The powerhouse from China, Xtreme Gaming bagged the championship title of the first-ever Elite League Dota 2 event by defeating the extremely favored Group Falcons on 14th April 2024, Sunday.
The extreme best-of-five grand finals showdown lasted 4 video games and witnessed each groups combating tooth and nail for the title the place Xtreme Gaming ultimately beat Falcons.
Knocked all the way down to the decrease bracket by Group Falcons earlier within the playoffs, Xtreme Gaming emerged by the trenches, placing up a valiant combat to not solely attain their revenge but additionally safe the championship.
Notably, Xtreme Gaming’s win was additionally a significant upset for Group Falcons who had been set to win their third consecutive Dota 2 event of 2024.
Xtreme Gaming Fingers Group Falcons Main Upset, Clinching Victory at Elite League
The primary-ever Elite League lately concluded with Xtreme Gaming beating Group Falcons in a best-of-five showdown.
Falcons began the sequence sturdy with a win and it appeared like they’d emerge on the highest as soon as once more. Nonetheless, Xtreme bounced again within the second recreation as Falcons had been unable to cease the relentless onslaught introduced upon them by Luna’s pushing powers.
The third recreation of the sequence witnessed an analogous storyline unfold as Xtreme Gaming utilized heavy strain on Falcons. On the again of some well-executed pickoffs across the map, they gave themselves an edge above their opponents.
This action-packed third recreation got here to a conclusive win for Xtreme Gaming as Falcons was unable to carry on for much longer towards them and ultimately conceded defeat on the 33rd-minute mark following a disastrous try and contest Roshan.
In the course of the remaining recreation of the sequence, each groups put of their all and fought head-to-head, Xtreme to win the title and Falcons to equalize the scores.
The sport began with first blood for Falcons as Andreas “Cr1t-“ Nielsen’s Hoodwink secured a kill on Ding “Dy” Cong’s Centaur.
The sport was on a balanced until the 40th-minute mark, till a significant blunder by Falcons on the 41st minute tipped the dimensions and Xtreme was capable of safe the center and backside barracks within the 44th minute.
Now, with a considerable gold lead, Xtreme Gaming was capable of outpace Group Falcons and began successful skirmishes which consistently broke out across the map.
Xtreme managed to safe mega creeps on the 53rd-minute mark after which Falcons waved the white flag with Ammar “ATF” Al-Assaf calling ‘GG’.
Apparently, 4 Xtreme Gaming gamers had been fast to fireside pictures towards ATF’s GG name and responded with a barrage of smiley emojis and ‘?’. Guo “Xm” Hongcheng and Lin “Xxs” Jing even went so far as saying ‘ez’ and ‘gg ez’, respectively.
This response from Xtreme Gaming was largely attributable to ATF’s earlier comment towards them throughout their final encounter within the Higher Bracket Quarterfinals the place ATF had referred to them as ‘Clowns’.