After quite a long journey, Tundra Esports succeeded in becoming the champion of The International (TI) 11 2022! No one suspected from the start that a team from Western Europe Union (WEU) could win.
Do you want to know the long journey of Tundra Esports from the beginning to becoming a TI 11 champion? Check it out below!
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How is Tundra Esports at The International (TI) 11 2022?
Tundra Esports is one of 12 other Dota 2 Esports Teams that have managed to acquire Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) Points. He occupies the 9th position with the acquisition of 1212 points.
Based on the table above, the biggest points from Tundra Esports come from ESL One Stockholm 2022 when it came to third place against OG. He also won first place in DPC WEU 2022 and get DPC Points of 500.
Continuing on to the Group Stage, Tundra Esports won first place out of all Group B. From the points earned, Tundra Esports won 5 matches and drew 4 matches.
However, in Group A, Evil Geniuses who was ranked first had lost badly by 2 matches. Evil Geniuses lost against Team Liquid and BOOM Esports.
Main Event Tundra Esports
With such a large number of points, Tundra Esports entered the Upper Bracket very easily. No half-hearted, during the playoffs, Tundra Esports has to face the strong candidates for TI 11 winners. Call them OG, Team Aster, and TeamSecret.
However, Tundra Esports managed to beat the three teams with almost perfect results. He only lost one game against Team Secret in the final round of the Upper Bracket, but he still advanced to the Grand Finals.
TI 11 Grand Final: Tundra Esports vs Team Secret
Tundra Esports' victory over Team Secret made it through to the Grand Final. Meanwhile, Team Secret had to fight against Team Liquid in the round Semi-Finals.
But Team Secret showed their strength, beat Team Liquid, and made it into the Grand Finals. The match between Tundra Esport vs Team Secret will happen again.
The Best of Five game between the two teams was exciting, but short. Tundra Esports easily beat Team Secret with a score of 3-0!
As an explanation, the author will provide Draft Heroes from both teams and a brief analysis of the game. To keep it short, the author suggests watching the highlights from LeagueOfDota.
From the three games in the Grand Final, several patterns emerged and also errors from TeamSecret (sorry, Puppey).
As an illustration, the author summarizes from various sources. Starting from Dotabuffs, Liquipedia, analyst sources from social media, as well as personal research.
Starting from the draft heroes, as you can see above, Leshrac always appears in every game. Well it is used by Nisha (midlaner) or Resolution1on (Offlaners). Also, almost all the heroes they choose rely on Magical Damage.
Meanwhile, from the items, the author saw several times the inaccuracy of the items.
For example when first games, Nisha (Leshrac) make Lotus Orbs only to avoid Tusk's attacks. While when third game, Crystallis (Naga Siren) does not make Diffusal Blade, even though their opponent was Medusa.
This error was then exploited by Tundra Esports. Two items that are never separated from Tundra Esports are Vladmir's Offering and Mage Slayer.
Aura Vladmir's Offering provides lifesteal, bonus damage, and also armor. Especially when upgraded to Wraith Pact. The totem can reduce 30% damage. Meanwhile Mage Slayer reduces damage spells 35%.
The author found one of the easiest examples that illustrate this in Twitter. Thanks Kevin Godeg which explains very easily with examples.
Gonna reiterate the mechanics that @TundraEsports abused to win IT. Pick good offlane who buys Wraith Pact:
Wraith Pact 30% damage reduced -> 70% dmg
Mage Slayer 35% reduced -> 45.5% dmg
Pipe blocks 400 raw dmg, 879 equiv.
Pipe Aura 15% red -> 38.67% dmg
Base Res 25% -> 29%— Purge – Kevin Godec (@PurgeGamers) October 30, 2022
Also Read: Here's Why Dota 2 Hero Leshrac Becomes TI 11's Pro Player's Choice!
Successes and Facts of Tundra Esports, TI 11 Champion
After three wins, Tundra Esports immediately raised Aegis and won The International (TI) 11 2022! Tundra Esports' victory over Team Secret is also exciting and encouraging news.
The reason is, no one expected that Tundra Esports could become a champion. Quoting from one of the Dota 2 analysts, Ben “Noxville” Steenhuisen, he provides data on the percentage order of potential TI 11 winners.
According to him, based on the data he obtained, the biggest possibility is for Tundra Esports to only reach 9th-12th place. Meanwhile, to win first place, Tundra Esports only has a percentage of 4,25%.
Not only that, the author also quotes from Twitter Wykrhm Reddy. In the poll that was conducted, until October 20, 2022, Tundra was in seventh position as the favorite team in the Main Event.
The poll shows that 4,23% out of 16,000 participants support Tundra Esports. This means that only 677 people took part in the poll and supported Tundra Esports.
Of course no one thought that. You need to know, TI 11 is the first TI tournament for Tundra Esports. Previously, Tundra always failed to qualify. But this time, he qualified and immediately became TI 11 champion.
Not only that, a member of Tundra Esports also made history. Aui_2000 be the first person to win TI as a player (IT 2015 with Evil Geniuses) and also a trainer at Tundra Esports!
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That's a summary of the long journey and interesting facts from Tundra Esports. Congratulations to Tundra Esports and their supporters!
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