Ok guys its been two weeks already so
here's the second blog. Almost forgot about it!
In the past two weeks EG was able to
finish strong in our qualification matches for The
Summit, ESL Frankfort, and
Dreamleague Season 1.
When we started playing these leagues we were confident that we would
make it to the LAN finals so it was a big relief to qualify. Neither
the Summit or ESL qualifications were close in terms of us not
qualifying as NA had two spots for the BTS tournament and our only
competition for ESL was Liquid who we were confident in beating.
The
Dreamleague qualifier was a bit more complicated. Coming into the
“Super Weekend” we were barely in the top 6 with a 6-4 score. It
seemed likely that it would come down to Navi, Fnatic, and ourselves
fighting for the 5th
& 6th
slot. That being said we had some of our toughest games of the league
coming up. The first day we played against Alliance and MYM which I
do not think had much of an impact on us securing a spot at LAN.
However the second day we played both Fnatic and Navi. Because Fnatic
defeated team DOG (current Mouz) we needed to win over either Fnatic
or Navi to advance. There was a million possible scenarios but we
were focused on just winning one of them. We were fortunate enough to
defeat Fnatic. Navi ended up forfeiting after a long drawn out
decision from the admins. That being said these were all Bo1's and we
had US East server for all 4 games; server Dota at its finest? We
ended the league in 3rd
place somehow with a 10-4 record so we'll be playing Alliance in the
first round at Dreamhack.
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/DreamLeague/Season_1
We also finished up our D2CL matches against Rox-Kis, VP, and MYM with a 6-0 score. We entered this tournament just for some additional practice before summer so we are content with our 2nd place finish in groups playing all games on Lux. Luckily it turns out the finals are going to be during our boot-camp in Europe so Lux shouldn't stop us from winning!
I know most of you are curious about our schedule for this summer and
people are constantly asking me about our boot-camp etc. Because you
were kind enough to subscribe I will give you some insider deets.
Here is our tentative schedule as of Today:
June
2nd: Arrive
in LA for the Summit, set up with Kingston
June
3rd/4th:
Bootcamp with Kingston
June
5th-8th:
Summit Playdates
June
9th:
Zai leaves back to Sweden, Artour leaves to Vancouver for Exams,
Everyone else to San Francisco
June
11th:
Leave for Gothenburg
June
14th-17th:
Dreamhack playdates
June
18th:
Rest
June
19th:
Leave for Bootcamp in Germany
June
20th-27th:
Bootcamp in Germany
June
28th-29th:
ESL Playdates
June
30th - July 5th (may change): More
bootcamp in Germany
July
6th (may change) Leave
for Seattle
As you can see we have a jam-packed summer. Unfortunately I do not
think I will be streaming during this time but I will still post
blogs and perhaps some v-logs of our travels.
I
think I will be posting blogs more often than two weeks as well
because I often have a lot of things on my mind and writing them down
seems to help me release. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more.
- PPD
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