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This is the very first time we use our new live coverage format, so here's some explanation for the feature. We will cover all the important events of the game with time reference to the left, kill score in the middle and amount of towers lost to the right, in a form of minimap.Evil Geniuses vs AllianceBest of 1 - Live ReportSTART!0:00Alliance0:0Evil GeniusesEG is going for a more pick-off oriented draft with Mirana, Rubick and Tinker, who gives them a lot of control over the map. It looks to be a lot safer than Alliances line-up that will have a brief time window to execute their gameplan.1:00Alliance0:0Evil GeniusesDark Seer abandons the offlane after harrassment from Chen and heads towards the jungle.5:00Alliance0:0Evil GeniusesThe first tower of the game goes down after an aggressive smoke coming out from Alliance. With Chen army and the Treants from Nature's Call, it's an easy task for the Swedish team7:40Alliance0:0Evil Geniusess4 on Brewmaster attempts to spill the first blood after finding an opportunity to kill Dark Seer in the jungle. However, some unfourtunate mis-micro from s4 leaves Universe unharmed.12:30Alliance1:0Evil GeniusesThe first big item is finished and this leads to first blood for Alliance as s4 takes down Arteezy's Tinker. Blink Dagger on Brewmaster was what the Swedes needed to get this slow paced game rolling.17:00Alliance4:0Evil GeniusesAlliance's lockdown is too much for Arteezy to handle and the silence from Loda plus a Stomp from one of Akke's Centaur leads to yet another death. This is followed by a courier snipe by Admiral Bulldog that has purchased a Blink Dagger on his Nature's Prophet.24:30Alliance5:0Evil GeniusesAlliance has now finished their third Blink Dagger, this time on Treant Protector played by EGM. This allows for another easy pick-off on Zai's Visage. Alliance follows up that kill with another destroyed tower in the toplane.27:00Alliance7:1Evil GeniusesEG manages to secure their first kill of the game, killing the support Treant Protector who drops his Gem on the ground. Unfortunately for EG they don't notice this and s4 can simply just stroll in and pick it back up for his team.29:10Alliance9:2Evil GeniusesAlliance uses their momentum to great efficiency and breaks highground with ease, demolishing the first tier three tower of the game. However this means a dead Chen and a lost Roshan to the American team.32:30Alliance9:2Evil GeniusesLoda shows us the power of the Refresher Orb plus Aghanims Scepter build on Silencer. EG can do nothing but watch as Alliance tears down their midlane barracks.35:30Alliance12:2Evil GeniusesOnce again Alliance emerge on top after a fight in the botlane. The 14 second silence leave EG without any chance to fight back, even though they have three BKB's (two fresh) on their cores.41:50Alliance16:3Evil GeniusesAfter securing an uncontested Roshan, Alliance move in towards EG's base to try and finish off the game. While they manage to win another fight and pick up half of the botlane barracks, they can't close out the game just yet.47:36Alliance21:3Evil GeniusesAlliance puts the nail in EG's coffin after the Americans tried to push down the Radiant tier one mid tower. Global Silence does immense work against and the damage output from Alliance is too much for EG to handle. The gg is called and the returning champions are looking to be in great shape after the first game of this tournament.Alliance wins overEvil GeniusesNext game coming up!This article was written byJohn Wimarsson, joinDOTA's Writer.Jooehn is a gaming enthusiast who only recently fell head over heels for Dota 2 after watching TI3. If he's not playing his guitar, writing for jD or lying on his couch dreaming about space, he's probably in solo queue trying to reach the 4K MMR dream.Location: Västervik, SwedenFollow him on @Jooehn.