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LGD Gaming (0) vs (2) Newbee

Game 1: Only kills and no towers

Before the game

Summary

Xiao8 showed more aggression than ever before. Xiao8 showed more aggression than ever before.

This time LGD didn't even manage to take out their initial target. This time LGD didn't even manage to take out their initial target.

first tower of the game at the 20min mark

Newbee takes the first win of WPC ACE 2014 with an incredibly entertaining gameplay. Newbee takes the first win of WPC ACE 2014 with an incredibly entertaining gameplay.

Game 2: Templar Assassin on the hunt

Before the game

Summary

Templar Assassin ports out after diving into LGD's base to force a die-back upon the Lifestealer. Templar Assassin ports out after diving into LGD's base to force a die-back upon the Lifestealer.

Mu and his Templar Assassin lead the way for Newbee in the second game. Mu and his Templar Assassin lead the way for Newbee in the second game.

, on the Radiant side this game, started the draft with an Invoker after removing Clockwerk and Shadow Shaman.banned out the standard picks Batrider and Lycan, after which they picked up both the Centaur Warrunner and Ancient Apparition. The Radiant team concluded the first phase with Visage.Doom and Rubick got removed from the table by, whiledecided to ban some carries with Morphling and Faceless Void, who matches quite well with Ancient Apparition as Chronosphere ensures a strike of Ice Blast on anyone caught by it.grabbed even more AoE-damage with Sand King and Puck. A Dragon Knight and Shadow Demon were the choice here for's squad.After seeing Mirana and Weaver drop from the list of possibilities in the third and final phase of this draft,chose Lifestealer as their farming carry.drafted a Razor as last pick in an attempt to counter him.'s objective was clear to the members of, as they rotated Lifestealer and Ancient Apparition into mid while Puck resided in the toplane to face the aggressive trilane of. At 00:00 the first rune spawned at bottom, Zhou "[color=gold][/color]" Yang gained invisibility on his Sand King and ensured the first blood when he backstabbed Invoker with Zhang "[color=gold][/color]" Ning's Centaur lingering around him with a pair of boots and Hoof Stomp skilled first.Every lane seemed in favour ofand after a few succesful ganks starring [color=gold][/color] and [color=gold][/color],started to snowball this game out of control, as they collected 5 kills by the 6min mark with only 1 kill on the board forThe pressure was raised, andtried to force the issue with a gank on Centaur Warrunner after 9 minutes.'s players were prepared for this attack, and despite losing Bradwarden early in that engagement, they cleaned up when Sand King and Puck arrived at bottom lane and bursted through the lifepoints of's heroes, which lead to a 4-2 exchange.With all tower intact,kept hunting for kills with Blink Dagger on both Puck and Centaur Warrunner. After only 11 minutes on the clock,wiped's team from the map for the first time.wanted revenge and tried to take down Lifestealer, as they intended with their last pick Razor, when he was farming up on bottom lane. Againreacted immediately and Zhang "[color=gold][/color]" Pan destroyed them with a perfect Dream Coil on 3 heroes.After delivering another teamwipe to19 minutes into the game,took down thewith a score of 31-12, which is quite remarkable considering the current hype around early pushing strategies.decided to close out the game and started taking all outer towers, with some crazy teamfights between two towers along the way.were not able stand up against's aggression, and after seeing their disadvantage grow even more for a few minutes, they conceded and called GG with not even 30 minutes played.This time around withon the Dire side,banned Lycan and Batrider, whileremoved the Invoker and also Centaur Warrunner, which they picked themselves the first game. Both Ancient Apparition and Puck were snatched bywent for a Shadow Shaman and Doom as their first picks.gave [color=gold][/color] another round on Sand King, which he played great the first game.'s intentions got revealed when they drafted Clockwerk and Wisp for respectively offlane and support. [color=gold][/color] would play the Templar Assassin against Puck, which is a favourable match-up for Lanaya.The draft concluded with Lifestealer carry forand a Beastmaster offlane for, after the denial of Tiny toand Weaver being their own final ban.The rhythm of the first game seemed to be lost, as we waited for 6 minutes before the first blood happened. With both teams running a defensive trilane, there was much less action in the early game. For a moment, it seemed likehad the upper hand after Shadow Shaman getting caught out of position twice in a few minutes, leading to a 1-3 score on the board in their favor.However,took down the mid tier 1 tower in exchange at 11:30 which kept the gold graph equal. Around 13 minutes after the minions spawned for the first time,capitalised on a questionable Relocate from's Wisp and brought the score back to 3-3.took control over this game ever since. [color=gold][/color] played a terrifying Templar Assassin andjust couldn't get him down in time before dying to his Meld-hits.Despite a decent start,slowly lost control over's members and the game turned around in's favour once more. [color=gold][/color] kept collecting kills wherever he went, with a KDA of 9-1-2 after 20 minutes. The next teamfights he kept hunting and growing as well as two-shotting's supports.After taking down Roshan after 27 minutes,engaged in combat and took out the last outer tower a minute later.lost another teamfight when trying to protect their base and quickly called the GG before Templar Assassin would pay them another visit.answered all the quibblers with a clean and fast victory againstafter an outstanding performance.