There will be no serenity match on the first day of the playoffs, and their matchup with VP will start on the second day of the tournament.

The first day was played with two upper bracket BO3 and four lower bracket BO1 matches, and the main event kicked off with the first round of the upper bracket between Liquid and IG.

In the first game, Liquid chooses the signature hero Carl for Miracle, and forms a three-core system with ants and steelbacks, with Gh's necromantic dragon and Kuroky's sea folk as dual supports.

On the other hand, IG got the absolute hero of the tournament - the Alchemist.

After experiencing the beating of many high-level midlaners that have gradually grown up in China, IG seems to have found a way out for the machine gunners, and that is to imitate OG!

The object of their imitation is not the current OG team that is struggling slightly due to the lack of individual ability of the players, but the OG when Ana was a mid-laner before.

IG believes that the machine gunner is not an opponent in choosing the regular mid laner and Miracle to compete in hard power, so it follows the old OG's idea to reduce the responsibility of the mid laner position in the early and middle stages, and give the machine gunner more room to make up for development.

In fact, the Heavy's laning ability is actually a little stronger than ana, although he doesn't have the superhuman speed of ana's replenishment when he is suppressed in the laning, but precisely because he can often mix better than ana, after neutralization, IG actually executes this style of play well.

In the first game, the machine gunner faced Carl on the line, which led to the first three levels of alchemy living quite comfortably, and through just three or four waves of troops, he successfully made a series of basic outfits such as soul ring bracers.

In this way, even if Karl mainly ignites the fireball, Alchemy will not have much disadvantage in the battle for the replenishment knife, and it can already firmly occupy the line.

Keeping alchemy untilted from the beginning of the laning phase is obviously not what Liquid wants to see, so Gh and Kuroky came to the mid lane at 4 minutes, formed a corner with Karl in the mid lane, and killed the machine gunner's alchemy.

However, because the machine gunners were basically fully equipped, when they were targeted by the opponent in the middle lane, they directly said goodbye and drilled into the wild area, and began to brush the wild without fighting the world.

The rhythm of the hero of alchemy can be summed up in almost two words - autism.

If the line is inferior, it is inferior, and there is no need to participate in the fight in the early stage, there is only one thing to do, and that is to brush money.

Teammates are fucked, watching while brushing, the opposite side is caught, laughing and brushing.

Liquid didn't try to break through IG's jungle defenses, and gathered a wave of firepower 10 minutes early to break into the IG jungle. But they never expected that the alchemy of the machine gunner would choose to make an armband before Radiance?!

With the bracer armband and chemical rage, Liquid simply didn't have enough output to kill this alchemy, not only did the attack fail, but even directly lost Carl, who had just counted the gold.

Since then, the development of alchemy has no stagnation, and after a full 15 minutes of furious brushing, the flying shoes glowing clone is exquisite, and the first wave of the mountain completely controls the situation on the field, and the wave completely penetrates Liquid.

The leading IG repeated the trick in the second game and once again took out the mid-laner alchemy.

However, this time, their BP made a big mistake and was strongly blocked by Liquid. Liquid not only got the ice soul, the natural enemy of alchemy, but also selected the mid-laner great sage to match with alchemy.

A melee hero like Alchemy meets the Great Sage online, and the result can be imagined. This time, Miracle didn't need the help of his teammates, and single-handedly sent the Heavy into the jungle.

For the Heavy, the second round was far less easy to farm than the previous one. The suppression of the Great Sage began from the beginning, making the machine gunners inferior to the first game in terms of level and equipment base, and the efficiency of farming was extremely low.

The time to get out of the mountain was forcibly delayed for ten minutes, and by the time the Heavy finally brushed out a god costume, it was also because there was an ice soul in the Liquid lineup, which made alchemy's deterrent power much less than before.

It is worth mentioning that IG once reversed some situations after alchemy came out of the mountain and showed quite good competitive form, but in the end it was still lost due to the huge disadvantage of the lineup and was equalized by Liquid.

Although they lost the second game, the mentality of the IG generals was not affected, and in their opinion, the reason why the second game was so difficult was largely because the lineup was restrained.

The regrouped IG decided to give it a go in the third game, and it was Lina, who the machine gunners hadn't seen for a long time, who sounded the horn of their counterattack.

The blood spirit medic is back in the rivers and lakes!

In the third game, the Heavy seemed to have broken free from some kind of shackles, not only breaking Miracle's fire cat in the lane phase, but also revitalizing IG's rhythm through active wandering.

More or less surprisingly, the fourth group in Group B played a complete crushing game in the tiebreaker of BO3 against the second group in Group A!

With a head-to-head ratio of 42:14 and 40 minutes, the Machine Gunner and XXS both won the title of Super God, and led IG to the second round of the winner's bracket together!

In the words of the domestic forum, Serenity gave IG a way to live, but in the end, it was IG itself that was competing!

Before the game, IG was actually not optimistic, but it was precisely because of this that IG's victory was even more surprising to the domestic audience.

Then, in the second BO3 civil war of the first round of the upper bracket, the third team in Group A defeated NewBee with a clean 2:0 and successfully met IG in the semifinals of the upper bracket.

Although NewBee fell into the lower bracket, their strength is obvious to all, and according to the ranking, it is "weak to strong", no one will think that they will only fight in civil war.

Although the first round of the game was played by injuly, the mood of the domestic audience who followed the TI game was only slightly lower for one night before returning to the top again.

Because LFY, who took the lead the next day, defeated TNC with a score of 2:0!

The top half of the bracket has been dominated by IG and NewBee, while LFY has also taken the lead in the bottom half, and the Chinese team has already occupied three of the remaining dead spots in the upper bracket.

And the rest of the one is the most reassuring serenity for domestic audiences!

Serenity=Auto win, which is almost the consensus of the world's dota 2 audience, what does it mean?

It means that the first round of the upper bracket has just been played, and there is already a Chinese team confirmed to enter the final finals, and there will be at least two teams from the Chinese region in the top three!

It's not that I look down on VP, it's actually that when they hit serenity this season, almost every game was being quickly brushed.

Because their style is so similar to Serenity, the same pursuit of line excellence, the same pursuit of fast pace. But the problem is that VP's use and proficiency in this style of play are not as good as serenity, and he is also inferior in personal ability.

In the case of a clear gap in hard power, there must be only one result in the head-to-head confrontation between VP and serenity.

Jing Jung, who was sitting in the soundproof booth, looked at his teammates who were also calm, and said, "Come on, brothers, don't be ashamed, now we are the only ones left!" ”

It's not a Jingzhun pressure cooker, but he understands that his teammates have long been out of the mood of nervousness after experiencing the tempering of several major finals.

All he had to do was remind his teammates to save them from capsizing on an opponent like VP, who was supposed to be nine out of ten.

"Don't worry, Brother Prospective!" Charles responded immediately.

After the first game against Liquid in the group stage, Charles also reflected, knowing that it was his hero choice who wanted to win and was afraid of losing that brought the team a difficult situation in the future, and he also blamed himself for this.

Charles, who is determined to make amends, is extremely heroic in the subsequent group stage, and his mentality has been adjusted to the best!

Pyw, Super and the three of them were originally relatively calm personalities, and after getting along with Jing Zhun for so long, they also learned a little bit of Jing Zhun's ability to be unsurprised, and they all nodded slightly after hearing the reminder.

"It's on! Don't scratch! ”

As the main stage entered the BP screen, the live broadcast room of dota2, which is the most popular in China, became as noisy as a vegetable market......