DreamLeague Season 24: PARIVISION Continue to Shine

The second group stage of DreamLeague Season 24 is now about halfway done, with the remaining teams still fighting for slots in the final four bracket. As it stands, the competition has produced one standout result— that being PARIVISION’s current chokehold on first place in Group Stage 2, making a mockery of our power rankings in the process. They didn’t even have a full roster until October 18th and right now, PARIVISION’s momentum in the tournament is unprecedented.

Clipping the Falcons’ Wings

PARIVISION came storming out of the gates after Group Stage 1, beating BetBoom Dacha Belgrade champions Team Falcons two games to one in their first Group Stage 2 match. From the get-go, it actually looked like PARIVISION were just outmatched by such a star-studded roster, as Falcons leveraged Ammar “ATF” Al-Assaf’s Bristleback and Oliver “skiter” Lepko’s Luna to crush the Russian side’s hopes early.

Today’s mission: 3-0 in GS2 pic.twitter.com/MJhEMURhpt

— PARIVISION (@parivisiongg) November 3, 2024

But the second game was anything but an indication of that. Although PARIVISION lost the laning phase for the most part, they held on for 65 minutes — just long enough for their better late game scaling (at least compared to Falcon’s Sven-based draft) to kick in. Remco “Crystallis” Arets showed up as Razor, carrying his team to victory alongside Dmitry “DM” Dorokhin’s stellar Enigma play.

PARIVISION then put the hammer down in the third and final game, managing to recover fantastically after another not-so-great laning phase to take the win in 30 and a half minutes. It was the Crystallis and Volodymyr “No[o]ne” Minenko show, which Falcons just had no answers to after the midgame. Not bad for a team facing ATF’s signature Broodmother, which is a hero that’s supposed to dominate the middle part of most Dota games.

Trouble in Paradise

On the other side of the Group Stage 2 table, we’ve got defending International champions Team Liquid and International third-placers Tundra Esports struggling to stay afloat. Of course, it’s still early days in the second group stage, but you would think that such decorated squads would perform better off the bat.

Liquid in particular are not looking very good for a team that’s supposed to be the best in the world right now. They lost to Team Spirit in three games for their first series, then got mauled by Falcons in their second. It would seem that the adjustment period between the remnants of the International-winning squad and Jonáš “SabeRLight-” Volek might go on for longer than we had initially anticipated.

Support Medusa did not work out 🙁 pic.twitter.com/QHbhh7cunH

— TUNDRA (@TundraEsports) November 3, 2024

Tundra, meanwhile, are faring a bit better in terms of their map score in this phase of the tournament, but they may be running out of wiggle room as time goes on. They still have to place at least within the top 4 in the group in order to advance, so they’ve got plenty of work ahead of them as they try to survive here.

At least their next match is against Liquid, who may be licking too many of their own wounds to put up a fight against Tundra right now. But even should Tundra win that series, they can’t relax too much — as PARIVISION await them on November 6th.