The penultimate event of the Dota 2 Pro Circuit (DPC ) season, ESL One Birmingham is really a critical event for a couple of teams.
From the twelve teams attending, two have secured a direct invite to The International 8 (TI8 ), four are ineligible for the invite because of breaking the roster lock, and six teams remain inside the hunt.
Fnatic, Evil Geniuses, and OpTic Gaming are outside of the highest eight inside the current rankings, while Vici Gaming, Mineski, and Newbee tend to be more comfortably situated within it. This‘ll be OpTic Gaming and Fnatic’s last chance to acquire more qualifying points as neither will attend the China Dota 2 Supermajor. Fnatic need a high two finish to really make it up into the highest eight while OpTic Gaming got to win the tournament. Long shots, perhaps, but it’ll certainly make every game they play exciting to watch.
The event includes a unique format, explained here, which has the twelve teams split into three groups. Simplified, two teams from each group will certainly be eliminated, and also the rest will certainly be seeded straight into the single elimination playoff bracket. Each one of the three groups includes a unique identity and features some compelling stories to spotlight :
Group A : Make or Break
Group A features Virtus. pro, Evil Geniuses, Fnatic, and Team Spirit.
Virtus. pro is surely the strong favorites to advance from Group A. They’re in first place inside the DPC rankings, with a couple of exceptions, have experienced strong performances all season. The greater exciting teams to watch could possibly be Evil Geniuses and Fnatic. Both teams are currently tenth and twelfth inside the DPC, needing 600 and 900 points respectively to leap into the highest eight. Evil Geniuses can get another chance in the China Dota 2 Supermajor in the beginning of June, but this really is Fnatic’s final shot.
Fnatic and Evil Geniuses even have some history as Fnatic’s off-laner, Saahil “Universe” Arora, played for Evil Geniuses for nearly four years (having a brief flirtation with Team Secret interrupting that point ), competing in greater than 1050 games using the organization. To top it off, Fnatic now are using former EG TI5 winner Kurtis Aui_2000 Ling as their coach. The 2 teams have only met once because the roster change, one game inside the group stage Round Robin at GESC : Thailand that Fnatic won. The 2 kick-off the Birmingham group stage having a best-of-one that fans Shouldn‘t miss.
Group B : Laidback?
Group B’s line-up includes Team Liquid, OG, Vici Gaming, and paiN Gaming. This group looks slightly less exciting that Group A and Group C, but don’t misunderstand—Group B teams will surely be fired as much as win ESL One Birmingham. It’s just that Team Liquid’s already secured their direct invitation, Vici Gaming is looking comfortable in sixth place inside the standings, and neither OG nor paiN Gaming are eligible. So while all four teams will want it like the UK’s first Major winners and also the (US ) $500, 000 prize, there’s no do-or-die fight happening here.
The team to stay an eye on, for myself a minimum of, is paiN Gaming. The final time we saw paiN Gaming was EPICENTER XL, where they placed 7-8th and had the strongest performance of any South American team all season. The addition of Romanian Aliwi “w33” Omar being an official member from the otherwise Brazilian team appears to be employed by the squad. While they’re ineligible for any direct invite because of the roster change, these are generally the underdogs to root as they create their run with the group stage.
Group C : Your Guess can be as Good as Anyone's
Group C is potentially a wildcard group. OpTic Gaming, Newbee, Mineski, and, to some less successful degree, LGD. Forever Young have had ups and downs this season. As the latter team’s best result was third in the Perfect World Masters in November, another three teams have all won DPC events in 2018 : Newbee won ESL One Genting 2018 at the conclusion of January, then in April, Mineski won Dota 2 Asia Championships (DAC ) 2018 and Optic Gaming won StarLadder ImbaTV Invitational Season 5.
But consistency has long been problem this season. Newbee has placed inside the top four at DPC events seven times, but many recently, they fizzled in the group stage of EPICENTER XL. They had been second place at The International 7, and I’ve argued that they might have perhaps one of the best storylines to follow at TI8—they just desire to make it there first. Relaxing in seventh place inside the DPC standings, they might help knock OpTic Gaming in the group stage as the 2 teams face-off inside a best-of-one on the very first day‘s the tournament.
OpTic Gaming needs to succeed this tournament to really make it straight into the DPC top eight—by delivering the service, they’d send Newbee right all the way down to eighth place with one tournament to reach. OpTic won StarLadder, the final DPC event they attended, but were third inside the North American Qualifier to the Supermajor. This will make Birmingham their last event this season, and it also puts them inside a precarious position if they need to attend Regional Qualifiers for TI8. The region’s results are too volatile in order to safely predict whether Optic Gaming would win.
Get Hyped
ESL One Birmingham’s got a powerful assortment of teams. Some have extra motivation to carry out well, whether for regional pride, to earn those final direct invites to TI8, or to obtain some momentum going heading straight into the long slog through Open Qualifiers and Regional Qualifiers.
Using the format Birmingham is using, we’re guaranteed a minimum of forty games of Dota 2 over subsequent five days. Those games could possess a huge influence on whether this season is taken into account successful for the teams. Whether you’re rooting for the highest teams to stay doing well or you would like to see many of the underdogs upset the leaderboards, the UK’s first Dota 2 Major is really a must-watch event for Dota 2 fans.
And, in fact, remember : all of the action will certainly be streamed on Facebook
Fnatic, Evil Geniuses, and OpTic Gaming are outside of the highest eight inside the current rankings, while Vici Gaming, Mineski, and Newbee tend to be more comfortably situated within it. This‘ll be OpTic Gaming and Fnatic’s last chance to acquire more qualifying points as neither will attend the China Dota 2 Supermajor. Fnatic need a high two finish to really make it up into the highest eight while OpTic Gaming got to win the tournament. Long shots, perhaps, but it’ll certainly make every game they play exciting to watch.
The event includes a unique format, explained here, which has the twelve teams split into three groups. Simplified, two teams from each group will certainly be eliminated, and also the rest will certainly be seeded straight into the single elimination playoff bracket. Each one of the three groups includes a unique identity and features some compelling stories to spotlight :
Group A : Make or Break
Group A features Virtus. pro, Evil Geniuses, Fnatic, and Team Spirit.
Virtus. pro is surely the strong favorites to advance from Group A. They’re in first place inside the DPC rankings, with a couple of exceptions, have experienced strong performances all season. The greater exciting teams to watch could possibly be Evil Geniuses and Fnatic. Both teams are currently tenth and twelfth inside the DPC, needing 600 and 900 points respectively to leap into the highest eight. Evil Geniuses can get another chance in the China Dota 2 Supermajor in the beginning of June, but this really is Fnatic’s final shot.
Fnatic and Evil Geniuses even have some history as Fnatic’s off-laner, Saahil “Universe” Arora, played for Evil Geniuses for nearly four years (having a brief flirtation with Team Secret interrupting that point ), competing in greater than 1050 games using the organization. To top it off, Fnatic now are using former EG TI5 winner Kurtis Aui_2000 Ling as their coach. The 2 teams have only met once because the roster change, one game inside the group stage Round Robin at GESC : Thailand that Fnatic won. The 2 kick-off the Birmingham group stage having a best-of-one that fans Shouldn‘t miss.
Group B : Laidback?
Group B’s line-up includes Team Liquid, OG, Vici Gaming, and paiN Gaming. This group looks slightly less exciting that Group A and Group C, but don’t misunderstand—Group B teams will surely be fired as much as win ESL One Birmingham. It’s just that Team Liquid’s already secured their direct invitation, Vici Gaming is looking comfortable in sixth place inside the standings, and neither OG nor paiN Gaming are eligible. So while all four teams will want it like the UK’s first Major winners and also the (US ) $500, 000 prize, there’s no do-or-die fight happening here.
The team to stay an eye on, for myself a minimum of, is paiN Gaming. The final time we saw paiN Gaming was EPICENTER XL, where they placed 7-8th and had the strongest performance of any South American team all season. The addition of Romanian Aliwi “w33” Omar being an official member from the otherwise Brazilian team appears to be employed by the squad. While they’re ineligible for any direct invite because of the roster change, these are generally the underdogs to root as they create their run with the group stage.
Group C : Your Guess can be as Good as Anyone's
Group C is potentially a wildcard group. OpTic Gaming, Newbee, Mineski, and, to some less successful degree, LGD. Forever Young have had ups and downs this season. As the latter team’s best result was third in the Perfect World Masters in November, another three teams have all won DPC events in 2018 : Newbee won ESL One Genting 2018 at the conclusion of January, then in April, Mineski won Dota 2 Asia Championships (DAC ) 2018 and Optic Gaming won StarLadder ImbaTV Invitational Season 5.
But consistency has long been problem this season. Newbee has placed inside the top four at DPC events seven times, but many recently, they fizzled in the group stage of EPICENTER XL. They had been second place at The International 7, and I’ve argued that they might have perhaps one of the best storylines to follow at TI8—they just desire to make it there first. Relaxing in seventh place inside the DPC standings, they might help knock OpTic Gaming in the group stage as the 2 teams face-off inside a best-of-one on the very first day‘s the tournament.
OpTic Gaming needs to succeed this tournament to really make it straight into the DPC top eight—by delivering the service, they’d send Newbee right all the way down to eighth place with one tournament to reach. OpTic won StarLadder, the final DPC event they attended, but were third inside the North American Qualifier to the Supermajor. This will make Birmingham their last event this season, and it also puts them inside a precarious position if they need to attend Regional Qualifiers for TI8. The region’s results are too volatile in order to safely predict whether Optic Gaming would win.
Get Hyped
ESL One Birmingham’s got a powerful assortment of teams. Some have extra motivation to carry out well, whether for regional pride, to earn those final direct invites to TI8, or to obtain some momentum going heading straight into the long slog through Open Qualifiers and Regional Qualifiers.
Using the format Birmingham is using, we’re guaranteed a minimum of forty games of Dota 2 over subsequent five days. Those games could possess a huge influence on whether this season is taken into account successful for the teams. Whether you’re rooting for the highest teams to stay doing well or you would like to see many of the underdogs upset the leaderboards, the UK’s first Dota 2 Major is really a must-watch event for Dota 2 fans.
And, in fact, remember : all of the action will certainly be streamed on Facebook
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