PARIVISION Fulfill Destiny at ESL One Bangkok Grand Finals

ESL One Bangkok and its grand finals match just concluded, with PARIVISION taking the series three games to one and bagging their first ever major Dota 2 tournament victory. They accomplished this feat going up against Team Liquid, who at that point had gone completely undefeated in the lower bracket after barely even making it out of the group stage.

Not only will they enjoy sharing the $300,000 first place prize amongst each other, but they will also receive 5,280 ESL Pro Tour points — enough to put them in first place on the EPT leaderboard. There are still three EPT events remaining in the season so this could still change, but for now, they stand atop everyone else.

This result also firmly cements PARIVISION as one of the three best teams in the world, BetBoom Team and Team Falcons being the other two. Quite an impressive accomplishment given how new this roster is, even after considering the fact that most of them have been around the professional scene for years now.

Slow start to get momentum going

Though the series ended up going in PARIVISION’s favor, things didn’t start as well as the score would imply. In fact, they got run over in Game 1 by Liquid’s Spectre pick, which countered a fair number of PARIVISION’s own immobile heroes. Michael “miCKe” Vu popped off on Spectre, scoring 17 kills and dying only twice through 51 minutes of play.

This is when the momentum on Liquid’s side started to look like it was insurmountable. After all, they had been running real hot after four straight match victories in the lower bracket, and it seemed like the International champion’s mentality was kicking in at just the right time.

(9) Class is in Session

But PARIVISION would not be denied, as they struck back hard in Game 2. Seeing that Liquid were content with giving Edgar “9Class” Natalkian his signature Nyx Assassin, which proved to be their undoing. The man (or bug, if you will) made all the difference in this closely contested game, disrupting Liquid’s ability to fight effectively in the mid to late game. And that’s just what PARIVISION needed, too, considering how hard they lost the laning phase.

It was more of the same for 9Class in Game 3, though this time the game was even closer than the one before. Both teams traded the gold lead back and forth in the late game, but again, it was 9Class that proved to be the x-factor that eventually tilted the game in PARIVISION’s favor. At this point, Liquid had begun to realize that they couldn’t just let 9Class run amok with Nyx Assassin, so they banned the hero for Game 4.

Destiny Fulfilled

But the realization came just a little bit too late. Smelling blood in the water, PARIVISION threw the hammer down in Game 4, thanks in no small part to Remco “Crystallis” Arets’ Slark and Volodymyr “No[o]ne” Minenko’s Sniper play. These two went full anime protagonist mode and just put the entirety of their team on their backs, dishing out immense amounts of damage and generally just preventing Team Liquid from even playing Dota 2 in the first place.

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Losing all three lanes didn’t help Liquid’s case either. With such a massive disadvantage right off the bat, they were never able to recover quickly enough to go into the late game. They tapped out in less than 30 minutes, thus surrendering the trophy and first place prize.

Big prospects coming into 2025

This result is fantastic news for PARIVISION, whose first ever LAN victory comes just shy of two months since they formed the current roster. The speed at which they achieved this feat is simply unprecedented, and it just goes to show that truly anything can happen in a Dota 2 tournament. Of course, they’d been flirting with the top 3 spots at the tournaments they attended prior to ESL One Bangkok, but still, it’s no less impressive that they managed to get this far this quickly.

As for Team Liquid, they may not have finished the job from the lower bracket, but it’s great to see them back in form after getting crushed by the competition at previous tournaments this season. Whether or not they can stay consistent this year is still anyone’s guess, but if they’ve finally figured things out with Jonáš “SabeRLight-” Volek onboard, we could get a four-way fight for the title of best team in the world once the year turns.

And that would be a prospect far too exciting for anyone to ignore.