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16.03.2026
Team Yandex have claimed the PGL Wallachia Season 7 title after defeating Team Liquid 3-0 in Monday's grand final in Bucharest, Romania. The result caps a remarkable nine days of competition that saw a shortened roster produce the standout performance of the entire event.
The victory is Yandex's second Tier 1 title, following their triumph at DreamLeague Season 27 last December. With $300,000 secured from the $1,000,000 prize pool, the Eastern European roster have firmly established themselves as genuine championship contenders heading deeper into 2026.

Liquid entered the playoffs as the safest pick in the field after finishing the Swiss group stage with a perfect 3-0 record, sitting at the top of the Dota 2 tier list of consistent performers across the opening week. Yandex had a more turbulent path. A round one sweep at the hands of HEROIC put them immediately under pressure, but three consecutive victories over Team Falcons and PARIVISION restored momentum and confirmed their playoff spot at 3-1.
The group stage delivered several notable exits. Xtreme Gaming, Natus Vincere, and PARIVISION all failed to progress, with BetBoom's commanding series against NaVi drawing particular attention. Vici Gaming, BetBoom, and Tundra rounded out the final playoff qualifiers on the last day of group play.

In the upper bracket, Yandex immediately turned heads by sweeping Liquid 2-0 in the semifinals, upending the pre-tournament projections. They followed that with another sweep of BetBoom in the upper bracket final to secure their place in the grand final a full day ahead of the championship round.
Liquid, dropped to the lower bracket, fought back through HEROIC and then Team Spirit before a grinding 225-minute lower bracket final against BetBoom. That marathon series left the Western European squad visibly drained ahead of the rematch, and Yandex capitalised without mercy.
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The pre-tournament narrative around Yandex centred on the absence of Evgeniy "Noticed" Ignatenko, kept out by visa issues alongside several other notable names including Tundra's Pure, Falcons' Malr1ne, and Aurora's Nightfall. Stand-in Dmitry "DM" Dorokhin was handed an enormous responsibility, and the result will have recalibrated the output of every Dota 2 betting site that had factored the roster disruption as a weakness.

In the clinching game of the grand final, DM closed out his stand-in stint with 10 kills and 26 assists against four deaths on Bristleback. He was flanked by CHIRA_JUNIOR's dominant Invoker display of 13 kills and 22 assists against five deaths, and Watson's near-flawless Luna performance of 8 kills and 25 assists against just one death. Yandex's 42-21 kill total in the 56-minute decider told the full story of a Liquid side running on fumes from their lower bracket marathon.
Liquid's consolation is $175,000 and the knowledge that they pushed harder than any other team in the bracket. Eight games across two final-day matches, totalling nearly eight hours of play, is a punishing load for any roster to carry into a grand final.
With PGL Wallachia Season 7 now in the books, the question is whether Yandex can maintain this level of performance once Noticed returns to the roster. The Eastern European scene has a strong argument to make for top billing in the global picture, and the coming months will be the proving ground.
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Keep an eye on the next major Dota 2 events through Gocore and use Wallachia as your benchmark for prediction accuracy heading into the next tournament cycle.
ChaiViz
16.03.2026
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