The Clutch Play that Saved Dota's Greatest Underdog Story

he's got his number he knows exactly which one he is anna look at the double guy that does manage to get up to the high ground but something's with the buyback he's there ready to claim the kill psg lgd 2-1 up at the moment in this best of five grand finals one game needed to secure the championship title opened up onto him army trying to get on top of anna the bkb popped by chalice he'll get the alt out hotel getting out straight away by f5 with the surfboard no tail step for a hundred if psg lgd can find that one team fight it could be the team fight to win t.i he gets the hex up for their fight with the stone will say they get the bad shot sonus will be able to fight the iron but they're fully low ogd that song is never two minutes they get thompson thompson never do but it's only anna anna can you do it here he said elsa he gets the goal of his lifetime before we get into the video i wanted to remind you that every second counts is brought to you by cisco powering the future of esports alright so og were the last team that anyone expected to make it into the grand finals of the international 2018 literally on top of sitting dead last in the power rankings this once perennial powerhouse had become a broken battered underdog after being abandoned by their captain drafter and figurative brother fly just three months before the biggest tournament in dota it was a huge shock like we for sure didn't see it coming not much was said i think max three sentences were spoken in that room then they left we spent eight years together and now it's over that was how that happened what happened next is considered the greatest story in esports and chances are you already know it because it is instead of rolling over and disbanding og cobbled together a roster fought their way through an open qualifier regional qualifier and a groove stage to somehow make it into the upper bracket at the most cutthroat international ever from there things got even crazier og swept vgj storm and then played a close grudge match series with eg defeating their former captain fly og had gone from underdogs who weren't even supposed to be in the tournament to prospective ti finalists one win away from the series that every dota pro dreams of playing og entered the upper bracket finals against chinese super power psg lgd as extremely hopeful hopefuls but in typical og fashion they went from standing on the brink of defeat to making an impossible turn i'm a still very very low the blast will kill him off but buy back lgd want this now lgd or can they back enough no they're not terrorblade bt's forward the ball is up thompson needs to defend x over very visible you've got a very very low life mirana but og they can't find the target x nova he's got the grip he's got the control he's got the kill thompson is down but he is up where the echo slams there's your slam there's the dumb there's the play girax the savior of og they have a good opening to actually close out the game but they go for the throne lgd want this now they basically try to win right then and there and that was a big mistake they weren't patient they couldn't wait i remember the second day buyback the tv we started laughing about it we're like what the hell do they think they're doing like they actually lost but these are the moments when like you're you're so in the zone that you don't even realize that this is a game three they might win they might like it's not about that it's like you're looking at the game and strictly the game and yeah for us when our game understanding told us that this playback was a huge mistake that we could we could punish leaping forward all he has to do is create space for og to do it to get to the grand final of t.i.a [Applause] against all the odds og earned a chance to vie for the aegis of champions even crazier was the fact their grand finals opponent was the very same team they barely just beat and it looked like psg lgd wouldn't be caught off guard a second time or so it seemed pull the creep wave away he'll zip across but jared with the echo snap the orchid comes out onto the shake of the triangle jungle but the cell fuels keeps jarraxx alive he's safe trying to run bishop found the strike do they have the damage in time they do oh gee again and again and again in this game one pulling off these these incredible plays and g g is called ladies and gentlemen oh gee taking game one of this best of five as they're three dead on og psg lgd with a full lineup still alive as they look towards the mid laner gg is called ladies and gentlemen psg lgd taking game two with the best of five grand finals here at tia snotel immediately dies after buying back and winter's curse is there on to fy will it kill him off fy still alive and why he'll finally fall the dragon slate for jacks finishes him off he'll buy back those he knows this is lgd's chance to claim this game three somnes conceived to beat down onto the agent of the light strike comes out the angle is tied that's from army keeping something safe he gets the concoction out into jerusalem he's looking to die towards the fountain as oh gee i still having to play around it but the damage from saunas in those challenges as well with the private sprinters they beat down on the ancient psg mgd looking to close this one up and they will game three goes to pst lgd og may have won game one but lgd struck back with two games in a row to get to match point going into game 4 it seemed like og's luck had finally run out like they couldn't possibly have any more insane comebacks or unthinkable upsets up their sleeve it looked like lgd was about to quickly end og's dreams in one brutal game lgd is going to just make them look worse because of how amazing they are and lgg they're warmed up right you know that they already started to stay they had the lower bracket and they proved that their team that can finish things when it has to get done early and that's something that og have been beating teams with you know if you don't close this game fast enough we're gonna get this anna specter you know we're gonna buy back on two heroes and team wipe you and suddenly we're winning that's pretty much what's brought og several victories throughout this winners bracket but in that game with og's back against the wall with everything to lose that one split-second decision one seemingly impossible play changed everything they get thompson thompson never did can he [Applause] like all great plays this one began long before seb hit his infamous call let's break it down second by second any dota fan knows that games are won and lost in the draft and at first it seemed like lgd might have sewn up game 4 before it even began you see seb knew that he'd need an offlaner that could not only enable thompson's invoker but also buy time for anna's phantom lancer to come online late game what's more he needed something that could bully lanes in the early to mid game and ideally shut down ami's hard carry more fling the issue is that lgd knew that too so they banned his most viable option centaur forcing seb to rely on something a little less traditional they banned the centaur oh axe might be very good actually well actually just cut waves against eng and then acts against the morph yeah yeah this might might be the next game stand back yes yes ma'am okay yes you're gonna see man you're gonna see some can they do it here is this the ti winning game boys we're seeing again oh gee trying something a little different there's the axe another hero that people just aren't playing but they're bringing it out here on their potential knockout game of the cia grand finals the question of course was whether it would pan out in addition to being out of meta axe is an extremely snowbally hero his high damage rng activated spins make him a menace in the laning phase but if he doesn't get off to a truly excellent start he's essentially dead weight thankfully as soon as game four started seb came through on his promise and from the get-go just ran lgd into the ground a lot of weight is gonna be on set he's had this bottom lane he's got good levels and he's got decent farm too he's top of the net worth this game very close to having the blink dagger on top of the ring of health but tp's are heading down so i'm just seeing if we can find the rupture several oh he goes to farm that's going to give time for sumness to close the gap get the rug trove he's still pretty beefy but is he beefy enough i don't think so the shards are out trapping him in the spin though the taunt the sunshine the snowball safe wasn't in time he said with the tether oh gee they're turning this one around they look to run down their fight flight with the snowball the shots already used there's no way to escape or maybe the dukes isn't enough it is set he gets fogg he can't get the dunk off fy will survive unfortunately the rest of og weren't getting off to such a great start with tops and an anna falling behind and farm it was up to seb to create space and opportunities for his cores he tries to go for example but it's over just out of range still the spirits hitting into him they'll chase down do they have the damage to burst him the culling blade just enough to bring him down so he gets bursted by the sunstrike by the primer split they've got the snowball in onto anna back up his inbound set he's on the side can he look for the play jumps in gets the call the sun's tracked down as well as that is back in they get the dog off they'll kill off fy but now anand said they've got to somehow get out of it almighty into the axor manages to punch down anna steps in trouble too he looks for another call off can he get the spins that's the question jericho's comes in he's giving him the regeneration gets the second he finds the double kill that's the bait play they get the call on to the two of them sev jumps in the sun strikes down the stun as well the micro play they've got the lock down on the boat for the summoner's falls as well no tail with his army of creeps as oh gee they're a member up and owner on this he's on top of zombies the bkb of course now won off but they'll find strongness as well a double kill for thompson as og take a successful fight around the pit they're at a 74 win probability now but lgd weren't willing to go down without a fight they started playing around seb's axe avoiding him as necessary and little by little that lead that og had amassed started slipping away and getting focused thompson trying to compete for the side with the combo with the snowball again from f5 buying time for something little set for something he just beats into the playbook steps able to turn and get the kill they'll be the buy-back for the black and trying to hold silver chalice he's got his number he knows exactly which one he is anna look at the double guy that does manage to get up to the high graph at somness with the buyback he's there ready to claim the kill oh gee now one game away from losing in this grand finals look like we had no chances he looked like we were gonna lose he looked really bad look those two attended that bye thinking for 80 seconds pretty much back to a 50 50. psg lgd's one game needed to secure the championship title they are ahead here in game four the half hour that ensued was tense and unpredictable non-stop buybacks barracks trades and harrowing high-stakes outplays he's been ruptured he needs help but he needs it now jared and with the tip of the hand of god give me that double heal the relocation as well jax gets him out i'm trying to get these somebody else to death based on you want to reload to the base [Music] because obviously everything around you is telling you it's over that that's twice in the series the x nova just comes out crow is cheering against you he keeps getting harder you know you lost one fight two fights still anna holding on you feel like you feel like it's impossible they really want to force this pl to come back here despite securing mega creeps og were low on buybacks down two racks themselves and one team wipe away from watching their cinderella story fall just inches short of its magical conclusion so at 60 minutes when anna got jumped in the mid lane it looked over at this stage of the game a single team fight could decide everything and unfortunately for og this team fight started out really badly for them very very soon to be spawning roshan and psg lgd are well aware roshan's up it looks like only og knows okay battle indeed but losing losing action i'm just gonna get caught up by the tornado though they've opened up onto him army trying to get on top of anna the bkb popped by chalice he'll get the alt out no tail getting going out straight away by f5 with a surfboard no tail step for a hundred with thompson farming jungle camps and seb split pushing bottom og weren't whole at the moment the fight broke loose this meant that no tail had already been blown up by the time seb tp'd forcing him jerax and thompson to scramble as anna staved off a 1v5 and this is where things got really bad for og in an effort to isolate seb from his teammates chalice's brulings and ex-nova's enchantress start diverting all their energy towards shutting him down as soon as somnis's bloodseeker casts bloodrite an aoe silence that prevents anyone caught in it from using their spells seb had to move to get out of range except crucially he ran left instead of right cutting him off from his allies leaving him to watch as they got torn to shreds by lgd's onslaught look at the cool controller has he got it i'm getting stunned by the call strap but he's able to wait for him after i've got thompson blinks in he gets the hex up for that fight with a snowball save seb tried to re-engage with shadowblade an item that renders him invisible to enemy units but unfortunately x nova had a gem of true sight to counter that play and was able to shoo him off while the rest of lgd took both jerax and thompson out of the fight leaving only on a standing look at the bad shots will be able to find the iron but they're fully low ogd that song is never two minutes they get thompson thompson never do it now at this exact moment everything all of og's hopes and dreams were on on a shoulders it looked bad but anna had a chance his buyback was up his allies were going to be as well in just a few seconds and lgd only had one buyback available which was not enough to stop og if anna could somehow swing this fight right here right now og could bring this game back from the brink the issue is that it wouldn't be easy see phantom lancer is a pretty sturdy hero thanks to his passive illusion generation but he wins fights by hitting you over and over and he doesn't have his own crowd control to enable that that meant anna had no way to lock down lgd in order to actually kill them what's more the second topson went down lgd saw red all of their attention shifted onto focusing anna down which meant that for one split second they forgot about seb for one moment lgd weren't tracking his position but that was all the time he needed they get thompson thompson can you do it here he's at our bell he gets the goal of his lifetime it's a play so perfect so incredibly clutch people have knitted scarves in its honor seb used his blink dagger to execute a pixel-perfect berserker's call onto three of lgd's remaining heroes [Music] [Applause] [Music] now for those who don't know berserker's call is a taunt that forces anyone within its area of effect to attack axe seb also took a talent at level 25 that increased its range which gave anna the opening he needed to rip lgd to shreds sebastian said in the game was like don't worry guys i'm gonna carry this game i just need some time this is my game boys then you got only pixel commentating the match when you hear a guy that normally talks super fast just stop and shout one word as he said making a play i think about this beautiful french man and all i want to do is shout his name of all the outplays that made og's run possible to begin with the crazy upper bracket hole on his cheeky buyback cell the yule's dodge none embody og's untiltable spirit more than seb's era defining axe call ti 8 was it was weird when ti-8 was like i don't know how to describe it it's like it felt like we couldn't lose for some reason it felt like it was impossible to lose it's like some games like i don't know we were like two sides behind like 20 i don't even know like how bad it look nothing was going for us yet it felt like this game was fine like it was it was sometimes even felt like the game was easy we were so peaceful in certain games like maybe we're just lunatics i don't know it felt like we were not gonna lose and we didn't but it wasn't only dota it felt like there was much more to it not only did og go on to win that game the following game and the whole tournament they won the next ti as well they're just giving look at this they're diving and ti finals they want karaoke in the boundary as well they're gonna get it they're chasing miracles as well oh my god i can't believe this i can't believe what we're seeing in this game for oh gee [Applause] but all of that might never have happened if it weren't for seb's incredible call the dynasty began in that moment with a fateful earth-shattering reminder that every second counts there's always a way there's always a way always and that's why we like dota as the reason why we've been playing dolores so much it's the reason why we think does the best game is because there's always a way to break things like no matter how broken it looks don't like it no matter how powerful it looks no matter how what the winner is no matter how strong the teams are with it there's always a way [Music] on the next episode of every second counts presented by cisco we're going to break down the two minutes that made edward gaming world champions the viper is still alive though flashes in show maker down to 200 he's a sitting duck and it's a double kill for scout now he's flashing forward picking up all of the summoner spells and it is good night for ghost and an ace for edg it's damwan's unprecedented baron sneak and edg's incredible team fight from worlds 2021. check it out on january 12th [Music] you

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Length: 21min 40sec (1300 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 22 2021