Since Team Spirit emphasized IO, we started discussing about our drafts around him.
For example, T1, when we played against them, Elder Titan and Magnus were the prioritized heroes. About IO, we would lower his priority when we played against teams that didn’t emphasize him.
Team Spirit vs Team Secret, Game 3, Lower Bracket Final of TI10 So, Tiny would definitely be a highly-contested hero. (They even banned Ogre Magi which is good with Tiny in Game 3 against Team Secret). Ever since Team Spirit started their Lower Bracket run, aside from the series against OG where they let Tiny through, they’ve always banned Tiny when they had second pick. Moreover, Collapse’s heroes (Mars, Magnus, Tide Hunter etc) are all afraid of Monkey King, so this hero basically wouldn’t be available. Team Spirit wouldn’t first pick Monkey King. First of all, our three most successful strategies so far are: Monkey King > Tiny > IO. “When Game 3 between Team Spirit and Team Secret finished, we gathered around an empty corner with True Sight videographers around us. Start of Esports.gg’s translation of Y’s blog post Y’s original post was written in Chinese on his Weibo
Below you can read the full translation where Y’ dives into what happened in the Grand Finals of the PSG.LGD TI10 run. We have taken the time to translate his entire post into English. Here’s the translation for you.įollowing PSG.LGD’s defeat in the Grand Finals, team captain Zhang “Y'” Yiping posted a length blog on Weibo. ` released a long Weibo post today to share his thoughts on their draft preparation against Team Spirit in the Grand Final of TI10 and also the conversation with his team on moving forward.