Loda and Akke fail at WESG! More favourites to fall?

Loda and Akke fall at WESG! Which heads will roll next?

The world's top national Dota 2 teams are competing in Haikou at WESG 2017. Four of the Virtus.pro squad are trying to win their third big tournament in a row, while Jonathan 'Loda' Berg and his Swedes are crashing out at the other end of the spectrum in a group stage defeat.

That's it: 0-3!

Alliance, despite being favourites and using the legendary

Joakim 'Akke' Akterhall as a stand-in to make their squad 100% Swedish, is out of the tournament without a single win. How the mighty have fallen.

Group C almost gets Sliced n Diced

The upset comes courtesy of

Slice n Dice Esports, the Egyptian winners of the North Africa qualifier. They opened with a strong performance in beating Loda and Co., and then bested NA squad

Leviathan to finish with a 2-1 record. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to make it out of groups.

While Russians

Team Empire Hope, Slice n Dice, and Leviathan are all are on a 2-1 result, the Swedes can pack up and prepare to go home - but they can take heart from the fact that they are not the only Europeans to meet a quick end in China.