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CampingCarl posted:I vaguely remember people talking about Tobi trying to block other studios from getting events or some other anti-competitive but I'm not sure. Tobi has bosses, you might be thinking about them. I mean, if he worked for himself, he wouldn't live in Berlin because he bitches about the place frequently. He's not in the position LD is with BTS. He's said once or twice that he supports people being able to alternative cast his events personally, because "if you have to be the only person casting to get viewers, you aren't doing a good job." But tournament organizers don't see it that way, particularly the MLG and DailyMotion tournaments do not want to see some guy casting it on Twitch, since trying to break Twitch's near-monopoly on streaming is arguably the point of the tournament from a business level. Zyori got struck with that. He did his own little cast of SL7 (which went fine) and then tried to do Champions League, which got him a nastygram from ZeroGravity. Then he went to BTS and it's been flames ever since. Ambivalent posted:James also flamed and dismissed Tobi relentlessly at Dreamhack and at the TI4 EU Hub, and not in a 'haha, I'm being a bit of a bastard' sort of way. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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Wasn't Tobi acting like a bit of a creeper during EU Hub as well? THis Na'Vi/EG game is real good.
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Jan 31, 2015 08:59
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Universe is so good.
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Jan 31, 2015 09:03
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IcePhoenix posted:Wasn't Tobi acting like a bit of a creeper during EU Hub as well? I'm not sure I like the necro pick here. EG has a lot of utility but if one part doesn't work the whole thing falls apart. Edit: Like that, welp.
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Jan 31, 2015 09:05
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The reign of darkness is over. Dazzle MVP on this day of the defeated EG.
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Jan 31, 2015 09:07
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Ambivalent posted:Doesn't mean a thing. This was actually painful to watch. James was merciless.
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Jan 31, 2015 09:13
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TI4 revenge being taken by Big God against Newbee. Unusual wisp pick, though.
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Craptacular! posted:TI4 revenge being taken by Big God against Newbee. Unusual wisp pick, though. Yeah it is funny, Burning, Lanm and ROTK all teams that had their dreams trampled by Newbee... And Xiao8 who was on that Newbee team getting to show them that like 'whatever, I don't even need you guys, I made a better team just stacking with my friends'.
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Jan 31, 2015 09:19
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I love Big God and the players but I feel kinda bad for the teams that bootcamped really hard for this tournament, only to get stomped anyways by a casual friendstack.
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Jan 31, 2015 09:24
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IncendiaC posted:I love Big God and the players but I feel kinda bad for the teams that bootcamped really hard for this tournament, only to get stomped anyways by a casual friendstack. lol if you think Big God did not practice hard for a $2.5m tournament
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IncendiaC posted:I love Big God and the players but I feel kinda bad for the teams that bootcamped really hard for this tournament, only to get stomped anyways by a casual friendstack. Worth it to get to see some of the best players playing basically for fun with their friends who are also some of the best players. It is basically All-Star Best Friends Gang. One of my favorite things about baseball is how the stats and memories people have root the present day performances so much in the context of baseball as a larger continuity. Remembering folks like Merlini or Burning who were the greatest players of DotA 1 gives it that sort of continuity baseball has. But whereas in baseball, you're never going to have like Mike Trout randomly match up against Satchel Paige for a friendly, we can see Universe queue into a pub and see him get rolled by YaphetS's Shadowfiend, and I think that is really cool. Disclaimer: I am a massive nerd. Elyv posted:lol if you think Big God did not practice hard for a $2.5m tournament They formed 4 weeks ago as a stunt for i-League, then joined the DAC qualifiers. How 'hard' they practiced in the past four weeks, amidst playing all those DAC Quals and i League matches is anyone's guess. Ambivalent fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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It's BO1. Getting stomped by anyone means shrugged shoulders. It's only when you get stomped by the friendstack and the team with communication issues and the team that plays really poorly that things become a concern. LGD and IG might have boot camped, but they don't look like it. Newbee sure as hell doesn't look practiced, and they're facing HR next. I think if they lose there it's time to throw in the towel? Between Secret's streak and being so far in the negatives, the highest they can get by now is what, sixth? Elyv posted:lol if you think Big God did not practice hard for a $2.5m tournament Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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NewBee have to win every single game from here on out to even have a chance of making it to the main event don't they?
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Jan 31, 2015 09:34
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I think the top 12 advance, though 9-12 start in the loser bracket
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Craptacular! posted:They're on a self made team precisely because their wives won't let them play Dota for 12 hour days like Chinese orgs demand. Or at least that's the case with Lanm, supposedly Xiao8 will be back full time on some other team after this reshuffle. I suspect that their wives are going to be more understanding for a short-term commitment for prize pool of that magnitude. Even if it's not 12 hours a day, I would still consider something like 7-8 hours a day heavy practice.
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IncendiaC posted:I love Big God and the players but I feel kinda bad for the teams that bootcamped really hard for this tournament, only to get stomped anyways by a casual friendstack.
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Jan 31, 2015 09:42
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Craptacular! posted:He plays real music instead of EDM. Deal breaker. Just quoting this because I don't know if it's ironic or not.
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Jan 31, 2015 09:48
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Idiootti posted:Just quoting this because I don't know if it's ironic or not. Its not but thats also a good reason to quote it
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Jan 31, 2015 09:51
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Idiootti posted:Just quoting this because I don't know if it's ironic or not. I guess everyone plays the same five freely licensed songs now, but I watch Draskyl's stream a lot and at least 90% of his playlist I unironically enjoy. I'm also so old that I can count my age by adding up some of the players coming and going from EG lately.
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Jan 31, 2015 09:59
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Good servers.
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Jan 31, 2015 10:36
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Drunk Canuck posted:Good servers.  at the Chinese admin's explanation according to KOTLguy - 'the net wrong please wait'
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Jan 31, 2015 10:38
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Yo can we talk about how bad ld is at bubble trouble almost worse than abandoning all goons
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Jan 31, 2015 10:51
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I just spent the downtime building this so I guess it wasn't a total loss
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Jan 31, 2015 10:58
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Vici game finished in under the lenght of the pause
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Ambivalent posted:GD and BTS both hate Tobi too. http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/2rz9ri/ama_im_james_2gd_harding_answering_questions/cnky6d9 Totally dude.
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TheRat posted:http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/2rz9ri/ama_im_james_2gd_harding_answering_questions/cnky6d9 Pretty sure you can find LD making the same sort of post on Reddit.
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Jan 31, 2015 11:50
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Difference is that LD is known for always being wrong, while James is known for always saying exactly what he thinks.
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you're right, my bad, James loves Tobi and respects him as a professional
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is there a multicast for this because I want to watch all three games in the next set
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synsun casts are pretty good
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IcePhoenix posted:is there a multicast for this because I want to watch all three games in the next set Not really but you can multitwitch.
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Ojetor posted:Not really but you can multitwitch. you are good people, thanks
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VG with the Archers strat against Na'vi.
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Jan 31, 2015 13:20
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no mirana & clinkz doesn't count
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Jan 31, 2015 13:31
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That iG / CDEC game sure was an exciting one.
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Jan 31, 2015 13:34
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Hahaha both games going on just had like eight players each drop simultaneously.
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Jan 31, 2015 13:52
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Well iceiceice just carried that game on his flaming feathery back
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Secret just slowly dissecting Newbee all game is impressive to watch. e; oh man what a puppey pause IcePhoenix fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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It's fifty minutes and you have a Bristleback and a Razor vs a Medusa. Secret, man, don't do this. Edit: Refresher Axe?
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Hey I have an idea let's run at Medusa while standing in Macropyre.
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