1win won twice on Monday to maintain their perfect record in the round-robin stage of the Elite League Season 2 in Lima, Peru.
The first group stage in the $800,000 Dota 2 event featured 16 teams, with the top eight moving on to compete in best-of-three matches that will determine playoff seeding.
The top four teams in the round-robin stage move into the playoffs’ upper bracket, while the lower four teams head to the playoffs’ lower bracket.
The double-elimination playoffs run Friday through Sunday, with all matches best-of-three until the best-of-five grand final. The winning side will receive $240,000, and the runner-up will get $120,000.
On Monday, 1win improved to 4-0 by defeating BOOM Esports 2-1 and sweeping beastcoast 2-0.
BOOM Esports opened the match with a 45-minute win on red, but 1win responded with 29- and 26-minute victories, both on green. Russian Georgii “swedenstrong” Zainalabidov paced 1win with an average kill-death-assist ratio of 8.0/2.3/13.0.
1win then defeated beastcoast in 19 minutes and 46 minutes, with both wins on green, behind an average K-D-A ratio of 10.0/1.5/8.5 from Nikita “Munkushi~” Chepurnykh of Russia.
nouns also won twice on Monday to climb into a tie with OG for second place, both at 3-1. nouns rallied past OG for a 2-1 victory, then thrashed Execration 2-0.
OG posted a 29-minute victory on green ahead of nouns’ 40- and 33-minute wins on green. Nicaragua’s Yuma “Yuma” Langlet led nouns with an average K-D-A ratio of 7.7/3.0/7.7.
Against Execration, nouns prevailed in 41 minutes on green and in 27 minutes on red as Germany’s Philipp “Copy” Buhler averaged 10.0/1.5/11.0 for his K-D-A.
In the day’s other matches, Team Liquid defeated Execration 2-0, Shopify Rebellion edged beastcoast 2-1, OG nipped Team Liquid 2-1 and Shopify Rebellion topped BOOM Esports 2-1.
The Tuesday schedule:
–beastcoast vs. Team Liquid
–nouns vs. Shopify Rebellion
–1win vs. OG
–Execration vs. BOOM Esports
–Shopify Rebellion vs. Team Liquid
–nouns vs. beastcoast
–BOOM Esports vs. OG
–Execration vs. 1win
Dota Elite League Season 2 round-robin group stage standings (overall win-loss record, individual game win-loss record):
1. 1win, 4-0, 8-1
T2. nouns, 3-1, 6-4
T2. OG, 3-1, 7-3
T4. Execration, 2-2, 4-5
T4. Shopify Rebellion, 2-2, 4-6
T6. BOOM Esports, 1-3, 5-6
T6. Team Liquid, 1-3, 3-6
8. beastcoast, 0-4, 2-8
Dota Elite League Season 2 prize pool:
1. $240,000
2. $120,000
3. $72,000
4. $56,000
5-6. $52,000
7-8. $32,000
9-11. $24,000 — HEROIC, Yellow Submarine, Cuyes Esports
12-14. $16,000 — Evil Rabbit, MOUZ, Apex Genesis
15-16. $12,000 — FUSION, Infinity
–Field Level Media
