ESL One Birmingham 2019 witnesses a classy performance from a team that currently dominates the Dota 2 scene, Team Secret. Always thirsty for achievement, it seems Team Secret after winning the MDL Disneyland Paris Major 2019 still looks fierce. Team Secret also defeated Evil Geniuses with a tight game, 3-2.
In the first game, Team Secret immediately took the initiative to take Rubick for YapzOr and this proved effective. YapzOr starred in the first game with spell steals on black holes and also ravage. Evil Geniuses also had to type GG to finish the resistance in 51 minutes.
In game 2, it’s Evil Geniuses’s turn to show an impressive appearance. Arteezy who used Sven to be a star in the game 2. Team Secret must also recognize the superiority of Evil Geniuses in game 2 in 35 minutes and the game continues towards the third game.
In game 3, the game runs very tight from the early game to mid game. But the Anti Mage from Nisha was too left for farming until become a boomerang for Evil Geniuses. Nisha’s Anti-Mage became very horrible, plus the MidOne Death Prophet really dominated the top lane. Evil Geniuses also had to give up the third game and admitted their defeat in the 41st minute.
In game 4, Evil Geniuses really appeared to dominate Team Secret throughout the game. Evil Geniuses really won all the lane, moreover, combo arena of blood, ice blast and haunt really made Team Secret not able to move. Team Secret must also type GG in 30 minutes and the game continues towards game 5.
In this deciding game, in the early game, both teams really performed carefully and also went very tight. However, the combo vacuum from Zai and also the impale from YapzOr repeatedly made Evil Geniuses lose in the war. In the mid game, Evil Geniuses began to lose the tempo of the game and S4, which several times opened the initiation, was always late to be followed up by others, so Team Secret always managed to break the initiation of S4.
Team Secret finally managed to complete the resistance of Evil Geniuses in the 38th minute and managed to become the ESL One Birmingham 2019 champion. With this, Team Secret managed to bring home US $ 135,000 in cash and Evil Geniuses took home US $ 70,000.
The captain of Team Secret, namely Puppey was chosen as MVP and took home a Mercedes Benz car.
