Some heavy hitter matches today. Falcons - Liquid is of course a marquee game but I personally look forward to the Nigma - Navi elimination match a lot.
BBT is looking extremely dominant. Their drafts are great and their gameplay is completely suffocating Parivision. They’re looking like the strongest team at the moment from my perspective, even better than XG at this point. But they likely won’t meet until the upper bracket finals if they continue winning at the paces they have set.
And just as I say that, Satanic starts popping off. He’s really carrying Parivision.
Still, he looks like he’s doing it all by himself. The rest of his team is looking a bit uncohesive, especially in teamfights. It is getting pretty interesting though…
They can play well when they click, saying it’s all Stanic carrying isn’t completely true - 9Class has had some crazy high impact games. They also just won without a gimmick draft. Game 3 will be interesting.
Yeah, their draft came together in a way I did not expect. I’m feeling a bit sheepish about saying that, but I think it’s forgivable considering how poorly the game started out for them. Amazing comeback though. Especially loved how impactful Sandking looked, especially when the casters were saying how much worse it was than earth shaker.
Yeah Sandking is almost a little underrated I think, Falcons are owning with it too. Could be a rising priority pick through the tournament.
For me this game was a huge positive sign from PV, not just the comeback but also like I said winning without leaning on pocket strats like support Slark.
PARIVISION just keeps throwing out fun drafts, this game 2 vs Spirit will be a blockbuster. Yatoro on Lycan and Collapse Axe up against Satanic Brood and support Slark.
EDIT: That 9Class Slark is a bit of a menace.
After watching this match, I’m actually sad about this meta of dominators… it’s so depressing to watch Spirit’s buildings get destroyed by creeps… without fight… without show :(
I there won’t be so many pragmatic matches like this
I’m sure slark will be banned in 100% next PV games.
Dominator meta is on par with the Wraith Pact TI for sure. But even despite that we’ve had many hype matches and drafts, Heroic dumpstering Tundra with Pudge and Spectre was amazing.
I’m sure slark will be banned in 100% next PV games.
PV must be annoying to draft against given their unconventional strats, definitely a fun one to keep an eye on. How many bans can you afford to throw at pocket picks?
Alternative coverage today again:
Heroic, hats off. Rallying after 0-4 to win 8 straight games is insane in itself, but those elimination games pulling out Meepo and Pudge were just the most dominant displays so far, I think. Granted the opposition wasn’t the strongest. Scofield is so fun to watch too on that Clock.
