Invictus Gaming have beat Chaos Esports Club 3-0 in the Dota Summit 11 Minor grand finals and take home the trophy. nvictus Gaming surprised a lot of people by winning by such a huge margin. Arif "MSS" Anwar predicted Chaos Esports Club would win 3-0 before the game, but it turned out to be the opposite.
At the beginning of the game, Chaos was clearly not well prepared. Game one barely even got started before the Chaos draft fell apart under the sheer power of Zhou “Emo” Yi’s Ember Spirit. Even with a Kunkka-Templar Assassin frontline, Chaos fell behind quickly and couldn’t catch up. Yawar “YawaR” Hassan and Quinn “CCnC” Callahan played well, but both of their heroes excelled in the mid to late game and were beaten out by the quicker builds of iG. Specifically, the Emo Ember and Hu “Kaka” Liangzhi’s Mirana destroyed Chaos and forced a 24-minute GG call.
Game two saw a similar outcome. Emo dominated on Tiny, and Kaka got to play a second round on Mirana. Even with CCnC on Gyrocopter and the MSS Rubick, Chaos failed to stop the aggressive play of iG while Emo pushed right into lanes. IG shut down Jonáš “SabeRLight-” Volek and were able to out-zone YawaR for a second straight game, even though they ended up giving him a better opportunity to get things going. The Emo and Kaka combo put the Chinese squad one win away from making it to the Major and passed the torch to Jin “flyfly”‘ Zhiyi for the final game. CCnC tried to carry Chaos to a victory in game three, but flyfly’s Gyrocopter was a monster throughout the entire tournament. The pick made another dominating run in the most important game of the event.
SabeRLight- couldn’t stay alive. Kaka had another solid performance that helped swing a rough mid-game into a late push iG wasn’t willing to drop. Emo even dove into the fountain with TA to secure the kills necessary to end the game, forcing out a third set of GGs and ending the tournament with a 3-0 sweep.
IG now get a ticket to the MDL Chengdu Major. There, they will face more challenges.