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RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
VP would have stuck to the gimmick but Secret are cucks and couldnt stop banning RikIo. Now theyre going to get curbed.

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Mr. Unlucky
Nov 1, 2006

by R. Guyovich
they hosed it up for the very last game what weak poo poo

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009
Boo VP.

Sultan Tarquin
Jul 29, 2007

and what kind of world would it be? HUH?!
Why is mason here. Is he really on a team lmao.

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008

Sultan Tarquin posted:

Why is mason here. Is he really on a team lmao.

Mason owns

Quincy Smallvoice
Mar 18, 2006

Bitches leave

..a poo poo ton of fast food containers

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008
Support Sven hell yes

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

secret disband

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008
Goddamn secret got insanely baited by the Sven pick

Centzon Totochtin
Jan 2, 2009
this is a poor rear end snake

Zurreco
Dec 27, 2004

Cutty approves.
Support Sven and Aghs AM. VP are ruining the meta and icefrog is probably jerkin it to all of this balance

Majuju
Dec 30, 2006

I had a beer with Stephen Miller once and now I like him.
AM aghs is really good I thought?

ElNarez
Nov 4, 2009
So VP won the Summit with how many repeats exactly?

lamentable dustman
Apr 13, 2007

🏆🏆🏆

vp loving owns

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

ElNarez posted:

So VP won the Summit with how many repeats exactly?

four

Xtanstic
Nov 23, 2007


Jesus

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
How the heck is Icefrog going to figure out who to nerf now.

Majuju
Dec 30, 2006

I had a beer with Stephen Miller once and now I like him.
And they played five more games too hahaha

Take that puppey

Zurreco
Dec 27, 2004

Cutty approves.

Majuju posted:

AM aghs is really good I thought?

It's situationally good but AM gets starved for slots in the late late game which is where most people are going with an AM pick. Thankfully, this didn't go too late and the itemization countered a lot of important skills from Secret's draft.

funmanguy
Apr 20, 2006

What time is it?

Quincy Smallvoice posted:

..a poo poo ton of fast food containers

Lmao!

Zurreco
Dec 27, 2004

Cutty approves.
KOTLGuy is now officially going as "Dakota" now? :smith:

DNK
Sep 18, 2004

That's his name.

Zurreco
Dec 27, 2004

Cutty approves.

DNK posted:

That's his name.

Yeah, but we don't see SUNSFAN changing his name to Shannon, do we?

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
http://www.dota2.com/international/announcement/

Invites are out. VP, OG, IG, Newbee, EG, Liquid. No real surprises, though I thought NP or Odd might get one. China and SEA get 3 qualifier spots, NA and EU 2, CIS and SA 1.

e: I guess that's 18 teams this year, instead of 16.

e2: misposted the qualifier spots by region.

RealityWarCriminal fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Jun 19, 2017

Centzon Totochtin
Jan 2, 2009
I feel like SEA and China should have had 2 slots each and then have 2 wildcards for the rest? But I guess that'd be hard to organize with ping

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

That's an extremely eu-heavy invite + qualifier

Zurreco
Dec 27, 2004

Cutty approves.

Reality Winner posted:

No real surprises, though I thought NP or Odd might get one.

PO, sure, since they were runners up last year, but what have NP honestly done in the last year that other teams haven't done better?

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
Sorry, it's China and SEA 3, EU and NA 2, and CIS and SA 1 for qualifier spots. Corrected my post above.

That'll be 4 EU, 5 Chinese, 3 NA, 3 SEA, 2 CIS and 1 SA teams going to Seattle.

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
NP has looked head and shoulders above the rest of the non-EG NA chaff lately, even if they havent won anything. I admit this would have been a long shot.

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009
IG's really lucky to get that invite spot

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008
I don't think IG deserves the invite.

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH
NP, DC, and Odd (I keep thinking they went back to Europe) in a game of musical chairs for two seats.

Xtanstic
Nov 23, 2007

3 SEA seems like one slot too many but I guess I can't think where else I would allocate it.

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009

Xtanstic posted:

3 SEA seems like one slot too many but I guess I can't think where else I would allocate it.

Wildcard slot.

lamentable dustman
Apr 13, 2007

🏆🏆🏆

SEA getting 3 spots is weird, 3rd should of gone to CIS

Reslain
Apr 29, 2009
I wonder if people are still going to complain that the group stage doesn't mean anything now that the bottom team in each group are knocked out of the tournament?

McSharpie
Nov 11, 2005
Hotter than Garrison Keillor, but just a little bit.

The REAL Goobusters posted:

I don't think IG deserves the invite.
Valve prefer teams with big wins, iG definitely aren't top 6 based on their recent performance but they did win DAC and got top 4 in Kiev and that was probably more than enough for Valve.

See also Ad Finem/mousesports getting an invite to Kiev even though they didn't perform well after getting top 2 in Boston

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009

Reslain posted:

I wonder if people are still going to complain that the group stage doesn't mean anything now that the bottom team in each group are knocked out of the tournament?

gently caress that, I want to see all teams on the main stage at least once.

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008
16 teams will still make the main event

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Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH

Ragingsheep posted:

gently caress that, I want to see all teams on the main stage at least once.

Yeah, if you're going to haul a team out to Seattle let them stand on a big stage once if only just to lose. Don't do this bullshit "I gotta hope Team X throws to Team B so that my team isn't eliminated" thing.

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