Just Error, Alliance and Liquid risk leaving Epic League Division 1
At night, the second week of the Epic League Division 1 group stage ended. After that, we have only one team left with no defeats and 3 candidates for elimination after the group stage.
Virtus Pro is the leader of Epic League Division 1
At the end of the second week, only ??Virtus Pro hasn't lost a single match and deservedly occupies the first line in the tournament's group stage. For all 4 games played, the Russian team lost only one map to, not just anyone, but its former roster, which is now playing under the ??Just Error tag. It is also worth noting that at the moment, all ??Virtus Pro members are in the Top-10 players with the highest KDA score at this tournament.
Just Error, Alliance, or Liquid - which of them will leave the tournament?
??Alliance and ??Liquid have played at least 5 matches and have only one victory to each. But in the case of ??Just Error, there have been played 6 matches, and they also have only one victory.
Not many people expected high results from ??Just Error: the players had a difficult exit from ??Virtus Pro, and their mid-laner, Sumail, plays with high ping. The same situation with ??Alliance: the team is losing for the second month. But many analysts counted on Team Liquid's victory: the team became the triumph of ESL One Germany 2020, defeated ??Team Secret for the first time in a long time, and showed a very strong Dota. Unfortunately, something is clearly going wrong with them at this tournament.
At the end of the group stage, the two worst teams will have to leave the tournament, and four more teams will have to play in the Play-in stage, from where only 2 teams will advance to the play-off stage of Epic League Division 1
Fun fact about Epic League Division 1
The average duration of matches in the first and second divisions of the tournament differs by 5 minutes. Thus, the first division teams finish their meetings in about 36 minutes, and the second division teams — in 31 minutes.
So, we can say that the $500,000 prize pool motivates teams to play to the last.
Now the teams have a break until November 26, after which the Epic League group stage will continue.