All DreamLeague Season 27 group stage results

The DreamLeague Season 27 group stage is now in full swing, giving us plenty more Dota 2 action to watch before the year ends.

The tournament itself is even bigger than it used to be, with a whopping 24 different teams vying for the $1 million prize pool, Swiss style. I’ve got all the happenings from each day right here for you, updated every day!

Day 1 — Nothing out of the ordinary

Wednesday marked the start of the group stage, with 12 separate best-of-three matches kicking off the competition. Not much happened that wouldn’t have been expected results coming into the tournament, as the top teams took care of business as I thought they would in the Dreamleague Season 27 power rankings.

No rapier for Aurora once again! #navination pic.twitter.com/iV1IyXWCcQ

— NAVI (@natusvincere) December 10, 2025

Team Yandex and Natus Vincere got off to a good start through the first day, with the former beating Virtus.pro and the latter beating Aurora Gaming. These two squads are still developing their skills, and any win from here will just add to their confidence as your sort of middle-of-the-pack squads.

I say that even though Yandex actually made it to a tier 1 grand final just over a week ago now, because they got manhandled by Tundra Esports at the BLAST Slam grand finals. The potential is certainly there with this team, but they’re not quite at the absolute top of the competitive scene just yet.

OG also enjoyed a nice first day, putting Team Tidebound away in just two games. This team is of course in much the same position as Yandex and Na’Vi. Yes, they played together as Team Aureus just a few months ago so they’re no strangers to each other, but when you’re vying for high placements, you want every last bit of development you can get.

Day 2 — OG pick up momentum, Liquid lay the smack down on Tundra

The second day of proceedings were especially fruitful for both OG and Team Liquid. The Filipinos enjoyed a hard-fought victory against Yandex, with OG grabbing the win in three games after switching up the usual Southeast Asian playstyle. They went with a more aggressive approach versus Yandex, rather than going with the farm-for-35-minutes type of angle that SEA teams are known for.

how you know we're winning a teamfight: pic.twitter.com/YrViWyK1Ek

— OG (@OGesports) December 11, 2025

It worked pretty well throughout the series, especially in the third game where they just blasted Yandex into next week. Utilizing Andrei “skem” Ong’s Chen to fuel their mid game timings, OG put the final game of the series in a chokehold at around the 20 minute mark. Yandex simply didn’t know what had hit them, and they looked nothing like the team that made it to the grand finals at BLAST Slam 5.

Meanwhile, Liquid brought their absolute a-game against Tundra — something that the panel and the casters pointed out during this series. Liquid do seem to have Tundra’s number all the time, and this was no different. They put their rivals away in two extremely convincing games, winning in ways both expected and unexpected.

Regarding the latter, I will point you to the first game of this matchup. Michael “miCKe” Vu, known for spamming Nature’s Prophet, pitched a total curveball in this game with a safe lane Leshrac pick. Apparently, this was a last second decision by the team, where the goal was to flex the Leshrac to the safe lane in favor of letting Michał “Nisha” Jankowski play Monkey King from the mid lane.

A stunning Leshrac carry performance by @mickeDOTA secures us game 1! 🪩🐴#TLWIN pic.twitter.com/1mCsERaYKn

— Team Liquid Dota (@teamliquiddota) December 11, 2025

The unorthodox strategy worked way better than I thought it would, but I suppose it helped that Bozhidar “bzm” Bogdanov was playing Puck — a hero that Monkey King destroys in the 1v1 mid matchup. True enough, bzm had practically zero impact the entire time, while Liquid were just able to do whatever the hell they wanted.

Liquid could very well be back in form after this win. There’s still four days left in the group stage so anything can happen, but they now seem much more locked in than they did at the start of this competitive season.