Game 4 of the final was paused for nearly two hours and even had to start before the organizers decided to postpone the match.

Dota 2's Dreamleague 25 final between DOTA 2 between Team Spirit and Tundra Esports was delayed to Tuesday (March 4) after many members of Spirit were affected by a DDOS attack, making them unable to continue playing.

The DDOS attack occurred in game 4 of the final, when Spirit was leading 2-1 in the series and seemed to be about to win the final. However, a technical pause took place in the 18th minute when two Denis players "Larl" Sigitov and Magomed "Collapse" Khalilovv of Spirit were lost from the game. This incident lasted nearly two hours when both of them were constantly unable to reconnect.

The organizers have tried to completely redo game 4, but the captain of Spirit, Yaroslav "Miposhka" Nairenov, also encountered the same problem.

During the long pausing period, Team Spirit posted statement on their official Twitter accounts (formerly Twitter), saying that "Collapse's Steam account and Larl were attacked DDOS." The team also said that this attack occurred "due to a hole in Steam/Dota 2."

Collapse also issued a statement on their official telegram channel, saying that the DDOS attacks occurred in the way "someone spent invitations to the group, chat messages, etc. to 100 times per second, causing Dota to collapse due to the number of required required."

DDOS (DDOS Denial-of-Service) is a form of cyber attack, in which the attacker flooded the server with internet traffic, making the system or network resources unable to access. DDOS attack is not new in the Esports Dota 2 village, when it was a problem from the early days of the professional arena. Bad guys often use this method to interfere in the results of matches, and many other purposes.

Due to the unable to continue the final, the Dreamleague Season 25, ESL Organizing Committee announced that game 4 would be delayed to the third. ESL does not confirm whether the series will continue from the state before pausing or there will be another again.