Defense 5 finals; Team Liquid grab championship title
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Defense 5 finals; Team Liquid grab championship title

December 6th, 2015 Tournaments 0 comments

The Defense 5 finals have concluded, with Team Liquid usurped OG 3:1 in the grand finals to take the championship title. Team Liquid were on fire today, giving stellar performances that rivaled OG and bested them in the end.

The double elimination, best of three format of Defense 5 day 1 began yesterday, set to take place over two days at the JoinDota Studios in Berlin. The four teams – OG, Team Liquid, Alliance and ATN- competed for $77,000 prize pool and the first Defense LAN title.

After The Defense 5 day 1 ended, The Defense 5 finals picked up with the first match in the lower bracket elimination series between ATN and Alliance.

Defense 5 Lower Bracket Round 1

Alliance were able to defeat ATN 2:0 in the Lower Brackets, eliminating the Polish Squad. The first match of the series featured a perfect game by Henrik “AdmiralBulldog” Ahnberg on his famed Nature’s Prophet. The game was over in just 25 minutes with a score of 30:4. The second game was still heavily one sided in favor of Alliance, with Jonathan “Loda” Berg and Gustav “s4” Magnusson taking the show. Alliance eliminated ATN from the event with their victory.

Defense 5 Lower Bracket Finals

Without much a break, Alliance headed into the next series to face Team Liquid. The European squad easily took both games from Alliance. The second game was a complete stomp, as Adrian “FATA-“ Trinks went wild with Lina 15:2:11. Team Liquid’s second victory of 40:17 in 33 minutes eliminated Alliance.

Defense 5 Grand Finals

The last series of The Defense 5 finals was the much anticipated best-of-five match up between Team Liquid and OG. Both teams have been showing tremendous skill and team synergy since their formations following TI5.

Team Liquid destroyed OG in the first game, ending it 21 minutes with a score of 23:3 but OG would dominate the second game and take the victory after 56 minutes. Their win secured a tied series setting everything back to even.

Armed with a Tiny-Io combo, Team Liquid took the third game in the series and the advantage. Lasse “MATUMBAMAN” Urpalainen had an amazing game on Tiny and showed he could rival Johan “BigDaddy” Sundstein on the hero.

The fourth game saw MATUMBAMAN get a fast Abyssal Blade and ended the game with a 28:3:9 score. The victory seemed to come easy for Team Liquid as they seized the championship title and upset OG 3:1.

The Defense 5 finals prize pool

The base prize pool set was $75,000. 25% of proceeds from all purchases of the DotaTV ticket and item bundle were added to the prize pool.
As of December 6th, 2015, the prize pool was reported at $78,326.

1st place – $39,232 – Team Liquid
2nd place – $19,616 – OG
3rd place – $11,769 – Alliance
4th place – $7,846 – Team Alternate

The Defense 5

In September, The Defense was reinstated after a long hiatus when Na’Vi was crowned champions in The Defense #4 in July 2013.

Bringing back the event included a scheduled LAN playoffs at the JoinDota headquarters in Berlin and an increased prize pool starting at $75,000. As of December 2, the prize pool is reported to be at $77,833 as 25% of proceeds from all purchases of the DotaTV ticket and item bundle were added to the prize pool.

The LAN playoffs are being held at the JoinDota headquarters office in Berlin, Germany. The last event that was hosted at the site was D2CL. Team Empire had claimed the D2CL title after sweeping through ViCi Gaming 3:0 to claim their second title in less than one month.

Featured image courtesy of JoinDota

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