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Original_Z posted:Hey man, he cheated us out of a good finals by completely figuring out VG's draft and developing a strategy to counter it and lead his team to TI victory. What kind of captain does that? PPD, if I remember correctly 
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xiao8 should've taken a page out of ti3 finals and 322'd the first 2 games to make it more exciting
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I too hate it when a team destined for a championship shows weakness by successfully showing consistent dominating gameplay.
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Drunk Canuck posted:I too hate it when a team destined for a championship shows weakness by successfully showing consistent dominating gameplay. consistent dominating gameplay like their group stage.
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Kild posted:consistent dominating gameplay like their group stage. This. All of you fuckers forgot about ti4 as a whole.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:This. I remember it I ate a really good pizza and had some good moscow mules
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Nox has a new custom game out that includes item bans during the draft, pre-hero pick/ban phase. Probably OP, but also allows teams to ban out lovely builds du jour. Odds that makes it to 7.xx CM? <0.5%?
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TI4 was really good until the grand finals, then it was a ritual execution that was tough to watch
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Zurreco posted:Nox has a new custom game out that includes item bans during the draft, pre-hero pick/ban phase. Probably OP, but also allows teams to ban out lovely builds du jour. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 0%
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Zurreco posted:Nox has a new custom game out that includes item bans during the draft, pre-hero pick/ban phase. Probably OP, but also allows teams to ban out lovely builds du jour. Stop posting about item bans god dammit!!!
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I hope Sunsfan does an item ban tournament. I'm voting boots, bottle, tangos and salves.
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No Safe Word posted:TI4 was really good until the grand finals, then it was a ritual execution that was tough to watch This is the correct TI4 recollection. Also the weird bracket that led to Newbee qualifying for the grand finals many days in advance after stinking up the joint in the group stages. Zurreco posted:Nox has a new custom game out that includes item bans during the draft, pre-hero pick/ban phase. Probably OP, but also allows teams to ban out lovely builds du jour. I like the idea of custom games but trying to play any is an exercise in frustration. Makes me sad.
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Cape Cod Crab Chip posted:Stop posting about item bans god dammit!!! I'll never stop hoping for ways to get around cheesy builds, sorry.
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Where'd the regular, non-pro dota 2 thread go?
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jon joe posted:Where'd the regular, non-pro dota 2 thread go? No one plays dota 2 anymore. Didn't you miss the discussion we had a week or so ago? STATS DONT LIE.
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jon joe posted:Where'd the regular, non-pro dota 2 thread go? if you can't find it you don't need to see it.
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Yo if you get Popoviched its your own drat fault get on his level
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TI4 was a great tournament overall and Newbee was in my opinion one of the more 'deserving' TI winners, it's just that VG had a really one-note playstyle that tournament and for whatever reason no team but Newbee figured it out so you had a really lovely final. Hate on DK and EG instead for being stomped by a dumb push strat The Upper Bracket final between EG and Newbee was pretty good iirc so you can just see that as the real final e; oh yeah, and the format was very bad. Only 8 teams at the main event and the entire upper bracket was played on day 1 so you knew that Newbee was top 2 straight away. Kainser fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Jan 11, 2017 |
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Talking about TI4 made me look up this old classic https://gfycat.com/QuarterlyNextHarvestmouse
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If you cheer for Chinese teams and aren't from China you're the worst.
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Wezlar posted:If you cheer for Chinese teams and aren't from China you're the worst. What kind of an idiot doesn't cheer for Wings?
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Kainser posted:Talking about TI4 made me look up this old classic Oh you just reminded me of this TI4 comic. The correct TI4 ending: 
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Kainser posted:TI4 was a great tournament overall and Newbee was in my opinion one of the more 'deserving' TI winners, it's just that VG had a really one-note playstyle that tournament and for whatever reason no team but Newbee figured it out so you had a really lovely final. Hate on DK and EG instead for being stomped by a dumb push strat I went to TI4 and it was great. Except the finals was a let down, just like everyone says. But yeah, basically VG was doing the unthinkable at TI4 -- they were slow sieging teams to death while being even or sometimes slightly behind. In Doto then, you generally needed around 10k gold/xp advantage (and maybe aegis) to safely slow siege in competitive. Everyone knew they were going to do it, and no one could stop it. They crushed everyone besides Newbee, who had them figured out the entire tournament. After they 2-0'd DK, THAT DK TEAM WITH EVERYONE ON IT, you knew they were unstoppable. EG had that game where PPD was on alch support and they won somehow late, it was exciting but they couldn't hang on and lost 2-1 -- that was the last great moment of TI4. It was crazy because EG loses game 1 in under 20. Wins game 2 around 45mins, and then loses game 3 in under 20mins again. They just couldn't stop the push. In the finals I think this is what happened: they baited the Sylar's NP pick and with that dictated the playstyle VG was going to use. They already had a very predictable style -- with NP drafted nothing was uncertain. Every single game in the final 3 (all losses) they took NP and played that threatening push style. NP makes it work so well when he can unexpectedly be with the team and create a creep wave. None of this really matters because of extremely effective counterplay and drafts NP becomes a tough, mobile, range creep. Rhasta's wards and Brewmaster's "I can't die in the midgame" ult really played to their advantage. I remember going to the after party and asking Akke why no one ever picked KotL against these 12-15min deathball push lineups and he said he didn't really know and Alliance might've tried it had they made the bracket. Sups fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jan 11, 2017 |
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EG got third at TI4 with Mason playing carry holy poo poo it's like I wiped that memory from my mind.
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mikeraskol posted:EG got third at TI4 with Mason playing carry holy poo poo it's like I wiped that memory from my mind.
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DC got second and Moo had a hero pool of 1.5.
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Mason is the greatest carry player NA has ever seen.
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Watching Zai's stream is making me look forward to Monkey getting nerfed to poo poo since people have now figured out how to play it
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more like dICK posted:DC got second and Moo had a hero pool of 1.5. what was the .5, the 1 is clearly timber
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Elyv posted:what was the .5, the 1 is clearly timber Beast master. He actually played lots heroes on the main stage, but was such a level above on timber
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In two years of PUB gaming, I've never seen a Beastmaster, I'm not sure they exist, I think I'm getting gaslit
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WESG finally starting on https://www.twitch.tv/dotastarladder_en BIg ol reaction to a first pick Meepo for Xcalibur on Horde.
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Ladderface posted:WESG finally starting on https://www.twitch.tv/dotastarladder_en Well you've convinced me to turn it on
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This Meepo is pretty good at farming while his team gets slaughtered.
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Dear eSports deity, I never thought I'd see Resolution/Dendi vs the Peruvian Taunt-Spammers. Please let this game not suck.
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Meanwhile on the BTS stream we have: "Next : Newbee.B vs TBD - DAC2017 Pre Qualifiers w/ @Xyclopzz @LysanderXonora" Shame I can't stay up and watch either of these clusterfucks
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Craptacular! posted:Dear eSports deity, what team is unknown back as and when are they playing?
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KOTARO HAYAMA schooling dudes who have a combined 15 trips to TI between them.Booyah- posted:what team is unknown back as and when are they playing? Unknown became Infamous and still has Kotaro (mnz), Accel, and usually has Greedy but he's not in China with them for this tournament. Ztok was banned from Valve events but is at this thing on Dilecom. Atun (blankspace/tauntspam/itemdrop) is not at this event and presently the Jimmy Ho of Peru (i.e. rotating teams that keep collapsing) Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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