How 5K mmr player knocked Miracle from TI
In 2016, Miracle, arguably the most individually skilled player of all time of Dota 2, lost the most important match of that year to a 5k mmr player.
5988 that was the exact rating of the TNC team’s captain at the moment of the clash between team OG and TNC in the loser bracket of the TI6’s playoff.
So, Miracle is the prodigy of Dota. His first year of playing professionally for team OG was one the MOST dominant performances of a single player in the history of Dota 2. This year Miracle gave us a lot of timeless highlights, such as winning Frankfurt Major,an astonishing 43 and 0 KDA performance at the Manila major playoffs, having played 4 consecutive games without a single death, 1st place at Manila major, this Invoker highlight, this Shadow Fiend juke,and he’s also became a first person to hit 9k mmr in the world, and the list of his highlights for that year only can go on and on.
So how did that happen, that this incredibly talented player lost one of the most important games of his career to an objectively lower mechanically skilled opponents?
TNC versus OG match ended with a 2-0 for TNC, even though OG were highly favored throughout the whole time. OG were highly dominant pre-ti,they won 2 majors in the season,and in group stages they finished in first place, compared to TNC, who were not even in the upper bracket, but OG were unable to win a single game in the bo3 against them.
In all of their playoff games, OG were kinda overcomplicating themselves, it was clear that they were sticking too much to their comfort zone,and sometimes it even looked like they were arrogant, disregarding the enemies’ countericking threats.
Like picking Sven carry againsts already picked PA and Shadow Demon in the match against the MVP. This cost them a game.
They were also pretty careless for letting TNC to hard counterpick them in both of the games, In the game 1 it was PL that was shutting down both medusa and drow ranger. Remember that at that time Drow didn’t have the armor piercing ultimate, so it was easy for PL to get tanky enough to be unkillable against the OG core heroes. In the game 2 they left Huskar in the pool when they had absolutely no answer to that hero, as Huskar of that time, if there were no counters in the draft, was one of the cheesiest freewin heroes.|
Even in the bad matches Miracle never had a bad game, his insane micro has been carrying so hard. And in one of the most unfavorable matchups of that time: Ember Spirit against Huskar; he managed to show his teeth. He gave out the first blood to the enemy’s support gank, but he still managed to win the lane against the hardest counterpick, killing Huskar as Ember on level 6.
But even though Miracle was playing out of his mind in all of the games, that didn’t help the fact that it was miles harder for OG heroes to win. It was working for OG before, picking comfort zone heroes, assuming that team will win that way due to their highly superior game skills. But a TI is a different tournament, where what was working before could not work here. All the teams that get to TI try their hardest to prepare for the tournament, even the mediocre team of the season can gain a lot of strength and momentum, whereas many favorites and seemingly unstoppable teams have lost not even close to the champions place.
So, when OG were not performing as well as they usually were, TNC on the other hand, were playing like a complete unit. This SEA team were ready to slay, both their draft and game movements were on point in that series. This game series will go down as one of the biggest non-TI winning moments of Dota’s history. Even if we compare the views from the popular Dota highlight channel: TNC vs OG has 3 million views, when TI6 finals has only 1 million. TNC’s performance really shook the world of Dota in that year, and this match will go down as one of the biggest sensations of Dota esports. Individual skill wise , OG were at an insane height that year, and Miracle in particular was the pinnacle of mid gameplay,and his 9k mmr skills lost not to the player with 5988 MMR, but to a team.
Later, Miracle will fix his mistakes and will win 2017’s TI, and TNC will forever stay as a crowd’s favorites as a team from SEA that proved that talent is not everything.
5988 that was the exact rating of the TNC team’s captain at the moment of the clash between team OG and TNC in the loser bracket of the TI6’s playoff.
So, Miracle is the prodigy of Dota. His first year of playing professionally for team OG was one the MOST dominant performances of a single player in the history of Dota 2. This year Miracle gave us a lot of timeless highlights, such as winning Frankfurt Major,an astonishing 43 and 0 KDA performance at the Manila major playoffs, having played 4 consecutive games without a single death, 1st place at Manila major, this Invoker highlight, this Shadow Fiend juke,and he’s also became a first person to hit 9k mmr in the world, and the list of his highlights for that year only can go on and on.
So how did that happen, that this incredibly talented player lost one of the most important games of his career to an objectively lower mechanically skilled opponents?
TNC versus OG match ended with a 2-0 for TNC, even though OG were highly favored throughout the whole time. OG were highly dominant pre-ti,they won 2 majors in the season,and in group stages they finished in first place, compared to TNC, who were not even in the upper bracket, but OG were unable to win a single game in the bo3 against them.
In all of their playoff games, OG were kinda overcomplicating themselves, it was clear that they were sticking too much to their comfort zone,and sometimes it even looked like they were arrogant, disregarding the enemies’ countericking threats.
Like picking Sven carry againsts already picked PA and Shadow Demon in the match against the MVP. This cost them a game.
They were also pretty careless for letting TNC to hard counterpick them in both of the games, In the game 1 it was PL that was shutting down both medusa and drow ranger. Remember that at that time Drow didn’t have the armor piercing ultimate, so it was easy for PL to get tanky enough to be unkillable against the OG core heroes. In the game 2 they left Huskar in the pool when they had absolutely no answer to that hero, as Huskar of that time, if there were no counters in the draft, was one of the cheesiest freewin heroes.|
Even in the bad matches Miracle never had a bad game, his insane micro has been carrying so hard. And in one of the most unfavorable matchups of that time: Ember Spirit against Huskar; he managed to show his teeth. He gave out the first blood to the enemy’s support gank, but he still managed to win the lane against the hardest counterpick, killing Huskar as Ember on level 6.
But even though Miracle was playing out of his mind in all of the games, that didn’t help the fact that it was miles harder for OG heroes to win. It was working for OG before, picking comfort zone heroes, assuming that team will win that way due to their highly superior game skills. But a TI is a different tournament, where what was working before could not work here. All the teams that get to TI try their hardest to prepare for the tournament, even the mediocre team of the season can gain a lot of strength and momentum, whereas many favorites and seemingly unstoppable teams have lost not even close to the champions place.
So, when OG were not performing as well as they usually were, TNC on the other hand, were playing like a complete unit. This SEA team were ready to slay, both their draft and game movements were on point in that series. This game series will go down as one of the biggest non-TI winning moments of Dota’s history. Even if we compare the views from the popular Dota highlight channel: TNC vs OG has 3 million views, when TI6 finals has only 1 million. TNC’s performance really shook the world of Dota in that year, and this match will go down as one of the biggest sensations of Dota esports. Individual skill wise , OG were at an insane height that year, and Miracle in particular was the pinnacle of mid gameplay,and his 9k mmr skills lost not to the player with 5988 MMR, but to a team.
Later, Miracle will fix his mistakes and will win 2017’s TI, and TNC will forever stay as a crowd’s favorites as a team from SEA that proved that talent is not everything.