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WALL OF SHAME

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time 4 dota

 

[Schweinehund]

Let's rock!!!

 

[Archie]

Who's ready for Abaddon tomorrow?

 

[Artanisix]

fun fact: shira posted over 1000 eecrying.gifs in the other thread

that's why he has so many posts

 

[Ianan]

Who's ready for Abaddon tomorrow?

WHAT!? For real?

 

[Kade]

Hi.

 

[JakkuFurosu]

Jesus OT6 already.

Welp im in

 

[Wunder]

C'MON NA'VI

 

[The Technomancer]

Oh god i have a problem

 

[Acinixys]

Woohoo page 1

Damn shira is the spam master

 

[Boken]

made it to the wall of shame

i am more dota than most of you

I play Crystal Maiden all the time.

whats your WR on CM?

 

[Gav47]

WHAT!? For real?

Doubt it

 

[la_briola]

yay

 

[KingKong]

it should be 2-2 in alienware cup, crazy that LGD doesnt get anything for winning upper bracket

 

[tnaden]

Woo, buying laptop soon so I can play EVERYWHERE.

I might have a problem.

 

[Pureauthor]

Pandas are awesome.

 

[Bilix]

Who's ready for Legion Commander tomorrow?

Fixed.

 

[Freakinchair]

This thread sucks already. Thanks milkman

 

[BraXzy]

Yay new thread! How do you find out how many posts you got in the previous one?

 

[BeesEight]

C'MON NA'VI

I'm not even sure how they dropped that.

Well, Alchemist, obviously but at least we get another game out of this.

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

Hello new thread. Feels good.

*stretches legs*

 

[Artanisix]

This thread sucks already. Thanks milkman

You suck booty, go to your dumb bagged milk thread already

 

[Keylime]

Subbing to the new thread.

Abbadon being added to the game is going to be make quite happy...

 

[Jarnet87]

Welp this draft wraps up game 4 for LGD, great collapse by Na'Vi.

 

[Wunder]

Beastmaster? :[

 

[BeesEight]

Welp this draft wraps up game 4 for LGD, great collapse by Na'Vi.

This has to be one of the greediest drafts I've seen.

 

[Boken]

TBH, no advantage for the winners bracket champion is kinda dumb

 

[Artanisix]

I don't like winners bracket advantage for Moba games. It's fine for fighting games where things happen so fast, but for these long, drawn-out games, I want them fighting to the goddamn end.

 

[Meteorain]

I love the chair reference under "feel like this guy?". Fits so well.

 

[GalacticSushiman]

Rock on NAVI!

 

[Wunder]

Wow.

 

[Boken]

I don't like winners bracket advantage for Moba games. It's fine for fighting games where things happen so fast, but for these long, drawn-out games, I want them fighting to the goddamn end.

its the fact that losers champion gets two shots at championship finals while winners champion gets only one

you either have to do:
-two sets if losers win
-or winners advantage (start 1-0)

To make that fair

 

[TommyT]

Yay new thread!

 

[GordonHalfman]

This double elimination and then suddenly single elimination when you get to grand finals makes no sense. If it's a time issue then why don't they just do single elim.

 

[Dina]

In and in. Let's go 700 games played.

 

[Einbroch]

New thread, new hope. I'm gonna get back to 1:1 WLR.

 

[Wunder]

Maaaaaaaan

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

Eh, but you could say that the winner's bracket team has the innate advantage since they didn't lose. By default the loser's bracket winner is the "underdog" since they already lost a match. Giving a game advantage just compounds that. Not to mention having to play at least one extra set, which could be tiring in addition to being an extra instance where they reveal strategy.

It's going to be more interesting to the audience for an evenly matched grand finals, even if it's slightly less "fair" to the winner's bracket team. Especially if the games are closely balanced, it's a shame for someone to win a match sheerly due tournament structure.

 

[HK-47]

fun fact: shira posted over 1000 eecrying.gifs in the other thread

that's why he has so many posts

And it still hasn't caught on

 

[demented]

In on first page, dotaaaaa!

Also, play those 10 tutorial games if you want to test limits of your patience

 

[Artanisix]

Navi lol

 

[Keylime]

In on first page, dotaaaaa!

Also, play those 10 tutorial games if you want to test limits of your patience

If you play them, does it at least stop defaulting to the "Training" option when you select "Play" from the top menu? May be worth it...if so...

 

[HK-47]

Eh, but you could say that the winner's bracket team has the innate advantage since they didn't lose. By default the loser's bracket winner is the "underdog" since they already lost a match. Giving a game advantage just compounds that. Not to mention having to play at least one extra set, which could be tiring in addition to being an extra instance where they reveal strategy.

It's going to be more interesting to the audience for an evenly matched grand finals, even if it's slightly less "fair" to the winner's bracket team. Especially if the games are closely balanced, it's a shame for someone to win a match sheerly due tournament structure.

Just no. Turning it into single elimination hurts the winners bracket. It's no advantage.

 

[Aaron]

Navi was almost coming back there. Good thing they decided on multiple suicides.

 

[HK-47]

made it to the wall of shame

i am more dota than most of you



whats your WR on CM?

We are just more fun

 

[Wunder]

Please Na'vi ;;

 

[Finalow]

NaVi disband.

 

[Beardz]

500 hours and counting

 

[SteveWinwood]

I maintain you need to have 2 complete sets. Don't make it a bo5, make it one bo3 and if the winners lose, you play another bo3, then at most you have 6 games which isn't too crazy compared to the longest bo5.

 

[Aaron]

Dendi needs an even worse team to babysit. He's still doing too well.