Here's How a Bunch of Nobodies Won $18 Million 

They only won because Yatoro shaved his head, game him +43% winrate. Icefrog nerf headshaving pls too strong

Everyone loves a good underdog story and TI keeps pumping them out.

This is why We love dota and TI. Most of us dont play dota anymore, but TI is special

Other: TI10 Yatoro: All heroes challenge less go

TI1 - Ukrainian Na'Vi won the Aegis. TI10 - Russian Team Spirit won the Aegis. With that pattern, if VP ever hoped to hoist one, I would expect it on TI100.

There are a lot of things in this run. The 3-2 comeback to qualify, the beginning with that awful room, the bad starting in the group stage, winning all the games the next days, getting into the upper bracket and getting destroyed by IG(even the game that they won, IG throw), going to lower bracket, beating fnatic and have to face OG, the kings of ti who has lost only one series since ti8 group stage if I'm not mistaken, but Collapse's Magnus and the EZ GAME comes so ez series indeed, later facing VP who team spirit literally has never beating before, play again against IG getting revenge for that upper bracket match, have to face the best Eu team so far, team secret, and doing it in style to get into the Grand finals against the absolutely favourites and undefeated so far PSG LGD, winning easy the first two games, but getting destroyed the next two, and when you think that LGD has the momentum and their best and undefeated strat in tiny+lycan, Spirit comes with Collapse's Magnus again, this time uncountered, and wins the game. Absolutely insane run, without any chances to be called a fluke. Men, everyone was just out of their mind, Collapse's Magnus, Yatoro's rampages and hero pool, Torontotokyo's game sense (dude, the way this guy constantly evades ganks even with smokes that makes a lot of space), and Mira and Miposhka vision game and rotations. I'm just hoping that this team doesn't lose any motivation to keep playing in the following tournaments.

Yatoro had his pink hair and achieved his final form when he shaved it mid-way through the tournament. They didn't add this to the video but when asked why he shaved his hair literally in the middle of the tournament, he said "it's a sacrifice to the DOTA gods". LMAO shit was effective!!

I don't even play DOTA, but this still got me hyped for Team Spirit.

When TI comes, there is no other single esports that could come close to Dota2. TI is the world cup of esports and of course with the super amazing story behind it.

to give your opponent the best unbeatable draft they have (tiny+lycan) in game 5 in the grand finals of 40$mil tournament and beat it is the chadest move in esports history

The amount of Collapse memes skewering enemy rosters to the airport is at peak at that day... goosebumps

I can't wait for TRUE SIGHT, that drafting phase in game 5 will definitely show their reactions in the Lycan+Tiny vs. Magnus+Wyvern

This was something crafted from a magical book, seriously. The amount of fortitude you need to be on the brink of defeat, and to usher ontop the highest mountain, is an absolutely monstrous undertaking. Dr K (Psychologist of Evil Geniuses ) mentioned that this is one of the most stressful things a human can be put under. TI is absolutely ruthless. Greatest TI ever. Shame there was no crowd though. And that psychologist on Team Spirit did his freaking magical work.

The grand final was so surreal to live through. It's 6 PM and you take a bus to get home from a university - everybody is watching the grand finals in there. You come home and boot up your PC to watch the last game and all you hear is screams of fans from the streets. You come to university the next day and everybody is talking about TS, even people who know nothing about DOTA, even LoL players. I've never seen such a massive hype for a cybersport tournament, even the 2018 world cup came and went with less hype.

-They are not noticed/regarded by high tier teams as they are busy looking/analysing at their rival team. -They are understimated by high tier teams -They have nothing to loose everything to win than someone who have been in scene for a long time who slowly but surely looses the young spirit They are the underdogs.

Yatoro stole the Aegis from Miposhka was still the best moment of that final.

I wanna make it clear, this was no fluke. Team Spirit played extremely solid and with incredible discipline, which is especially incredible for a team so young. They played like seasoned veterans. Props to the coach, Silent, for putting all this together. They also said they had a sports psychologist that gave them the mental fortitude to go through all this.

Team Spirit's lower bracket run is insane. - They beat Fnatic. That team may not be the best SEA team, but it had more experience than Team Spirit. - They clapped 2x TI champions OG, who kept 3/5 of their championship roster, and the replacements for those who retired are a TI champion and a TI runner up. "ez game" indeed. - They beat Virtus Pro, who have been their bane at the CIS region. - They beat Invictus Gaming, who defeated them in upper bracket. - They beat Secret, a superstar European team with some TI winners who knocked down OG. - Then they beat PSG.LGD, who also have TI winners and runner up in their roster, just a few hours after beating Secret. Team Spirit played 8 games that day. Along the way they beat the Tiny+Lycan combo done against them multiple times. PSG.LGD was undefeated with that combo, and it wouldn't be a stretch if Secret can make that work against Spirit because of how gifted their players are. I love OG's TI runs, but Team Spirit had a much better run Dota-wise.

Putin's marketing guy: Ayo we won at Dota Putin: Da fuq is a dota? Marketing guy: Just sign here sir. Thank you sir.

*"At the animajor they found that spark"* Yup this is definitely an anime

The NA vs EU debate seems so silly now the CIS is just better than both of them. Winning In Val CSGO and Dota they just seem to win everything

can we talk about the LGD curse losing to cinderella stories? LOL

Dota is such a masterpiece of game design that it can allow for massive comebacks and these kinds of stories with team synergy and player skill.

“The most prestigious tournament in ESports!” Yupppppppp!!!!

Man give credits to miposhka, he's been playing for a long time and now he's a TI champ♥️

Majority of us f*cked up in the prediction bracket. And I'm not even mad, I'm actually super impressed.

Epic. Dimitri's video was a nice recap, but I wanted a documentary-esque video too lmao.

Back here after they won again 2x TI champs team spirits

Inspirational, these guys are just my age but they played with so much passion. Congrats to team spirit, truly well deserved!

In game 5 against PSG LGD, Team spirit faced their opponents' ultimate strategy (Lycan + Tiny) which went unbeaten throughout the tournament (it was like 8-0 or smthng) except for that eventful final game. Amazing run. First TI was won by CIS legends NAVI and TI 10 made new CIS legends. It all went full circle.

as a longtime VP fan, it sucked watching my bois get eliminated but as a long time DotA fan it felt great to watch Miposhka finally raise the aegis. Legend says that LGD is still confident in their ability to handle Magnus to this day, wp TS and well deserved. Best TI in a while

I had the pleasure of watching this live. It was incredible. Almost got me back to playing dota.

All cinderella stories in Dota 2 are an absolute treat for the fans and community. This tops it all off in my book. Or perhaps, equal to OGs run. Unbelievable!

Collapse is really a magnus god, so incredible, he's done so many clutches

It was a crazy final, not a dota player but ive always loved ti

OG fluked their way to TI8. TEAM SPIRIT pranked their way to TI10

ts won TI 10, s1mple won a major. what an amazing year for cis region

TI is just magical no other esports tournament can beat the type of games and story lines it creates

Finally a video about Team Spirit, they were probably the best thing to happen in esports' 2021. Still thrilled for them

Collapse was a key player to think about during ban phase. Mars or Magnus for Collapse was such a hard game to play. Additionally, Yatoro played the 13 different heroes that TI and achieved 3 Rampages throughout the tournament. TORONTOTOKYO was the scariest mid laner that played Ember, Void, and Storm spirit. The three cores were absolutely great to watch.

what a year this was to have such great championships for esports: CS:GO , LOL , Dota2 and even young Valorant shout out and congrats to Team Spirit. thanks for covering this story.

this is why Dota 2 is the most competitive esport and its not even close

It’s been so long TI grand finals went to game 5. I stayed up late to watch and only slept for 2 hours for work. But damn it was worth it

I thought they were fluke. Got lucky against OG and VP. But I became a believer watching them beat Secret. They were literally anime protagonists .

They need to make esport story for each player of team spirit

GGs Team Spirit. I haven't played Dota in a long time since I mainly play League but I love the underdog stories we've been getting from TI these past couple of years.

TS is basically if TI7 Liquid and TI8 OG had a child.

This is why Riot needs to use double elimination bracket. Hopefully next year 🤔🤔🤔

2021 - Year of CIS gaming Valorant - Gambit Dota - Spirit CS GO - NAVI PGC - to be held now in nov but I'd say VP are one of the favourites going into it. Truly amazing to see how the region develops young and extremely talented players for now and the future

Legends has it that PSG.LGD is still trying to find a counter to Magnus.

What I like about Dota and TI is it's unpredictability. Anyone can win unlike other tournaments where you can almost predict who will be in the grand finals at the start of the tournament.

Been waiting for this 🔥

The Score Esport should make content about "WhY nO BaN maGnuS" 😂

I loved this video. I would love to see more reactions of the players during final games, but still, amazing.

And so the the legend of Collapse Magnus was born and every pub game had a Magnus in it.

I starting rooting for TS after they defeated OG. Also, I am very impressed by the hero pool of their position 1.

Since yatoro sacrificed his hair to the dota gods and they're all weebs. They literally won TI with the power of fucking god and anime on their side

I'm waiting for this literally checking your page everyday. tnx man

Even not playing or watching dota2 this made me smile 😁. What a cool story!! Keep it up the great quality :)

As a league player I always love watching these dota vids cause it really does seem like anyone has a chance unlike league

Everyone loves good underdog team that wins TI

TI is so big that even my hardcore league friends who never touched a single game of Dota, watches it every year, just to experience the feeling of it. That's why Dota is special, we might not be the latest moba out there, but every moba fan wants to watch TI every year.

we need a sequel!! the nobodies are now at absolute peak at their games

Cant wait for Truesight 🤘🤘🤘

Team Spirit literally started and ended the TI main event.

Collapse's Solo Feature should be coined as - The Greatest Offlane Performance in TI History

They lost 3 and 4 game In the grandfinal of the qualifiers because they wanted to lastpick Collapse's hero, but all heroes from his pool were banned at this stage. In the last game, TS firstpicked Mars and from there, nothing could stop them

everyone who truly understood the game knew how good they were before ti

Yatoro showing everyone why hero pool is important

This is why I love eSports so much. From Stomps to Cinderella stories. It's insane.

During their series vs Fanatic I told my team I would get a dota related tatoo if they won TI. Watching them gave me the same vibe as OG Ti8.

I’m so happy to see Russian win. I’m also from Tuva same as Torontotokyo. Also I would prefer Eastern European not CIS. We might not look European but we definitely are.

I don't watch DOTA except for TI... I started cause of OG's first run. Love these kind of stories.

This team never failed me to entertain since Animajor and OGA PIT when they go against LGD and lose 3-1 and on TI no one really believed them to win the TI10 because you know they're new and underdogs and yeah, they got their revenge on LGD 3-2 on Grandfinals

Love these TI dota vids. Thanks score

When did the Cinderella story turns into an anime story.

Not a fluke collapse was literally beating them with 3 heroes

TI does not disappoint, every year is an epic roller coaster, manga authors only dream that they can write as good as TI every year

I don't understand anything about Dota but I love these kind of story of Underdogs

The game 5 was so heart pumping when PSG.LGD is not calling GG coz they know the backdoor protection will pop and it did and TS respectfully back outside their base coz tiny and lycan is alive and have a deadly combo, that was the Dota gods aura on PSG. LGD.

Crazy how LGD keeps giving them the Mag. There's absolutely no reason to risk it. 😬

Team Spirit is doing well in the Antwerp Major too Even if they don't win they've made it into the top 4 which is great

I like how Team Spirit's opponents in the lower bracket actually progressively gets stronger like an actual anime arc. -) Fnatic (SEA qualifier winner, and the qualifier itself is really competitive in that region) -) Fucking OG -) VP (Who actually looks really strong this year) -) IG (The one that knocks Team Spirit down to lower brackets) -) Team Secret (Arguably the strongest Western EU team in that tournament) -) PSG.LGD (Before the grand finals, they played 23 games, and they only lost TWICE. In the grand finals, they even destroyed Spirit in game 3 and 4 after finding a counter to Collapse's Magnus.)

U can call OG ti8 run a fluke all u want...but this wasn't a fluke...they scratched and clawed their way from the lower bracket...convincingly defeating all the top teams like og, vp, ig, secret and lgd...infact in the final game of gf they defeated lgd at their best draft...they didn't just beat the lycan tiny combo they destroyed it

I hope to keep seeing PSG.LGD get wrecked on TIs in the future as well.

Thats why Dota is The MAXIMUM SKILL Esport, everything can work and ohhh God they crushed the Beastcoast's Upper bracket chances i hope great sucess from SA Dota for next dpc season

man ti wouldve been so great if there was a crowd for it, it just felt really different compared to the past years

Confessions of a league player: dotas TI stories are way better then any league finals other then maybe tpa.

Team Spirit having Wings Gaming vibes in 2016.

Everyone who dislikes this video lost their bets because of Team Spirit and their crazy TI run

Whats more surprising is how strong some individual performances looked from them myself included no one noticed. One they started to get the formula going they became nightmarish to deal with.

I remember watching one of their first tournaments as Yellow Submarine. Great team, great story and good on them!

Make a video on FranzJ

The biggest underdog story i have ever seen in esports history.

Kudos to their run through TI10 and winning it all.

Now I need a 3hr+ episode of True Sight for this.

Finally, a dota 2 content from this channel

Damn so many underdog Storys in Esport this year, im loving it :D

thanks for the video men. keep it up!

I was waiting for this since their win at the The International