With a reputation as a DreamLeague 10 Minor Champion, Tigers have a surprising appearance at the Kuala Lumpur Major. But unfortunately, the Major participant team class does not contain a collection of mediocre but champion teams from across the region.
A tough test was directly confronted by k’wonderkid and his friends. Meeting champion of Epicenter XL, MDL Changsa Major plus runner-up for The International 2018, PSG.LGD, Tigers losing two games without reply. So even when meeting allied rivals, Fnatic. Tigers fell 2-0 with a first half score of 5-29 and 11-22, all for Fnatic’s victory.
Although the positive results were successfully harvested by Tigers when they met with CIS representatives, Gambit Esports. But the strength of Gambis is not worthy of being compared to the two previous teams both in experience and skill. Fnatic and PSG.LGD managed to exploit the weakness of Tigers, something that finally revealed after all this time.
Ah Jit and MoonMeander as core players were immediately pressured by Fnatic and PSG.LGD, while k’wonderkid was left alone to face the world’s best midlaner in Abed and Maybe. Trying to keep the lane as much as possible by minimizing the movement to do gank rotation, realizing that there is little possibility that the player known as InYourDream can win handsomely against Abed or Maybe.
The response from Tigers is quite simple, which is to mobilize both support to help carry, even though Moon is also experiencing a fate that is unfortunate to face an opponent hero who is stronger in the lane. For example when fighting Fnatic, the Axe of MoonMeander is faced with Necrophos. Without much analysis, Necro is Axe’s worst enemy, and all STR heroes, so Fnatic doesn’t need to send many people to fight Axe.
Therefore they bombarded laning from Ah Jit, delaying the ability of the farm despite having to exchange victims. Bitter, the cores from Fnatic are always profitable. The same tactic was also applied by PSG.LGD and the results were identical, 2-0 was achieved quite easily.
At the very least, it is a lesson for Tigers that their victory in DreamLeague signals that the opponents at Major have studied them carefully. However the sixteen teams in the tournament this time are far stronger than they have ever faced.
Two times lost to PSG.LGD and Fnatic and one win from Gambit Esports kept them in position 3 in this group stage phase. These results still have not eliminated Tigers because there is still one more chance on the lower bracket. In the next round, Tigers have to face the Latin American team, paiN X. In this match, both Tigers and paiN X only have one chance because the competition system is best of 1. In terms of the draft itself, Tigers take the heroes good in terms of wombo combos. But the problem is that the execution did not go well. In fact, they tend to be carried away by the game of paiN X which has succeeded in overtaking Tigers team. some mistakes were made by Tigers, starting from Reverse Polarity from illusionary InYourDream from Terrorblade to Blackhole from MoonMeander which was not very effective. This is then used by paiN X to reverse the situation. Using the mistakes made by Tigers finally made paiN X dominate the game, eventually forcing Tigers to type “GG”.
With these results Tigers must be satisfied with the final result and go home first. Even so, their trip should be appreciated because their trip to Kuala Lumpur Major is not easy, especially they have to win the title first in DreamLeague season 10 against various strong teams throughout the world. Well played Tigers, thank you for giving the best performance.
