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[W1SSY]

OK dudes who wants to make a team of 2K scrubs to clinch the open qualifier spot at TI5 and then blow everyone away with our unique pub meta strategies.

I have some legit strats the pros would never expect.

Spoiler

double jungle ursa & lifestealer op

 

[DrPizza]

I have some legit strats the pros would never expect.

Spoiler

double jungle ursa & lifestealer op

Gonna follow that up with the classic

Spoiler

five carry mid and feed

. They'll never see it coming.

I also have a surefire way to avoid courier snipes; don't buy the courier until 15 minutes. Unbeatable.

 

[Quesa]

this is not my patch. Good thing, too, since I probably should stop playing before my hands quit working completely

 

[W1SSY]

Gonna follow that up with the classic

Spoiler

five carry mid and feed

. They'll never see it coming.

I also have a surefire way to avoid courier snipes; don't buy the courier until 15 minutes. Unbeatable.

Or the ever popular purchase multiple couriers. Use them as bait and travel in a pack making it hard to find the real courier.

 

[Drkirby]

Time for team gaf to show how much the NA region sucks?

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

1024 team open qualifiers, damn.

 

[JC Sera]

omfg is that a timed release

 

[twobear]

this is not my patch. Good thing, too, since I probably should stop playing before my hands quit working completely

it's just a really bad patch. no skill involved, just throw yourselves into their towers and whoever gets the highest score wins. very close to giving up on dota.

 

[Big Dog]

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

Vici Gaming is the first invited team

A countdown will end at 9:30 pm EST to announce the second team

Also really interesting to see Valve jump on the FaceIt bandwagon and hold their Open Qualifier through FaceIt's organization.

 

[Mohasus]

oh wow what a surprise

Vici Gaming

 

[JC Sera]

well what a fucking surprise

 

[Sibylus]

New thread!

Smells like the old thread.

 

[Gav47]

Wow, the open qualifier is pretty cool, a cinderella story would be amazing.

 

[DivineRage002]

That's it guys, I did it.

13 losses in a row. Full page of losses.

This should be an achievement.

 

[Anuxinamoon]

EG has to be second. I called VG as the first one in my skype community

 

[W1SSY]

I imagine a known team wins the open qualifier for most regions.

 

[FlutterPuffs]

So what's this about Undying being seriously good in this patch.

Can someone pass me a link to know how and why.

 

[sleverfunk]

That's it guys, I did it.

13 losses in a row. Full page of losses.

This should be an achievement.

Did you pick undying?

 

[Drkirby]

So what's this about Undying being seriously good in this patch.

Can someone pass me a link to know how and why.

You can't use physical damage spells to kill zombies now, you have to attack them.

 

[FlutterPuffs]

You can't use physical damage spells to kill zombies now, you have to attack them.

oh my.

What's a good build for him.

 

[DrPizza]

Or the ever popular purchase multiple couriers. Use them as bait and travel in a pack making it hard to find the real courier.

They'll never attack our ancient if there's a courier train circling it.

 

[twobear]

oh my.

What's a good build for him.

honestly you could build anything and win as undying rn. 6.84 is truly a joke.

 

[call_kotaku]

It's sort of cool that theoretically anybody can play in the International, even if it's in a qualifier for a qualifier.

We EVO now

 

[W1SSY]

They'll never attack our ancient if there's a courier train circling it.

Who needs wards when we can place couriers all over the map?

 

[docbon]

grave chill + solar crest + new gargoyles is absolutely disgusting.jpg

 

[Hylian7]

I had Vici in my predictions, check that box.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

I accidentally added my emoticons in the wrong order... why can't we customize the order they appear in?

 

[JC Sera]

honestly you could build anything and win as undying rn. 6.84 is truly a joke.

thats hyperbole

Spoiler

divine has an 80% winrate on him Recipe: Wraith Band has a 100%
Recipe: Wraith Band better than divine confirmed

jeez what another surprise
Secret, IG, C9 or Newbie next?

 

[Emerson]

I accidentally added my emoticons in the wrong order... why can't we customize the order they appear in?

They're gonna have to change it eventually. There's already a nearly unmanageable number of them and it'll only get worse.

 

[Haunted]

OPEN SPOT

THAT'S HUGE

Should be fun if it's actually completely unknown teams that make it to the regional qualifiers... where they will get crushed.

 

[Sianos]

Feels like it's tower dive meta right now, heroes who can both dive deep for kills or defend against dives like Undying, Venomancer, Bristleback, etc. seem to be very effective.

I feel like Huskar might be good for this patch, I'm going to start practicing him and Slark.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

EG

...where are the surprises, these are safe picks lol

 

[Big Dog]

Ok so I didn't even have to refresh the page for EG to be shown. I'm sure someone with some working website knowledge could dig around on the page and find the list of all 8 invites. The teams are already in the page.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

Okay I have to literally wait out the entire thing to find out whether my predictions were right, the first 6/7 teams are super obvious.

ALTHOUGH, Wouldn't the current champ be the first one to be revealed?

 

[twobear]

Feels like it's tower dive meta right now, heroes who can both dive deep for kills or defend against dives like Undying, Venomancer, Bristleback, etc. seem to be very effective.

I feel like Huskar might be good for this patch, I'm going to start practicing him and Slark.

i feel like 'tower dive' implies a level of skill that's missing in the 'press A, click enemy fountain' play that is 6.84's current bread and butter strategy.

 

[Qvoth]

open qualifiers for NA EU SEA? wow i did not expect that

 

[JC Sera]

Feels like it's tower dive meta right now, heroes who can both dive deep for kills or defend against dives like Undying, Venomancer, Bristleback, etc. seem to be very effective.

I feel like Huskar might be good for this patch, I'm going to start practicing him and Slark.

Played a game with Undying, Huskar, WD, Enigma with Guardian Greaves
the sustain was so stupidly good

 

[Kalnos]

Ok so I didn't even have to refresh the page for EG to be shown. I'm sure someone with some working website knowledge could dig around on the page and find the list of all 8 invites. The teams are already in the page.

You can easily have a page connected to a database that informs the page that it was updated, the page then asks for the new data. If they want to hide it, they can.

 

[TheCrow]

Okay I have to literally wait out the entire thing to find out whether my predictions were right, the first 6/7 teams are super obvious.

ALTHOUGH, Wouldn't the current champ be the first one to be revealed?

Thats what I was thinking. Maybe Newbee won't get invited after all?

 

[Drkirby]

I accidentally added my emoticons in the wrong order... why can't we customize the order they appear in?

The order matters? I thought that automatically appeared in the order they were added to the game.

 

[Sianos]

i feel like 'tower dive' implies a level of skill that's missing in the 'press A, click enemy fountain' play that is 6.84's current bread and butter strategy.

I use tower dive as more of a pejorative, not a ton of critical thinking in hurling your spells in the general direction of the enemy until they either leave or die.

Played a game with Undying, Huskar, WD, Enigma with Guardian Greaves
the sustain was so stupidly good

Ooh, I really like this idea. Maybe run Juggernaut too for the healing ward, but build him more like the old early fighting Juggernaut?

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Ok so I didn't even have to refresh the page for EG to be shown. I'm sure someone with some working website knowledge could dig around on the page and find the list of all 8 invites. The teams are already in the page.

It's just Javascript throwing a new div in the list from some function I can't find, the names aren't there yet.

The order matters? I thought that automatically appeared in the order they were added to the game.

Do they?

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

Do the invited teams already know whether they're invited or not? It'd be pretty cruel if they have to stare at that page to find out. They probably know but have been told to keep it quiet.

 

[Mohasus]

I still believe in Na'vi getting invited.

 

[TUSR]

I still believe in Na'vi getting invited.

dondo not going to TI would be a hit for valve

 

[Jay Shadow]

I still believe in Na'vi getting invited.

I wouldn't be shocked. Gabe can't spell Dota without Dendi.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

I still believe in Na'vi getting invited.

Obviously.

An International without Dendi? Not happening.

 

[TheCrow]

dondo not going to TI would be a hit for valve

I'm sure they would fly him out anyway.

 

[dafinezt]

The fuck is the point of releasing them one by one? lol

 

[Haunted]

Do the invited teams already know whether they're invited or not? It'd be pretty cruel if they have to stare at that page to find out. They probably know but have been told to keep it quiet.

I'm sure the managers have gotten the invites already along with a note that they're voided if they break NDA asking nicely to keep it under wraps.