Team Spirit won their second Dota 2 The International title, after outclassing Gaimin Gladiators 3-0 in the grand finals of this year's championship.
The champions from 2021 failed to defend the title last year, but that's why they won it back this year, and in a dominant way. With only two losses during the entire tournament, Team Spirit became the record holder at The International tournaments with a 90.5% winning percentage, a record held by Na'Vi since the first season with a 90% winning percentage.
Team Spirit defeated Virtus.pro 2-1 at the start of the winner's play-off, then with the same result Team Spirit, and what is really impressive is that after that they did not lose a single game in the final of the winner's play-off where they beat LGD Gaming and then the very the grand finale.
They fought for the title against the most successful Dota 2 team this year. Gaimin Gladiators won the Lima Major, the DreamLiga both seasons, the ESL One Berlin Major and the Bali Major, but they did not manage to reach the most precious title.
Spirit's carry player Illya "Yatoro" Mulyarchuk found himself in the center of attention in the finals, not only because he came on stage with a new haircut, more precisely a zero haircut, but because of his incredibly good play throughout the match. He opened the match playing Weaver with an 18-2-10 record and as much as 47% of the total damage done by Team Spirit.
In the second game he dominated as Faceless Void, a hero we didn't get to see many times during the tournament, and in the third game it looked like GG would be able to close the gap and lead us into a more uncertain ending of the finals, but then the rest of Spirit comes into play, and in those moments, the support team of Myroslav "Mira" Kolpakov in Tusk stood out in particular.
Spirit is also the first team after OG who managed to win two The International titles, and if they stay together and continue to play like this, it remains to be seen whether anyone will be able to stop them from repeating the success and thus writing a new page in the history of Dota 2 esports.
