🔴Live Dota 2 : The International 2022 | Finals Weekend - Day 1 | Semi Finals | Full Day Recasting
Channel: Mahin Xaman
Date: 2022-10-29

#dota2 #ti11 #liquidvsaster #secretvstundra

Now, only four teams remain: Team Aster, Team Liquid, Team Secret, and Tundra Esports, prompting fans to speculate who among them will rise above the others and walk away with the highly-coveted Aegis of Champions.


The London-based team is a new addition to the competition, having joined the scene in early 2021, but has consistently delivered high-quality action. With a massive hero pool, innovative spirit, and a play style that fits the current meta, the members have demonstrated that they are indeed a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. 
The prospect of a clash between the titans is always attractive, and for this year, a Team Secret and Team Liquid showdown is what fans are yearning for. In an interesting twist of events, both teams only managed to qualify for TI11 through the Last Chance Qualifiers, which pits the runner-up and second runner-up from the regional qualifiers against one another.
For Team Liquid, there are some stakes at play: carry player Matumbaman (otherwise known as Matu) will be retiring after the tournament due to National Service in Finland, so a win for the team would be the perfect farewell gift. If Liquid walks away with the aegis, Matu will hold the rare honour of winning TI twice as well, the first being TI7 with a previous iteration of Liquid. 
Team Aster’s place in the tournament is an inverse scenario of TI7, where Liquid was the only Western team remaining in the top four (and who later went on to become the champion). This year, Aster is conversely the sole Chinese team left standing, having eliminated its more popular Chinese counterparts PSG.LGD in the fourth round of the lower brackets. 

As with all speculative instances, there’s always external factors to take into consideration. The general consensus this year is that no team has a full read on the metagame, which means no fixed solid meta has been developed in the tournament so far. It’s a whole lot of guesswork and experimentation of team dynamics, which certainly ramps up the unpredictability meter.