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The International 2016 (Aug 3rd - 13th)

If DC want to go to the finals, they need a game like this to remind themselves that they aren't invincible. Will be interesting to see if they can keep their composure for game #3.
 
Next year just schedule a flight for Sunday. Plus you might want to stay for whatever they do after the game (like this orchestra set).
I would have done Sunday, but my hotel was just too expensive. Thought a 10 flight would be late enough. There are a few flights after so they might be able to get me on one.
 
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they didn't push hard enough early, if they had taken the t2s before 20 minutes they could have gotten enough of a lead to go high ground
 
they didn't push hard enough early, if they had taken the t2s before 20 minutes they could have gotten enough of a lead to go high ground

Yeah Jakiro has a huge mid-game presence and now it just doesn't look good for DC especially since they're letting Fear just have his way with things.
 
So the question is: can DC bounce back after losing the momentum?

Yes, they need to stop drafting joke heroes tho. Glad this went to 3 games. I'm ok with either team winning.
 
They team wiped them early but did nothing after, they should have pushed hard after.

I mean they had a 6 to 2 tower advantage and were looking at high ground. They lost some fights which discouraged them. Then they felt the Resolution Slark could just play his usual god-tier gameplay and carry them later. He could not.

Honestly, I thought he was going to carry them. ET + Sven + Medusa tanking too much for the rest of the DC cast.
 
Void had no items and died 25 times, Slark alone was definitely not enough damage.

Jakiro was useful, for the first 15 minutes. elegiggle
 
Argh, I hope DC can pull out game 3. Same TI winner two years in a row would be so boring. The fact the other 2 teams didn't even exist for TI5 makes such a good story.
 
Not too many times you can point to one play that turns the game, but that ppd grave on sumail turned that entire game, so clutch.
 
Zai on ET did more magic damage than w33 on jakiro that game.

Jak isn't picked to deal damage. He's picked to take towers. There's nothing good to build on him to make him a damage dealer outside of an aghs, which is just an awkward item on him. aether lens ain't shit. idk. if they were going to last-pick jakiro, i would have preferred a full-frontal push lineup with things like NP, Lycan. Chen and similar to go with Jakiro.

Argh, I hope DC can pull out game 3. Same TI winner two years in a row would be so boring. The fact the other 2 teams didn't even exist for TI5 makes such a good story.

that sounds like dumb reasoning. if the games are great and EG wins, what's the problem? the only thing that matters here is how good the games are.
 
Void had no items and died 25 times, Slark alone was definitely not enough damage.

Jakiro was useful, for the first 15 minutes. elegiggle
W33 fucked up by not building into damage. They should have realized they had no damage in chrono after the fight in dire jungle by the secret shop. Witch doctor needed an aghs too
 
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