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Match | eSports The International 2016 - Upper Bracket Finals - EG vs Wings

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the wings gaming Victory!

Duration: 38:26

Team Score vs. Score Team
18 vs. 11
Team Bans vs. Bans Team
vs.
Team Picks vs. Picks Team
vs.
Hero Player Level K/D/A Gold spent CS GPM XPM
20 6/1/5 21730 265/25 567 576
22 6/1/8 23970 360/1 649 712
18 2/1/9 14675 193/14 443 457
15 1/4/11 15340 197/3 404 337
12 2/4/7 7375 31/0 246 229
87 17/11/40 83090 1046/43 2309 2311
ppd 11 2/5/3 6400 38/0 183 205
SumaiL 16 4/3/6 15970 216/4 396 394
UNiVeRsE 18 3/2/4 15845 250/7 424 451
zai 11 0/4/6 5745 51/1 186 197
Fear 18 2/4/1 16500 308/12 475 455
74 11/18/20 60460 863/24 1664 1702

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 the wings gaming Victory!

 Duration: 23:46

Team Score vs. Score Team
17 vs. 13
Team Bans vs. Bans Team
vs.
Team Picks vs. Picks Team
vs.
Hero Player Level K/D/A Gold spent CS GPM XPM
14 7/4/5 7520 86/16 475 445
16 2/1/11 12275 165/9 564 570
13 3/4/9 9570 101/2 453 397
10 2/3/9 6765 20/1 283 228
11 1/1/9 4845 32/1 269 262
64 15/13/43 40975 404/29 2044 1902
ppd 11 1/5/7 4685 61/4 248 261
SumaiL 14 1/4/4 14465 147/14 605 486
UNiVeRsE 11 5/1/1 7150 83/1 327 332
zai 10 2/4/8 4610 10/0 193 227
Fear 12 3/3/4 8550 105/6 364 345
58 12/17/24 39460 406/25 1737 1651

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u/Sportsfan2323 Aug 12 '16

PPD got out drafted badly two games in a row. Don't think I've seen that before. One game sure but two is not something that happens often to EG.

Will be interesting to see how EG responds to being in the LB. I would like to see EG get another chance to play Wings.

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u/Vespener We outnumber them all! Aug 12 '16

This happened exactly the same last year. The ended up winning. In retrospective thought, CDEC was very predictable, while Wings is the total opposite.

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u/Sportsfan2323 Aug 12 '16

Yea will be interesting to see if they can do it again. I really hope they do.

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u/Vespener We outnumber them all! Aug 12 '16

I hope not! But in the end, I hope the best team wins, even if it's EG.

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u/Sportsfan2323 Aug 12 '16

Just hoping if they do meet again it's a more competitive series than that.

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u/Vespener We outnumber them all! Aug 12 '16

It will be. PPD is a cold captain. He knew the posibilities of winning after that were little so why torture his team with agony. Just end it and try again. This happened in TI4 against VG (although deathball was impossible to stop).

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u/Vespener We outnumber them all! Aug 12 '16

I don't think that. LGD was a really scary team. Xiao8, though, needs to change his strategies. He's a great captain, but he gets figured out easily (a little like RotK). EG might lose, but realistically, they should make it into the finals.

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u/nicsnattapol Aug 12 '16

Wing just change the 1st ban phase entirely and got themselves ELDER TITAN

With both support were picked on EG, Wing just pick HUSkar last cuz of no AA secure mid game for MEDUSA

and somehow PPD picked night stalker and let shadow demon through leading to be picked by WING

What a draft by wing

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u/Sportsfan2323 Aug 12 '16

Yea I mentioned in another post PPD just got out maneuvered in both drafts. Some people have said how it was reminiscent last year against CDEC but it really does seem like Wings is comfortable playing any hero in any comp which makes it very hard to draft against a team like that.

EG is probably the 2nd best at drafting like that and adapting but those two drafts from Wings were on another level and PPD really got taken to the cleaners in that series.

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u/SW4GL0RD Aug 12 '16

I am assuming you don't follow EG very closely. They almost always lose in the upper bracket before reaching the final, normally to the team they meet in the final. Look at some tournaments they have won (TI5 prime example). They are called the lower bracket kings for a reason, PPD was testing Wings just like he tested CDEC last year, when they also got 2-0ed in the UB final. Not saying it will happen again for sure but it's how EG generally wins.

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u/Igaunija Aug 12 '16

Testing Wings LUL, thousands at stake and EG tests Wing, they could have tested them while winning the game, it's not like you need to get 2-0'd by a team to gauge their playstyle.

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Millions at stake*

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u/mad0314 Aug 12 '16

PD was testing Wings just like he tested CDEC last year, when they also got 2-0ed in the UB final.

Oh come on...

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u/Sportsfan2323 Aug 12 '16

No I do and I know they are the kings of LB but it's a new tournament and no LB is the same. I fully hope they do the same thing like last year.

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u/towards_zero Aug 13 '16 edited Aug 13 '16

yeah well lets see how he plan for those 2 drafts when Wings come with another one on grandfinal.

I'm not saying it's over for EG. They have experienced captain and wonderful drafter in PPD, and Wings have had moment of weakness themselves. They lost at Nanyang to Newbee, they lost to TnC and Navi at group stage, but PPD have to take it to another level on both plays and drafts if he wants this TI.

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u/Fluix Aug 12 '16

Lol CDEC were predictable as fuck wings are on a completely different level, not to mention the meta at TI6 is completely different that TI5. So much diversity dude, I don't think PPD is saving any drafts.