Dota 2 News: The International 2018 Day 1 Review 

#SERIES 2

PSG.LGD vs VGJ.Thunder [1-1]

PSG.LGD met VGJ.Thunder in the series 2 of Group A. While most of the fans assumed a clear victory for LGD, it turned out to be a draw. Like most of the matches in series A, we saw another draw. As LGD lost their first game to VGJ.T with a scoreline of PSG.LGD 28 – 40 VGJ.T, they won their second game even though the scoreline was similar, VGJ.T 40 – 29 LGD. The BO2 series ended as a 1-1 draw between these two teams.

Mineski vs Winstrike [2-0]

A lot of people were calling Winstrike the Wings Gaming of 2018 but as I said before in the “Year of China” article, Wings had pre-TI achievements but Winstrike has yet to prove them. It’s still not so wise to assume the TI run of Winstrike but the results did not shock me at all as Mineski snatched the series with a clean 2-0. As Mineski dominated both the games and won with a kill margin of 42-15 and 34-13.

Invictus Gaming vs Evil Geniuses [1-1]

IG vs EG is a perfect TI match. The champion of TI2 vs The champions of TI5. And it exactly went as it should be as the series ended with a 1-1 draw. EG snatched the first game with EG 30 – 10 IG score line and IG won the second game of the series with IG 38 – 25 EG kill margin. The first game of the series was really fun to watch as EG swapped roles and we saw RTZ playing Phoenix which is a Fly special hero while Fly playing Clinkz which is normally known as one the RTZ’s heroes.

Team Liquid vs OG [2-0]

Liquid met OG in the series 2 and snatched the series with a 2-0 victory. When we saw Miracle- Invoker in the very first game we assumed the result but what we did not assume was the bloodbath all over the map as the game ended with a score line of 60-50. Miracle finished with 17 kills on his Invoker, Matumbaman 19 kills on his Ursa and Mindcontrol joined the party with his 14 kills. Liquid won the second game as well with a score line of 47-31 as they won the series 2-0.