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24 July 2016

Day two sees Bravado Gaming in the final and White Rabbit Gaming take on Aperture Gaming in last semi of DGL Masters Dota 2 tournament

In day two of the Telkom DGL Dota 2 Masters tournament being held this weekend in Sandton, there were no surprises as the last teams advanced.
In the first match of the day Aperture Gaming took on Xperts @ Total Chaos who went down 2-0. Aperture Gaming advance to the last semi-final to be played Sunday morning.
Later on in the day Veneration E-Sports lost 2-0 to White Rabbit Gaming who now take on Aperture in the last semi-final.

In the first semi-final Bravado Gaming beat Carbon eSports 2-0 to secure their spot in the final to be played at 15h00 on Sunday. They wait to see who they will take on between White Rabbit Gaming and Aperture Gaming.

After the match between Veneration E-Sports and White Rabbit Gaming the winning team captain had this to say: ”Veneration Gaming has a lot of potential and spirit, and they were a fun team to play. We look forward to playing them again in a tournament. Now we’re focusing on tomorrow’s match against Aperture Gaming, we’ve met many times before and it’s going to be a tight match.” – Ryan “ChiDoWi” Lancaster.

“We faced a lot of obstacles coming into this match and definitely were the underdogs. I took up the captain title 4 days ago, and we’ve gone through a lot of roster changes in the past two weeks. We need to get a solid team and work on our synchronisation, but we look forward to facing White Rabbit again in another match,” says Jeffrey EmperoR.G6” Fung, captain of Veneration E-Sports.

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