Team Liquid will play against Entity for reaching the grand finals of the qualification for The International 2022

Qualification in Western Europe for the Dota 2 World Championship, The International 2022, is gradually reaching the finish line. In the final of the upper bracket, Team Liquid and Entity will fight . The winner will advance to the grand finals of the qualifiers. The match format is bo3.

Team Liquid earned an impressive 890 DPC points, but they were not enough to get to The International 2022. According to the results of the draw, MATUMBAMAN and the team started their journey in the upper bracket with a match against DGG Esports. The team easily overcame the representative of the second division with a score of 2:0. DGG Esports managed to get only 6 kills on two maps, and Team Liquid 's mid player, miCKe, didn't die at all during the entire series. Liquid 's next opponent was a European mix called Goonsquad. iNSaNiA and his teammates won the first map without any problems on the first map with a score of 32:7, and on the second map goonsquad, although they put up more resistance, did not win the victory.

Entity also made it to the qualifiers, accumulating 615 DPC points. Fishman and the team in their first match defeated Alliance in a fairly equal confrontation with a score of 2:0. Entity 's next rival was Team Secret. On the first map, the Entity players managed to win convincingly, and on the second map, the winner was not obvious until the 30th minute. At the 30th minute, Fishman and his teammates make a team wipe, sending all Secret heroes under the fountain. The victory over Team Secret took Entity to the finals of the upper bracket.

The last time the teams played against each other was within the 5th week of DPC WEU 2021/2022 Tour 3: Division I. Then Team Liquid defeated Entity with a score of 2:0. Both clubs are already participants in the Last Chance Qualifier at The International 2022. A victory in the upper bracket final will bring one of the teams one step closer to the main prize of the qualifier — a slot in the group stage of the main event of the year.

Recall that The International 2022: Western Europe Qualifier takes place from September 13 to 17 of this year in an online format. The top 12 Western European teams that did not qualify for the World Championship based on DPC points are fighting for the only slot in the main stage of The International 2022. The 2nd and 3rd place finishers will travel to Singapore to compete in the Last Chance Qualifier.

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