After getting knocked down to the lower bracket, Alliance successfully bounces back by beating the stack Fluffy Bears. They will once again meet up with Cloud9 tomorrow in the grand final.

Dreamhack Bucharest started earlier today and have now finished all matches but one. The format is quick and simple, being a double elimination bracket with just four invited teams, those being Alliance, Cloud9 and Fnatic. Originally Natus Vincere was supposed to join the others but due to three of the players getting sick, Dendi and XBOCT are competing in a temporary team called Fluffy Bears. The roster is completed by romanian players ComeWithMe, Arise and Zizou. The Bear stacked shocked everyone earlier today as they gave Cloud9 a run for their money and right afterwards they eliminated Fnatic from the competition 2-0.

However the steam seem to have had ran out as they went into the lower bracket final versus Alliance. The co-ordination and strategies seemed questionable and Alliance outplayed them into a seemingly easy 2-0 victory. The ukrainian/romanian mix gave a good show, especially for a last-minute formed team, and ends the competition in third place. Alliance moves on to compete for the first place versus Cloud9 tomorrow.

Lower Bracket Final : Fluffy Bears vs Alliance, Game One

Fuffy Bears went for the two supports that best can save a team mate from trouble, Shadow Demon and Dazzle, as their first picks. Meanwhile Alliance set up for a wombo-combo pick focused around Faceless Void, Dark Seer and Sand King. Alliance found the better farm on the lanes even though XBOCT managed to assemble quite a substantional early last hits. Despite Alliance having the good start they could not find the right early rotations, Fluffy Bears found some pickoffs and counter ganks early, capitalizing on Alliance's inept positioning on the map. However not all too long afterwards, Alliance started winning fights with use of the Chronosphere.

As soon as the ability was ready, Alliance went to set up for kills with the use of it, showing what a useful early game skill it is. They transitioned the momentum swing into towers, more kills and farm. Once the fearsome combination came into play, Bears could not do much to fight it, they did not have an answer for it. The Anti-Mage never really came into play and Alliance won the first game.

Game Two

Having a more rounded draft in the second game, Bears went into the game with the plan of having Doom to shut down Alliance's carry hero, which was Slark. Alliance dual-laned Mirana and Shadow Demon mid and although they did not get many kills on Dendi playing the Shadow Fiend, they managed to cripple his early game as he could not farm as much as he would have wanted to. In order to work around getting doomed, Loda went Dagger as his first item with Slark and Alliance started to pound out the early aggression. Using Akke's renowned Chen talent and Mirana's Moonlight Shadow, they got a grip early on of the game, not stopping to farm but instead just keep hammering down towers and heroes. 

Bears disadvantage of not really being a team became more apparent this game as some of their decisions seemed strange and they could not manage to wrap around the game to their advantage. Instead they kept falling to Alliance's aggressive play. After beating down midlane, Bears called the "gg" on the back of an ultra kill from S4.

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