they get paid through ads + hosting events (like TI/dreamleague)
also his parents are very rich
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they get paid through ads + hosting events (like TI/dreamleague)
also his parents are very rich
shira
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Einbroch?
his fantasy card team listing switched from "EG" to "Arizona ICED OUT BOYs" a few days ago. Fantasy leaks????
balladofwindfishes
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If he leaves, doesn't that mean EG is disqualified from the International?
I'm assuming they've probably been talking with Valve for quite a long time about the whole situation and considering that Mason has been playing with EG for the last 4-5 months, I don't think it's cut and dry. Valve invited teams with their current set of players, and Mason has technically been EG's 1 player for quite awhile now.
With EG being so cool about it all behind the scenes (i.e. Arteezy and ppd openly talking about TI, practicing, bootcamping and being evasive about the fear topic) makes it seem like they know their invite is secure and have been communicating with Valve.
Might be his wrist is just a minor problem now, but minor enough to hamper competitive play considerably. Not to mention him not playing for 4 months might be a bigger factor in his "rumored" withdrawal.
list of anbokr dota people's magazine gossip evidence:
*Fear tweeting shit about life sucking a month or so back
*Fear changing his in game name to "free agent fear" and "rock bottom" about a month ago
*Arteezy being dodgy about the Fear question everytime he's asked on stream
*1437 joking about leaking "a secret" on Arteezy stream, Arteezy immediately shutting him up
*later, 1437 jokingly bringing up Fear during a late night Arteezy stream, almost sarcastically saying, "Huh? So what's going on with fear buddy! You guys going to lose your invite, is he going to play." You could almost hear him winking, suggesting he knows something (while Arteezy was being dodgy as usual)
*Fear being dropped off EG fantasy team
*Fear being the only NA pro chillin at bts/casting instead of practicing with his team or continuing his "road to recovery"
*this latest Fear "announcement"
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Idk what this is. Clarification - he just mentioned something on stream about news coming soon- the idea that he's not playing is speculation - I'm sure there's a reddit thread being created if it means anything.
And all that Chinese dota drama was a misunderstanding/miscommunication? What a surprise! I guess the racism of some players is real though.
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fear is pretty good caster
manfestival
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When I started playing this game in november, there was a decent amount of couriers. At this point about 6 months or so later, there are almost double the couriers. What happened?
shira
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Mason superfan
EE
No, it's pretty common for engineers, secretaries, etc. If you do something like sitting and typing for 5-6 years everyday non-stop shit breaks down.
shira
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Fear kicked for Mason confirmed.
Gully State
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It's funny that months later his MMR is supposedly still roughly the same but when you look at individual matches, his KDA is still fairly poor. I'm guessing at that MMR level, the better players are able to make up for his poor play.
Everyone knows that KDA is the only reflection of a players skill. Thats why all the best players like RTZ and EE play Mid and carry.
That age related brain decline hitting hard
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Fear build MoM on Void, MoM core on Void
Gully State
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Well you're right that it's not definitive...I dunno I guess in some ways it's impressive(?) for a guy to maintain his bought 4.7K MMR account over 100+ matches despite only being ranked as a 3.2K MMR player.
I don't get it.
Well shit though you were talking about Fear retiring
But you were talking about the low tier player and his MMR
Gully State
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Well shit though you were talking about Fear retiring
But you were talking about the low tier player and his MMR
haha...I probably should've quoted Ape_Agape..
Everybody should quote me
I'm an inspiration
And my conclusion from looking at his DB is that while KDA isn't the best thing to work off with regards to play skill in a given match, he's trending down, and looking at some scoreboards it seems the thing keeping him in place is players who carry him. He has a good game every once in a while but in general he has the idea of keeping his role low-impact that his chances of losing the game for his team are low. He's sort of relying on the nebulous "forced 50" to keep him afloat. He's not useless, but judging from his scoreboards in the long run he's probably not having too much fun. But he's playing support where performance is harder to gauge so we'd have to look at replays to be sure. My guess is that he's learning a ton though.
Download Miro Converter
(Careful during the install, it's gonna want to install bad juju on your shit)
Get OBS
Record moment in OBS (yes you can record without having to stream)
Convert mp4 to webm in Miro
upload to pomf.se, realizing you're a bad person if you endorse the anime shit at the bottom
boom webm (that's how I do it, anyway and there's probably a better way)
Once he goes back to his actual account he'll be a god. It's like reverse smurfing.
He'll probably end up somewhere noticeably above his other MMR and then be like told ya so, ignoring that the process itself is what made him a better player.
cuevas. PhD.
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Sell for aegis
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Throw Boys
It's so beautiful watching a dark seer combo in conjunction with like a torrent. So gratifying to watch. Like watching things that fit smoothly into other objects.
Gully State
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Just read through the thread (damn the salt coming from both sides..just wow), in his personal account, he's gone up from 3200->3500.. although a 300 point swing in any direction doesn't necessarily indicate improvement either.
Uh oh Sixghost gonna school us all.
Blink was sold to secure more skadis
It's the most slot efficient stat item in the game, so unless you care about the eblade active or the heart passive it's never a bad item to buy, even if you already have one. Hex is better than heart/eblade, but I never buy end up buying it for whatever reason.
I'm not good at figuring out the best item builds for heroes. Most of the time I just watch what pro players make, but that's not really an option with meepo.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Ahahahahahhah
The spider death animation is the icing on the cake. She's like WTF... why.... ded
Ok today is patch day. I can feel it
Not falling for this again
SteveWinwood
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