The International 8, One of the most anticipated Esports tournament of the year, is getting attention from gamers, enthusiast, and casual gamers from all of parts of the world. Not only because of its massive prizepool but because of the number of the upsets that has been made in just the 1st day. Upsets so surprising that even DoTA analysts themselves did not expect the outcome.

Just for context, Dota 2 allows you to predict how the outcome of the tournament would be from bracket to bracket and here is mine. I am a local Shoutcaster and Streamer of Dota2 and as for my predictions, I am confident that these choices are carefully thought of and based on the past performances of each teams on the past tournaments. You are seeing my predictions above. as you can see, I already have many mistakes just in the first day of the main event. Right now I will give you some highlights on the most known upsets of day 1 of the internationals.


Fnatic VS Serenity (0-1)

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Fnatic is a well known Esports organization having players on different games in esports. In dota 2, Fnatic are compsed of both Southeast asian and american players. This team is already a staple name in the pro dota scene competing on some big dota tournaments in the past years and have attented The international tournament in the past year. That is why everyone was shocked when Fnatic was defeated and eliminated by Team Serenity, an unknown team coming from china that just emerged from the regional qualifiers and didn't compete in any dota 2 tournaments in the past.


TNC vs Mineski (0-1)

Highlights of the game

TNC and Mineski are both big names in Dota in south east asia with TNC having an all-Filipino line up and Mineski composed of different players from the region. Both consider each teams as rivals for the throne of the best team in the south east asia region making this one of the awaited elimination games in day 1. It looks like TNC will win the whole game removing all hopes from their rivals but Mineski made a swift strike to TNC's lineup by winning a single clash and pushing their way to TNC's base destroying it in the process and winning the game in a surprising manner.

Winstrike vs Newbee (1-0)

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Most probably the game with the most unexpected result in the whole tournament. Newbee is a name in the Chinese dota scene placing 2nd in the international last year. It was surprising enough to see them in the brink of elimination in the first day of the main event but more surprisingly being eliminated by Winstrike a first timer in the international stage from CIS region. Never heard of, Never seen in any tournaments in the past, Never expected to win against the runner up of last year's the international. Everyone was shocked by what winstrike accomplished in their current run in this tourney.

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