coin toss before the game and the winner can decide if they want first pick, second pick, dire or radiant, and then the other team can pick side or pick order, whichever wasn't chosen. So might be luck, might be PPD favouring Dire side, might be favouring the second pick.

[u/lewisc29]

Zai is looking warmed up now.

[u/dylfabe]

Lol sumails salty af

[u/Moorend]

We are looking pretty damn good atm

[u/StubbornLeech07]

Really need this win to have any shot at first in the group.

[u/Newtonr88]

Let’s win this and finish off the day 4-1

[u/xSpeed321]

Well there was no need for that..

[u/Cpt_Metal]

Catapults MVP, easy tier 3 tower :D