HAMBURG, Germany — The constellations have at last fulfilled their prophecy, as Team Falcons traced the final star of their name upon Dota’s grandest sky.
The aerial kings reached for the highest star by denying all the Xtreme Gaming could summon and enduring a five-game war to seize their primordial Aegis of Immortal at The International 14 in Barclays Arena on Monday (MNL time).
Falcons marched into the radiant base after Skiter’s Medusa grabbed the aegis, skipping no beat as they got past the Chinese squad’s barracks for the championship point in the deciding game.
The opening minutes were even until Falcons secured first blood on Earthshaker and later punished Ame’s Juggernaut despite his early Omnislash kill.
With Medusa farming steadily, Falcons took Roshan twice and snowballed to a massive 22,000 gold lead by the 45-minute mark.
A final midlane push at 54 minutes saw Medusa spearhead the siege, forcing XG to call “gg” as Falcons sealed the 3-2 series win.
Falcons stormed through the playoffs unbeaten, cruising the upper bracket and carrying momentum into the Grand Final.
It was also the third time Ame suffered a full-series finals heartbreak, having first fallen to OG in 2018 and again to Team Spirit in 2021 before Falcons sealed his latest defeat at TI14.
Falcons took home $1,151,210, or 42.5% of the TI14 prize pool, while runner-up Xtreme Gaming earned $352,184, or 13%, of the total $2,708,795 purse.
Before clashing with Falcons, Xtreme Gaming first had to survive a Lower Bracket gauntlet earlier in the day, fending off Parivision in a tense 2-1 fashion.
The road to the next Aegis now points east, as Shanghai gears up to host The International 15 in August 2026, bringing Dota’s grandest spectacle back to one of esports’ most electric arenas.
