From a one percent chance to toppling champs: BOOM Esports eliminate Team Spirit at TI11
BOOM Esports came into The International 2022 playoffs after overcoming a 99.6 percent chance of elimination, and now they have kept their run alive by completing the world’s biggest upset and sending Team Spirit home in the first round.
When looking at the group stage performance, this actually doesn’t look like much since Spirit struggled to pull themselves together and were locked into the lower bracket and an elimination game. Despite that, they still had a good regular season and entered as the defending TI champions, with many fans picking them to complete the first full-lower bracket run to a TI victory in Dota history.