DreamLeague Season 19 first group stage results: Team Spirit and Team Aster leave the tournament
Maksym ShylovThe tiebreakers for the first group stage of DreamLeague Season 19, the first tournament in the ESL Pro Tour Dota 2 series, have concluded. At the same time, we have learned the names of all the participants that qualify for the second group stage of the championship, as well as the teams for which the performance at this event has come to an end. In this article we will review the final group standing after 5 game days.
Group A
Place | Team name | Match score | Map score |
1 | Gaimin Gladiators | 3-4-0 | 10-4 |
2 | Shopify Rebellion | 3-4-0 | 10-4 |
3 | Evil Geniuses | 3-4-0 | 10-4 |
4 | TSM | 0-6-1 | 6-8 |
5 | Execration | 1-4-2 | 6-8 |
6 | Team Aster | 1-4-2 | 6-8 |
7 | ex-HellRaisers | 0-4-3 | 4-10 |
8 | Entity | 0-4-3 | 4-10 |
In Group A, a trio of leaders stood out straight away, showing consistently decent play, namely Gaimin Gladiators, Shopify Rebellion and Evil Geniuses. Overall, the first group stage stands out with a large number of draws. The aforementioned teams finished with equal statistics both in terms of matches and cards played.
Team Aster were the main disappointment of the group. Much more was expected from the Chinese squad, with the main Aster squad picking up only one win, Ledge having played twice and drawn four times. As a result, BoBoKa and his teammates were relegated along with Execration and TSM. They lost both their matches and finished their appearance in the tournament, the same fate befell Execration.
The teams showing the weakest performance were ex-HellRaisers and Entity. These contenders displayed an extremely shaky performance with no wins in the bo2 series.
At the end of Group A, Gaimin Gladiators, Shopify Rebellion, Evil Geniuses and TSM continue in the race for greater prize money and a ticket to the Riyadh Masters 2023.
Group B
Place | Team name | Match score | Map score |
1 | Team Liquid | 4-3-0 | 11-3 |
2 | Tundra Esports | 3-3-1 | 9-5 |
3 | beastcoast | 1-6-0 | 8-6 |
4 | OG | 2-4-1 | 8-6 |
5 | Team Spirit | 2-4-1 | 8-6 |
6 | Talon Esports | 0-5-2 | 5-9 |
7 | Nigma Galaxy | 1-2-4 | 4-10 |
8 | nouns | 0-3-4 | 3-11 |
Group B was predictably dominated by Team Liquid, winners of the recent DPC WEU 2023 Tour 2: Division I, and Tundra Esports, the defending champions of The International 2022. Liquid are the only team in the first part of the group stage to have won more than half of the matches played. The 4-3-0 statistic makes Nisha and his Swedish friends not only the best performer in Group B, but the entire group stage. Tundra Esports performed decently, although they lost 3 matches.
The real battle was between the 3rd-5th place finishers. Beastcoast, the strongest team in South America, OG, that hasn't been very stable lately, and Team Spirit, that plays decently but clearly is not in the best shape, had to determine one team that will not advance to the second group stage. A series of tiebreakers identified Team Spirit as the weak link in this trio.
In addition to Team Spirit, Talon Esports will also be leaving DreamLeague Season 19. 23savage have not picked up a single win in 7 matches, although they have also drawn 5 of them. Miracle- failed to help Nigma Galaxy through the first group stage after ATF went inactive. And the weakest performance of Group B was shown by the nouns team.
Team Liquid, Tundra Esports, beastcoast and OG will advance to the second group stage.
Matches history: DreamLeague Season 19
Where to watch the second group stage matches of DreamLeague Season 19
The official broadcast will take place on the streaming services Twitch and YouTube. All DreamLeague Season 19 Group Stage 2 matches can be found on EGamersWorld. Our website features all tournament matches as well as multilingual broadcasts for fans from all over the world. The editors of our site provide betting tiers and analytics on Dota 2 matches, as well as livescore and odds will be available to the user.
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.