What would you do if skiter is running at you on a fully-farmed hero in Dota 2? That may be a query OG was requested and couldn’t discover a sturdy reply to on day two of The Worldwide 2022’s important stage.
When Tundra Esports claimed the highest seed in Group B, they have been ready to decide on who they wished to face within the playoffs. And, feeling assured they knew the matchup, they chose and subsequently demolished OG in a 2-0 sweep.
Throughout the common season, after bringing in Saksa, Tundra and OG had been considerably evenly matched. However, Sneyking has praised his staff for having their finest bootcamp ever heading into TI11 and it has proven with how they’re enjoying.
From a prime seed in teams to this win, Tundra has appeared on level.
Their execution in early phases of video games may be lethal, as proven by the primary recreation towards OG wrapping up in simply 24 minutes—the second shortest recreation of playoffs so far.
Recreation two was a lot nearer, with OG rallying round ATF’s Timbersaw and bzm’s Primal Beast, however skiter alone proved an excessive amount of to deal with in each video games. Regardless of a draft that appeared like one thing out of a dream for OG, Tundra performed to their timings and waited for the perfect alternative to strike the killing blow.
Betting on themselves paid off; Tundra is now assured a top-six end at TI11 and is only one collection away from making it to finals weekend in Singapore.
This was additionally an enormous private win for Sneyking, as within the final two TI occasions he has attended, TI8 with VGJ.Storm and TI9 with Newbee, OG was the staff to knock him out of the higher bracket earlier than happening to win the entire thing. This won’t be the identical OG roster that ended his runs, however revenge nonetheless feels fairly candy.
“The final two occasions I performed [at] TI, I bought knocked down by OG within the higher bracket first stage,” Sneyking said. “Proper now I bought to take my candy revenge and I’m very completely happy. Although Ceb says this one doesn’t rely, it counts in my e-book.”
In the meantime, OG wasn’t simply overlooked within the chilly. They nonetheless have a transparent path to getting again into competition by decrease bracket.
Their subsequent Dota 2 collection at The Interational 11 will likely be one other WEU conflict, with Gaimin Gladiators ready within the wings to try to drop one other BOOMing victory.
