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Dota 27 years agoAndreea "divushka" Esanu

MDL 2017: OG win the group stage, EG start from the lower bracket

The two days Round Robin group stage of Mars Dota 2 League 2017 has come to a close with OG claiming the top seed. They will be joined in the main event upper bracket by LGD, LFY and Newbee who finished top four in the group.

After two losses on the first day of the group stage, one to Evil Geniuses with an Arc Warden draft, and the other to LGD Gaming with a Meepo, OG won all their games scheduled for day two to topple the group with an overall 5-2 win/loss score. Second to fourth places in the group, which award an upper bracket start in the main event playoffs, were hotly contested as four teams finished with the same 4-3 win/loss score. LGD Gaming, LFY, and Newbee were supposed to play a three way tiebreaker at the end of today’s group stage matches however, they unanimously decided that they are happy with the upper bracket spots and don’t want to play extra games to decide the main event pairings.

Evil Geniuses, who also have a 4-3 score in the group stage, lost versus all the three Chinese teams placed top four, therefore they were not considered for the tiebreaker from the start, and will now have fight for defending their MDL title from lower bracket rounds.

OG’s first place in the group gives them with the possibility of choosing their first opponent and they went for LGD Gaming who placed second in the group and who are in fact one of the two teams that defeated them in the group stage. 

The MDL 2017 playoffs will commence tomorrow, the 7th of July when all the series of upper and lower bracket round one will be played, the full schedule being as follows:
 
04:00 CEST/10:00 CST: OG vs LGD Gaming
07:30 CEST/13:30 CST: LFY vs Newbee

11:00 CEST/17:00 CST: Evil Geniuses vs Clutch Gamers
14:30 CEST/ 20:30 CST: Vici Gaming vs Invictus Gaming

 

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