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Quite the break until regional qualifiers eh ? No major in sight , no small tournaments...nothing. Just a mega silence who will slowly transfer to pressure with TI date getting closer and closer but I guess for now , most of the teams are taking a well deserve break to cool their minds.

Also , GG broke the Wings record without even TI as they had 4 majors back to back wins and to be honest , I don't think we will witness sometimes like this soon enough but also the key to broke GG , is to take ACE from the squad and the rest will follow because ACE is the true carry in that team and also ACE is the true mastermind behind pushes and farm patterns.  

Love this month with the Riyadh Master 2023 coming up since the Bali Majors just ended with their finals on the 9th.
The Grand Finals had Team Liquid against Gamin Gladiators face-off.
Here is the video for those who missed it:
GAIMIN GLADIATORS vs LIQUID - GRAND FINAL - THE BALI MAJOR 2023 DOTA 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1R7Jco_0Q0

Now we are focused on the biggest prize award for a DOTA2 majors ever beginning on the 19th ending on the 30th.
Here are some news on the event for the teams:
https://afkgaming.com/dota2/news/black-announces-115k-mmr-and-stand-in-services-for-riyadh-masters-2023-qojqva-expresses-doubts

Also some pride for the Philippines with this roster change:
https://twitter.com/EntityEurope/status/1678358419840065536
source: https://afkgaming.com/dota2/news/entity-announces-addition-of-gabbi-as-new-position-3-player

Quest have a chance to get an invitation for TI this year but they were blocked by the gatekeepers, Team Liquid. They have a good chance to win the series. They forced a third map, the only third map in today's matches, but Team Liquid's experience overcome the young Quest Esports. They still have a chance on the regional qualifiers, and looking at how good they are playing lately, they have a good chance they can still qualify for TI. There are two slots coming from WEU so they have a high chance they can still qualify.

In regards to TI slot of Betboom, they are confirmed to directly qualify for TI this year. Since Quest lost to Team Liquid, they cannot overtake betboom anymore. Despite the controversy that happened, it is good that Betboom was still able to get a direct invite. Execration lacks DPC points to overtake and take the slot from Betboom.

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Team Liquid will have a rematch against Tundra tomorrow for the lower bracket finals. After disposing of Quest earlier, Team Liquid will have a rematch against Tundra tomorrow. Tundra was able to beat Team Liquid, 2-0, yesterday in the upper bracket. Team Liquid will get a chance to return the favor tomorrow on the final day of Bali Major. Gaimin Gladiators are already waiting in the finals. Speaking of GG, I think they have been in the finals in all the majors this year. This just shows how dominant they are.

He's sanctioned already and just waiting for the official sanction that's gonna affect their direct invite to TI. Their manager has already spoken and complained that the sanction was too much for them.

They're just playing by the book, I'm not tolerating what they're up to but it's in the book and Pure's stream sniping is really a bannable offense. Anyway, both Azure Ray and BetBoom are eliminated.

That's true, there will be a potential deduction in their DPC points and that means that last slot if Quest reaches the top 2 then they'll replace them. But if Quest ends early and not reaching the top 2, by luck then it shall go with Execration. Speaking of Team Liquid, they're now in the lower bracket after being beaten by Tundra without saksa and subbed by their coach aui_2000. And funnily speaking, this match was supposed to be for BetBoom and not with Tundra.

If they do receive a deduction in points, then they're fucked and have to go through the qualifiers. Top 2 is doable for Quest if they can beat Gaimin Gladiators today since they've already beaten Team Liquid before, but I hope we see Gaimin Gladiators and Team Liquid in the finals, as I need them for the BSFL.

I guess it's due to Azure Ray's plan to withdraw from the series if Pure wasn't disqualified and that's the minimum punishment for cheating if another organizer like ESL would handle this tournament.

Pure needs to get sanctioned and not play for the rest of the tournament. I guess that's enough of a punishment for now, though Valve would really be the ultimate judge, jury, and executioner for this unsportsmanlike behavior from Pure. We saw them going so far as banning the player for life for much lesser offenses, although they have become more lenient in recent times so that I believe it will be a lesser sanction.

Also, Azure Ray demanding a ban isn't really sportsmanlike too. The previous game does not concern them, and they still have time to prepare against BetBoom minus Pure so it's just them being too demanding for a ban when Tundra themselves don't see it like that.

I saw reports that it should have been their coach but good thing that Reso was there and was on the caster's side. However, totally not enough and they've been beaten badly by the Azure Ray.

Team Aster is also out. But with what happened to Pure, there is a potential reduction of their DPC points since it was said that it's per player points. If Quest ends up at least top 2 then they'll be the one to get in for the direct invite to TI but if not, then there's still a chance for Execration to swap position with BetBoom's last slot for the TI direct invite.

If I was not mistaken, I saw Resolution in the panel few days earlier, so I was not surprised Betboom took him as a substitute. But as good as Reso is, he cannot adjust that quickly to how Betboom plays. It is just a shame Pure has to do that. They'll win anyway against Tundra even without sniping. They have the momentum in this tournament to make it to the finals.


9Pandas denied team Aster the 300 DPC points today. Miero was almost perfect with his jumps on his enigma (2nd map) and Axe (3rd map). Miero was always on point on his berseker's call, always catching 2 core heroes of Aster. He was also the reason they won on the second map with enigma, catching core heroes with blackhole. Ramzes was a monster in the 3rd map, and no one could touch him.

But I do not know how that will help Betboom to get to TI. Can you clarify?

I was wondering who would be their substitute and i'm surprised that Resolution was there in the venue. Unfortunately, it's still not enough and I guess they're caught off guard as it all happened way too fast.

Now it's out of their reach and they have to root for 9Pandas to deny Team Aster the 300 DPC points they need. That final spot will depend on who wins today's last lower-bracket match currently, it's 1-1 after Team Aster failed to pull off the comeback in game 2.

They were already at the upper bracket and should have taken a rest today and be prepared for their tomorrow's match. But with that simple evidence that has been caught, everything has changed within less than 24 hours. They're already out of the Bali major and was eliminated by the Azure Ray and their secured slot for TI 12 has already been gone because there's only 1 slot left and their DPC point should have been enough if no issue has been made for today, but sadly it's all gone.

Betboom certainly have caused ripples in the dota arena and had cemented a name for themselves in this tournament in Bali.
This certainty is in jeopardy for making an appearance at the next major tournament set up starting later this month.
https://www.dexerto.com/dota2/dota-2-team-handed-loss-at-bali-major-after-player-is-caught-watching-twitch-stream-during-match-2201183

They haven't reported it to Valve yet. They'll only report it if Pure will play but I guess this is all settled now, Pure won't play against Azure Ray, and their coach, Boolk will play for him. So there's an adjustment that's gonna happen for them. Boolk will play as pos 5 and T.Tokyo will play as the offlane(pos 3). Another thing is that I'm not sure if it's for real that 33 used Spotify app while being in-game and with that, the team is punished with a level one draft penalty but that's not really a heavy punishment and I'm thinking of it just a meme when sneyking posted it.
Or there's another stand-in aside from Boolk and that's going to be resolution that will play as their pos 3 and T.Tokyo will remain as pos 5.

Yea but it goes deeper than that it seems. Azure just announced that they won't play with BB as long as Pure is there and they already reported this to Valve because Epulze tried to convince them to let Pure play but that is simply against the rules because once you cheat ( no matter what cheat you used ) , you should be punished for a long period of time and you won't be able to compete in any official Valve competitions. Now , I'm curious what Valve will have to say about this incident and also what they will say about Epulze who tried to convince Azure Ray to let Pure play against them.

What a day in Dota 2 ...the drama will be big and I got my popcorn ready 

Another controversy Pure of BetBoom has got in. In the stream of their match against Tundra, it was seen that he was stream-sniping while the game was paused. It was known too that he got into controversy by drawing "Z" on the map. As they've won against Tundra, their won and place in the upper bracket have been forfeited and they're now in the lower bracket facing Azure Ray. And another drama was in, AR don't want to play with them unless they're banned. If no action taken, they'll just forfeit the game.

My over hits on the TL vs PSG series, but I feel bad for PSG when they went for that Brood carry draft during game three, and Team Liquid's snowball got faster after winning all three lanes.

The Betboom series went 2-0, but that mega creep comeback they pulled off in game 2 was impressive.

Beastcoast tried their best against GG as they're off to a good start going up 1-0, but the Io Lesh combo of GG is better during games two and three.

The Quest and Team Aster series is still going, but Team Aster is choking so hard in game three, and Quest is about to pull off a comeback.

Liquid vs PSG looks awesome at first look but then I remember that Liquid had hidden strats in DreamLeague and didn't show anything there and now I don't think they can be stopped of winning this major , especially that their hidden strats were about 5 universal heroes in team or at least 4 every game.

BetBoom vs Tundra - I do see BetBoom taking the series here but if somehow AUI2000 will draft like in TI , Tundra is pretty much unstoppable.

Beastcoast vs GG - I can't bet against gg but I don't bet on them in general.

Quest vs Aster - Quest has real chances to reach semi-finals in Bali. 

What I have noticed with these SEA teams is that they're always having a hard time in early games. But still, somehow they manage to have a comeback and after they snowball, that's how they're taking the lead. I agree that it can be Bleed to take this spot but I'm not sure with their mid laner, he's still young and less in experience for which gives him unstable performances.

Oh yeah, no actions for this day but eventually it's just within a few hours away from this first playoff match between Team Liquid and PSG.LGD. Anyway, good luck to everyone's bet for these matches.

That's really a worst elimination for those teams and I think it's just 1-2 games away from both team to get secured even for the lower bracket. Anyway, even if they qualify for the lower bracket and they lose there, there's no prize and DPC points from there if they get beaten from there.

I am more optimistic that we might see a new face in the finals and that could be Quest but that's just me. Team Liquid on this major played well on the group stage unlike with the past that we've seen from them.

If they still had their former coach, they might've qualified through the DPC points and that one qualifier spot is good enough since i'd rather see a couple of SEA teams that perform well in TI than have more slots and waste them. Bleed Esports might be the team to take that final qualifier spot as they're almost similar to the old Fnatic squad.

Also, this is what I got for the first playoff match later today, over 2.5 since both teams are good and I think Team Liquid being a favorite is a trap.

Sad for Execration that they're the team that's close to having a direct TI invitation with the current DPC points that they have. But they lack of it because of how they ended up I think with 1-2 participation they have for the past majors. Whilst the only SEA team that got a direct invite is Talon, these three times that have got out early on Bali major are gonna have to do it hard to the qualifiers. And the sad news, is that there is only one slot left for SEA qualifier.