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XMG Captains Draft 2.0 Dota 2 Tournament Concludes

by on December 22, 2014
 

The XMG Captains Draft 2.0 tournament from Dota Cinema has been easily the most fun Dota tournament post TI4. Seeing different hero’s, unlikely combinations and some very questionable plays has been thoroughly entertaining. Add in the brilliant casts from SUNSfan and syndereN and you have almost the perfect event.

The tournament concluded this past weekend with a BO5 series between Team Secret and Virtus.Pro. Secret went in as the favourites, despite coming second in the group stage, behind VP.

Tournament spoilers to follow. If you want to watch the spoiler free VOD’s you can do so here.

The finals went all the way to a game 5, with Virtus.Pro taking game 1 and game 3 and Secret taking games 2 and 4 to set up the decisive game 5.

Game 5 saw both teams take lineups that wouldn’t be uncommon in a traditional Captains Mode game, with N0tail getting one of his signature hero’s in Earth Shaker and VP’s Sedoy getting a Timbersaw. The last match was certainly entertaining, with Team Secret finally coming out on top after 40 minutes.

The victory sees Team Secret take home around $96,500 while VP’s 2nd place nets them a cool $63,000. Team Tinker took home 3rd place, as they took one game off VP in the semi final, and won around $41,000 while NaVi took 4th after losing every game in their semi final series against Secret to receive around $27,500.

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Mike Stubbsy

eSports! I joined God is a Geek all the way back in September 2013 and since then have spent most of my time on Dota 2, and occasionally posting the odd review, news article or totally wrong predictions for The International. When I am not playing Dota I can probably be seen watching some kind of strange eSport or begging for more Twitter followers (@MikeStubbsy if you are interested). Aside from GiaG I am a computing student, football coach and major Apple fanboy.