Wildcard Playoffs The International 4
In what seemed like an almost routine series of games, Liquid defeated MVP Phoenix in the grand final of the Wildcard playoffs. They will now join the rest of the teams in the The International 4.
Liquid vs MVP Phoenix Game 1
Liquid.DeMoN had a poor decision early on, giving away first blood to MVP Phoenix and setting them up for a slight advantage during the laning stage. This in turn lead to MVP.QO on the
Slark for MVP to get an early 
Shadow Blade, which allowed him to
foil Liquid's early 
Roshan kill by stealing the Aegis of Immortality.
This in turn allowed MVP Phoenix to get some control of the early game, forcing Team
Liquid to rely on their strong split push from the 
Lycanthrope. Patience and
some over-extensions from MVP Phoenix allowed Team Liquid to slowly take control of
the game and especially Liquid.DeMoN to redeem his early mistake, time and
again picking off MVP's key heroes and decimating MVP's ability to push,
while Liquid.qojqva took the enemy barracks one by one until they were able to
push down the throne, taking the first game of the series and showing
off their ability to play from behind.
Liquid vs MVP Phoenix Game 2
MVP Phoenix again gave away the
Lycanthrope to Team Liquid as well as the 
Skywrath Mage for Sam 'Bulba'
Sosale, which had proven to be a surprise favourite during these
play-in games. This time around there was no early mistakes from Team Liquid,
instead they set up their lanes to out right win two, and ended up
coming on top against MVP's offensive tri-lane as well after turning
around an early kill attempt. With a strong lead Team Liquid never let off
the gas, ending up diving MVP's base by 18mins in, absolutely
running circles around the inexperienced Koreans. While the NA took their time to close out the game, it was more a case of
caution, as they were able to continuously building up and ever growing
advantage. Finally at 31mins in Team Liquid grouped up and ran over the
bottom lane, ending the game with conviction and taking the series 2:0
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