MYM triple-draws in TPL

The Premier League event is now almost three weeks in, with three of the third week's matches already played out. After two rounds,  Natus Vincere is leading the table with a perfect score of two wins which brought them 6 points, but they have yet to play their 3rd match.  MeetYourMakers has only managed to grab 3 points by drawing against  World Elite,  SK Gaming and  Fnatic.RaidCall thus placing themselves in the middle part of the league table.

In their opening TPL match,  MYM faced the Chinese team World Elite in two very strategic (or, to paraphrase the streamcaster  David 'Luminous' Zhang, very Chinese) games with plenty of maneuvering and tactical outwitting. Despite this high strategic awareness from both teams, neither seemed to be too wary of engaging the opponent, so even those who prefer "action-packed" games could find the games highly enjoyable.

Here are the VOD links, with a short chronology of some interesting momentum-shifting moments in spoilers under each one of them (in case you don't have time to watch the whole game):

The Premier League - playweek 1 match
	Chan  SJQ  mofi  Fnty  Icy	[1:1]	hyhy  Sharky  ling  Net  TooFGood
World Elite			MeetYourMakers

Game #1 VOD

Moments to watch out for: 

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39:30 - the Dire trap the Radiant into an ambush, with  hyhy's Careless Void as bait.

40:20 - almost immediately after, Dire's attempt to capitalize by slaying Roshan is canceled due to an auto-attacking Sand King in the mid lane. Whether it was lag or a genius masterplan from the Chinese player, remains to be answered.

50:00 - Sand King gets into trouble again and barely escapes a 5-man gank, but forces a wasted Chronosphere from Faceless Void.

51:00 - the Radiant gather to slay Roshan and manage to lure out a teamfight with Void's Chronosphere still on cooldown, winning it and thus gaining an unreachable advantage.

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Game #2 VOD

Moments to watch out for: 

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43:00 - up until this moment neither team had a significant advantage over the other, but here the Radiant, lead by  ling's farmed Lifestealer (and buffed with Assault Cuirass aura on Night Stalker), smokes up and finds the Dire unready for a fight. From this moment on, all went in favor of the Radiant.

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The Premier League - playweek 2 match
	hyhy  Sharky  ling  Net  TooFGood	[1:1]	miGGel  AngeL  Link  Ryze  MaNia-
MeetYourMakers			SK-Gaming

Game #1 VOD

Moments to watch out for:

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30:00 - the Radiant fail to react in time to defend against the Dire's push and lose the 2nd and 3rd tier tower along with a couple of heroes.

37:25 -  AngeL's Nerubian Weaver barely gets out alive from an Enigma-Lifestealer gank, the Dire make a counter move by killing a couple of Radiant's heroes and destroying the bottom 1st tier tower.

43:25 - the Dire try to destroy the top rax but a well played teamfight from the Radiant stops them, taking the Aegis from Broodmother as well.

47:40 - after pushing the mid-lane 2nd tier tower, the Dire win the teamfight and proceed to destroy the mid-lane rax.

50:45 - the Radiant kill  MaNia-'s Tidehunter preventing him from casting Ravage, but  Link's Broodmother carries the Dire to win the fight anyway and the Radiant call "gg".

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Game 2 VOD (part1) (part2)

Moments to watch out for:

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28:00 (part 1) - after a gank on Windrunner on top-lane, the Dire's Chen comes too close to the Radiant mid tower and gets trapped by a great ward placement from  miGGel's Shadow Shaman. Consequently,  hyhy's Skeleton King gets robbed of his two lives by the entire Radiant team.

34:35 (part 1) - the Dire engages a teamfight and manages to kill Radiant's carry Davion Knight without giving up their own carry in return.

40:50 (part 1) - the Radiant use Smoke and gang up on a foresting Chen, but leave not much active spells to defend against the other, revenge-thirsty Dire heroes.

03:06 (part 2) - with an Aegis on Skeleton King, the Dire plays a bit too aggressive and, in combination with some good shackles by  AngeL's Windrunner, lose all three of Skeleton's lives.

05:15 (part 2) - in a similar fashion, after a buyback from  hyhy, another attempt at engaging the Radiant is scattered.  ling's Chen, however, skillfully teleports Skeleton King back to base, saving him from another death.

09:10 (part 2) - the Dire attempt to slay Roshan but are caught in the act. A teamfight ensues but the DPS of Davion Knight is no match to the Dire's Skeleton King and the Dire brings the game to an end.

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Here is also the result from the third week's match without the VOD links, since they are not yet uploaded by The Premier League's official streamcaster. We will add them at the bottom once they become available:

The Premier League - playweek 3 match
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