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Dota 2 |OT5| TECHIES!!!
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AnathemicOne
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SEA Dota, man grats to MVP I guess but after watching this qualifiers, they (and the rest of the other teams) don't deserve to be in TI4. Can't wait to see them get wrecked in the main event.
shira
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what
AnathemicOne
Banned
Have you seen the past SEA qualifiers, most notably the most recent? Two facepalm worthy fail ult combos by Naga/TH. You don't see this shit in actual TI matches
Gully State
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I have a feeling that MVP is going to upset Arrow.
So nice living in the EU time zone, even if i am 20 000 miles below them. The GD studio is like 1 min behind the time here. Makes watching games much easier
This is what I was getting at a few days ago. Whilst it is the International, there are definitely teams from China and EU that are not going to make the cut who would trounce these SEA and NA teams. So the argument that they don't deserve to be at TI4 is worth thinking about if you consider TI to be solely about gathering the best teams there are, rather than representing each region so we can compare them against each other. I personally subscribe to the latter definition, but that is the reasoning I would imagine.
I agree razzer, IMO the best format would be something like "qualifying" for the qualifiers if that makes sense lol. Probably have to split this between NA/EU and China/SEA for server reasons, but basically just have a qualifiers group stage (like we had), where the top 4 advance to a playoff bracket with the top 4 from their paired region (i.e. EU and US). Top two from each punch a ticket whereas the 3rd placers from each region go head to head for the last spot. This way we get the openness of these qualifiers (where no team is left out ala kaipi last year) with the selectivity of prior years remaining intact.
That kind of format guarantees that the best teams are going; it's kind of sad how loaded the EU and Chinese qualifiers are, knowing that only 1 team can punch a ticket. There are 3-4 very strong teams in each of those groups that would easily destroy most (if not all) the NA/SEA teams.
That kind of format guarantees that the best teams are going; it's kind of sad how loaded the EU and Chinese qualifiers are, knowing that only 1 team can punch a ticket. There are 3-4 very strong teams in each of those groups that would easily destroy most (if not all) the NA/SEA teams.
This is how I feel trying to beat my Beastmaster game. I'm not awful on the hero but the tards I stack with or the occasional pub we get matched up with wait for me to pick him and then go full retard. 3 attempts now and still can't win with my last compendium hero.
FlutterPuffs
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Problem with SEA is that there's little support for pro gamers, and the fact that it's secluded to just the South East of Asia.
We are like fucking Brazil in Football. We love our Dota but our best players are off playing in China.
We are like fucking Brazil in Football. We love our Dota but our best players are off playing in China.
If anybody wants a free win with a 4-5 stack in all pick, we did a pretty hilarious aura game with Drow, Lycan, Venge and Visage today. We weren't doing the best job actually killing their heroes but holy shit their buildings melted.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/667949213
Before anybody feels bad for our opponents, we played another game against this same 5 stack right after this one and they spanked the shit out of us.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/667949213
Before anybody feels bad for our opponents, we played another game against this same 5 stack right after this one and they spanked the shit out of us.
Wok
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I joined, hope that is alright
Yeah, sure! So, now, we have 6 people in the league, and we have to decide for a time to draft. I have chosen tonight at 9:05 PM (Central European Summer Time, so UTC+2). Let me know if this is okay for you! I think the draft has to start before the 20th though.
I have also added 4 slots so that more European people can join. It is the first time I do this.
I read you can connect 5 minutes before the draft starts.
Jep, it's nice having representation from every region.
It's not like the tournament is being flooded by "non-deserving" teams either. Arrow/MVP and NAR seem decent enough and the winner of the wildcard match is going to be a heavy underdog no matter the region the team is from.
Wok
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Additional info from Reddit:
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ti4 obviously won't be the top 16 teams, but the reason teams from other regions are included is because it grows the game over there so that 3 years from now their scene will be able to compete at the top level. TI4's 16 teams may be weaker now, but it's about long term growth so that in 3 years TI7 will be even stronger than it would have been.
plus more countries = larger audience = larger prize pool = better teams
gotta think about long term goals
call_kotaku
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It's actually sort of impressive that the EUHub stream is full of ethnically and gender-diverse, attractive, and generally charismatic people (except Tobi), which runs contrary to stereotypes about the game and the hobby in general.
yeah but they're european even our nerds are attractive
So there are two coke collections? And all of this is chinese exclusive? I'd love that WD staff but I'm very hesitant on paying for it.
Oh yeah I agree, hence 'subscribe to latter'. I just wanted to establish the counter argument eloquently, you know how arguments can get on the internet.
SteveWinwood
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sorry sir
I finally won my game as Brood
http://dotabuff.com/players/381550
What a fucking annoying hero to play. You have to push your lane (Which I did successfuly everytime) but my god damned teams always managed to lose the game everywhere else. Even the last game took 60 minutes because no one pushed, except me.
http://dotabuff.com/players/381550
What a fucking annoying hero to play. You have to push your lane (Which I did successfuly everytime) but my god damned teams always managed to lose the game everywhere else. Even the last game took 60 minutes because no one pushed, except me.
Sigismundo
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KOREANS
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
close to the edge
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At one point yesterday evening, there were 6 people on screen, with 6 different countries of origin and 6 different mother tongues. Pretty cool.
FlutterPuffs
Member
DDZ using a Refresher Brewmaster build.
SolidsnackooFoxhound
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God damn, man. Earth spirit is so fun. The best original hero in a long time in ANY moba.
Arrow go straight to Main TI event, MVP need to play in play-in
Marauder Shields
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Wut? Aren't Arrow now straight into TI4?
You sure? Coz I saw it too and the casters made it seem like Arrow is the 13th team in TI4 already.
Also, ddz is a star
It's best of 5 isn't it? MVP still has a chance to secure first place in SEA though it's looking unlikely at this point.
Edit: Or is the series over? I haven't been watching.
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