Mind Control Slipped After Match Team Liquid vs Team Secret
Mind Control Slipped
After Match Team Liquid vs Team Secret
Upper Bracket Shanghai Major
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The Shanghai Major has been almost a saga for Team Secret who fought hard in all their upper bracket series where they faced all the strong contenders for the winter title. They knocked down OG, Evil Geniuses and today the first Divine Rapier for Envy secured the grand finals spot.
For both of the games played in the best-of-three series Team Liquid opened the bans with two of Clement 'Puppey' Ivanov’s signature heroes, Chen and Enigma and allowed Aliwi 'w33' Omar to get his one of the most successful picks since he joined Secret; Windranger for the first game and Invoker for game two.
An odd last pick Legion Commander from Team Liquid in the first game draft, had almost no impact for them. With no successful early ganks to stop w33’s lane dominance, Liquid couldn't match Secret’s teamfight potential Only thirteen minutes into the game, a triple kill was secured for Jacky 'EternaLEnVy' Mao’s Spectre and Liquid was shortly after forced to either turtle into their base or go for bold actions like Roshan kills while they had the base exposed.
A last desperate decision was taken around the 40 minute mark when Lasse 'MATUMBAMAN' Urpalainen had to buy a Divine Rapier for his Gyrocopter and attempt a full five man high ground push mid lane. Unfortunately the rapier was dropped and immediately after Team Liquid called out the GG.
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