Sikle on EWC: This is the first tournament since PGL Wallachia Season 7 where Dire is leading as a side

Team Spirit Dota 2 roster analyst Denis sikle Lerman shared statistics on the sides’ win rates at the Esports World Cup 2026. He published the post in his personal Telegram channel.

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This is the first tournament since PGL Wallachia Season 7 where Dire are leading as a side. Purely random and doesn’t mean anything yet. For example, very often one team wins a coin and chooses the pick stage, while the other is left to choose a side - it pokes at the random one and loses/wins. There are many factors. We need to look at the dynamics at the end of the year, and also take into account the landscape changes in the patches, because in all the patches where the tormentor was somehow touched, that side was in the lead. Actually, that’s why Radiant began to experience wild swings, especially if the teams paid direct attention to this. By the way, in 2026 the win rate of the sides was exactly 50/50, and in 2025 Radiant were in the lead by only 0.19%

Esports World Cup 2026 for Dota 2 was held from July 7 to 19 in Paris, France. The participants competed for a prize fund of $2 million. PARIVISION became the champion, defeating BETBOOM Team in the final with a score of 3:1.