Team Spirit repeated the feat of The International 10 (2021) and became two-time champions (undefeated!) of the main Dota 2 tournament. This Sunday, Illya "Yatoro", Denis "Larl", Magomed "Collapse", Myroslav "Mira and Yaroslav "Miposhka" defeated Gaimin Gladiators by 3-0 in Seattle, USA. As a result, the quintet ended up with Aegis and US$ 1,414,623, the lowest prize for the winner since 2012.
Gaimin Gladioators made it to the finals after defeating LGD Gaming. On the best of five final, Team Spirit won the first game in 33 minutes and the other two in 42 minutes. Yatoro's Weaver was responsible for 18 kills in the first game and he stood out throught the entire final.
Team Spirit won in 2021, the highest total prize pool in the history of a single tournament: US$40,018,195. On that occasion, they defeated PSG.LGD with practically the same squad, only Larl was not on the team.
Spirit comes from a sequence of exceptional tournaments: they were champions of DreamLeague Season 21 in September, and won US$5 million at the Riyadh Masters, in July, in Saudi Arabia.
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