Two titans clashed last night in Manila, with OG and Team Liquid fighting in the grand finals for the million dollar prize pool -- a best-of-five between two of the arguably best teams in Dota.

The green dream of OG, who had some subpar performances in the group stages, continued at the main event. Tearing through its Group A rivals in Newbee to secure a grand finals berth, it might be easy to look to the 9000 MMR prodigy Amer "Miracle-" Al-Barkawi as the catalyst for the team's stellar run in the upper bracket. To do so would overlook the incredible support and captain in Andreas "Cr1t-" Franck Nielsen, whose Elder Titan was a ferocious factor in winning mid lane for Miracle-. Johan "N0tail" Sundstein also came into his own throughout the upper bracket games, putting up solid performances on atypical carries like Naga Siren. Editor's Picks NRG's Ohq on NaJin, adjusting to America, and NRG's struggles

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Team Liquid, OG's competition in the grand finals, rose up from the lower bracket after a crushing loss in the first upper bracket round to MVP Phoenix. Liquid's journey took it through every major opponent in the tournament from every region, but Lasse "MATUMBAMAN" Urpalainen showed his fangs on Lycan. Jesse "Jerax" Vainikka was also a force to be reckoned with every game, whether it was on his signature Earth Spirit or other popular picks, like Phoenix.

In game one of the grand finals, Team Liquid secured an early lead at a fight for the top bounty rune, giving a significant gold lead to Upalainen's Ursa. An early securing of the gold is one thing, but as the game went on, the team continued to pressure OG in all the right spots, with Adrian "FATA-" Trinks' Timbersaw proving a more than capable match for the passive Alchemist run by Miracle-. Team Liquid continued on to secure the GG call, and take an early lead against the upper bracket victors.

Game two, however, swung into OG's favor just as rapidly, as Miracle- moved from a passive mid lane to a tricky, aggressive pick in Juggernaut. Backed by some excellent play from David "MoonMeander" Tan, who tallied up an 80% kill participation on Dark Seer, and a farming Faceless Void from N0tail, OG's composition undid Team Liquid in quick manner, holding MATUMBAMAN on his signature Lycan to a mere 3/6/4 KDA.

It worked so well, in fact, that OG opted to run the same aggressive Juggernaut mid in game three, even daring to let Liquid get both of its comfort picks in Lycan and Earth Spirit. In response, OG moved the Faceless Void pick to Moon, as N0tail took to the farming lane as Sven. It was a closer match, with Lycan looking much stronger, but OG continued to put up dominating numbers, with a 23.0 KDA on Moon's Void and an 82% kill participation from captain Tal "Fly" Aizik on his Phoenix support.

In OG's match point, Team Liquid recognized its Lycan draft had been figured out by OG, and instead moved MATUMBAMAN onto a safe-farming Weaver -- and FATA- onto a mid Lone Druid. It was an aggressive draft, and its aggressive play earned a couple early kills on Moon's Batrider. This resulted in a crushing team wipe of OG at the 20 minute mark. OG found its lead elsewhere though, as Miracle-'s Templar Assassin ran rampant and N0tail's Wraith King proved an odd but useful choice, racking up an 87% kill participation on the ethereal king. A final team fight and subsequent wipe of Team Liquid at 46 minutes in secured the game, and OG took the grand finals, 3-1.

While the games didn't go the distance, the finals in Manila were no doubt a display of some of the best Dota being played today. OG returned to take its second Major title -- now the victors of Frankfurt and Manila -- while Liquid can likely feel content to at least have made so many grand finals appearances at the Majors. With The International looming in the distance, these teams have set a precedent for the level of play necessary to take home the Aegis, and hopefully we'll see a rematch in Seattle this summer.