Evil Geniuses proved to be too much to handle for Vici Gaming in a Game 3 win led by their 15 year old prodigy Suma1L on his signature Storm Spirit.

Overall, the North American team played their best Dota of the tournament, beating the favored Chinese squad 3-0 in a best-of-five series.

Here's how the series went down.

Game 1

VG.Super's Ember Spirit started in a top trilane versus EG's dual lane, but in spite of the numbers advantage EG rotated in the jungle Enigma and managed to grab two kills on Ember.

iceiceice's Tidehunter quickly swapped lanes, giving Ember the safe lane but when EG moved in to take the top tier one and gank Tidehunter, VG brought in four heroes and lost all of them to the deadly combination of Phoenix's Supernova and Treant Protector's Overgrowth.

VG.fy's Rubick was playing very well in the mid-game, stealing many useful spells to help his team. In one instance he lured Phoenix to a cliff, then stole Sun Ray to escape.

EG pulled ahead with a massive team fight in the top lane. VG smoked their team behind Ember, but EG wrapped around behind them with a smoke of their own and wiped out VG despite a huge Ravage from iceiceice.

From that point, EG were on a roll. They won several fights, pushing further and further into VG's base until they were forced to surrender at the 40 minute mark.

Evil Geniuses

Fear (Troll Warlord) 6-2-14

Suma1L (Templar Assassin) 11-4-4

UNiVeRsE (Phoenix) 8-2-13

Aui_2000 (Enigma) 2-1-19

ppd (Treant Protector) 3-3-9

Vici Gaming

Black^ (Shadow Fiend) 3-5-5

Super (Ember Spirit) 1-10-9

iceiceice (Tidehunter) 0-5-9

Fenrir (Leshrac) 4-5-5

fy (Rubick) 4-6-7

Game 2

UNiVeRsE's Batrider managed to pick up both his blink dagger and boots of travel in the first ten minutes of the game. He immediately began to rotate for kills around the map every time his Flaming Lasso was off cooldown, helping EG to take the early lead.

Fear's Anti-Mage kept pulling ahead in net worth, leading by 6000 at the 28 minute mark.

EG was so far ahead, that Fear managed to take on Roshan all by himself, picking up an Aegis of the Immortal that he used to help his team take two huge team fights convincingly. They followed up by destroying a full lane of barracks in bottom lane.

Vici made an effort to take the aggression to EG but it didn't work well for them and an attempted smoke gank on Anti-Mage ended in three dead Vici heroes and another tier three tower kill for Fear.

Yet another attempted smoke by VG went poorly and Anti-Mage once again laid into their buildings, ending the game.

Vici Gaming

Black^ (Medusa) 2-4-4

Super (Viper) 6-6-3

iceiceice (Phoenix) 4-8-8

Fenrir (Lion) 2-4-6

fy (Rubick) 1-6-11

Evil Geniuses

Fear (Anti-Mage) 6-1-9

Suma1L (Brewmaster) 4-5-10

UNiVeRsE (Batrider) 8-3-15

Aui_2000 (Skywrath Mage) 6-1-15

ppd (Earthshaker) 3-5-17

Game 3

Vici Gaming showed a great amount of confidence for a team down 0-2, with a level one smoke gank on Suma1L's Storm Spirit in the middle lane. Fenrir's Witch Doctor and fy's Shadow Shaman wrapped around on Storm and easily claimed first blood.

The early aggression from VG did not let up, resulting in four Suma1L deaths before the five minute mark.

However, by the nine minute mark EG came back strong, as Suma1L seemed undeterred by his early deaths - he confidently fought back to pick up six kills for himself.

Things started to look dire for VG. As they pushed the middle tier two tower down, EG responded with a split push in the bottom lane. iceiceice's Clockwerk made a brave sacrifice, finding two EG heroes and delaying their return to their base, allowing VG to take a melee barracks and giving them a small amount of hope that they could stay in the game.

As EG moved into the Roshan pit, Vici felt that they needed to contest. All five of Vici's heroes moved towards the pit but EG was ready for them and used all of their ultimates to wipe out VG.

For the third time in a row, EG were in full control of the game as they confidently moved into VG's base. Suma1L's Storm Spirit led the charge and wreacked havoc in the Vici base leaving them with no option but to admit defeat.

Evil Geniuses

Fear (Juggernaut) 4-2-6

Suma1L (Storm Spirit) 17-7-11

UNiVeRsE (Zeus) 3-3-23

Aui_2000 (Enigma) 4-2-16

ppd (Earthshaker) 2-2-15

Vici Gaming

Black^ (Terrorblade) 2-5-4

Super (Shadow Fiend) 5-6-8

iceiceice (Clockwerk) 2-6-4

Fenrir (Witch Doctor) 4-6-5

fy (Shadow Shaman) 2-9-8

Annabelle "Abelle" Fischer is a writer for theScore eSports with a love for Dota 2, birds and cheese. You can follow her on Twitter.