EG crowned champions of DotaPit after 8 hour long Grand Finals in Croatia

posted by Malystryx.GDS,

The exciting Grand Finals of DotaPit between OG and Evil Geniuses ended up being a mixed bag after a massive delay forced the teams to battle until the early hours of the morning.

After a very long day, we have our champions of Dota Pit Season 5, @EvilGeniuses! Congratulations! pic.twitter.com/EK8bUpcmHZ
— DotaPit.com (@DotaPit) 23 January 2017

After a marathon of a Grand Finals that ended up lasting over 8 hours

Evil Geniuses conquered their OG demons for the second time at the DotaPit Season 5 LAN Finals to win 3-2. The tournament was plagued by delays on the opening two days but suffered the worst in the Grand Finals when server issues caused a 2 and a half hour delay between games 1 and 2. OG at that point had just claimed a strong first game thanks to

Anathan 'ana' Pham's Alchemist enabled beautifully by the Atrophy Aura of

Gustav 's4' Magnusson's Underlord.

Very exciting finals from OG & EG, and happy to be apart of & cast this event, but just hope to never work under such conditions ever again.
— David Parker | Godz (@BTSGoDz) 23 January 2017

After an incredibly long delay while the organisers tried different servers at random in a hope of fixing the lag issues play eventually resumed, and the two teams managed to put on a show despite games 4 and 5 being played after midnight. The Grand Finals finally ended at 3:30am local time and as time went on Evil Geniuses were increasing in strength and came back from 1-2 down to win 3-2.

Shoutout to everyone who watched all of that finals
— Cr1t- (@Cr1tdota) 23 January 2017

Although the conditions for the tournament were far from ideal in terms of gameplay the DotaPit Season 5 Grand Finals were highly entertaining and would be worth rewatching in your own time. The top 2 placement for both teams would almost certainly ensure a direct invite to the Kiev Major, and Evil Geniuses captain

Andreas 'Cr1t-' Nielsen said the team plans to take a break for a month before their bootcamp in March for DAC and the Major.

Final Standings
The big surprises of DotaPit were

Team Faceless* and

Invictus Gaming, who both finished in the top 4. Invictus Gaming were on a 10 game unbeaten run prior to the tournament and their flexibility in the draft by using Weaver both as a support for

Ye 'BoBoKa' Zhibiao or a carry for

Xu 'BurNIng' Zhilei gave them an edge. Weaver was one of the most played heroes of the Dota Pit Season 5 LAN Finals, with 6 of the eight teams using him at least once.

For

Team Faceless* their 3rd place in Croatia is their best LAN result to date after finishing outside of the top 6 at Summit 6 and the Boston Major last season. Their showing at DotaPit is a great start to the year and a huge step towards an invite to the Kiev Major if they can take the SEA qualifier slot and perform at the SL i-League StarSeries 3 LAN next month. Faceless were also responsible for eliminating

Planet Odd* in the first round of the lower-bracket.

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Evil Geniuses - $62,937
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