Top 5 favourites for ESL One Stockholm Dota Major 2022
It is no exaggeration to say that ESL One Stockholm Dota Major 2022 was awaited by all Dota 2 fans. After all, this is the first tournament in two years with spectators. After a rigorous selection process, we will field the top 14 teams from the second Dota Pro Circuit season 2021/2022. The tournament prize pool is half a million dollars and 3,530 DPC points. Teams will battle it out in two groups of seven each. The teams that finish in 1st to 4th place in their respective groups will form the top grid. Teams ranked 5th and 6th will be placed in the lower net. The winners of a lucky 7th place in each group will leave the tournament.
Then there will be a Double Elimination playoff. Most of the matches in the final part will be ВО3, grand final will be held in ВО5 format. ESL One Stockholm Dota Major 2022 favorites are five teams.
Team Spirit
This team is currently rated a little lower due to their not particularly active participation in the competitions lately. The last time the team appeared in public in the winter DPC season, showing a pretty good result. After losing the first match to HellRaisers, the team pulled themselves together and proceeded through the tournament without losses. After a two-month break, Team Spirit took part in the qualifiers for the ESL One Stockholm Dota Major 2022. And in this case, they didn’t betray their strange tradition: after losing the first game to BetBoom, the Team was able to find the strength to play the remaining matches on a good level and as a result receive a ticket to the major.
BOOM Esports
The team is now the strongest in Southeast Asia and the winner of the winter DPC season as well as the GAMERS GALAXY: Invitational Series Dubai 2022. A very strong point of the team is the presence of strong and experienced players. Often teams made up of stars suffer from over-ambitiousness of their members and as a result, strained relationships between the players. But the current BOOM Esports squad is relatively new, and the athletes have not yet had time to quarrel with each other. The team is considered as one of the undisputed favorites of the tournament and predicted a place in the grand final.
OG
OG is also a very strong team that plays with their new line-up that was assembled shortly before Dota Pro Circuit 2021/22. With this line-up, the team has already beaten several top European teams. The spring DPC season was especially successful for OG, when they did not stand a chance against their opponents and finished the tournament with a 6:1 win/loss ratio. Experts believe the team to be one of the contenders to win the ESL One Stockholm Dota Major 2022 even though its captain Mikhail Misha Agatov was not able to take part in the tournament due to visa problems.
Tundra Esports
Tundra Esports has probably the most unusual game system of all the teams. We can say that this is a “leader” team. Its strategy is determined entirely by offleiner Neta 33 Shapira, which is the leading player and think tank. This can be an undeniable advantage as well as a colossal disadvantage. It all depends on how well Neta 33 Shapir manages to plan and coordinate the actions of the other players. When the ‘leader’ manages this, the team achieves spectacular successes. However, as for its prospects in the majors, experts do not see Tundra Esports among the clear contenders to win.
Evil Geniuses
The DPC season for Evil Geniuses was a close disaster for the team due to the absence of their star player Egor Nightfall Grigorenko. But later the team regained their top spot, and secured a spot in the majors. The team’s specificity is their consistently good or at least acceptable results, irrespective of lineup changes. Experts now believe that the team is very well on form after the rejuvenation, and predict a place in the top three at the majors.
