27th April 2008, 16:05
MYM falls to KingSurf
After what seemed to be a major upset and losing to
SGC 0-2 in the first round of the winner brackets,
MYM was thrown into the lower brackets early to face off
KingSurf.
Unfortunately MYM's safety picks were not enough and KingSurf proved they knew
how to counter well!
Earlier in the day, MYM barely defeated
XcN. They were losing
the game for the most part and the score was always lop-sided. In the end it was
the notorious Shadow Priest/Bristleback combination that saved them.
In both games MYM snatched Bristleback/SP early in picks. It seemed to work
against XcN, because they didn't counter heroes as well as Ks did. The only thing
that countered bristleback in that game was the earthshaker.
Before the bristleback had more HP and more armor, when the earthshaker would
fissure him it caused the bristleback to turn around so that his back was not facing
them anymore. This disabled bristleback's "bristleback" skill allowing them to hit
him from the front and kill him.
KingSurf chose greater ways to approach the SP/BB combo. This was probably
MYM's biggest mistake, picking a circumstantial combination and leaving KS's four
more picks to counter it. KingSurf made some beautiful choices, picking up obsidian
destroyer, necrolyte, zeus and chaos knight.
With static field, reaper and Obsidian's orb (which goes through bristleback), there
was nothing the bristleback could do. Even though he farmed almost equally well
in this match, he died a lot easier. The necrolyte went scepter and always used his
ultimate on bristleback.
MYM's heroes got a lot more farmed this game;
Maelk had scepter/hood on Leshrac
and
H4nn1 had Deso/Midas on Priestess. Unfortunately the potm and
earthshaker would die to the obsidian/zeus ultimates immediately and
Yamateh would come and clean up every fight.
Yamateh played an amazing obsidian with a really early guinsoo, even drawing
first blood. He became unstoppable to the point where he could 4-shot the leshrac
in a hex (even when the leshrac had all those items.)
This leaves MYM out of Prime Defending. And with
Virtus.Pro disqualified,
the two favorites are already out of the tournament. One can only wonder, who
will be the next champion? Stay tuned to find out!
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