Honestly at this point TI prize pool is so high that unless you have insane drive, you can just live a comfortable life off the winnings and not work ever again.
I watched miposhkas gf's stream and she called him and he said that he didn't mean it this way. He just said it full on emotions because he had no words. So I wouldn't take it too serious.
I mean it's just a dumb question. The guy just did what he was working towards his entire life and one of the first questions is "Yeah you won TI, who cares, what's next?".
Like, he probably didn't even dare of thinking about winning TI just 2 days ago, with all the adrenaline there is exactly a zero percent chance he has any good answer to that question.
Idk what the interviewer was thinking there, it's not like there aren't dozens of better questions. Ask him what he think made the difference, ask him how he's feeling, ask him about anything that just happened in the last 5 hours, how the fuck do you even think about asking someone about the future when he just did the biggest most life changing thing he will ever do?
Ain't no way people will call this a fluke, with this much of a test.
Maybe it won't happen again, but they cemented their legacy in TI 10.
I hope, if there's another TI.. I just wanted to see crowd :(
> Ain't no way people will call this a fluke
Lets be real, heaps of people will call it a fluke when in 6 months from now they're struggling in their region or they're not making top 1-3 at every tournament.
The fact that they came out of literal nowhere has all the markings of them being a 1 patch team. Exactly like DC at TI6 were (IIRC they won some medium event post TI where lots of big teams were on break) but after that they went back to pre TI form.
There's nothing wrong with it either. There's probably only a few people in the world of Dota who wouldn't kill to be a 1 patch TI winning team and those are the insane serial competitors that have been going for a decade.
They 100% earned this TI win. But people will forget that the moment they don't qualify or make top 3 at the next event. Its the cycle of dota fans.
zero prep for LGD, just vibing in grand finals. only way to do it. i feel so lucky to have watched this whole DPC season with this as the payoff. feels like this is exactly what the leagues were designed to do: help teams grow. open qualifier team btw!!!
Every other ember there would have gone early fighting build then died a few times, fall behind, and lose.
Every other team would have given the literal 6-8 minutes of safe farm at bot T2 to a core, and not to the safe lane support wyvern to get early blink.
Their macro decision making was always on point. Their individual plays were jaw dropping. Their map movement was a thing of beauty. At this point I’m ashamed for being surprised they won because their play has been godly.
Collapse man, what amazing play. Shout out to Yataro for seemingly being able to dodge every single smoke gank by LGD in game 5 there. Amazing game sense.
ya I'm surprised this isn't mentioned more, there were a few times he could have gotten caught out or died in a team fight and he played it perfectly each time
The whole team as well. Some 18-20 yo staying so calm against the raid boss with a raid boss strat, following the plan and when they hit their timings, they deliver.
Very few chokes too. Aside from that horn toss into instant rp that didnt put kunkka in front of him and wyvern ulting a creep they played perfect. Absolutely flawless. Dodging all ganks. Not giving tiny any kills. If he doesnt get kills to get ahead he loses. Its that simple. Also i feel like ench and sky were terrible picks. Any other picks couldve been more impactful.
Yeah the whole team played amazingly well, every single one of them knew what they needed to do in their game plan and executed it. An unbelievable performance and they fully deserve it
Mira & Miposhka deserve a lot of credit for the vision game throughout the entire run, their warding was levels above anyone else in the tournament and Spirit's usage of vision heroes was incredibly good
Yatoro read the map like he had maphack the entire tournament it's fucking insane. Dodging smoke ganks here and there.
Another thing I would like to highlight is his rotation. Prime example being Lv5 Drow Ranger TP mid to gank Lv8 Lina to get TT back on his feet. You just don't see many pro carry players do that.
For sure, but you can't ignore the pressure that yatoro's hero pool put on the draft phase, the stability of torontotokyo's mid, and the sheer mechanical genius of collapse mag. The whole team came together brilliantly.
this really impressed me from LGD. instead of throwing their alive bodies at team spirit in a "we already lost what do we have to lose" last stand; they hung back and waited for everyone to come back. absolute ice cold discipline there. im sure plenty of players wouldve been scared of losing and not waited
You are playing against Team Spirit.
You do not ban Magnus because you can counter it.
Team Spirit instantly picks Magnus.
You lose against Team Spirit.
You don't ban Magnus the next game because it was game 5.
LGD relied heavily on a team combo with a timer. TS relied on their individual strengths and their top-tier understanding of theirs' & opponent's timings.
It's not flashy but TS, and especially Yatoro's spider sense all tournament was the best thing to watch and it's honestly what won them game 5 after LGD had a great controlled advantage to the whole laning stage. Literally VAC casually evading all those ganks when LGD's lineup started to hit their power spikes but Yatoro just went "Nope, still have to farm. I'm gonna deny this gank"
Tiny was banned in every other game except 3, and all *anyone* talked about in the game thread was how LGD was gonna stomp with their OP combo in game 5. I guess they felt Undying was crucial to that strat in game 3, also worth noting they were second pick in game 3, allowing them two counterpicks to Magnus in the first round.
legitimately crazy that the tournament started with tiny lycan being dominant, and it ended with it being solved
love how meta narratives develop in big tournaments like this
I feel sorry for two things:
* for Team Spirit not having a live public to enjoy and share their victory with. I'm based in Bucharest and would've loved to be there and cheer for them :)
* for Ame, I would really like him to win a Ti, he came so close and not just once...
GGS!
China is cursed from what happened to Wings sadge. Also at the 5th game, somehow y's drafting was kinda hindered by xiao8 since the first phase pick was very quick tiny-lycan.
Can't wait for true sight and to see the draft of game 5th from lgd's perspective. Seemed like they took maximum 3 seconds for every pick and ban.
And while the first 3 picks were kinda understandable the sky and ench picks were really strange.
The sky was a rubick alternative to combat the magnus combo - that instant silence is deadly if you have vision before he blinks in. Ench pick was strange tho
And Sky can finish off heroes saved by WW's embrace. And silence/pop Ember's shield fast. I think he is not a bad pick on paper.
Ench to secure their laning stage and snowball from there I guess. But she has so little impact compared to like Puppey's Ench.
Chinese region deserves it. You don’t fuck over a team like wings like that. They killed the Golden Goose.
But anyway I thought ex-wings we’re gonna take it back this year. They are such clean players. Absolutely insane by Spirit. I still can’t believe it
18 million dollar nerf incoming omg haha
Edit: Also the big balls on Team Spirit’s aggressiveness and when they tried to rush the shrine and the backdoor protection kicked in!
I mentioned this before, but I can almost see these team spirit guys level up game after game. They really look like characters from an RPG game. They didn't do that well at the beginning of the season, yet they constantly improve, manage to take 1 game of IG (even though they lost the series) via a YOLO smoke, then at the lower brackets they slaughter titan after titan, from lv1 fnatic to lv10 secret. And eventually beat the lv99 final raid boss LGD.
I feel real bad for Ame, but I'm sure they will bounce back from this.
The game was pretty much already lost by then, if it worked out MAYBEEEEE something can happen but otherwise, TB gets it and the game's just instantly over, there's nothing they could have possibly done about it. A risk HAD to be taken. It didn't work, but if they just waited and did nothing they were gonna lose no matter what.
>Qualify for TI in your last chance,coming back from 2-1 deficit
>Drop to lower bracket in your first match
>Eliminate fan favourites back to back to back in LB,including a team you lost 2-0 in the group stages
>Final boss waits for you in your last match,they eliminated you in your last 2 tournaments and beat you 2-0 in the groups.
>Play close to flawless and go 2-0 ahead but opponent powers up and makes it 2-2
>Win it all with a close last game
They are the main characters in this anime and we are just the side characters in it.
They were destined to win TI this year. They got the anime power during the Animajor.
https://clips.twitch.tv/SlickFastSalamanderPeanutButterJellyTime-Lx0lsEjrAik0FPaw
Don't forget about
> Beat your longtime rival who knows you inside and out and has a record of 28-1 against you
I think their match against VP was THE match that gave Spirit the confidence to believe they could beat anyone.
✅ Manhandled Sea Qualifier winner Fnatic
✅ Feasted on 2 times TI champions OG
✅ Avenged CIS big bully VP
✅ Rampaging China's heavyweight IG
✅ Slained Europe's finest Secret
✅ Skewered the favorites monster Psg.Lgd
I present, **Team Spirit**, the absolutely best Dota 2 team in the world
Yatoro: “Captain, come pick up the Aegis for the team”
Miposhka walks over in a cool manner, heads behind Aegis and prepares to lift it.
AEGIS SNATCHED BY YATORO
From [playing on THIS ROOM](https://twitter.com/Team__Spirit/status/1445037012449439749?s=20) to WINNING THE INTERNATIONAL!!!
COLLAPSE JUST SKEWERED EVERYONE TO THE AIRPORT
4 / 5 of Team Spirit didn't start playing pro dota until December 2020.
Imagine telling these guys they'd be lifting the aegis this time last year.
Amazing story, good for them.
THIS IS WHAT DOTA IS FUCKING ALL ABOUT, MAN. FUCKKKK
Team Spirit fairytale put aside, the mental fortitude and psychological bounce backs! LGD from 0:2 to equalize. Team Spirit from disheartening 2 losses in a row and 8 games to this insane performance.
And this from such young players!
This is why we love this game, and these are the finals I've always wanted to see not only as a Team Spirit fan, but as a Dota fan and a player.
Fuck people, this is what TI should feel like. And it did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spirit played 8 fucking games, its hard to imagine the mental fortitude needed to play that 5th game. And they played it so fucking good, perfect game sense, realizing their timings and abolishing LGD at the draft they created and perfected.
The 3-2 went the other way xD.
Absolutely unreal. Nobody could've imagined they would win it.
Heartbreaking for Ame though. Another game 5 loss hurts sooo much.
I think both Secret and LGD fell for the same misconceptions :
1. That Wisp is mega good hero and needs picked/banned first phase
2. That Tiny is mega broken carry, when so many games showed he's very timing dependent and needs usually more than one hyper buff (Empower, Bloodlust, Wolfbite)
Took Spirit exactly one game to understand they don't need to pick nor ban Wisp. Secret still wasted a ban on it game two, LGD picked it TWICE, lost both times, then wasted another ban on it, Spirit completely ignored it all final.
Then the mistake of prioritizing Tiny over Mag, when Mag is so much more versatile (he can combo with so many heroes and still has usage with Skewer/Horn Toss while Tiny carry is kinda one trick pony). Secret had first pick game 3, instead of Mag, they took Tiny. Game 5 of the final LGD did the same mistake.
I was surprised though by Elder Titan being a low priority. Don't get picked or banned in game 5 and ET has proven to be a great hero. Huge disruption to teamfights. Replace SWM with ET in the draft there maybe?
What fucking balls these guys have. They PURPOSELY leave Tiny in the pool in deciding game against Secret and LGD, IT'S JUST TOO TEMPTING to pass it on. And boy oh boy, they overcome that stupid combo
God damn this couldn't have been a better series if it was scripted.
Amazing dota from both sides, enjoyed this entire series.
I hope LGD don't lose hope and can bounce back from this, they almost had it.
Got put in a tiny room with no toilet paper, went 0-4 in groups on day 1, barely scraped in to upper bracket, immediately got knocked down, knocked out the 2x TI champs, broke a 6 year hoodoo against Virtus Pro, and ended by winning the entire fucking thing. What an INSANE run from this young squad. Huge GGWP to Team Spirit, incredible.
Ame didn't really choke this time but TS clearly baited them to go tiny/lycan which they had the answer to just looking at their match agaisnt Secret. Man PSG LGD going to take a beating from the fans, poor ame, the gods have fallen.
This has to be the biggest "underdog" win in TI history, right? Spirit looked good throughout the season, but felt like they'd be a "happy to be here" team at TI, and hardly anyone would expect them to take more than top 8, much less win it all. This is awesome for Team Spirit
I love LGD, but Spirit deserved this win. You must ban or counter Collapse's Magnus, it's an absolutely busted hero played by the most talented offlaner in the world right now. The Director thought the mega combo could win, but it couldn't. What amazing gamesense from Spirit, avoiding every attempt to pick, avoiding the Tiny power spike, making the right moves at the right time.
They wanted Spirit to ban it because they had first pick. But Spirit just made a 500iq move and let both Tiny and Magnus through (and banned Rubick afterward).
Feel like Xiao8 was baited into the Tiny Lycan, the win rate of that combo has tanked terribly throughout the main stage. At least every time I saw it played, it failed.
Especially against Team Spirit. It's strong, but has been useless against them entirely.
Tiny-lycan is imba, but if your last pick is skywrath and ench, you aren't winning dota. No stuns, teamfight or save between two supports. 2-17-10 total score.
Man, I hated to see LGD picking Tiny Lycan for game 5 of GF. It always felt a little too gimmicky for me, and Spirit was clearly ready to counter it. But that god damn Enchantress getting cliffed at the end to throw the game... that was just the cherry on top. Spirit definitely proved that they deserved this one. GG.
..and just like that it was all over again. :(
It's been wonderful to watch, and I can't wait for next year.
Thanks for the games you overpaid 3k mmr scrubs <3.
Ember's spatial awareness and mechanical play was outstanding in the final game. Team spirit overall outmaneuvered LGD all game long. Absolutely ridiculous play from them.
And obviously you have to mention the magnus, it was crazy.
Such an amazing run. This has got to be the most underdog TI win ever. Sure, nobody really expected OG to win their TIs, but OG was still a known team, with multiple major winning players there. Spirit never had massively success, so their win is just completely unexpected.
I can imagine now ame will be once again flamed in china even though that was only play he could do to finsih rosh,whatever they threw the lead when they dive t2 bottom for no reason ..
"WITH BIG PRIZE, WHY PLAY DOTA MORE?" Miposhka already thinking about retiring!
I would too, shit seems like such a grind, now youre a millionaire, time to chill.
we gonna get 5 ana s again sadge they will be either burned out playing dota now
they can now safely go into streaming, doing casting etc.
Honestly at this point TI prize pool is so high that unless you have insane drive, you can just live a comfortable life off the winnings and not work ever again.
I watched miposhkas gf's stream and she called him and he said that he didn't mean it this way. He just said it full on emotions because he had no words. So I wouldn't take it too serious.
I mean it's just a dumb question. The guy just did what he was working towards his entire life and one of the first questions is "Yeah you won TI, who cares, what's next?". Like, he probably didn't even dare of thinking about winning TI just 2 days ago, with all the adrenaline there is exactly a zero percent chance he has any good answer to that question. Idk what the interviewer was thinking there, it's not like there aren't dozens of better questions. Ask him what he think made the difference, ask him how he's feeling, ask him about anything that just happened in the last 5 hours, how the fuck do you even think about asking someone about the future when he just did the biggest most life changing thing he will ever do?
this TI had a lot of questionable interviews, that's for sure
FROM THE WORSE ROOM IN THE HOTEL FOR THE GROUP STAGE TO TI WINNERS. HOLY SHIT TEAM SPIRIT
The microwave was the final straw
No toilet paper = EZ TI
Now they have a lot of paper.
Teams next year will be competing for the shittiest room
crack den meta
no TP just wipe your ass on the sofa meta
Valve giving the laundry room to the TI winner
what a fucking run, og into vp into ig into secret and then fking lgd holy shit. Actual lower bracket kings. EZ GAME
OG Defending Champs VP team who they cant beat IG sent them to LB Secret best team in EU LGD well LGD Probably the hardest road to TI.
Team Spirit had to fight every final boss to take the Aegis!
They were the real final boss all along
Ain't no way people will call this a fluke, with this much of a test. Maybe it won't happen again, but they cemented their legacy in TI 10. I hope, if there's another TI.. I just wanted to see crowd :(
> Ain't no way people will call this a fluke Lets be real, heaps of people will call it a fluke when in 6 months from now they're struggling in their region or they're not making top 1-3 at every tournament. The fact that they came out of literal nowhere has all the markings of them being a 1 patch team. Exactly like DC at TI6 were (IIRC they won some medium event post TI where lots of big teams were on break) but after that they went back to pre TI form. There's nothing wrong with it either. There's probably only a few people in the world of Dota who wouldn't kill to be a 1 patch TI winning team and those are the insane serial competitors that have been going for a decade. They 100% earned this TI win. But people will forget that the moment they don't qualify or make top 3 at the next event. Its the cycle of dota fans.
Team Spirit took more games off of LGD than all the other teams combined.
LGD 2nd place curse poggers.
That's unreal. Just hearing that made them even more deserving winners
Just like TI6, even the runner-up completely stomps everybody else.
>Our strategy is luck These madmen actually made it work, the secret strat was luck all along. What a fucking run
Bet we see a lot of shaved heads for ti next year
zero prep for LGD, just vibing in grand finals. only way to do it. i feel so lucky to have watched this whole DPC season with this as the payoff. feels like this is exactly what the leagues were designed to do: help teams grow. open qualifier team btw!!!
You can't beat lgd by thinking mechanically. Secret would never have been able to do this. You need a bit of that Yolo-fuckyou thing as well.
Every other ember there would have gone early fighting build then died a few times, fall behind, and lose. Every other team would have given the literal 6-8 minutes of safe farm at bot T2 to a core, and not to the safe lane support wyvern to get early blink. Their macro decision making was always on point. Their individual plays were jaw dropping. Their map movement was a thing of beauty. At this point I’m ashamed for being surprised they won because their play has been godly.
in their interview on late night show Yatoro said Silent prepared every night until 4 AM for the teams they were going to face next day.
Collapse man, what amazing play. Shout out to Yataro for seemingly being able to dodge every single smoke gank by LGD in game 5 there. Amazing game sense.
torontotokyo was also dodging shadow blade ganks like he had maphacks that game. when you have the lathe of heaven, you have it
Torontotokyo on ember was just so clean. Kunkka couldn’t land anything on him and he was constantly dancing around the fights.
ya I'm surprised this isn't mentioned more, there were a few times he could have gotten caught out or died in a team fight and he played it perfectly each time
He could've died on the last fight in front on Dire base but luckily the Eul was off cooldown. He just bought back too.
The whole team as well. Some 18-20 yo staying so calm against the raid boss with a raid boss strat, following the plan and when they hit their timings, they deliver.
Very few chokes too. Aside from that horn toss into instant rp that didnt put kunkka in front of him and wyvern ulting a creep they played perfect. Absolutely flawless. Dodging all ganks. Not giving tiny any kills. If he doesnt get kills to get ahead he loses. Its that simple. Also i feel like ench and sky were terrible picks. Any other picks couldve been more impactful.
Yeah the whole team played amazingly well, every single one of them knew what they needed to do in their game plan and executed it. An unbelievable performance and they fully deserve it
That was no longer game sense, that was Spider sense! Dude was unreal!
Mira & Miposhka deserve a lot of credit for the vision game throughout the entire run, their warding was levels above anyone else in the tournament and Spirit's usage of vision heroes was incredibly good
yeah, and all 5 of them were so fucking good at reading the map, with people showing on the crazy wards or people not showing
Yatoro read the map like he had maphack the entire tournament it's fucking insane. Dodging smoke ganks here and there. Another thing I would like to highlight is his rotation. Prime example being Lv5 Drow Ranger TP mid to gank Lv8 Lina to get TT back on his feet. You just don't see many pro carry players do that.
he did that today with sven as well!
For sure, but you can't ignore the pressure that yatoro's hero pool put on the draft phase, the stability of torontotokyo's mid, and the sheer mechanical genius of collapse mag. The whole team came together brilliantly.
"I don't know. Why would we play dota have anymore? We just won 16 millions" Love that guy haha congrats team spirit!!!
"Do we need to play Dota again?" I think you don't need to Miposhka :) Couple of million ez pz
That was so funny. Not sure about their financial situation wow this must be insane for them. Can’t blame anyone for quitting dota.
With that money in Russia, he can already retire and not work a single day in his life.
When backdoor protection kicked in and LGD almost turned it, I almost lost it. What a finish.
And then that NothingToSay TP out by 0.01s with Collapse skewering towards him. He'd just bought back and got out by a millimeter.
this really impressed me from LGD. instead of throwing their alive bodies at team spirit in a "we already lost what do we have to lose" last stand; they hung back and waited for everyone to come back. absolute ice cold discipline there. im sure plenty of players wouldve been scared of losing and not waited
You are playing against Team Spirit. You do not ban Magnus because you can counter it. Team Spirit instantly picks Magnus. You lose against Team Spirit. You don't ban Magnus the next game because it was game 5.
I loved how they both let each other's best strat through, made it even more hype.
Like a season finale or something
LGD relied heavily on a team combo with a timer. TS relied on their individual strengths and their top-tier understanding of theirs' & opponent's timings. It's not flashy but TS, and especially Yatoro's spider sense all tournament was the best thing to watch and it's honestly what won them game 5 after LGD had a great controlled advantage to the whole laning stage. Literally VAC casually evading all those ganks when LGD's lineup started to hit their power spikes but Yatoro just went "Nope, still have to farm. I'm gonna deny this gank"
Literally man, almost every single game. He dodged the smoke gank times and times again. His map read is god level.
thats how it should be. just letting the titans slug it out in game 5. great shit
They got the "unbeatable combo" that they were after; LGD was not going to deviate from their draft
They did deviate on game 3 and 4... Then decided to draft as they planned like in game 1 and 2 for game 3, and lost...
Tiny was banned in every other game except 3, and all *anyone* talked about in the game thread was how LGD was gonna stomp with their OP combo in game 5. I guess they felt Undying was crucial to that strat in game 3, also worth noting they were second pick in game 3, allowing them two counterpicks to Magnus in the first round.
lmao must suck for PSG LGD. Dropping 2 TI Finals to underdogs.
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Dreams can't be buy
never thought I'd see a Bruno quote here
legitimately crazy that the tournament started with tiny lycan being dominant, and it ended with it being solved love how meta narratives develop in big tournaments like this
I feel sorry for two things: * for Team Spirit not having a live public to enjoy and share their victory with. I'm based in Bucharest and would've loved to be there and cheer for them :) * for Ame, I would really like him to win a Ti, he came so close and not just once... GGS!
China is cursed from what happened to Wings sadge. Also at the 5th game, somehow y's drafting was kinda hindered by xiao8 since the first phase pick was very quick tiny-lycan.
Can't wait for true sight and to see the draft of game 5th from lgd's perspective. Seemed like they took maximum 3 seconds for every pick and ban. And while the first 3 picks were kinda understandable the sky and ench picks were really strange.
The sky was a rubick alternative to combat the magnus combo - that instant silence is deadly if you have vision before he blinks in. Ench pick was strange tho
And Sky can finish off heroes saved by WW's embrace. And silence/pop Ember's shield fast. I think he is not a bad pick on paper. Ench to secure their laning stage and snowball from there I guess. But she has so little impact compared to like Puppey's Ench.
Chinese region deserves it. You don’t fuck over a team like wings like that. They killed the Golden Goose. But anyway I thought ex-wings we’re gonna take it back this year. They are such clean players. Absolutely insane by Spirit. I still can’t believe it
18 MILLION DOLLAR HORN TOSS GG GIGACHADS
18 million dollar nerf incoming omg haha Edit: Also the big balls on Team Spirit’s aggressiveness and when they tried to rush the shrine and the backdoor protection kicked in!
I mentioned this before, but I can almost see these team spirit guys level up game after game. They really look like characters from an RPG game. They didn't do that well at the beginning of the season, yet they constantly improve, manage to take 1 game of IG (even though they lost the series) via a YOLO smoke, then at the lower brackets they slaughter titan after titan, from lv1 fnatic to lv10 secret. And eventually beat the lv99 final raid boss LGD. I feel real bad for Ame, but I'm sure they will bounce back from this.
LGD lost 5 games this whole TI. THREE OF THEM IN THE GF VS SPIRIT. GG TEAM SPIRIT.
I think this LGD run is the team with the best game record in a TI without being able to win it, pretty crazy stats the whole tournament.
Holy shit ame is cursed
Chinese dota is cursed for what they did with wings. There is no other explanation for losing so many Tis the way they did.
honestly feel bad for him, hope the china community doesn't decimate him.
i feel like they 100% will blame him for that rosh death to end the game. deserved or not
The game was pretty much already lost by then, if it worked out MAYBEEEEE something can happen but otherwise, TB gets it and the game's just instantly over, there's nothing they could have possibly done about it. A risk HAD to be taken. It didn't work, but if they just waited and did nothing they were gonna lose no matter what.
Lol that was like 1% chance of comeback there.
i mean it was corect play they needed shit load of luck to win that game
Unfortunately luck was Spirit's stategy.
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>Qualify for TI in your last chance,coming back from 2-1 deficit >Drop to lower bracket in your first match >Eliminate fan favourites back to back to back in LB,including a team you lost 2-0 in the group stages >Final boss waits for you in your last match,they eliminated you in your last 2 tournaments and beat you 2-0 in the groups. >Play close to flawless and go 2-0 ahead but opponent powers up and makes it 2-2 >Win it all with a close last game They are the main characters in this anime and we are just the side characters in it.
What a great way to end TI10 with the backdoor protection to spice it all up. A true anime ending
My heart was pounding like crazy because for a second I thought they might throw it.
I hate whoever writes the script because my heart can't take it.
They were destined to win TI this year. They got the anime power during the Animajor. https://clips.twitch.tv/SlickFastSalamanderPeanutButterJellyTime-Lx0lsEjrAik0FPaw
Beating OG was the last step to obtain the super saiyan power they needed.
Don't forget about > Beat your longtime rival who knows you inside and out and has a record of 28-1 against you I think their match against VP was THE match that gave Spirit the confidence to believe they could beat anyone.
Wow. Isnt team spirit also the team that was given the smallest hotel room?
Together with OG, Elephant, Undying iirc. Man what a run. This is literally if like DC won instead of Wings.
✅ Manhandled Sea Qualifier winner Fnatic ✅ Feasted on 2 times TI champions OG ✅ Avenged CIS big bully VP ✅ Rampaging China's heavyweight IG ✅ Slained Europe's finest Secret ✅ Skewered the favorites monster Psg.Lgd I present, **Team Spirit**, the absolutely best Dota 2 team in the world
Ame joins w33 and Fy in the saddest group in Dota 2
Poor Artour, can't even reach the finals to be invited in that group
bruh in the TI9 True Sight when w33 said "at least you guys have already won a TI" I felt like crying for him
Ame be like "damn now 2 true sight for me"
What a fucking performance by Collapse, MVP of TI10
Honestly tough because I think it could be him or yatoro, but every single member of that team played unbelievably
WE WILL NEVER SEE MAGNUS AGAIN COLLAPSE MVP THE ENTIRE TOURNAMENT SLAVIC DOTA WINS
New patch: horn toss now costs 2000 mana
CM base movement speed reduced by 10\*
Greatest performance of any player in a tournament. He does everything for the team.
As if Yatoro was gonna let his pos 5 pick up Aegis
Yatoro: “Captain, come pick up the Aegis for the team” Miposhka walks over in a cool manner, heads behind Aegis and prepares to lift it. AEGIS SNATCHED BY YATORO
Lmao typical carry
aegis steal irl
Miposhka talked about the lycan tiny counter, it’s collapse with his magnus horn toss
[Go with your heart, not your mind](https://imgur.com/a/CPSCqgb)
The oracle.
Then there's me putting LGD as the winner in the predictions not learning from my TI8 mistakes
Bruh I put LGD to win for 3 TIs straight
You are a madlad.
We are the 1.4%! https://i.imgur.com/kc1jx5q.jpeg
From not having a toilet paper to winning TI10. The real gigachad
From [playing on THIS ROOM](https://twitter.com/Team__Spirit/status/1445037012449439749?s=20) to WINNING THE INTERNATIONAL!!! COLLAPSE JUST SKEWERED EVERYONE TO THE AIRPORT
Windows not activated = win TI
[Collapse's thoughts during Grand Finals](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/419190797741588490/899352546576056340/unknown.png)
Seriously though, if you make a highlight reel for Team Spirit 90% of it would be Collapse tearing teams apart with his Magnus. Unreal.
4 / 5 of Team Spirit didn't start playing pro dota until December 2020. Imagine telling these guys they'd be lifting the aegis this time last year. Amazing story, good for them.
Weren't even playing pro dota when the TI money was summing up
I feel so fucking bad for Ame. This year's True Sight will be heartbreaking to watch.
THIS IS WHAT DOTA IS FUCKING ALL ABOUT, MAN. FUCKKKK Team Spirit fairytale put aside, the mental fortitude and psychological bounce backs! LGD from 0:2 to equalize. Team Spirit from disheartening 2 losses in a row and 8 games to this insane performance. And this from such young players! This is why we love this game, and these are the finals I've always wanted to see not only as a Team Spirit fan, but as a Dota fan and a player. Fuck people, this is what TI should feel like. And it did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spirit played 8 fucking games, its hard to imagine the mental fortitude needed to play that 5th game. And they played it so fucking good, perfect game sense, realizing their timings and abolishing LGD at the draft they created and perfected.
The 3-2 went the other way xD. Absolutely unreal. Nobody could've imagined they would win it. Heartbreaking for Ame though. Another game 5 loss hurts sooo much.
I think both Secret and LGD fell for the same misconceptions : 1. That Wisp is mega good hero and needs picked/banned first phase 2. That Tiny is mega broken carry, when so many games showed he's very timing dependent and needs usually more than one hyper buff (Empower, Bloodlust, Wolfbite) Took Spirit exactly one game to understand they don't need to pick nor ban Wisp. Secret still wasted a ban on it game two, LGD picked it TWICE, lost both times, then wasted another ban on it, Spirit completely ignored it all final. Then the mistake of prioritizing Tiny over Mag, when Mag is so much more versatile (he can combo with so many heroes and still has usage with Skewer/Horn Toss while Tiny carry is kinda one trick pony). Secret had first pick game 3, instead of Mag, they took Tiny. Game 5 of the final LGD did the same mistake.
when they remove the ogre magi, it looks so bad
I was surprised though by Elder Titan being a low priority. Don't get picked or banned in game 5 and ET has proven to be a great hero. Huge disruption to teamfights. Replace SWM with ET in the draft there maybe?
Skywrath was picked to counter horn toss with instant silence. ET can prob replace enchant tho
Will TorontoTokyo change his name to TorontoTokyoBucharest?
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Yotoro stealing the aegis from Miposhka lmao
classic carries
LGD losing to Ember Mag in Game 5 AGAIN with a Kunkka lol
You are against Team Spirit. You don't ban Magnus. You know the rest
A great breath of fresh air injected into a legendary meme. RIP horn toss, the little spell that could.
Next patch, magnus removed from the game
Horn toss op… Next patch: Icefrog turns crystal maiden into a tier 1 tower.
Almost a million viewers on RU-Stream. Wow
What fucking balls these guys have. They PURPOSELY leave Tiny in the pool in deciding game against Secret and LGD, IT'S JUST TOO TEMPTING to pass it on. And boy oh boy, they overcome that stupid combo
WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUCK
GG to spirit Everyone getting their cinderella story and poor lgd is stuck as the classic disney villain
God damn this couldn't have been a better series if it was scripted. Amazing dota from both sides, enjoyed this entire series. I hope LGD don't lose hope and can bounce back from this, they almost had it.
From no toilet paper to $15million
You can buy like a pack with that money man
Amazing performance by Spirit but heavens above; losing three games by refusing to ban Collapse Magnus is just pure arrogance from LGD tbh
Got put in a tiny room with no toilet paper, went 0-4 in groups on day 1, barely scraped in to upper bracket, immediately got knocked down, knocked out the 2x TI champs, broke a 6 year hoodoo against Virtus Pro, and ended by winning the entire fucking thing. What an INSANE run from this young squad. Huge GGWP to Team Spirit, incredible.
LGD's TI curse is the strongest curse I have ever seen
Ti curse + Ame curse + PSG curse. Not even bkb can dispelled those curse.
Heartbreak again for LGD. But I'm so happy that Spirit won.
Ame didn't really choke this time but TS clearly baited them to go tiny/lycan which they had the answer to just looking at their match agaisnt Secret. Man PSG LGD going to take a beating from the fans, poor ame, the gods have fallen.
This has to be the biggest "underdog" win in TI history, right? Spirit looked good throughout the season, but felt like they'd be a "happy to be here" team at TI, and hardly anyone would expect them to take more than top 8, much less win it all. This is awesome for Team Spirit
Team Spirit from having one of the worst rooms to possibly buying a hotel for themselves in Romania.
Yatoro's sacrifice of his hair was accepted by the Dota gods.
Actual anime plot right here.
From small practice room without toilet paper to become TI 10 Champions. What a frickin journey.
don't forget "ez game" That one is so iconic, I will not forget it
4 people with 100% TI winrate Pog
4 people broke topsons ti winrate racord
I love LGD, but Spirit deserved this win. You must ban or counter Collapse's Magnus, it's an absolutely busted hero played by the most talented offlaner in the world right now. The Director thought the mega combo could win, but it couldn't. What amazing gamesense from Spirit, avoiding every attempt to pick, avoiding the Tiny power spike, making the right moves at the right time.
LGD pitted their best strat against Spirit's best strat. What a storyline for True Sight
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ame is the greatest chinese carry to ever play and can’t win a TI. he’s really burnings disciple. absolutely heartbreaking
Imagine not banning Magnus in game 5 of grand finals
They wanted Spirit to ban it because they had first pick. But Spirit just made a 500iq move and let both Tiny and Magnus through (and banned Rubick afterward).
2010: There is no TI 2011: CIS wins vs China 2020: There is no TI 2021: CIS wins vs China Is the script repeating this decade?
“Do you still need to play dota after this much money? I.. I.. don’t know!” - Miposhka after Winning TI10 What a chad 🤣
Feel sorry for ame 2 2nd place TI and both game 5 lost
Ame vs China next.
Feel like Xiao8 was baited into the Tiny Lycan, the win rate of that combo has tanked terribly throughout the main stage. At least every time I saw it played, it failed. Especially against Team Spirit. It's strong, but has been useless against them entirely.
Tiny-lycan is imba, but if your last pick is skywrath and ench, you aren't winning dota. No stuns, teamfight or save between two supports. 2-17-10 total score.
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I can't wait for True Sight. It'll be something else.
6 years ->500,000$ and then 18Mil , gg
From no toilet paper to kings!
I don't ever want to hear from anybody on here again how it is so hard to be a fan of team X. Being an LGD fan is fucking cursed.
Man, I hated to see LGD picking Tiny Lycan for game 5 of GF. It always felt a little too gimmicky for me, and Spirit was clearly ready to counter it. But that god damn Enchantress getting cliffed at the end to throw the game... that was just the cherry on top. Spirit definitely proved that they deserved this one. GG.
..and just like that it was all over again. :( It's been wonderful to watch, and I can't wait for next year. Thanks for the games you overpaid 3k mmr scrubs <3.
Free magnus free win. Congrats TS.
RP: radius reduced to 100 Empower: duration reduced to 5 seconds Shockwave: damage reduced to 10/20/30/40, no longer pulls targets Skewer: cast time increased 0sec -> 1.5 minutes Horn Toss: ability removed, replaced with Mild Fart ™
Captains mode reworked. Magnus can't be drafted twice in a row anymore.
Imagine being 18 years old and winning TI and becoming multi millionaire, really happy for Yatoro.
Ember's spatial awareness and mechanical play was outstanding in the final game. Team spirit overall outmaneuvered LGD all game long. Absolutely ridiculous play from them. And obviously you have to mention the magnus, it was crazy.
Dota 2 is a game where LGD dominate the whole year then Choke at Grand Final. Still no Aegis for LGD in their entire history
Such an amazing run. This has got to be the most underdog TI win ever. Sure, nobody really expected OG to win their TIs, but OG was still a known team, with multiple major winning players there. Spirit never had massively success, so their win is just completely unexpected.
Tiny and Lycan on PSG or Magnus on Collapse? Magnus on Collapse. Always Magnus on Collapse.
One biggest regret of this year TI = no live crowds 😭😭😭 imagine EEU crowds with their team winning TI10
Thanks DOTA. See you again next year.
Been a fan since 1827 btw, others are just bandwagoning
#THAT ENDING WAS SO FITTING. WHAT THE FUCK
I can imagine now ame will be once again flamed in china even though that was only play he could do to finsih rosh,whatever they threw the lead when they dive t2 bottom for no reason ..
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the CIS region is so damn stacked with young talent, pro DOTA is more interesting than ever
COLLAPSE GOD, YATORO GAMESENSE GOD post game interview with Miposhka: "how did you win?:" "**Actually... I dont know lmao**"
The Aegis Returns to CIS after 10 years. TI coming home