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emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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shane is going to TI!

. . . well, i'm excited

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emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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how do you get more cards other than recycling existing ones?

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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emdash posted:

how do you get more cards other than recycling existing ones?

answered my own question, they are like $.32 on the market if you like burning your money

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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Quincy Smallvoice posted:

can we trade these?

yeah

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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drunken officeparty posted:

Does that dude work at Valve

he posts on reddit a lot

no, and I think he's actually in India oddly enough

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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Holo posted:

envy will use all of his items at the correct times

Shocking, if true

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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SEA teams always have some weird ideas about names

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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Capitalist mentioned something on Twitter about improv classes w/the other talent

Wonder if valve set that up

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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http://twitch.tv/dota2ti_2 is up

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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http://twitch.tv/dota2ti is up now

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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qojqva ate wayto. i can live with that as headcanon

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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for reasons i can only guess, both games are going on at once. http://twitch.tv/dota2ti_2 for EHOME vs execration
http://twitch.tv/dota2ti for COL vs Esc

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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Kainser posted:

It's because there only is one day put aside for the wild cards.

it's 9:45am, there is no fathomable way they could not finish three best of 3s in ~12 hours. but whatever

oh nvm they are doing a giant retarded bracket for four teams. sorry, i thought this was a simple affair

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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how me a frog posted:

Where are you getting three? I'm counting five. That's 5 x 3 x ~45 / 60 = 11.25 hours, assuming all series go to three series and assuming average game length is 45 minutes, but at the same time this is ignoring possible delays and technical difficulites as well as assuming one game starts as soon as the last ends, no time for drafting either. One thing that is certain is that they cannot delay the actual tournament because whoops we didn't get done with the wildcard games.

way too slow posting, dude

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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i thought xctn was the crappy baby team

i was wrong

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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team execration aka Team The Act of Cursing or Denouncing

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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El Golden Goose posted:

Arteezy can't get a break can he

goons are insanely salty about rtz so you probably won't find any people who want to give him a break here

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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hah, i never realized that about clock/SF

gonna be a lot of bitchy people on reddit about that one

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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phase dagon puck, dang

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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i'm gonna lose my blink count prediction because dragon lance is so broken, gently caress everything

e: nvm, saved!

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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well seeya COL

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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holy poo poo that meepo getting away with sub-100 health

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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hopefully COL now realize there is no potential with this lineup

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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grandgrant has to eat a pair of (uncooked) socks at TI now

(he bet that escape wouldn't make it)

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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For today, I prioritized the stars of the teams playing against Escape. If they get stomped in 15 mins over and over this may not pay off too well

Also, I don't think the same strat will necessarily pay off with EHOME, so going to re-examine tomorrow's picks

(I was out of town and missed doing wild card picks before that, so I have 0 points :shobon:)

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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I'm an EG idiot so i'll be watching them all day. Second priority is OG

Secret and MVP/fnatic in the latter part of the day

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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Geight posted:

When Charlie says that the EG squad really has a fire under their rear end, is it just because they all want to win TI, or because any of them could be kicked if their performance is seen as not optimal regardless of whether they win or lose?

if the latter were the case, it would dampen their motivation, not increase it

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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please just start sticking gold stars on each other's faces

e: EG going Io, how irregular

emdash fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Aug 3, 2016

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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Geight posted:

I would think that at least some of them are motivated to stay on EG, but you're probably right.

On another note, does anyone know if you have to leave dota2 open to that specific match to collect on battle predictions, or can I swing through all four games and slam in some predictions?

you can cycle through all four games

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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EG.Huskar

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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ElNarez posted:

it's kinda bullshit that there's only one achievement for 10 predictions for the whole of the group stage

in part because I've gotten my 10 during the wildcard by the time Complexity crashed and burned

some of us have mental problems and fail at predictions all the time :saddowns:

(but yeah there should be 10-30-45 at least)

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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IcePhoenix posted:

Are these just standard Bo2s or do you get a bonus point for a sweep?

A win (2-0) provides 2 points.
A draw (1-1) provides 1 point.
A loss (0-2) provides 0 points.

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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this Wings Oracle is the only Oracle i've ever been truly impressed with. dude is doing everything

e: of course then he dies and they teamwipe

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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Angrymantium posted:

How does the format here work? Any team that loses the firs Bo3's is out? I mean EG was going to exit at a low place anyway but having to go up against one of the favorites to win TI blows

this is the group stage, all teams play all other teams in their group bo2 (round robin). that determines the bracket seeding for the main event

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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:psyduck: but with pudge

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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OG lost to LGD after leading like 22-5, drat

e: and i have Maybe as a fantasy player today :getin:

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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real talk, if it takes the arcana vote to expand the number of heroes that have cosmetics, it's more worthy than voting for any hero that has 982365986235 cosmetics already

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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casting the predictions instead of the actual game is :allears:

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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i don't think a $35 skin can significantly shift the pick rate of one of the least popular heroes. but I'd be glad to be proven wrong, more people learning to play more/more difficult heroes is good

. . . hey wait a minute, none of you actually play dota anyway :colbert:

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emdash
Oct 19, 2003

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holy poo poo, TNC is bad

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