ESL One Genting 2018: Newbee the first finalist of the tournament!
Incredibly exciting meeting between ESL's One Genting Team Secret so far, and Newbee's Nami! The Chinese team was not afraid of the challenge posed before him and in a beautiful style won the entrance to the final.
ESL One Genting is the biggest previous Minor this season. With as many as 16 teams facing each other, this tournament was overshadowed by some Majors. With a stake of up to $ 400,000 in the prize pool and 400 Qualification Points, all teams are fighting fiercely to the end.
Today, the time has come for semi-final matches, and in the first of them we could see the start of the Chinese giant and silver medalist The International 2017 - Newbee, with the second team of Europe, presenting this season incredibly good form - Team Secret. Despite the illness of one of the members of the Old Continent - Fata and his replacement by Ohaiyo, the meeting turned out to be extremely emotional. Both teams did their best, but it was Newbee who beat Team Secret 2: 0 after an incredible turnaround in the second game, moving up to the final. Here is a short summary of the games played.
The first game
Team Secret
Ace - Lone Druid
MidOne - Invoker
Ohaiyo - Omniknight
YapzOr - Earthshaker
Puppey - Bounty Hunter
newbee
Moogy - Luna
Sccc - Templar Assassin
kpii - Sand King
kaka - Naga Siren
Faith - Disruptor
The meeting started quite intense and dynamic game. At first Team Secret, thanks to the great movement around the Puppey and YapzOr maps, managed to get on the lead in the killings. Newbee still successfully counteracted a better farm on the lines, keeping the advantage in gold. In the 11th minute of the match things started to get even better for them after buying Blink Daggera by kpii. From that moment, the Chinese squad took almost absolute control over the map, quickly gaining three killings and simultaneously destroying two towers of opponents on the lower avenue. Team Secret tried to slow down the attack of rivals, knowing that the heroes chosen by them need more time to win battles, unfortunately they failed to do so. At one point, Sccc at Templar Assassin had up to three levels of advantage over the other players. A shadow of hope for the European team appeared after an amazing skirmish in the 25th minute, which they managed to emerge victoriously. The joy did not last long, because Newbee managed to catch MidOne twice, depriving him of buying and eliminating from the game for over a minute. The attack they assaulted at Team Secret base at that moment ended with taking all the barracks, and after the beautiful Burrow Strike, mocking four people, also destroying the throne.
The second game
Team Secret
Ace - Troll Warlord
MidOne - Outworld Devourer
Ohaiyo - Underlord
YapzOr - Clockwerk
Puppey - Lion
newbee
Moogy - Vengeful Spirit
Sccc - Medusa
kpii - Omniknight
kaka - Naga Siren
Faith - Disruptor
The second game seemed to be a copy of the first, but the difference was that Team Secret moved to lead and decided on its course. YapzOr's beautiful Hookshots gave his teammates many opportunities to kill. Newbee players were also prevented from escaping. Appearing at the right moments on other Ace lines, it frustrated the roams of the Chinese people while gaining gold and experience for themselves. Team Secret's advantage seemed unbreakable. In the 39th minute of the match, it reached over 22 thousand gold values and then everything began to fall. Despite the almost complete destruction of the Newbee base, Puppey's team made a bad decision to stay too long near the resurgent opponents, paying for it with life. The winning was also complicated by the purchase of Divine Rapier by Sccc and the fact that the Chinese line-up put everything on one card, deciding to support him with 4 people. In the biggest return we could see in the current patch Newbee broke into the Team Secret base, defeating them several times in the team battles and destroyed the throne of rivals, winning the entire series 2: 0 and advancing to the final of the ESL One Genting 2018! 