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[Sibylus]

Bo, please. First you dream about tentacles, now you're talking about ketchup Doritos.

Apparently they were Canada only? I would have thought that was an American or another weird country flavour.

also: was not expecting EHOME to get the shit kicked out of them by Korea. I do wonder if Korea winning a major LAN would cause more teams to pop up.

They were. And they were delicious. Found a bag in the wild yesterday.

I would prefer that to Valve's seeming indifference to their own game. I would rather think "I get why you did that, but I disagree" than "Why did you do this?"

I hate the style of balance changes a la Riot or Blizzard where each change comes with a "canonical" justification and predicted outcome. Much rather changes a la Valve, where changes are dropped and the community gets to decide how workable they are and in what contexts and compositions without Valve getting their finger in there, "you need to do this". Fuck over-reaching prescriptivism.

 

[Hylian7]

rubick stealing some good spells

Wat. How...

 

[Monochromaticx]

Wat. How...

perfect world server doing perfect world server things

 

[Hylian7]

perfect world server doing perfect world server things

So then just a visual thing, he doesn't actually have backdoor somehow?

 

[Monochromaticx]

So then just a visual thing, he doesn't actually have backdoor somehow?

yeah just a visual bug.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

So I guess the Perfect World lag issues are just straight up unsolvable for those outside of China? Same issues since Perfect World came into existence.

 

[Shuggananas]

perfect world are a joke but they make tons of chinese dollaridoos so nobody cares

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

Dunno what EHOME can really do if CDEC just focuses on smaller pickoffs and split pushing. I love playing Phoenix but he's real weak against split pushing because you can never chase and kill someone like NP or QoP by yourself.

Intersting to see a non Firespirits phoenix. How can they possibly defend against early towerp ushes against 5 decent to great rightclickers with increased damage from drow without even slowing down the attack speed.

 

[Shuggananas]

just realized manilla and shanghai are on the same time zone

we europeans are gonna get fucked twice ROFL

 

[Monochromaticx]

ti too is not very eu friendly

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

For having a 5 tower advantage the networht advantage of CDEC sure isn't particularly large.

Spec's gonna have a really early radiance if he contineus like this and if he got that CDEC's heroes are all screwed at this level of farm.

edit:

Yeh this somehow already looks near unwinnable for CDEC. If they can somehow kill EHOME once and there's few or no buybacks available, sure, they can push raxes in no time. But that's not gonna happen.

 

[Monochromaticx]

specter is online boys

 

[yarden24]

ti too is not very eu friendly

Good thing Europe doesn't have the biggest player base then.

 

[Shuggananas]

TI changing its location every year would be nice I think
Rotate US/Europe/China so that more people can attend at some point. Spending 2k on a trip to seattle ain't fun. And make the spring major in the US for consistency.

Philippines are close enough to China anyway

 

[Monochromaticx]

wtf is this shit ehome?
wasted chrono
egg used, no follow up
golems dropped after egg killed
refresher wasted before the first golems were dropped
golems not microed to help specter

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

CDEC somehow manages to take some of the teamfights but the BKBs are getting lower on CDECs side and the Spec destroyed them just now WITH BKBs up and he just finishes a heart.

Jesus how is that Spectre so stupidly far ahead in farm. (I know how but still!)

 

[Sigismundo]

TI changing its location every year would be nice I think
Rotate US/Europe/China so that more people can attend at some point. Spending 2k on a trip to seattle ain't fun. And make the spring major in the US for consistency.

Philippines are close enough to China anyway

I want a Melbourne Major. That could work for SEA (judging by the number of SEA players on the Australian server)

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

Yup, that's way superior teamfight alright.

 

[Monochromaticx]

wut

 

[kionedrik]

It's impossible to watch this thing live in Euroland so we're at the mercy of the VODs...

What were the must-see series today?

 

[twobear]

ugh supernova is sf [ i c o n i c ]

i feel sorry for the other lame heroes that don't have ults as awesome (i.e. all of them)

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

ti too is not very eu friendly

It could be worse, games start at 6 pm but end a bit too late. China is worst case scenario for Europe, sadly I won't be able to catch anything live since I'm busy(and it's in China).

 

[G.ZZZ]

I have the worst hangover and i'm watching a group of nerds talking on the internet.

I'll probably puke on the keyboard soon.

 

[Shuggananas]

I have the worst hangover and i'm watching a group of nerds talking on the internet.

I'll probably puke on the keyboard soon.

Weakling

 

[Sigismundo]

I have the worst hangover and i'm watching a group of nerds talking on the internet.

I'll probably puke on the keyboard soon.

Because of the hangover or because of the nerds or both?

 

[G.ZZZ]

Because of the hangover or because of the nerds or both?

Sinergistic effects.

 

[H13]

just realized manilla and shanghai are on the same time zone

we europeans are gonna get fucked twice ROFL

now u feel what we feel for the past 5 years

 

[Shuggananas]

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

There's a major going on EleGiggle

Edit: Is cyborg matt there?

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

A pl actually maxing doppelganger second instead of getting stats.

 

[Monochromaticx]

3-14 at 13 minutes
why does envy have iron talon?

 

[Shuggananas]

A pl actually maxing doppelganger second instead of getting stats.

showing ee how it's done

3-14 at 13 minutes
why does envy have iron talon?

because gyro struggles at killing isolated big creeps

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

These production values...

 

[Monochromaticx]

leshrac picked. huh.

 

[kionedrik]

core cow...

edit: MVP drafts are really smart. Get something that can push a couple of towers fast, boost your team's cashflow from that, get 1 item ahead and steamroll the opponent.

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

L m a o.

Secret Doto!

 

[abunai]

rofl that was hilarious, envy why would you stay in

 

[Monochromaticx]

G G
envy tossing pie to his death rofl

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

That wisp toss...what?

Secret is top tier comedy.

 

[Twookie]

these tosses, man

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

Woah, what's happening. Secret making the comeback?

 

[abunai]

secret playing as a team for once

nvm envy is still on the team r.i.p

 

[Sibylus]

Woah, what's happening. Secret making the comeback?

Envy itemizing a bit more for the midgame is helping. MVP's bringing the fight to them.

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

Envy itemizing a bit more for the midgame is helping. MVP's bringing the fight to them.

MVP was overdoing it a bit pushing HG when their PL went for early bots and didn't have a fighting item yet.

In other news, Envy's fucking it all up yet again.

 

[Monochromaticx]

yeah mvp should have taken the mid tier 2 before going hg. worked out in the end anyway
they played so well around their draft.

 

[abunai]

1hr delay to next match apparently, 'health issues'

 

[Mifec]

1hr delay to next match apparently, 'health issues'

can't watch then gym>dota

 

[Monochromaticx]

1hr delay to next match apparently, 'health issues'

Chinese tournaments wont be complete without health issues. part of the package.

 

[Imp the Dimp]

Chinese tournaments wont be complete without health issues. part of the package.

I was in Shanghai three weeks ago and the smog made me sick within 3 days. I can totally relate to that player with health issues especially if he's from a place with generally good air.

 

[abunai]

One time I sneezed after walking around in shanghai and the resultant tissue was mostly black from soot or dirt or whatever
If I get some form of cancer later in life, I blame China.