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Coach Zhang “xiao8” Ning, one of the most tenured coaches in the Chinese scene, led the squad. They dropped one game during the group stage to Team Secret and handled the rest of the competition with ease. PSG.LGD were heavy favorites to win The International 10.
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And, to understand the magnitude of Team Spirit’s achievement this year, just look at their competition.
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The story of Team Spirit’s run can really be condensed in the final best-of-five series against PSG.LGD in the grand finals a series full of momentum shifts, adaptation and some of the highest level Dota ever played.
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Now, a decade later, Team Spirit are the second CIS team to win The International 10, and they did it with one of the most unexpected runs that professional Dota has ever seen. Back then, Dota was still in Beta, there were limited heroes to pick and the Aegis of Champions did not exist yet. Na’Vi were the first team from the CIS team to win the International. Natus Vincere, a long-time staple in the CIS scene, hoisted a $1 million check instead of the Aegis of Champions that iconic trophy didn’t exist yet. The first season of “Game of Thrones” had just been released, and Steve Jobs had just resigned from his position at Apple. The last time a team from the Commonwealth of Independent States won The International was in 2011, the inaugural event for Dota 2’s largest tournament, during Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. With the Aegis lifted, Team Spirit were The International 10 champions. Yatoro pointed at the Aegis of Champions, signaling to his teammates that they had just done the impossible. The PSG.LGD ancient crumbled, and the confetti erupted in a glow of black and gold in the National Arena in Bucharest, Romania. Team Spirit marched toward victory, using Ame’s absence to slowly whittle down PSG.LGD’s base until there was nothing left. With no buyback on Ame, PSG.LGD had lost their anchor, and they were adrift in an open ocean. He caught him with a Searing Chain in order for Spirit’s Illya “Yatoro” Mulyarchuk’s Terrorblade to deal the finishing blow to the PSG.LGD carry. Team Spirit’s Alexander “TORONTOTOKYO” Khertek jumped to a Fire Remnant to catch up to PGSG.LGD’s Wang “Ame” Chunyu’s Tiny. The last moments were merely a formality as Team Spirit marched into the PSG.LGD base to deliver the finishing blow to one of the best teams in Dota’s history.