The implementation of the 2019 Macau MDL tournament was finally over, making Team Liquid the winner. Taking place from February 20 to 24, 8 teams from different origins try to show their abilities.
But it seems that for this tournament, the winners from The International 7, Team Liquid are still too strong to beat. In fact, since being in the group stage, Miracle and his friends managed to prove their dominance by topping the group by gaining the most wins (5 wins).
The performance they display seems to be increasing rapidly when we reflect on their performance at Chongqing Major a few weeks ago. Even in the playoffs, the team that made Kuroky as captain was almost never touched by defeat. They managed to win 2-0 in 2 different matches namely against Royal Never Give Up and Evil Geniuses.
Team Liquid did not seem to give a slight gap to Arteezy and his friends to fight meaningfully. Previously, the two teams had met in the Upper Bracket Finals won by Team Liquid with a score of 2-0 and forced EG down to the Lower Bracket Finals and met Virtus.Pro. Winning against Virtus.Pro with a score of 2-1, EG returned to the Grand Final to face Team Liquid for the second time. Unfortunately, EG can’t boost its performance in the final round.
In the grand final, even Team Liquid managed to frustrate the resistance of Evil Geniuses with a landslide score of 3-1. Evil Geniuses seems to be without resistance. Of the 4 games running, none of the matches touched up to 30 minutes.
With that, Team Liquid managed to bring home US $ 135,000 and trophies in the form of Battlefury items. And this result also made 5 Chinese teams competing to get less than optimal results. The five teams were not even able to stem the dominance of non-Chinese teams with only positions 4 to 8.
It seems that the various problems faced by various Chinese teams make their preparation less and make their performance not optimal.
And here is the podium order from MDL Macau 2019:
Team Liquid (US $ 135,000)
Evil Geniuses (US $ 60,000)
Virtus.pro (US $ 37,500)
Newbee (US $ 22,500)
Royal Never Give Up (US $ 15,000)
Vici Gaming (US $ 15,000)
EHOME (US $ 7,500)
Invictus Gaming (US $ 7,500)
Congratulations once again for Team Liquid! Hopefully their performance in the upcoming major or minor will remain stable. The presence of this match also clashed with one of the other Dota 2 events, namely ESL One Katowice 2019 which was won by Team Secret. It is worth waiting for the title of the champions in the upcoming Stockholm Major event. Who will secure the major title after Virtus.pro and Team Secret?
