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PRO DOTA 2: THE INTERNATIONAL 2016 EDITION Dota Crew Chat Thread: here What is Dota 2? Dota 2 is a popular free-to-play action RTS developed by Valve Software based on a custom map for Warcraft III. It features 5v5 competitive multiplayer with each player controlling a different hero chosen from a roster of 111, each with four or more unique abilities that allow them to move around the map, damage or disable opponents, or accomplish any other number of weird and wacky maneuvers. The objective of each team is to destroy a number of defensive buildings on the opposing side and ultimately destroy the enemy’s Ancient. What is Pro Dota 2? Dota has a robust esports scene, with near-constant events occurring throughout the year with a wide range of prize pools and prestige, ranging from online-only competitive series to invitational LANs. In 2015, Valve creted the Majors, three prestigious tournaments that were held in Frankfurt, Shanghai, and Manila, as the lead-up to the biggest tournament of the year, The International. These events are the pinnacle of the pro Dota scene and feature the very best teams from around the world competing for millions of dollars. Pro teams are structured around each player taking a role that very broadly denotes what kind of play is expected from them, with one player serving as captain (often, but not always, the one responsible for drafting the team’s heroes). These roles are carry, midlaner, offlaner, farming support, and hard support (some videos on these here). Teams generally consist of players from the same geographic region (for Dota, these are the Americas, China, Europe, or Southeast Asia) and are divisionally organized using those regions as well. What is The International 2016? Once a year since 2011, Valve has hosted The International, the biggest tournament in the Dota scene by far. The 2016 International (TI6) will be held from August 8 - 13 2016 at KeyArena in Seattle and will feature the sixteen best teams in the world competing for an escalating prize pool that currently sits at over $18 million USD. Who’s Competing At TI6? OG  1 - Miracle, 2 - N0tail, 3- Moonmeander, 4 - Cr1t, 5 - Fly 👑 Stands for Octagon Guernica. OG are a team driven by the power of friendship, dog-having, and krav maga. They won the Manila Major in June and are a red-hot property right now. Miracle might be the best single player in the game. Team Liquid  1 - MATUMBAMAN, 2 - FATA-, 3 - MinD_ContRoL, 4 - JerAx, 5 - KuroKy 👑 Liquid is a big umbrella esports organization whose Dota 2 team fell apart after the 2014 International. Last year they picked up 5Jungz, a squad of Europeans who have since put up some extremely promising results including second place at both the Manila and Shanghai Majors. Newbee  1 - Hao, 2 - Mu, 3 - kpii, 4 - Chuan, 5 - Kaka 👑 Originally hailed as the Chinese ‘dream team’, Newbee (the organization) won The International 2014 with a lineup that’s wildly different from the one they have today. Support player Chuan used to be a basketball player, while kpii is the only player to ever rise above the toxic morass of Australian Dota. LGD Gaming  1 - Agressif, 2 - Maybe, 3 - xiao8 👑, After the Chinese teams as a whole performed terribly at the Shanghai Major in March 2016, there was an enormous reshuffle in the Chinese Dota scene. Following that reshuffle, LGD Gaming found themselves stacked with great players, including power carry Agressif and legendary captain xiao8. They’ve had to replace 4-position September with their coach Banana on short notice after failing to secure a travel visa, so things are looking a bit dicey for them now! MVP Phoenix  1 - MP, 2 - QO, 3 - Forev, 4 - Febby, 5 - DuBu 👑 While Dota’s presence in Korea has dwindled recently, MVP Phoenix’s status as a direct invite to TI6 should indicate where they stand in terms of pro teams. Known for unconventional, entertaining play, MVP are fan favourites looking to make a real run at TI6’s grand prize. Natus Vincere  1 - Ditya Ra, 2 - Dendi, 3 - GeneRaL, 4 - SoNNeikO, 5 - Artstyle 👑 Probably the most popular Dota team in the world, Na’vi are a Ukrainian/Russian squad that have seen their fortunes soar after a rough reorganization in 2015. Midlaner Dendi is six for six on International attendance, all as part of Na’vi (they won in 2011) proving charm and humility are definitely the most important qualities in professional video games. Evil Geniuses  1 - Fear, 2 - SumaiL, 3 - UNiVeRsE, 4 - zai, 5 - ppd 👑 Despite winning The International 2015, Evil Geniuses were forced to play through the Americas region open qualifiers due to various shenanigans violating Valve’s roster lock policies. Fear is one of the most versatile players in Dota and has a huge pool of successful heroes, while UNiVeRsE is lauded as one of the best off-laners in the world. With four-fifths of their TI5-winning roster reassembled, EG have a real chance of becoming the first two-time TI winners. Wings Gaming  1 - Shadow, 2 - bLink, 3 - Faith_bian, 4 - Innocence 👑, 5 - iceice A Chinese team of extremely talented but relatively unknown players, Wings are pretty much in a three-way tie for ‘best team in China’ with Newbee and LGD. They’ve achieved this with a very different style of play from their rivals, though, and lean towards unorthodox drafts and exciting strategies. Wings Are Beautiful. Team Secret  1 - Arteezy, 2 - EternaLEnVy, 3 - BuLba, 4 - Puppey 👑, 5 - pieliedie Secret are a mixed Americas/European team and were forced to play through the EU open qualifiers by virtue of being the other side of the roster chicanery that claimed Evil Geniuses. When they’re on their game, they’re completely unstoppable. When they’re not: they’re a pure vein of weapons-grade schadenfreude. Either way, always hugely entertaining to watch, and boasts the most Canadians of any team at TI. TnC Gaming  1 - Raven, 2 - Kuku, 3 - Sam_H, 4 - eyyou, 5 - DeMoN 👑 Filipino Dota was in a tough spot. Their clubhouse was in danger of being shut down by land developers, and the jerks from Neutral Camp had stolen all their girlfriends. That’s when Jimmy “DeMoN” Ho showed up - in a tight spot himself, after a judge told him he could either go to jail for petty theft, or do community service. Can DeMoN’s plan for one last great bikini Dota game cause all the other teams to accidentally fall into a swimming pool? TnC Gaming: in theatres this August! Digital Chaos  1 - Resolution, 2 - w33, 3 - Moo, 4 - MiSeRy 👑, 5 - Saksa The previous Digital Chaos roster exploded at the end of March 2016, with three players departing on short notice just ahead of roster locks. The new team was hastily assembled by packing several European players onto a North American team and going from there, with surprisingly positive results. Edging out Complexity in the Americas qualifiers to take the second guaranteed slot in the region, DC aren’t likely to go all the way at the main event, but anything can happen in exciting pro esport Dota 2! Vici Gaming Reborn  1 - Zyf, 2 - Nono, Another team formed just before the March roster lock, VG.R are several farm-team/pubstar players alongside relative veterans fy and DDC. Despite their relative newness they defeated the more-established Vici Gaming main team (along with former International winners IG and EHOME) during the Chinese qualifiers, showing there’s definitely some skill among the new squad. Alliance  1 - Loda, 2 - s4 👑, 3 - AdmiralBulldog, 4 - EGM, 5 - Akke Five Swedes with a huge fanbase, sponsored by organizations with neon-green logos, Alliance reassembled their TI3-winning lineup in hopes of another run at the grand prize in 2016. They’ve been turning in mostly-mediocre results in tournaments in the last six months, however, which probably speaks to just how strong the competition has gotten across the scene. Fnatic  1 - Mushi 👑, 2 - MidOne, 3 - Ohaiyo, 4 - DJ, 5 - 343 Southeast Asia’s best and brightest hope, Fnatic were surprisingly not given a direct invite to The International. After they were surprised by TNC in the qualifiers, they managed nonetheless to secure one of the direct spots and have put in a couple of decent performances at The Summit and Starseries LANs since then. Captain Mushi is a powerful farming carry, while MidOne has been turning heads as a great play-making mid. Expect Fnatic to go far at the main event! Wild Card Teams These four teams will play for the remaining two slots at the main event, so don’t get too attached to any of them (except probably EHOME). compLexity Gaming  1 - Chessie, 2 - Limmp, 3 - swindlemelonzz 👑, 4 - Zfreek, 5 - Handsken American Zfreek and his thieving bog goblin brother swindlemelonzz were forced to swallow their pride after a poor showing at TI5, bulking out the team with three talented Swedish players who have nevertheless failed to make compLexity a stand-out even among NA Dota. Will they rise above their record and escape the wild card or tilt even further? EHOME  1 - iceiceice, 2 - old chicken, 3 - eLeVeN, 4 - LaNm 👑, 5 - Fenrir After the TI5 runners-up put up a rough result at the Shanghai Major in March, EHOME reorganized, bringing in former ViCi Gaming teammates iceiceice and Fenrir. This admittedly did not help them overmuch, and they failed to qualify for several tournaments in 2016. That said, they’re still one of the favourites to make it out of the wild card, just based on pedigree of their players. Escape Gaming  1 - Era, 2 - qojqva, 3 - KheZu, 4 - YapzOr, 5 - syndereN 👑 Well-known caster and personality syndereN decided to try his hand again as a pro player in 2015 after a two-year hiatus. His first effort (Steak Gaming) faltered, but tried again with a new lineup under the name No Diggity. DiG worked out decently and have subsequently become sponsored by Escape Gaming, and they came within a hair’s breadth of securing a direct spot in TI6. That said, they can be shaky at the best of times, so it’s uncertain how they’ll fare in the wild card. Execration  1 - Nando, 2 - Abed 👑, 3 - RR, 4 - Tims, 5 - Kim0 Another Filipino team with by far the most metal name and logo. Easily the team I know the least about, since they play in a time zone that I generally can’t watch. If they make it through the wild card it’ll mean there’s two Filipino teams at TI6, which would be super impressive! Possibly they won’t even get the chance, though, due to visa shenanigans. Majuju fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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Okay! That Sounds Overwhelming! When Is This Happening Again? The schedule is as follows! August 2, 2016 - Wildcards - best of 3s, double-elimination, top two teams advance to group stage. August 3-5, 2016 - Group Stages - two groups of 8, round-robin 2-game sets, top four teams in each group go to upper bracket at main event, bottom four to lower bracket. August 8-13, 2016 - Main Event - one round of Bo1s for lower bracket, then Bo3s double-elimination from there on out. Full brackets can be viewed on Liquipedia and I'll try and keep them updated here too. Cool! How Do I Watch? You have a number of viewing options available to you for live games! Twitch Youtube DotaLive or Steam broadcasts will all be running concurrently when the games are up. For the finals, you might be able to attend a local pubstomp and meet some new nerd friends who you will summarily drop when you learn their MMR is (somehow!) lower than yours. Lastly if you're in Seattle and want to try and get into the main event on a lark, there are rush tickets for the midweek games potentially available, or a giant outdoor screen if you can't get those. What...What Is A Caster??? A miserable pile of memes and verbal diarrhea. OFFICIAL CASTER TIER RANKING:   MEME ZONE UNDER CONSTRUCTION             nahaz mafia freakout  Majuju fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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Quincy Smallvoice posted:fakeedit: also can you please just put the link to the general dota thread in the op lol done, also I just went looking for the vainglory thread as a joke but it's less than a page long and nobody's posted there since april
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Jul 26, 2016 16:12
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Radical posted:wheres the mozart picture??? the corresponding LD picture appears to be a broken img link but if you've got it saved someplace I'll use it when the talent's announced
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Jul 26, 2016 16:28
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IcePhoenix posted:The first TI was in 2011 whoops good catch! caster bios are due for the second post when I know who I have to express disdain towards specifically
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Jul 26, 2016 18:08
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Captain No-mates posted:I'm pretty sure they can just walk it in after CoL hired Nahaz and Execration are having visa issues. yeah when I was going over the dumb blurbs I wrote I had initially given ESC a much slimmer chance of getting through but after Starladder it's looking a whole lot rosier for syndereN and the boys also I'm seriously blown away by how lovely Valve are being re: information around the event, but it's not going to matter because they made $50 million off compendiums so who cares
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Jul 26, 2016 18:11
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Zurreco et al: Secret Shop preorders are apparently live now
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Jul 26, 2016 19:15
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I fuckin love cosmetics and even I think the razor and ogre ones cross a line
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Jul 26, 2016 22:56
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there's like a 20% chance that nahaz will lose it and actually shoot someone this year probably
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KnoxZone posted:It just won't be the same without Nahaz in it. whoa I didn't even check the site, looks like no zyori either??? dreams do come true e: hallelujah what a lovely day Event Dates August 2, 2016 - Wildcards August 3-5, 2016 - Group Stages August 8-13, 2016 - Main Event Format Wildcards: 4 Teams Double Elimination. Top 2 teams advance to Group Stages. Group Stage: 2 groups of 8 teams. Top 4 from each group advance to Upper Bracket of Main Event. Bottom 4 to Lower Bracket. Main Event: 16 Teams. Double Elimination Bracket. Majuju fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jul 26, 2016 |
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Xtanstic posted:Nice. New thread in time for top TI shitposting. Not enough dumb memes in the OP but hopefully that will get rectified. Also lacking top shitposting list of shame from previous thread and caster tiers but overall thank you Majuju for doing what none of us wanted to do.. yeah it's a work in progress, I intend to keep adding to it caster tier list: they're all poo poo
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Luna Was Here posted:By the time August 23rd or whenever the funk the event end comes around I will have finished giving valve nearly $400 is the aegis prop cool? I was considering springing for it since the secret shop merch looks very underwhelming this year (and I wouldn't be able to get it for a few months probably even)
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Jul 27, 2016 16:05
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more like dICK posted:I can't look right now, are preorder available for will -call tickets? I've seen a handful of posts complaining that international/will-call people can't preorder unfortunately  also if someone gets a chance to check, is the cowl hoodie one-size-fits-all? and is it specifically women's sizing?
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Jul 27, 2016 17:50
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I got a gold kuroky card 
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Jul 28, 2016 01:46
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added the caster tiers to the second post along with the top 16
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Jul 28, 2016 02:44
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drunken officeparty posted:link the dota crew thread it's the first loving line in the OP after the title you illiterate shitheel
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Jul 28, 2016 03:08
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this is what I ended up with for a fantasy team, I feel pretty good about it
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Jul 28, 2016 16:12
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gently caress I got a gold PPD card with +20% points for GPM come on valve
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Jul 29, 2016 01:47
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Zo posted:The wildcard group might still be cancelled right? Or is vgr gonna play 4v5 lol vgr's not in the wildcard
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Jul 29, 2016 02:36
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stringball posted:Gonna post the nahaz spergout again, why would mafia do something like this to someone, implying nahaz wasn't a sperger already he's a perfect fit for CoL
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Jul 29, 2016 03:48
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Ambivalent posted:reminder that synderen has come in last place at like 4 out of 5 TIs true but he's always made it to the main event at least
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Jul 29, 2016 05:35
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Luna Was Here posted:the last three years hasnt it been like impossible for a team to not make it to main stage TI3 if you won the west/east qualifier you were 14/15 slot and then there was a wildcard. TI4 was the weird "only eight teams will make it to main stage" brackets, with all the hotel games for VIPs and poo poo. TI5 is same format as this year's where every team plays at least a Bo1 at Key.
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Jul 29, 2016 06:50
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YASP TI6 predictions I'm personally gonna just scattershot OG, Liquid, and Wings players randomly around the predictions because this poo poo is impossible to figure out.
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Jul 29, 2016 15:52
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god I hope jeremy lin comes back for interviews and stuff this year
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Jul 29, 2016 16:41
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going back through old threads, can't believe there was a point when I thought death prophet was more fun to watch than invoker smdh
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Jul 29, 2016 20:52
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it's not that he dislikes unions necessarily, it's that he's an insufferable pedant https://twitter.com/NahazDota/status/703200517984555008
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Jul 30, 2016 18:23
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never mind that what redeye is mentioning here probably would be the to-the-T definition of a labour union, a group of talent organized to collectively protect their interests in things like employment standards, working conditions, wages, contracts, etc.
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Jul 30, 2016 18:28
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2GD's arena shooter is up on Kickstarter.
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Jul 31, 2016 18:03
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emdash posted:SEA teams always have some weird ideas about names 
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Aug 1, 2016 23:51
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youtube is up
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yapzor with the pre-game banana e: youtube has no sound hahaha
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Aug 2, 2016 17:11
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pyrion can you really gently caress up those cushions like go out tonight and eat a ton of baked beans and just ruin them for the furniture rental place
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Bardeh posted:With no sound hahaha it still has sound for the graphics flying in
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Brinner posted:TI looking a lot more casual this year it's wild cards, the suits are still getting tailored for next week Khagan posted:He did the brunt of it but Sheever had some stuff on there too. I can see Flax and/or Slacks taking over that role this year. wasn't Twitch Chat Reporter a consequence of James getting burned out on being a Legitimate Host and just wanting to goof around? flax and slacks are on the official bill for TI6 so I can't really see them doing it
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lion cub really, synderen is a panda or a lemming or something else that dies often and meaninglessly
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and yes I know the disney thing was made up I am talking about the green-haired psygnosis characters JEEZ
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Aug 2, 2016 17:34
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emdash posted:oh nvm they are doing a giant retarded bracket for four teams. sorry, i thought this was a simple affair 
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Aug 2, 2016 17:52
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TRIPLE LANE VIEW
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Aug 2, 2016 17:55
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oh man do they have the in-game music turned on, why
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morph linkens feels like it's gonna be good for exactly one attempted roar gank and then it's going to start stinking up the joint, idk
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