Team Secret Crush Execration to Win ROG Masters
On Sunday, Team Secret defeated Execration in a whitewash 3-0 affair.
Both teams advanced to the finals by defeating the top teams involved in the tournament. Team Secret best Mineski, who placed third overall, 2-1. Execration meanwhile went through EHOME.X and also escaped with a 2-1 score.
But the series between the two teams quickly devolved into a one-sided stomp. Team Secret looked in excellent form despite playing with a newly-acquired substitute, German player and former Escape Gaming offlaner Maurice “KheZu” Gutmann.
Team Secret ended the first game with a 30-3 score line. Former Fnatic player, Yeik “MidOne” Nai Zheng, closed the match with a Rampage against Execration.
Games two and three fared better for Execration but Team Secret would not be stopped. Game 2 ended in a 30-7 rout while game 3 featured the most competitive round for the entire finals set.
Execration manage to take the early game to parity, evening up the score line and matching well in lanes. The game seemed to be evenly matched until the 20 minute mark, when Team Secret started taking key pick-offs thanks to the power spike on Pyo “MP” No-a’s Drow Ranger.
The damage was too much to bear as the tankiest heroes on Execration couldn’t stand against MP. In the end, Secret take the base at 28 minutes.
Though not participating in the Boston Major, Team Secret will be back in Asia early next year for a string of tournaments. Execration, in the meantime, will be substituting out Rafael “Rapy” Sicat Palo for Adam “343” Shah en route to the Boston Major later this month.
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