Gaimin Gladiators and Quest Esports played the longest map in history at The Bali Major 2023 Dota 2 championship which lasted more than two hours. Quest Esports was the victor.
Quest managed to break their opponent's throne in 136 minutes and 40 seconds. The first map of the confrontation between Gaimin Gladiators and Quest Esports has already become the longest map in the history of Dota 2 majors. The previous record was held by Digital Chaos vs Natus Vincere (91 minutes).
Moreover, the game became the longest map in LAN tournaments. The previous record holder was Team Empire vs IG.Vitality at The International 7 (128 minutes and 8 seconds). It was also one of the top 3 longest maps in Dota 2 history. Empire and Vega played longer (140 minutes) in TI7 qualifiers, and Sfz vs Cloud9 played for 200 minutes.
At first, Anton dyrachyo Shkredov's squad had the advantage and easily handled the opponent's heroes. Quest fought back, but soon lost all the barracks at their base. After that, the Gladiators started to have problems, as the team of Ammar ATF Al-Assaf defended well on the high ground.
After 100 minutes, almost all players had more than six artifacts, a max level, and a pile of gold to spare. In addition, the cybersportsmen killed 11 Roshans, and the heroes had a few Divine Rapier each.
Recall that Team Spirit drew with Tundra Esports and Team Aster on the first day of play of the major, while 9 Pandas lost to Gaimin Gladiators. In turn, BetBoom Team split points with Azure Ray.
The major will continue on June 30. The game day will start at 05:00 GMT+3 with Blacklist International vs beastcoast, Tundra Esports vs Shopify Rebellion, Invictus Gaming vs Team Spirit and Execration vs Team Liquid. After that there will be three more rounds of matches.
The Bali Major 2023 takes place from June 29 to July 9 at LAN in Bali, Indonesia. 18 teams from around the world are playing for $500,000 in prize money and the 3,500 DPC points needed to qualify for The International 12.