On April 04 2018 07:19 Uranium wrote: Top 8 is now 2 CN, 2 SEA, 2 NA, 1 EU, 1 CIS which is pretty hype
Pretty nice spread this tournament. That's going to change rapidly after tomorrow, but it's great to see for now.
The interesting secondary story to this tournament is DPC points. The lower half of the current Bracket is really, really interesting. Getting to Winner's Final is a locked 675 DPC points, and all 4 teams in the lower half could really use those points.
VG would jump to 2835, comfortably in 4th, and likely locked into for TI. Mineski jumps to 1575, which vaults them to 7th (pending EG's outcome). Getting to at least 2nd would put them at 2250, 4th place (pending other results) and extremely unlikely to be dropped from the top 8. Optic just needs points, but they'd be best served by getting at least 2nd. TNC is in the same situation as Optic, though they have 270 points already. TNC isn't locked in for any other LANs right now, so they really need to see if they can ride this one for big points.
LGD also needs points, but I see it very unlikely they get through the winner of TL/VP or even passed EG. (However, they have a few more LANs coming up that they're going to, so they have space to score more points.)
Related to that, with all but the last two Major LAN participants locked in, I want to say it's mathematically impossible for TL & Secret to be knocked out of the Top 8. Unless there are more LANs we don't know about. We'll discuss that more after DAC is over.
On April 04 2018 11:17 babysimba wrote: EG draft too scary this game. Capable of winning 3 lanes, can push fast, can scale into late game as well with stuns and bh.
Enigma can shutdown TB in the late-game, which means LGD has to end this before it gets too late.