Clavision Masters 2025: Xtreme Gaming shock the world and eliminate PARIVISION

This was absolutely not on my Clavision Masters 2025 bingo card. Xtreme Gaming, the very same team that only managed to win a single series in the group stage, have officially knocked PARIVISION out of the tournament. Yes, that PARIVISION, who most recently placed third at the Esports World Cup (EWC), and the best team in the entire freaking world right now.

Well, they were the best, but now I’m hesitating to call them that after two straight uncharacteristic series losses that resulted in them bowing out of a LAN earlier than expected. The first was of course at EWC where they completely dropped the ball in the single elimination bracket against Team Spirit, who, incidentally, is now my number one team in the entire competitive scene.

Xtreme-ly astonishing

The second was against XG today, who probably didn’t want to just further besmirch the already tarnished reputation of the Chinese Dota 2 scene. Wang “Ame” Chunyu and the rest of his team strolled into their series against PARIVISION seemingly unafraid of facing such a tough opponent, as they went on to win the match two games to none.

Even if I had been more generous to XG in my Clavision Masters power rankings, I would never in a hundred years expected this result. Given PARIVISION’s successes in general throughout the current competitive season, I would never have thought they’d be on the wrong side of a 2-0 victory against XG of all teams.

The first game was probably an omen of things to come. Although PARIVISION came out of the laning stage in better shape than XG, it was the latter whose midgame timing was stronger. Utilizing the teamfight potential of a Beastmaster, Monkey King, and Warlock lineup, XG pushed the tempo at just the right time to rocket off to a small net worth advantage.

Things quieted down between both teams thereafter, with kills being rather sparse between 25 to 30 minutes. XG didn’t strike again until about five minutes later, which is when PARIVISION realized that they’d been had in game 1. It was a really abrupt ending to the game, as I had expected PARIVISION to at least try to play for the late game. But I guess when your offlaner is Lycan and your carry is a slightly underfarmed Nature’s Prophet, you’d probably tap out early as well.

The gorgon’s gaze

For a while, the second game made it look like we were headed back to our regularly scheduled programming, as PARIVISION had themselves an excellent early game and midgame. Dmitry “DM” Dorokhin went for the Lycan pick once more, and this time it was working really well — but the problem was that the rest of his teammates weren’t enjoying the same hot start that he was.

XG capitalized on this by targeting the rest of PARIVISION in teamfights, allowing them to stay afloat even though PARIVISION’s net worth lead was growing steadily through the midgame. XG were clearly biding their time, in no small part due to the fact that they had a Medusa as their pick for Ame.

And when you have a Medusa in your lineup, you just have to hold on for dear life against a more aggressive draft. That’s exactly what XG did until about the 35 minute mark, when they took full advantage of Medusa’s 1v5 capabilities to turn things around. They managed to team wipe PARIVISION at this juncture, causing the net worth lead to swing sharply in XG’s favor.

With only a Lina to fall back on as their carry, PARIVISION knew that they had no chance of coming back in this game after such a disastrous teamfight. They conceded just three minutes after the game-deciding clash, thus ending their run at Clavision Masters.

All in all, a fantastic and unprecedented result for XG, especially considering the fact that they’re playing with stand-ins right now. Granted, one of those stand-ins is Yap “xNova” Jian Wei, one of the best support players to ever come out of Southeast Asia, so it’s looking like they might be in good hands for the rest of their run.