Liquid, Falcons eke out opening wins at DreamLeague Season 27

Field Level Media|published: Thu 11th December, 03:07 2025

A backlit keyboard is part of the gear online video game streamer Jordan Woodruff uses in his Gilbert home. Jordan Woodruff

Team Liquid and Team Falcons were the only sides that pulled out three-map wins on Wednesday as the DreamLeague Season 27 got underway.

The $1 million Dota 2 event features 24 teams starting in a Swiss System group stage. All matches are best-of-three, with the top eight teams advancing to the double-elimination playoffs, which run from Dec. 17-21.

Playoff matches will all be best-of-three ahead of the best-of-five grand final.

The championship team will receive $200,000 in prize money and a $30,000 club reward. The runner-up side will get $125,000 and a $25,000 club reward.

On Wednesday, Team Nemesis opened with a 61-minute win on red before Team Liquid prevailed in 30 minutes on red. Liquid took the decisive third map in 33 minutes on green.

Poland's Michal "Nisha" Jankowski compiled a 30/8/52 kill-death-assist ratio for Team Liquid. Thailand's Nuengnara "23savage" Teeramahanon wound up at 20/17/22 for Team Nemesis.

Team Falcons sandwiched 31-minute and 25-minute victories on red around a 37-minute loss on red against Passion UA. Jordan's Ammar "ATF" Al-Assaf amassed a 21/7/18 K-D-A ratio for Team Falcons. Volodymyr "Moonlight" Bilous ended up at 18/11/19 for all-Ukrainian Passion UA.

In other Wednesday action:

--OG def. TeamTidebound 2-0

--Team Spirit def. 1w Team 2-0

--BetBoom Team def. Runa Team 2-0

--Team Yandex def. Virtus.pro 2-0

--Natus Vincere def. Aurora Gaming 2-0

--MOUZ def. Pipsqueak+4 2-0

--Xtreme Gaming def. Nigma Galaxy 2-0

--HEROIC def. Yakult Brothers 2-0

--PARIVISION def. GamerLegion 2-0

--Tundra Esports def. Amaru Gaming 2-0

Dream League Season 27 group standings