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With a commanding performance in Day 1 of the StarSeries Season 3 LAN event, OG have secured the first spot in the semifinal round.
OG didn't need a packed house to play like champions in the winner's bracket final of StarSeries Group A. After taking out TNC in the first match of the day, OG continued the 2-0 victory trend with a crushing takedown of Team Secret.

Game 1

Things didn't go entirely smoothly for OG early on in Game 1. MidOne's Sniper dominated the middle lane, almost doubling ana's CS and killing the Storm Spirit three times (with the help of pieliedie) before he could reach Level 6.

However, OG never let the game get too far into Secret's hands and at the 25 minute mark, with a Pipe on Dark Seer, a Blink Dagger on Earth Spirit and Storm's Bloodstone already racking up charges, OG took over.

In fact, the final fight in Team Secret's base put that Bloodstone at 35 charges... at least until JeRax decided to have a bit of fun with his midlaner.



The juicy 10x Kill Streak bounty went to KheZu, but Secret had already called GG.

Game 2

Similar to Game 1, Secret held on to a small lead in the early game. This time, they made sure that JerAx's Blink Dagger was delayed as long as possible, killing the support 7 times in the first 18 minutes.

Even so, OG were able to capitalize on a solo Chronosphere on Fly. They turned it into a one for three trade and gave Slardar money for his Blink. After that point until the end of the game, Secret took just four more kills.

As the game progressed, Secret's damage wasn't enough to kill anyone besides Fly and even a three man Chronosphere with Sonic Wave on top turned disastrous.



That win made OG the first team through to the StarSeries Season 3 semifinal round. They will now have a two day break to prepare for their next match against the Group B second place team on Sunday.

2-0. We top group A! See you on championship Sunday. 👊 pic.twitter.com/CoDJ8bS7XF— OG (@OGDota2) February 23, 2017


Team Secret will face the winner of TNC vs iG.Vitality at 10:00 CEST to determine which other Group A team advances to the semifinal.

Group A


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