The Plantronics UKDota.net Invitational Grand Finals Round up

The Plantronics UKDota.net Invitational drew to a close this evening with a huge best of five series. Our finalists, Wat A Stack and rOtK, fought for £150 in cash, five Plantronics Gamecom 780s and five copies of The Creative Assembly's Rome II Total War + Greek States pre-order DLC. The loser has taken home £50 and five Plantronics Gamecom 380s.

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Wat A Stack rOtK

Game 1

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Starting with an aggressive trilane coming out of Wat A Stack giving mango_banana a no risk lane. Rikzu's Enchantress spent most of the laning phase helping Shadow Fiend in order to balance out the lane bias. When Enchantress finally rotated to the aggro trilane it resulted in first blood coming out for rOtK. Following on from a rather unspectacular laning phase we saw the migration into a very passive farming game with Wat A Stack's tri-core coming out on top.

Twitch.tv VOD.

Wat A Stack 1 : 0 rOtK

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rOtK Wat A Stack

Game 2

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A first in the later stages of the tournament we saw Wat A Stack run a defensive trilane opting for mango_banana to take the timber saw offlane solo. Giving away first blood on the first creep wave and a further kill shortly after. With rOtK not being pinned in to a defensive trilane they were able to move around the map and solidfy an early game lead. This lead didn't balance out leading to the game spiraling out of control with rOtK dominating the second game.

Twitch.tv VOD.

Wat A Stack 1 : 1 rOtK

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Wat A Stack rOtK

Game 3

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After the drubbing Wat A Stack received in the second game, they returned to their tried and tested aggressive tri-lane with mango_banana on the safe lane. Mute242 bought Wat A Stack a huge advantage in the early game by smoke sniping rOtK's courier. With mango finishing his blink dagger at the 10 minute mark, the game slowed down whilst rOtK tried to make the most out of the epicentre and relocate combination. This over reliance on a 'wombo-combo' put rOtK behind in both farm and experience, allowing Wat A Stack to gain a solid lead in towers and gold. Forcing a final fight on rOtK's tier3 with their dominant lead leaving rOtK to succumb to their hard pressed advantage.

Twitch.tv VOD.

Wat A Stack 2 : 1 rOtK

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rOtK Wat A Stack

Game 4

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Wat A Stack picking up Omniknight for mango_banana on the safe lane allowing Rikzu's chen to be completely fearless playing from Wat A Stacks' jungle allowed for him to snipe Rime's courier before he'd got his bottle, pick up a kill on the Omniknight and take a tier 1 tower within 6 minutes. This early advantage allowed for Dark Seer to grab a fast midas, Chen a fast Mekansm and Puck a quick blink dagger. Naturally the fights afterwards were very one sided in rOtK's favour. Despite how badly the early game went for Wat A Stack, there was a very apparent solid wall which rOtK couldn't break through, every teamfight after Wat A Stack got their ship in order couldn't have gone any better for them, bringing the gold lead back to flatline. Wat A Stacks efforts to force the games finish came back badly, allowing for rOtK to once take the lead again but Wat A Stack grab Roshan at the 40 minute mark and then push for victory, rOtK's final defense on their barracks was completely quashed allowing Wat A Stack to take the tournament.

Twitch.tv VOD. Due to a complication the draft isn't in the VOD.

Wat A Stack 3 : 1 rOtK

UKDota.net would like to congratulate Wat A Stack on their victory! Thanks go to Plantronics Gamecom & The Creative Assembly for providing the prizes for the tournament, Multiplay for helping with the Twitch.tv side of things. Lots of love to Mr_Blakadder, durka & kitkat for doing an awesome job for the coverage.