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Round 1 of the upper bracket approaches conclusion
While there are still two matches undecided in the first round, 6 teams have already advance to the second round. Losing finalist of WEC, Cloud 9 had the honor of playing the first match of the European qualifier, and they did not disappoint. A brutal murder of 4 bunnies 1 turtle, one of the 4 victorious teams from the open qualifier, was sealed within half an hour.
One day later, Alliance fought against Crypsis, the new team of 3 former members of Meet Your Makers named Unicorn, Exist and Cr1t-. Their qualified squad was brought down by the champions of the third International in two relatively good games where the second confrontation proved more exciting after Alliance ended the first game in only 20 minutes.
The next match caused the biggest upset as of yet, since Team Tinker surprisingly lost their first match against the renewed Moscow Five. Although 80% of all rares were behind Teamerino Tinkerino, they failed at transforming the support into a victory as they got demolished in the first game by the power of early aggression and they conceded within 20 minutes.
Despite returning the favour in game 2 with an amazing win in 15 minutes, where they claimed a kill every minute and only lost one casualty over the course of the entire game, Team Tinker were unable to proceed in that fashion. In the third and deciding game, Moscow Five turned the tide with a Mirana-Bane combination supplemented by a Warlock, Luna and Brewmaster. The line-up of Team Tinker could not overcome the overwhelming lockdown and called "GG" after only 21 minutes.
Even a 5-man Echo Stomp from Bulba could not bring them victory.
Next up was Power Rangers versus Virtus.Pro, which ended in a 2-0 victory for VP as JotM landed arrow after arrow once again on his beloved Priestess of the Moon, thereby granting his team the ability to collect a lot of gold from pick-offs and capitalise on these kills by pushing down towers, which was a piece of cake with Pugna in the first game and the likes of Death Prophet, Jakiro and Shadow Shaman in their second encounter.
Team Empire had a great time against NVMI, the current team of Goblak and Scandal, as Silent got to play two of his signature heroes : Lycan and Gyrocopter. Despite the fact that Scandal has been a standin for Empire in the slumber after The International, his team could not bring them down as NVMI dropped to the lower bracket with a 0-2 defeat.
On the 7th of September, Team Secret started their campaign towards New York by eliminating the new Meet Your Makers without dropping a game. By utilising solid pushing strategies, they secured themselves a spot in round 2 of the upper bracket. Check out our matchticker to see which games are being played tonight and beyond.
Next matches in Europe
Round 1 Upper Bracket
Fnatic vs xGame
Today, 16:00 CET
Denial E-Sports vs Natus Vincere
Tomorrow, 17:00 CET
Round 1 Lower Bracket
Team Tinker vs Crypsis
Today, 19:00 CET
Round 2 Upper Bracket
Moscow Five vs Alliance
Today, 21:00 CET
Brackets Europe
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