What's going down on day 4 of the 2016 'Dota 2' International
The unstoppable wildcard EHOME was finally stopped and Newbee and Alliance were knocked out of The International Dota 2 Championships Wednesday, leaving just eight teams left in the biggest Dota 2 tournament of the year.
The third day of the TI6 main event did not let up on the excitement that's been swirling around the $20 million competition, ending with what may have been the most entertaining match of The International so far in the contest between wildcard team EHOME and defending champions Evil Geniuses.
All the action is broadcast live via Twitch and through the Dota 2 game client.
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Here is where the bracket stands after day three:
Wednesday's results
On the third day of TI6, the two upper bracket losers from Tuesday, Alliance and Newbee, went up against lower bracket winners Fnatic and Team Liquid.
In the first game between Fnatic and Alliance, Fnatic handled Alliance pretty easily in the middle of the map but had some trouble taking Alliance's stronghold. The team eventually took the game after an hour of patient domination. The second game saw Alliance starting with a huge advantage, but Fnatic turned it around after picking off Alliance one by one, eventually taking out the team in its stronghold to grab the 2-0 win.
The second match was a closer one, with Team Liquid coming out on top over Newbee for a 2-1 victory. Team Liquid dominated the start of the first game, racking up a 14-0 lead before getting too cocky and being picked off by Newbee. Newbee kept racking up the kills and eventually won a decisive team fight that ended up earning them a gg.
Team Liquid came back strong, taking the next two games without much trouble and knocking TI4 champions Newbee out of the tournament.
MVP Phoenix and Wings Gaming kicked off upper bracket play on Wednesday, and MVP started strong, getting first blood within 30 seconds and grabbing two more kills before the five-minute mark. They couldn't keep it up, though, and Wings took the first game. Down a game, MVP rallied in game two but then again started getting outplayed by Wings. Wings took the lead at 13-13 with an amazing stun by IceIce to trap the retreating DuBu.
After that, Wings dominated the rest of the game, earning a 2-0 win against MVP Phoenix.
To cap off the night, the unbeatable EHOME took on TI5 champions Evil Geniuses, starting with a decent lead in the first game and getting a little cocky. EHOME pushed toward EG's bottom tier three tower and got caught in a chronosphere, a stun and Mirana's starstorm.
EHOME lost three heroes. But EG's Sumail wasn't satisfied with just two kills and chased down a third kill to turn the game in EG's favor. EHOME managed to come back and push EG's stronghold five more times. Yet they were beaten back again and again by EG's unbelievable defense. After the fifth attack had gone sour for EHOME, EG took advantage of the team wipe and managed to take out the EHOME's ancient to end the first game 45-44 after 75 minutes.
After that crushing loss, EHOME couldn't bring it back for the second game and eventually got knocked down to the lower bracket after a 2-0 loss to Evil Geniuses.
Upcoming matches
Upper bracket winners Wings Gaming and Evil Geniuses have made it to the upper bracket finals and will be facing off for a spot in the grand finals on Friday. The loser will face off against the lower bracket winner for one last chance to make the grand finals.
In the lower bracket, Digital Chaos will kick off Thursday's play against TNC, which managed to beat one of the top teams in the tournament 2-0 Tuesday. The winner of that game will face EHOME at the end of the day for a spot in the lower bracket finals while the winner will go home.
Wednesday's lower bracket winners Team Liquid and Fnatic will be up second Thursday, with the winner facing MVP Phoenix for a spot in the lower bracket finals and the loser getting knocked out.
The matches on Thursday and Friday will all be best-of-three with live broadcasts starting at 10 a.m. PT, and the grand finals match will be best-of-five.
