The last decider matches in CIS and Europe

The last decider matches of the DPC league in Europe and CIS will be held today. Who will fight for the Major Wild Card?

Team Liquid, OG and Tundra Esports will fight for the last chance to get to ONE Esports Singapore Major 2021. Tiebreakers will be in Bo1 format, so teams have no room for mistakes. OG and Team Liquid have lost their last matches. For them, defeat is not only a skip the major, but also a potential skip for the main tournament of the year. As a reminder, the new DPC system provides for a team to participate in The International, if that team has enough DPC points. If you don’t take prize places in the group and in the major, you don’t get DPC points. No points - you don't get to TI. Only qualification among the same «losers». Therefore, it is very important for the teams now to get the Major Wild Card and they should be ready to fight. Otherwise, instead of tickets to Singapore, you can safely buy popcorn to watch matches from home. 

Most of all, this situation turned out to be beneficial for Tundra Esports. They took 6th place in the group and no longer hoped to get to the major. It is worth noting that the ex mudgolems was able to defeat Team Liquid 2-0 and win one map against OG. That's why it is almost impossible to unambiguously predict the winner in today's matches.

Team Empire and Team Unique will face off for survival in the Upper Division. Both teams have exactly the same score in the group. However, in their previous match, Unique after the first unsuccessful map was able to win. Will Empire be able to strike back or will they play in the Lower Division of the CIS in the next DPC season?

After the Team Empire vs Team Unique, Dota fans will waiting for a match that will determine the Wild Card participant from the CIS region. Team Spirit will fight against AS Monaco Gambit. Both teams have pass a hard way and have become worthy rivals in the CIS region.

One of the sides of today's confrontation, Team Spirit, will be forced to play with a stand-in. On February 7, the organization announced the transfer of Vitaly "so bad" Oshmankevich to the reserve, and Miroslav "Miroslaw" Kolpakov joined the team. With the Miroslaw, the team played against Live to Win, the current ASM.GMB. But in accordance with Valve's rules, a team can play with stand-in for four matches in a single DPC season. Since these four matches have actually been played, so bad will be playing today. This has already been announced in oficial Team Spirit Vkontakte group. The former Yellow Submarine roster showed good results against the strongest teams in Europe and CIS at online tournaments. Will they be able to perform that well with a stand-in during their most important match?

And their opponent will be AS Monaco Gambit, ex Live to Win. ASM.GMB decided to change the roster, replacing Rostislav «fn» Lozovoy with Vladimir «No[o]ne» Minenko. And as the current results show, Noone fits perfectly into the current team. In terms of game stability, SoNNeikO and his team have been competing against the strongest teams in online tournaments for a long time. And they definitely earned themselves a place in the Upper Division.

The teams have already faced before and Gambit lost with a score of 1:2. This match is already becoming principled, since the rosters of these two CS:GO organizations recently played against each other at IEM Katowice 2021, and Gambit earned victory. So, will Team Spirit succeed in Dota or will the new Gambit mid-lane player surprise them with his play style and help his team get to the Wild card? Will the stand-in in the last match be decisive for Team Spirit? We will find out this evening at 20:30 UTC+3.

At the moment, both teams have the same score and motivation to get to ONE Esports Singapore Major 2021. But, unfortunately, the first two places have already been taken by Virtus.pro and Natus Vincere. Only the third place remains. Unlike the European region, we will watch the match in the Bo3 format.