The only set that Invictus Gaming lost during Star Ladder Star Series Season 12 was to Vici Gaming, and despite getting a second chance against them after their victory over Cloud9, they were still not able to eke out a victory.

VG took the first game handily after utilizing an unorthodox Io and Axe combo, but iG brought it back in Game 2 with BurNIng farming up a storm on Sven. Game 3 was another shut out from VG, and with their default win from coming from the upper bracket, Vici Gaming are the champions of Star Ladder Star Series Season 12.

Here's how the games went:

Game 1

Vici Gaming got off to a very strong start; they got first blood along with several more kills, iceiceice's Axe stole a huge jungle stack from Invictus Gaming's jungle, all their lanes were winning their match ups and their net worth advantage ballooned to 5k at the 12 minute mark.

iG were on the back foot from getting constantly ganked, even when they had the chance to turn a fight, VG were able to snag the kills. This happened twice, at 16 minutes with a clutch Relocate from fy's Io, and again at 19 minutes when Hao popped his Bloodstone right as Laguna Blade was cast on him.

At the 20 minute mark, VG's net worth lead exploded to 13k, an undefeated advantage in competitive play for patch 6.83.

As of earlier this month, teams with a 13k+ gold advantage at 20 minutes were 148-0 in 6.83 pro #Dota2 #starladder12 http://t.co/HuftSno1VU — Nahaz (@NahazDota) April 26, 2015

The numbers didn't lie; iG called the game at 25 minutes after they got decimated from an attempted gank and a "bad mannered" Bloodstone suicide from Hao.

Game 2

The early game was fairly passive until 5 minutes when aggression from Vici Gaming's trilane forced a rotation from Invictus Gaming; they counter-initiated and completely turned the fight, getting three kills for free.

The rest of the early and the mid game continued to have a lot of scrappy engagements, with iG taking a lead. At 24 minutes a scouting Thundergod's Wrath setup a Hookshot on Faith's Lina, but another strong counter-initiation turned the trade to iG's favor.

The win was a big boost to iG net worth, sitting on a 5k lead after that fight and, BurNIng's Sven picked up a core Daedalus at 26 minutes. After pick up they continued to take fights and their advantage exploded to a 15k lead just five minutes later at 31 minutes.

BurNIng's Sven was gigantic; Ferrari_430 and Luo had more kills, but BurNIng farmed nearly twice as much gold as them, and was six-slotted with a 22k net just five minutes later at 36 minutes.

iG simply steamrolled over VG on the back of BurNIng and ended the game at 45 minutes.

Game 3

Vici Gaming started off with a strong boost to their farm thanks to fy's Enigma jungling relatively uncontested, and he managed to get an insanely fast level six at four and a half minutes.

At 9 minutes VG ganked the bottom lane and iG's Tiny and Io Relocated in to support, but fy's Black Hole caught the pair. They ended up getting away, but the rest of iG were not so lucky and VG got a huge boost to their farm.

Through out the mid game VG's rotations found kill after kill; BurNIng's Tiny could not find the space to farm. At the 18 minute mark they smoked up and "initiated" with an observer at the iG's ancient camp, where Io and Tiny were farming.

VG simply snowballed off their kills, by the 25 minute mark they destroyed all of iG's outer towers and their networth advantage grew to 10k; they pressured the high ground shortly after.

BurNIng was at the front of the defense to clear the creep wave, but the harassment from VG forced ChuaN to defensively Relocate him away. The return of the Io was to be the focal point of the next fight; Super's Templar Assassin was in the front and tanked the brunt of iG's damage, but they weren't mindful of their positioning and fy got off a three-man Black Hole.

That fight was the last straw for iG, they had a massive 15k net worth deficit and got completely team wiped in the next engagement. VG pressured the high ground again and another three-man Black Hole from fy shut down any defense; iG called the game at 30 minutes.

Dennis Gonzales is a Toronto eSports writer who enjoys whiskey, Dungeon & Dragons and first-picking Timbersaw. You can follow him on Twitter.