The first three days of the Nanyang Season 2 championship have seen a number of unexpected upsets. Digital Chaos lost against CDEC.Youth, defying every prediction, with a clean cut 2-0. Team Empire also lost 2-0 vs Wings Gaming, which is not as much as a surprising result, but everybody expected more of a stand from Empire, who got handled pretty easily by Wings, especially in game two, where the GG was called after 26 minutes. Much more straightforward and expected the 2-0 victory from LGD Gaming over WarriorsGaming.Unity and the 2-1 Newbee win over ViciGaming.Reborn.
In day two Digital Chaos took Team Empire out of the lower bracket in an excruciating 2-1 series that has been very, very close. The underwhelming performance of the Russian team might result in a number of changes in their roster, also considering their failure at qualifying for The International 6. In the other lower bracket match VG.R dispatched WG.Unity 2-0 without much contest.
In the upper bracket Wings won against CDEC.Youth 2-0 and advanced to face Newbee after the all star Chinese team destroyed LGD Gaming in a spettacular fashion. Newbee is showing a beautiful Dota2, outdrafting their opponents and executing their line-ups perfectly. CDEC.Youth will now face VG.R in the lower bracket, while LGD Gaming will play against the only non-Chinese team left in the tournament, Digital Chaos.
The upper bracket finals between Newbee and Wings Gaming has been the last game played today, with Newbee considered the heavy favourites. Wings pulled of an incredible 2-1 upset instead, rolling over their opponents in 19 minutes in game one, losing a hour long match in game two and winning the decider with a Huskar-Dazzle 4 protect 1 draft that Newbee has not been able to contest. Just to give you an idea, Innocence from Wings went Linken Sphere first on Shadow Demon, just to protect the Huskar from the dunking Axe, while IceIce on Dazzle went for a Bloodstone just to provide a burst heal to Shadow‘s Huskar in case he got focused and killed during the fights. Wings is now in the Grand Finals of the tournament, awaiting for the lower bracket results. The synergy shown from this team is off the charts and they definitely have a big shot at winning the whole thing.
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