ELEVEN tie-breaker games?! Must be DAC group A

It was a long day of Dota at DAC after group A ended in a deadlock between five teams, delaying the solo tournament but blessing us with a day of full of Dota.

ELEVEN tiebreaker games required to separate the five teams
Group A at DAC2018 ended up with not a two-way or a three-way tie but a FIVE way tie, leading to a rather gruelling but entertaining set of tiebreakers from fans at home. TNC, Optic, LGD, Liquid and Newbee all ended the round-robin groupstage with a 4-3 record, while group B was very straight forward.

A total of 11 additional tie-breaker had to be played to separate the five teams and it was

TNC Predator who came out the strongest with a 4-0 record, which include a terribly convincing win over TI7 champions

Team Liquid.

Great performance by Sam_H on Nightstalker

In the best-of-1 between the pair TNC took control after just 12 minutes, with three early kills on Matumbaman's Lone Druid catapulting them forward in the game.

Samson E. 'SamH' Hidalgo's offlane Shadow Blade Nightstalker completely overrun Matumbaman with the help of

Timothy 'Tims' Randrup's Dark Willow, and

Ivan 'MinD_ContRoL' Borislavov's Queen of Pain was focused down in the mid-game when the hero's power curve usually peaks. Liquid's defeat to TNC and LGD in the tiebreakers means they must play in the Breakout stage.

REDOING THE GROUP STAGE WOOOOO MORE DOTA
— Peter Dager (@Peterpandam) 1 April 2018

Sudden death "Breakout" playoffs for 3rd-6th finishers

Maybe's SF was 2-9 against TNC in final decider

Another team to thrive in the tiebreakers was

PSG.LGD, whose only loss came to the hands of TNC, the eleventh and final tiebreaker game. It was a particularly brutal loss for LGD as

Yao 'Somnus' Lu was outplayed in the mid-lane by TNC's recent new addition

Armel Paul 'Armel' Tabios.

Maybe's Shadow Fiend suffered 4 deaths in the first 10 minutes and come the end of the swift 23 minute game had dealt less damage than the entire TNC line-up except Tim's Dark Willow. LGD and TNC now progress to the playoffs where they await their opponent from the Breakout phase.

Solo tournament postponed due to tiebreaker madness
As a result of the sheer amount of tiebreaker games Perfect World announced on Twitter they would be "respecting the wishes of our player and moving the solo tournament, which was scheduled for today, to 5th April.

Hi Dota fans, due to the tiebreakers going late and respecting the wishes of our players, we are postponing the #DAC2018 solo tournament matches scheduled for tonight.

They will be played April 5th instead, on the main stage. Look forward to it!
— Perfect World_DOTA2 (@PWRD_DOTA2) 1 April 2018