XcN knocks out the gods

XcN is continuing their journey into the international competitive scene. They've already faced MYM, and now it's time to face the gods--- TeG in the ESL Major Series tournament.

XcN showed a powerful performance against MYM, almost defeating them with their early game dominance. Unfortunately for them, their efforts were not enough to overcome the lategame bristleback. Otherwise, they have won 2 other matches in their group for the EMS tournament.

TeG has improved a lot in the scene over the past few months. Not only did they win first place at the Miage LAN tournament, but they've had good standing in MYM Prime Defending and were the last invite into PDL.

It is always interesting to see some of Asia's finest compete against some of the world's best!

Brief game review:

Both teams jungled heroes leaving their solo lanes weak. The necrolyte for XcN could not take the Sven/Leshrac lane and the Bird's potm fell hard to the sand king/lina lane. Meanwhile, Queen of Pain farmed amazingly against the zeus, getting an early guinsoo at 28 minutes.

The POTM died a lot early gaming, sand/king lina countered her pefectly forcing her to go bracers and a strong delay in getting any damage items. With the early kills, Lina was able to get a dagger and keep the map warded more.

Lakuci farmed amazingly with TB, getting an early sange and yasha and later a Butterfly. The strong TB/Necrolye combo gave centaur a rough game and it was hard for the farmed sven to counter it at all.

The sven was able to get his BKB fast, as well as a MOM thanks to early kills. There was one instance where the sven and leshrac were chasing down the necrolyte on top lane, QoP teleported in to help but she missed her sonic wave. This allowed the sven to get a double kill on the QoP and Necrolyte putting him at 4-0.

Although TeG's centaur and sven farmed really well, it was not enough to counter an overfarmed queen of pain and terrorblade. The score was pretty even throughout the game, but once TB got his butterfly and XcN had an advantage in kills, they pushed down mid rax causing TeG to call it "gg."

Source : myMYM

ESL Major Series (EMS): MYM vs XcN

This is the first time XcN has signed up for an international DotA tournament; the ESL Major Series DotA tournament. They have been placed in the same group as MYM and TeG and are set to play MYM right now!

It has always been XcN's dream to face off against one of the top tier teams like MYM, and now they have the chance! Unfortunately, both teams found it difficult to find a suitable host. MYM|Fear ended up hosting which was good for XcN, but it seems MYM|Maelk and others were spiking badly.

With four stunners on their side, XcN took the advantage early through midgame, constantly killing the weaker heroes like Leshrac, causing him to get severly outleveled. On the other hand, Bristleback was leisurely free farming for a long time, getting a fast hood and radiance.

Although their stuns and spells were enough to sweep out most of MYM's heroes, the Bristleback ended up getting a triple kill at one point because he was just too tough to take out. Sand King couldn't do much with his ultimate anymore once most of the Scourge heroes got their blink daggers.

Bristleback became unkillable with 30+ armor but he could barely enter the Scourge base sometimes because XcN was doing a good job nuking the creep waves and in fights. Although the Bristleback could tank a lot he was constantly getting disabled. Most of the Scourge heroes had blink daggers as well, allowing them to blink away from the Bristleback, heal and then come back.

The game was looking good for XcN from the start, but unfortunately their efforts just weren't enough to stop the overpowered Bristleback. Fear was able to sit and tank through all their damage and hit down buildings, slowly but surely they got all their raxes down!

Source: myMYM