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VG Reborn, one of only two qualifier teams attending the event have made it all the way to the Grand Finals of the Starladder Invitational after they came back from 0-1 down to beat LGD Gaming 2-1.
VG-R will now play Navi in the Grand Finals of the Starladder Invitational (Image: Starladder Flickr)


cn Vici Gaming Reborn* were in a class of their own in the final game of the LB Final against cn PSG.LGD. They fell slightly behind early on but put their faith in 's Sven, stacking ancients repeatedly to help him swiftly complete a BKB and Blink Dagger. His team-mate cn Zhou 'Yang' Haiyang's Broodmother helped with vision and VG-R slowly but surely took control of the game from the 25-35 minute mark.

Both Sven and Brood had topped the networth chart for a good 20 minutes when VG-R went for LGD's highground for the second time at 37 minutes, and LGD Gaming were surrounded in their base. However, when the two teams did engage a couple of minutes later, the decision to try to take down September's Phoenix's Egg with Slardar Crush and Witch Doctor Cask available for LGD ultimately cost VG-R four of their team-mates in exchange for none.

From then on the game was extremely tense. VG-R showed good game sense to bail out of Roshan as Maybe blinked in expecting to hit them with his Sand King Epicenter, a spell he struggled to land it correctly on several occasions due to the mobility of VG-R and the BKBs on Broodmother and Sven.

VG-R taking down LGD's last set of rax in Game 3


For the rest of the game LGD Gaming were on the ropes, with cn Sun 'Agressif' Zheng doing his best on Gyrocopter to take down stand-in and coach of VG-R cn Tong 'Mikasa' Junjie's Queen of Pain but the pure damage of Sven - who by the end of the game had Satanic as well as Daedelus - was too much to handle, with MMY's Witch Doctor even suffering a 1-hit 1500 crit damage death. LGD's captain Xiao8 called GG at 48 minutes and added "juesai jiayou", meaning best of luck in the Finals.



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