posted by mrkulade,
Tomorrow will be a monumental day for Empire. They proved to the world at jD MLG Pro League Season 1 they can hold their own against Evil Geniuses, and now Secret will receive their full attention in the first-ever bo5 between the two teams. Empire dismissed Vici Gaming in the MDL semi-finals earlier today, but victory over Secret tomorrow will be a massive result for the D2CL Season V winners.
Resolut1on can't stop smiling after their win (Image: Facebook)


The defeat of Vici Gaming comes at quite an upset as they were the clear favorites besides Team Secret. Like Secret, VG had also stormed into the tournament, rolling over the other teams undefeated. However, Empire seems to have VG's number, with an outstanding ability to take the big hits VG throw at them, but come back swinging. Empire's unbending will to stay aggressive has put them ahead of VG at D2CL and now again at MarsDL. The deciding match showed Empire run a massive Tiny-Wisp combo with some flawless axe calls. This snowball of death was too much for VG to stop and gg was called.

The other finalist was to be either Secret or Cloud9, two teams with a lot of camaraderie between them. As usual Cloud9 displayed a sold performance during the tournament, but Secret managed to resist EE's Phantom Lancer in both matches of the semi-finals. For the first match, Secret took control of the game with Kuroky's support naga and took a convincing win; however, the second match would not be so easy. Game 2 seemed to have gotten out of control when Cloud9 took a 20-kill lead, but Secret kept up their farm and kept their cool. A fateful smoke gank into the radiant jungle left EE without a buyback. By the time he was back up, the damage was done and Secret emerged as victors.

Secret strategize mid-match (Image: Replays.net)


There will be a third place decider match, to be played early tomorrow morning ahead of the Grand Finals, between Cloud9 and Vici Gaming. With many teams now being selective with tournaments they attend - in particular EG and Secret - i-League has been Empire's best opportunity to stake their claim as the best team in the world against world-class opposition, having missed out on the illustrious DAC back in February.

MDL Grand Finals: Team Secret vs Team Empire is at 9:10am CET tomorrow morning



Who do you think will be crowned the MDL champions?


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