Fans who tuned into TI11\u2019s scores and standings<\/a> were treated to a surprise this morning. Evil Geniuses were knocked out to the lower bracket by Thunder Awaken<\/a> after a phenomenal group stage performance<\/a>.<\/p>
Despite ranking as a fan favorite in the main event<\/a>, EG were recently exposed to the Kyle Curse<\/a>, where the caster predicted 2022 would be the year EG would win TI. While EG walked onto the main stage looking to achieve just that, they were caught off by TA as South America\u2019s pride showed no signs of weakness versus NA\u2019s last hope.<\/p>
TA nullified EG\u2019s early game pressure in both games and even turned the heat up on them, which prevented EG from executing their plan. Egor \u201cNightfall\u201d Grigorenko, EG offlaner, talked with CyberSport.ru<\/a> after the series, and shed some insight on their upset.<\/p>
EG will have their second test in the main event versus another SA team, beastcoast on Oct. 21, 3am CT. Beastcoast moved onto the second round of the lower bracket after defeating Hokori<\/a> in an SA showdown. The current seeding of TI11 has been rather unfortunate for the NA\/SA regions as all the representatives were set to play each other in the first two rounds, which meant only two of the four would be able to move onto the later stages of the main event.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
