Natus Vincere lose to Xtreme Gaming and leave The International 2022: Last Chance Qualifier
Maksym ShylovThe regular matches of the losers bracket of the final stage of The International 2022: Last Chance Qualifier have come to an end. Natus Vincere played against Xtreme Gaming , while Vici Gaming faced Wildcard Gaming . Previously, we wrote who was able to get into the final of the upper qualifying bracket . Below we will talk about how these matches went.
Natus Vincere vs Xtreme Gaming
At the draft stage, it seemed that the heroes of Xtreme Gaming were clearly stronger than their rivals. NaVi didn't have heroes that could bring down Black Hole in BKB. But even so, from the very beginning, Natus Vincere started the game confidently. Until the 13th minute, the teams were fairly even, after which the Born to Win began to gradually beat the opponent on the first map. V-Tune, playing Drow Ranger, was able to collect the right items by the late game. At the 41st minute, NAVI kill the enemy team on the high ground, leaving the Chinese without ransom. Xtreme Gaming wrote "gg" in the 41st minute. A great start for Natus Vincere. V-Tune played with 13-0-3 statistics.
Xtreme Gaming tried to rehabilitate themselves on the second map. In the 12th minute, the team from the Celestial Empire was leading with a score of 8:4 and ahead of Natus Vincere in gold by 3,000. At the same time, the Gyrocopter of the XG team overtook V-Tune, who played on Sniper, by 1,000 gold in farming. Despite the mistakes, NAVI won the fight in the 21st minute and killed Roshan. Xtreme Gaming still had a 3,000 gold lead and a card score of 11:15. The Born to Win leveled the score in the 26th minute, cleverly implementing laise's Black Hole. Xtreme Gaming took Roshan in the 35th minute and managed to level the game. On the 46th Natus Vincere made a mistake and lost an extremely important fight. XG kill Roshan and have a 17,000 gold advantage. The Chinese club wins the second map with a score of 35:27 in 52 minutes. The confrontation moved to the decisive map.
The teams started the battle on the third map not very actively. Until the 11th minute the score was 3:3. Naga Siren predictably had a 2,500 gold farm lead over Terrorblade at 21 minutes. Xtreme Gaming took Roshan in the 30th minute, lou's Naga Siren was already quite tight, and Radiance brought a lot of inconvenience to the Natus Vincere team. At the 35th minute, the Born to Win lost the second side, the players of the Ukrainian club tried to resist, but it was extremely difficult for lou to stop. At the 36th minute, the advantage of the Chinese was more than 17,000 gold, and the score on the map was 20:10 in favor of XG. NAVI failed to return to the game. After 40 minutes of the game, the Ukrainian team goes home with a score of 1-2.
Vici Gaming vs Wildcard Gaming
In the 7th minute, Wildcard Gaming were leading with a score of 2:1. There was a fight in the center with the participation of 6 heroes. Representatives of North America lost 3 heroes, the score in the series was equal - 4:4. WG qualitatively combine the abilities of their heroes, at the 13th minute Alone makes a triple kill. The intermittent battles continued, Legion Commander, which was played by Davai Lama, already had 40 additional damage from the ultimate. The score on the map was 14:15 in the 20th minute in favor of Wildcard Gaming. Despite the fact that Vici Gaming is nominally a stronger team, Wildcard Gaming looked quite competitive. At the 34th minute, the score was 24:21 in favor of Vici Gaming. The Chinese took Roshan and were ahead of the American club by 5,000 gold. As a result, Vici Gaming won the first map with a score of 34:24 in 43 minutes. Wildcard Gaming pleasantly surprised us with their performance.
Representatives of North America did not put up any resistance on the second map. Vici Gaming outran the opponent with a score of 34:5 in 24 minutes. It is worth noting the game Xm and bab, who never died for the whole map. Xm, playing on Leshrac, finished with a 15-0-8 statistic. WG 3 had no kills, namely Yves, Alexxo and Sammyboy. The next opponent for Vici Gaming will be T1.
Matches history: The International 2022: Last Chance Qualifier
Recall that The International 2022: Last Chance Qualifier runs from October 8 to 12 this year in a LAN format. The venue was Singapore. The 12 teams that did not qualify for The International 2022 based on DPC points are fighting for the last 2 slots for the World Championship.
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Maksym has been working at EGamersWorld since 2017. Joining the company during his first year at university, he worked as a translator until 2022. After that, Maksym began working as an editor. His main discipline is Dota 2, and over time, Maksym's responsibilities expanded to include CS:GO, CS2 and Valorant. Additionally, as an editor, he publishes various materials on gaming topics.