DMO wanted to improve from their 1-5 start, but were up against it in their matchup against Top Esports who are having a good run in the tournament so far.
The team lineups were:
DMO: Mark, GALA, xiye, bless, melody
Top Esports: 369, Karsa, knight, Photic, QiuQiu
GAME 1:
Top Esports started the pressure on early, with QiuQiu and Photic forcing Mark and GALA to retreat on the bottom lane – almost getting the game’s first kill in the process.
Top Esports avoided challenging for the objective first, opting to avoid a team fight in the 5th minute.
Mark and GALA went on their own offensive in the 9th minute, and almost took out QiuQiu in the bottom lane.
The first team fight came up in the 10th minute, which led to a death for 369, but also cost a death for Mark and GALA.
Top Esports won another crucial fight in the 12th minute, pushing the TES kill lead to 4-2. By the 13th minute, they had started to take control and had more than a 3K gold lead. By the 16th minute, that gold lead had jumped to over 5K.
Top Esports got the dragon in the 16th minute, as DMO were too late to pull off a meaningful disruption.
DMO put up a big fight in the 19th minute, trading dual kills with the either team to push the total at 4-6.
DMO had a huge moment in the 21st minute, taking out knight in a team fight, and quickly following up with their own dragon takedown along with closing the gap to 6-5. Even with a 6K deficit in the 24th minute, you got the feeling that DMO weren’t quite ready to give it up.
Unfortunately, they were never realistically going to come back from such a huge gold deficit.
The next huge fight came in the 27th minute, pushing the Top Esports lead to 8-5, and by the 28th minute, they were also up 10K gold. It was all downhill for DMO from there as Top Esports took down the first game.
Photic was the MVP of the first game with a 4/1/6 KDA. QiuQiu had a strong showing with a kill and nine assists, while knight also pitched in 1 kill and seven assists.
Game 2
The second game started quietly, with Top Esports grabbing the first dragon in the 5th minute.
DMO grabbed first blood in the 9th minute, taking down knight, but Top Esports were also able to take xiye down to make it a 1-1 game.
By the 11th minute, the gold was still neck and neck for both teams at 17K.
Xiye tried to get smart, but was caught out and died a second time in the 12th minute, giving Top Esports a 2-1 kill lead.
The gold was tied at a little over 24K in the 15th minute, a marked difference compared to the first game.
DMO was able to get the dragon in the 16th minute but gave up two more deaths to do so including another from xiye – leaving the score at 4-1.
Top Esports started to slowly take a gold lead, with a 2K advantage in the 19th minute.
A big fight in the 21st minute broke out leading to a death trade, leaving the score at 6-2. Top Esports followed this up by picking up another dragon.
DMO’s Natural saw himself die in the 24th minute and pushed Top Esport’s lead to 7-2. The next big fight came in the 26th minute, which saw four of the DMO members deleted thanks to mistaken positioning and over-aggression. The score jumped to 11-2 for Top Esports pushed their gold lead also increased to 6K.
Three members of Top Esports pushed the bottom lane in the 28th minute, and DMO simply couldn’t find any more answers. By this point, they were simply delaying the inevitable. The last big team fight pushed the score to 13-3 with.
It was all over in the 32nd minute as Top Esports made their last push while pushing the score at 16-3. They simply played much smarter, and picked their spots for team fights perfectly.
The MVP of the game was QiuQiu, putting up a masterful display of support, with 15 assists. He was a key factor that helped free 369, knight and Photic up to wreak havoc with five kills each.
DMO were hug underdogs, and were paying out 5.0 to 1 compared to 1.14 for Top Esports. The gulf in quality was evident in both games.
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