GESC: Indonesia - top 4 finish!
Top 4 finish
The semifinals of GESC: Indonesia yet again pitted 
NAVI.GG.BET against the North American team 
Evil Geniuses in a bo3 game. We lost this series, ending the tournament on 3-4th place, taking $35,000 and 30 DPC points per player.
Game 1 - Natus Vincere [0:1] Evil Geniuses
NAVI.GG.BET
Lil
Dendi
LeBron
GeneRaL-
GeneRaL
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GeneRaL
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GeneRaL
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Crystallize
Evil Geniuses
SumaiL
Cr1t
MiSeRy
Fear
Arteezy
In the first minutes of the match, the teams acted rather cautiously. Nevertheless, after getting several levels, players began to initiate small skirmishes. Lil's rotation to the bottom lane was not the most successful - "evil geniuses" shed the first blood, but soon our team struck back. With the help of a couple of supports NAVI kept killing the mid and core players of EG a few times..
Evil Geniuses focused their attention on the Radiant towers and managed to utilize the pushing potential of their pick: they destroyed two T1 towers and T2 on the bottom line before 15 minutes. Due to this, opponents seized a small economic advantage. Natus Vincere responded to the push by killing the heroes of EG, battling them in opposite parts of the map. At 20 minutes our team had the last external tower, and NAVI themselves only managed to deal with the first line of buildings.
Having gotten two frags, the players of the American team entered the Roshpit and claimed the Aegis. Trying to draw out the game, "yellow-black" attacked the T2 tower on the top lane. Unfortunately, Crystallize didn't manage to retreat on time and got caught. At 32 minutes Evil Geniuses pulled off a good fight, securing man advantage for a while and cleared their way to Roshan, with Aegis going to Lifestealer.
At the 35th minute the opponents exceeded NAVI by 17k net worth, however our guys waited for the Aegis to expire and even caught Beastmaster, forcing him to buy back. A fight broke out over the barracks on the top lane: to save the buildings, the Born to Win spent three buybacks of their own. As a result, the Radiant lost the T3 tower and the shrines.
Opponents waited for Roshan to respawn and sieged the high ground of Natus Vincere yet again. Significant economic advantage made itself felt - "evil geniuses" were stronger in the decisive battle and took the first game of the series.
Game 2 - Natus Vincere [0:2] Evil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses
MiSeRy-
Fear
Cr1t
Arteezy
SumaiL
NAVI.GG.BET
Dendi
Lil
LeBron
Crystallize
GeneRaL
In the second game, the teams again demonstrated a fairly equal game at the start: initially, both side lanes were duos, and Dendi and Fear were enjoying the classical 1v1 mid. After EG shed the first blood, the game became much more active. Both teams carried out ganks, however, by the end of the laning stage, the opponents were ahead.
NAVI managed to catch up to EG, ganking several heroes and securing an important kill on Morphling - a highly prized target. Opponents grouped up and went into the Dire Jungle: during the fight, we lost 3 heroes, only taking down 1. NAVI tried to make some time for themselves, forcing competitors to run around the map to protect buildings, and tried to earn extra damage for Legion Commander, avoiding mass fights.
The fight on the territory of the American team turned sour for NAVI, subsequently the opponents also killed Roshan. Realizing their advantage, "evil geniuses" took down all the outer towers and made an attempt to attack the third tower on the bottom lane. The Dire decided to retreat, but only in order to regroup. The next big fight became the key one: Evil Geniuses not only managed to have a good fight, but also destroyed the buildings on two sides.
NAVI still decided to go for another fight, which was good for our team, but we had to commit buybacks to actually pull through. With 18k gold disadvantage, Natus Vincere continued to defend. The outcome of the series was decided fight 32 minutes in, and EG sealed the deal. NAVI complete the run at the Minor tournament in Jakarta.
