T1 didn't win, they crushed KC. It was a clean 3-0, without much slip-up, straight and fast. As always, they were precise. I think we'll follow tradition and have them in the finals. It remains to be seen who will be the opponent trying to stop TL or KC again.

It ended up being TL in the finals, but the 3-0 trend kept on rolling, crazy how not a single series went over 4 games. Today's final series was almost the same as what happened in round 1. Map two should've been TL's game to win, but they couldn't close it out in time while they had the tempo.



The bracket stage starts on Friday, and i'm looking forward to G2's performance since they're the only other team that could keep things competitive against the major region teams.

I don't think we even need to watch any more T1 games to conclude that they're in the finals. I'd bet they win, especially today to take advantage of the odds. I think it's impossible for there to be any surprises at this MSI. They'll probably stick to tradition.

These teams were not caught. They will keep doing this. Every match envolving these teams, had a script. Where it be finish a match under x-Minutes, map winners or even under x-kills.

The teams in TI qualifiers were:
Hokori
Red Hot Chilli Pibbles
Lindorfitos
RisingRage
Estar Backs
x5 Gaming
All of the teams above were matchfixing.

On the EWC closed qualifiers there was also
Team Dk
Zetta games
Chandogs (also cheating)

Chandogs on top of matchfix, were also cheating. There was also a rumor that Hokori pos4 "Asao" was also cheating, but i don't have actual knowledge of that one, unlike what i said above.

And yes, Chinese region was devastated by matchfix before. After DPC finished, Chinese and SEA region became infested with matchfixing. Some of those teams are still competing to this day because they were not caught yet. Some notourious examples are the guys from Direborn and Yangon Galaticos, that competed in this SEA qualifier. There's also an infamous stack of players that lost in open quals "cincai team". Those tier 3 tournaments SEA/China, that happen from time to time are 100% scripted. And right now, there's Nemiga matchfixing at EPL. This is why i stay away from betting in anything other than tier1 Dota.

And to have 60% rigged you would need one person or group to be organizing this crime, because how can two teams have a rigged match if both want to lose?

You need to coordinate to have the decision that you need. And if this is what was happening someone would leak the information because you can not keep many people mouth shut

If it's with China and some teams in Russia and SEA, we'd believe. But let's leave it at that because these teams that gets more engaged into these selling off their games are just reducing their opportunities to participate into the good tournaments. Like now, there's so much to it and the community are all in to support not only the TI but also the tournaments conducted by the Esports World Cup.

Good call. I was hoping that maybe TSW could pull of the impossible and win at least one game, but they just didn't stand a chance. On the other hand, I didn't expect that G2 would pull off a reverse sweep. Caps even got a pentakill with Syndra in Game 3! Unfortunately, they will be facing HLE in the next round, so they would probably drop in the lower bracket and get a rematch with TES.

Right now I'm really excited for the match between T1 and BLG, especially with all the trash talk coming from Bin and Doran.

I was wrong, they will most likely face the loser between T1 and BLG. Yikes! I think it would've been better for them if they had dropped earlier in the lower bracket.



The match just started and it was a banger 40 minute game already, haha. They went back and forth for a while and T1 came out on top, but I'm sure BLG won't go down in this series without a fight.

That game 5 was difficult to watch as a T1 fan, Xun was just stacking up the Kindred marks and Oner was so far behind in exp and gold. I think they messed up badly with the Trundle pick. If this was Worlds, they will pull off a legendary lower bracket run, haha. But right now I think either HLE or BLG are most likely going to win the whole tournament.

Who knows, right? Maybe G2 can surprise us and get an upset victory over HLE or T1. This would bring hope to EU fans once again, only for them to get knocked out eventually