EPIC League Division 1 is entering week 2 today and 12 exciting matches await, spread over 4 competitive days. In this article I'll take a brief look at them but first, let's take a look at what happened during week 1. EPIC League Division 1 First Week Results Week 1 of EPIC League Division 1 was full of unexpected results. For example, Team Liquid, the winner of the recent ESL One Germany 2020, lost 3 matches in a row and is currently sitting at the bottom of the rankings table. By contrast, Natus Vincere, the Grand Finalist of that tournament, won its first 3 matches and is leading the pack.
Another team that played well was Vikin.gg. Its first match was against Team Liquid, a team they had defeated before in the Grand Final of DOTA Summit 13 Online: Europe & CIS. But their second victory was even more impressive: 2 – 0 against Team Secret. Nobody could have predicted that. I think it's pretty obvious that something's going on with Vikin.gg these days. Not that many months ago, they were a provincial nobody. Now they're winning trophies and matches against the world's best competitors.
Many upsets took place during the first week. Apart from Secret losing to Vikin.gg, Nigma lost to mudgolems in spite of having KuroKy in the captain role again. Another match that could be considered an upset was Virtus.pro versus OG, which ended with a clear victory in favor of VP. In both of their games, they played with the same 3 heroes: Magnus, Void, and Enchantress.
Keep in mind, this is Virtus.pro's former academy team, VP.Prodigy. The main roster was released and the junior squad took their place, in a very unusual move made by the management of the club. To be fair, VP.P had better results than the official team, so what Dmitriy did makes perfect sense. But I still feel like losing Solo and No[o]ne is going to be detrimental in the long run. These players know an enormous amount of Dota and managed to win many Majors together. VP could have at least tried to sell them to another organization.
