Team Secret defeated Team Liquid in the final of the lower bracket of The International 11

The final day of The International 11 has begun. Dota 2 fans will have 2 matches today, namely the final of the lower bracket and the grand final of the tournament. Team Secret and Team Liquid fought in the loser's bracket final. Earlier we wrote about how Tundra Esports became the first grand finalist of the championship . Below is a brief overview of the last match.

First map

The first kill on the map is made by miCKe, but at the same time he was losing 500 gold to Nisha at the 7th minute. At the 11th minute, the score on the map was 3:2 in favor of Team Liquid. Team Secret, using Smoke of Deceit, ganks MATUMBAMAN, but miCKe and teammates come out in a confident counterattack and kill three Secret heroes.

Puppey and the team win the mid lane fight with support buybacks and kill Roshan. Team Secret outplayed Team Liquid in the 27th minute, killing four heroes and breaking the middle and top sides of the opponent, while Secret players had a 14,000 gold advantage. A minute later, Team Liquid again die with the whole team and write “gg” in the chat.

Second map

As in the previous map, Crystallis was the first to die. Of the picks, it is worth noting that this time Liquid themselves decided to play with the carry Sniper. Team Liquid took the lead in the 7th minute with a score of 4:2. MATUMBAMAN gets a double kill in the 16th minute, killing Crystallis who was playing Monkey King as well. Picking up the pace, Team Liquid destroy Secret's bottom lane in the 30th minute, having a score of 23:16 and 6,000 gold ahead of the opponent.

At the 32nd minute, zai and his teammates kill Roshan, who was not finished off by their rivals. 6 minutes later, Liquid was already ahead of Team Secret by 19,000 gold in terms of farm. Also, Puppey and the team were forced to counter the megacreeps. Team Liquid compare the score in the series with a score of 35:21. The fate of the slot in the grand final will be decided on the final third map.

Third map

Team Liquid remembered the Brewmaster, on which zai sat down to play. Team Secret players kill Boxi by drawing first blood. By the 22nd minute, Team Liquid outplayed the opponent with a score of 13:11, having 2,000 more gold and Aegis of the Immortal from miCKe, who played on Lina. But a minute later, Team Secret kill all the Liquid heroes without losing a single character, so the team compares the situation on the map. At the same time, Liquid's Lina and Lifestealer still held the lead in terms of farming.

At the 33rd minute, Team Secret turned the tide of the battle, killed the opposing team and took the lead. Puppey and the team win a series of fights and continue to break the opponent's base. Liquid players are left without buybacks, and Secret break their Ancient. Team Secret prevailed with a score of 2-1 and advanced to the grand final.

Team Liquid stops in third place and earns $1,692,780 or 9% of the total prize pool. Team Secret advance to the grand final where they will play against Tundra Esports in a bo5 series for the world title and the main prize of $8,463,674. The next match will be the fourth grand final for Puppey, and it was also the last match for MATUMBAMAN.

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 $18,490,932. The venue is Suntec Singapore and Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.

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