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.

Day 3 — OG rocket to the top, Falcons and PARIVISION have an epic duel

Would you look at that: OG are still undefeated in this Swiss group stage. And not only that, they lead the entire pack in terms of the Buchholz score, thanks to their map record of six wins and one loss thus far. They completely trounced BetBoom Team on Friday, beating them in just two games in what was a very spirited performance from the Filipino squad.

Honestly, even that word might not be enough to describe the absolute shellacking that they made BetBoom suffer through. The first game ended in 20 minutes and 57 seconds, with OG’s extreme early game aggression paying off right away. I swear, this team just hits another level whenever skem gets his hands on Chen, and it showed in the first game with how incredibly hard they won every lane.

Can't believe someone EMAILED me this , appreciating the @OGesports fanbase more and more everyday , slay kings (and queens) 🌻🌻 pic.twitter.com/Sib45Ha5Pa

— Adam (@343dota) December 12, 2025

They followed their game 1 win up by annihilating BetBoom once more in the second game, fueled by Nikko “Force” Bilocura’s 13-3 Axe performance. It’s nice to see that Force is doing so well on this team in the age of the offlaner, and I can’t stress this enough: this guy will become one of the best core players from Southeast Asia sooner than later.

Meanwhile, Falcons and PARIVISION had themselves an absolute classic on day 3, trading blows left and right in a hard-fought three-game series. For my money, this was the match of the day, with only Team Liquid versus Team Spirit coming close in that regard. As one might have expected given the support players on both sides, Chen was present in all three games of this series — but incredibly, he only managed to win one of them.

But anyway, both teams put on a show in this one. The desire to win between both squads was palpable, but sadly, only one could come out the victor as is typically the case. Falcons got the better of PARIVISION after three games, with the third and final map featuring a cheeky lane swap between Stanislav “Malr1ne” Potorak and Ammar “ATF” Al-Assaf.

Malr1ne knew that his mid Primal Beast would not have a good time against the Venomancer of Volodymyr “No[o]ne” Minenko, so he called for a switch that put ATF’s Viper in a much more favorable matchup. The gamble didn’t pay off as much as they probably hoped it would since Malr1ne got shut down in the offlane anyway, but it would have been far worse had they stuck with the original plan.

Nevertheless, Falcons held a sizable lead after the 20 minute mark, with their gold lead getting up to around 5,000 at this time. They made some uncharacteristic mistakes thereafter that let PARIVISION back in the game, which was not a good sign given that Alan “Satanic” Gallyamov was piloting his signature Templar Assassin.

Unfortunately for PARIVISION, they would also make some critical mistakes of their own from there. Suddenly, Oliver “skiter” Lepko’s Ursa became way too farmed for them to control, and it doesn’t take much to figure out that Templar Assassin doesn’t really like playing against that hero in particular.

With their path to victory clear from this point, it was just a matter of executing the late game plan cleanly for Falcons — which they did for the most part in order to close things out.

Day 4 — Upsets galore

Finally, some good food. The fourth day of the group stage proved that strange things do happen in professional Dota, as we saw not one, not two, but three separate upsets happen in the span of less than 12 hours. Where do I even start? Oh right, with OG, of course. They took Team Spirit to the woodshed in just two games on Saturday, and came out of the series looking like serious contenders for the DreamLeague title.

Let me tell you, in my years of covering Dota 2 as a journalist, not once have I seen a Southeast Asian team display the kind of poise and confidence that OG did in this match. Both games took an average of about an hour and seven minutes, which conventional wisdom would suggest is heavily in favor of Spirit and their legendary late game execution.

Is this real life or am I dreaming

— Ceb (@Ceb) December 13, 2025

But OG just said “nah, we’d win”. They locked in hard for this marathon, and made sure that Spirit had no chance at coming back in the series. That second game was just pure cinema, with the duel between John Anthony “Natsumi-” Vargas’ Windranger and Illya “Yatoro” Mulyarchuk’s Terrorblade being one of the highlights of the day.

Then there was Virtus.pro turning things around against Liquid as well, winning two straight games after going down 0-1 to start their series against miCKe and company. Liquid seemed to just collapse mentally after losing the second game in this match, and they got walloped by a supposedly much weaker team as a result.

I didn’t even expect VP to still be hanging around like this, but they’re somehow taking wins off of much better teams on paper. I’ve soured on Sam “BuLba” Sosale’s coaching style since the Evil Geniuses days, but if they can keep this up and make a case for themselves at DreamLeague, I might have to start rethinking my stance. Maybe.

Finally, there was Xtreme Gaming taking their series 2-0 against Yandex. Now, this isn’t strictly an upset in the usual sense of the word given XG’s roster, but when taking recent form into consideration, it still is an upset in that sense. XG didn’t even look like they wanted to be at PGL Wallachia Season 6, so for them to beat the BLAST Slam 5 grand finalists is already a pretty significant improvement.

Day 5 — Falcons grab the top spot as usual, VP suddenly in third place

It took them five days, but Falcons are back where they belong: at the very top of the Swiss group stage here at DreamLeague Season 27. They are now 5-0 through the preliminaries, with OG being their latest victims on their way to first place in the group.

The first game wasn’t even remotely close. Falcons basically won every single lane, facilitated by the fact that they got whatever they wanted in the draft. It also helped that OG kind of choked their last pick, which went to Death Prophet instead of Nature’s Prophet, the latter of which is something that Natsumi- has come to be comfortable on this season.

1-0! 😎 #DreamLeague pic.twitter.com/jGdHQCFsaq

— Falcons Esports (@FalconsEsport) December 14, 2025

Seeing OG’s massive draft mistake, Falcons took the opportunity to pick Nature’s Prophet for themselves. And with such an early and mid game-focused draft on hand, NP was the glue that really brought their lineup together. They just got to do whatever they wanted as a result, while OG basically didn’t even get to play Dota.

The second game was a lot more competitive, though, with OG getting off to a good start thanks to a much better laning phase than in the last game. And a better draft too, of course. Erin Jasper “Yopaj” Ferrer put on a show early on as Storm Spirit, outplaying Malr1ne’s Ember Spirit in a classic brother-versus-brother duel.

OG kept the early momentum going into the mid game, holding onto a small lead as they took better teamfights and picked their spots against Falcons accordingly. Unfortunately, it didn’t last beyond the 40 minute mark, as Oliver “skiter” Lepko and Malr1ne both decided that enough was enough. skiter’s Ursa led the way in the late game, while Malr1ne followed right behind him.

And with Natsumi-‘s Gyrocopter way behind skiter in gold, it was just a simple matter of keeping it clean late in this game. Thus, OG suffer their first series loss of the tournament, and might have to settle for less than first place depending on how the games go tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Virtus.pro are starting to turn a few heads including mine, as they now sit upon a 4-1 series record despite my very low expectations for them.  After beating Xtreme Gaming on Sunday, they are now on a four-series winning streak.

Creating chaos in the mid lane 😈#Dota2 #GOGOVP pic.twitter.com/eQ2XGvmj8c

— Virtus.pro (@virtuspro) December 14, 2025

The vibes in this team seem to be really pleasant right now, with Enzo “Timado” Gianoli saying in his post-game interview that they’re on a mission to prove the doubters wrong and that they are not, in fact, just a bunch of washed up players. Their final series of the group stage will be against OG, though. A tough go for sure, but considering that they’ve defeated both Team Liquid and MOUZ this tournament, anything is possible.

As an aside, I want to encourage everyone reading this article to watch the series between Team Spirit and PARIVISION if you haven’t already. That third game especially was something special, and it went on for much longer than anyone had anticipated given how the first 25 minutes went. I won’t spoil too much, but I will say this: you cannot give Naga Siren away to teams that are really good in the late game.

Day 6 — MOUZ and Liquid miss out on top 8

The long and grueling Swiss group stage at DreamLeague Season 27 is now complete, with many of the usual suspects like Tundra and Spirit making it to the playoffs without too much trouble. Two teams that did run into quite a bit of trouble though are Liquid and MOUZ, neither of whom will be moving on to the playoffs.

With the end of the group stage, we are now eliminated from DreamLeague 27 at 10th place.

We're disappointed with the results that we've put up towards the end of 2025. We will be working hard to deliver a 1st place result for our supporters in the new year! #LetsGoLiquid pic.twitter.com/wAcFGDPxnI

— Team Liquid Dota (@teamliquiddota) December 15, 2025

Liquid in particular came out of their series against Runa Team on day 5 kind of shell shocked. I can’t blame them; they were supposed to be much, much better than Runa Team on paper, but somehow dropped two games to them in a match that they really wanted to win in order to give themselves a bigger cushion in the standings.

That said, they did improve a lot in this tournament, and I can see them making a deeper run in a future tournament with a full LAN setting, like PGL Wallachia Season 7 in March next year. Liquid always get a buff at full LAN events, after all, and with the lessons they’ll be taking from their run here, I’m sure they’ll come back stronger.

As for MOUZ, this was definitely a disappointing result for them. None of us knew it then, but losing that one series to VP was a serious blow to their hopes of making into the playoffs. They also lost to Na’Vi on day 5, which practically sealed their fate as it meant that they could only go 3-3 in series at best.

You truly can’t win them all, even if you’re a proven squad like MOUZ. They didn’t show up early and often enough in the group stage, and so they’ll have to lick their wounds to end the year. Their campaign through the new season thus far has turned out way better than expected, so they can go into the holidays with their families with their heads held high and the future to look forward to.