Team Secret qualified for PGL Open Bucharest
Team Secret prevailed in the European qualifier for PGL Open Bucharest with a 6-0 score.
Team Secret received a direct invite to the EU qualifier, and fought in the group A against mousesports, Team Kinguin, and 10 Rounds. A quick 2-0 victory carried them to the playoffs.
The four finalists had to fight in a Bo3 single elimination bracket. Team Secret crushed HellRaisers in the semifinals, and mousesports in the finals, with a 2 to 0 score.
PGL Open Bucharest is PGL next Minor. 8 teams will battle from October 19th to 22nd for a $300,000 prize pool. Two of them received a direct invite, while the others had to earn their ticket via regional qualifiers.
Final list of participants
Evil Geniuses (invited)
LGD Gaming (invited)
Immortals (NA)
Digital Chaos.SA (SA)
Team Secret (EU)
Natus Vincere (CIS)
Mineski (SEA)
VGJ.Thunder (China)
Team Secret vs mousesports Bo3 recap
Team Secret maintained the upper hand during the entire first match, and ended the battle at 34 minutes with a 17k gold lead. In the early game, mouz lost a couple of fatal teamfights in the easy lane, but overall the teams were rather conservative up to the mid game.
The combined action of the two spirits - Yeik "MidOne" Nai Zheng on Ember and Yazied "YapzOr" Jaradat on Earth - led to multiple successful teamfights starting from the 24 minute mark. Mousesports quickly lost their towers, the bottom barracks, and was forced to call gg.
Game one - Image: Dotabuff
During the second match, roughly no fights happened in the first 15 minutes. Both teams spent their time building up items, and mouz got a small 5k lead, thanks to Alchemist's farming capacity.
He was almost 5-slotted, and tried a split-pushing build with Radiance and Manta Style. Unfortunately, magic damage isn’t the best option when facing Marcus "Ace" Hoelgaard’s Meepo. He had a pretty good farm as well with over 300 last hits.
The teamfights were almost completely one-sided in favour of Secret, which gold lead escalated to 15k and brought to a quick victory in 28 minutes.
Game two - Image: Dotabuff
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