Team Falcons defeated BetBoom Team for the second time in as many days on Sunday to win the grand final at DreamLeague Season 22.
Team Falcons followed up their 2-1 win over BetBoom Team in the upper-bracket final on Saturday with a sweep of their best-of-five grand final. Team Falcons sandwiched 46- and 59-minute wins on red around a 60-minute win on green in the grand final.
BetBoom Team seized a 2-0 win over Xtreme Gaming in the lower-bracket final on Sunday to set up the rematch. They recorded a 44-minute win on green and a 38-minute win on red.
Team Falcons, however, didn’t miss a beat in the grand final and pocketed 4,200 ESL Pro Tour points and $300,000 for their first-place finish. BetBoom Team picked up 3,500 points and $175,000 for their second-place performance.
Slovak Oliver “skiter” Lepko provided a dominant performance in the grand final for Team Falcons. He recorded a 2-2-9 kill-death-assist ratio in the first map, 10-4-13 in the second and 13-7-14 in the third.
DreamLeague Season 22 began with 16 top Dota 2 teams from around the world competing for shares of the $1 million prize pool. Eight teams advanced out of Group Stage 1.
Group Stage 2 featured one round robin of the top eight teams, and matches were best-of-three.
DreamLeague Season 22 prize pool (money, ESL Pro Tour points)
1. $300,000, 4,200 points — Team Falcons
2. $175,000, 3,500 — BetBoom Team
3. $120,000, 2,800 — Xtreme Gaming
4. $85,000, 2,240 — Team Spirit
5. $52,500, 1,680 — Gaimin Gladiators
6. $47,500, 1,400 — OG
7. $42,500, 840 — Shopify Rebellion
8. $37,500, 560 — Aurora
9-10. $25,000, 350 — Virtus.pro, Tundra Esports
11-12. $20,000, 175 — Azure Ray, Team Secret
13-14. $15,000, 98 — HEROIC, Team Liquid
15-16. $10,000, 42 — G2.iG, 1win
–Field Level Media