Team Secret is the Champion of ESL ONE Katowice 2019

Team Liquid is the Champion of MDL Macau 2019

Congratulations to Team Secret for winning ESL ONE Katowice 2019 and keeping dominating fashion. Also Congratulations to Team Liquid for winning MDL Macau 2019 after Miracle- coming back to the team.

We are putting both tournaments together because they are related, teams learn from each other even not competing in the same event. Picks that worked in ESL will show up in MDL, and of course vice versa.

They are also the first larger tournament after 7.21 patch, causing a huge meta shift. Since they are not DPC events, teams are willing to try out new things; we have seen lots of experimental picks, even Riki is picked. Before the event, the meta is at a slower pace due to less gold in the map after 7.21, everyone is buying Hand of Midas to accelerate the farm at that time, but with the change of 7.21b, and more teams figure out that they can fight early and push, heroes with low CD, strong CC and strong push are favored.