Epicenter XL Recap Day Three: Na'Vi Defeats Team Secret
The third day of Epicenter XL created several surprises in both group A and group B. Team Secret and Mineski slipped against their opponents even though they were superior on paper. Meanwhile Newbee threatened not to qualify from the group phase with two consecutive defeats.
Mineski faced FlyToMoon in their second match in group A. Initially Mineski managed to win games first thanks to the composition team fight very strong. On games second, they tried new compositions with Undying and Wraith King. Unfortunately the experiment was not successful. Then in games The third surprise FlyToMoon managed to take the lead over Mineski and ended the game 2-1.
Meanwhile, in another match, Team Liquid will face PSG.LGD in Group A. Team Liquid took an early lead with Slark and Ax which PSG.LGD couldn’t answer. Unfortunately a similar strategy doesn’t work in games second faced Terrorblade from PSG.LGD.
On games third, some kill in phase laning make a Miracle- that uses Morphling free farm without interruption. In a short time, he then became carry that couldn’t be stopped and finally led Team Liquid to win games third.
Meanwhile, in the last game, Group A Complexity managed to beat Team Empire 2-0 quite easily. This made Team Empire have to accompany Mineski at the bottom of Group A and could fall out of the tournament if they didn’t get up soon.
Group B started with an easy OG victory over Pain Gaming 2-0. After that, Na’Vi had to deal with Team Secret. Both teams win one games very quickly. Na’Vi wins at games first, while Team Secret won in games second. Then in games third, Lil’s brilliant performance with Doom who could silence Tidehunter from Fata allowed Na’Vi to win team fight lock and match as a whole.
Then in the last match Virtus.Pro faced Newbee. Virtus.Pro looks very dominant in games first with maneuver and lane pressure strong throughout the game. Then though with great difficulty, Newbee managed to seize games second with a combination of Shadow Demon plus Luna. But as if unaffected, Virtus.Pro is again dominant in the market games third and came out victorious.
With this result, Virtus.Pro and OG are at the top of group B. Meanwhile, Newbee, who suffered two defeats, is in the bottom position along with Pain Gaming.
The series of Epicenter XL group phases will continue today. Mineski and Team Empire will fight to get out of the bottom of group A. Then in group B OG and Virtus.Pro will meet to fight for the top position in their group.
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