PSG.LGD defeat beastcoast at The International 2022
Maksym ShylovThe playoffs of The International 2022 are underway. Today, fans will be able to see 4 bo3 knockout matches in the lower bracket. Beastcoast and PSG.LGD opened the game day. Earlier we wrote about who will play in the upper bracket final of the current Dota 2 World Championship.
First map
The start of this series turned out to be quite equal, until the 39th minute of the confrontation the teams seized the initiative from each other from time to time. Having won a series of fights and left PSG.LGD's supports without a buyback, beastcoast are sharply taking the lead.
The Peruvian team showed an extremely confident game. The map ended with the victory of K1 and his teammates on the first map with a score of 35:24 in 52 minutes. It is worth noting that the team fell ill with COVID-19, so only Chris Luck played on stage, since he was the only one in the club who passed a negative test for coronavirus.
Second map
The Chinese were clearly determined to win back and did not want to leave the tournament so easily. PSG.LGD outplayed the opponent from the very beginning of the second map. Special attention deserves Faith_bian, who played on Ax. The player showed a competent initiation and finished with a score of 20-4-10. 33 minutes was enough for the Chinese club to force beastcoast to write “gg” in the chat. PSG.LGD equalized in the series with a score of 37:18, having more than 22,000 gold advantage.
Third map
Beastcoast open the scoring on the third map, Wisper, playing Batrider, kills Ame, who was picked by Sven. Representatives of South America played too greedily on the top lane, chasing PSG.LGD's Io, but, as a result, both of them died. In the center of the map, there was a fairly equal fight, NothingToSay was ahead of Chris Luck by 6 creeps at the 6th minute. The score was 2:3 in favor of PSG.LGD, there was no economical leader on the map at that time. On the 9th minute, beastcoast kill four opponent's heroes, the Chinese made an unfortunate mistake.
At the 19th minute, PSG.LGD tried to kill Chris Luck, but because of this they paid the price, losing all their heroes. Beastcoast killed Roshan. Wisper and the team were leading 15:11, 4,000 ahead of the Chinese in gold. PSG.LGD evened out the situation on the 25th, defeating the entire opposing team near the secret shop on the bottom lane. Despite the death of NothingToSay in the 31st minute, the Chinese managed to stop the attack of beastcoast, who took Aegis of the Immortal for the second time. PSG.LGD won the decisive map in 39 minutes with a score of 35:25. Despite this, the Chinese show a noticeably weaker game than in previous years.
Matches history: The International 2022
Recall that The International 2022 runs from October 15 to 30 this year. The top 20 teams from around the world compete in LAN format for the title of world champion, as well as the largest prize pool of the year. At the moment, its amount is $17,383,794. The venue is Suntec Singapore and Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.
Maksym has been working at EGamersWorld since 2017. Joining the company during his first year at university, he worked as a translator until 2022. After that, Maksym began working as an editor. His main discipline is Dota 2, and over time, Maksym's responsibilities expanded to include CS:GO, CS2 and Valorant. Additionally, as an editor, he publishes various materials on gaming topics.