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DOTA 2 |OT6| Plz vote for Keeper of the Light Arcana
- Thread starter Teknopathetic
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This whole "Era is dropped" this was a scam so people would under estimate them
Now they dominating after secretly bootcamping for the last 3 months
manfestival
Member
these kids are getting desperate..
Stop being so rude! He only wants to take your rares!
EVERY FREAKING TEAM I LOVE TO WATCH HAS LOST THEIR FIRST GAME! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
NinjaBoyLao
Member
SEA Doto
these kids are getting desperate..
you mean bots
You forgot to let him tell you about his little brother with Super McAIDScancer who's only dream in life was to play a match of Dota 2 using a Dragonclaw Hook.
these kids are getting desperate..
manfestival
Member
Clown 9 are in top form for this event right now and my favorite teams are all dropping. Holy crap alliance. GET IT TOGETHER
Only team that I can cheer for at this stage is EG because it looks like they are gonna be the only ones to move to the next round.
Only team that I can cheer for at this stage is EG because it looks like they are gonna be the only ones to move to the next round.
SteveWinwood
Member
Literally the only team to advance.
shira
Member
Alliance game will determine their fate
manfestival
Member
mouz and alliance got their wins. WE COMEBACK NOW FELLAS
Jimmy is trying his best to throw though Kappa
JakOfTheShadows
Member
This is probably the best one to follow.
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/The_International/2014/Playoffs/Phase_Two
You socket them in an item and then it counts the number of games you've viewed for whatever team the gem is for.
No use other than that.
cuevas. PhD.
Member
GODZ NO WORDS
Yeah, while the game looked good for them, that sealed the deal.
Also, looks like we are getting some patch tonight. Maybe Valve will finally fixed Player Gems.
rhophiehalul78
Member
So many upsets this day
Technosteve
Banned
Volvo plz
SteveWinwood
Member
really save your time, effort, and hard drive space
http://dotabuff.com/matches/767690513
This was easily the most interesting match I had tonight.
Basically, you can tell by the Dire lineup a few things:
1. They are squishy
2. They have a crapload of magic damage
3. They have about 30 minutes to win this game or else.
4. BKBs will win this game.
Things started off really strangely when I was mid and noticed that Storm had a Null Talisman Start with a Ring of Regen. I tilted my head in confusion when I saw those items, wondering what the hell was going on. Then it came to light after a bit: He was going Veil and Force Staff. The Veil was obvious: They had a crapload of AoE Magic Damage, and with Decrepify blowing people up was easy. You'll notice there are two Aghanim's on that team, and I'm willing to bet Leshrac was going to get one next (or it's possible he bought the Ogre Club and Staff of Wizardry, went "Aw shit I need a BKB" and bought that).
I was doing okay myself most of the time, teamfights were rough early. I advised Weaver to get a BKB and he did that. Tide followed suit and got one too. I almost did, but then changed my mind and went for an Aghanims, as these guys were squishy and no popes were in sight.
Well, take a look at this graph:
You can see right around 30 minutes, they started losing their 10k lead. Weaver was online, I was online, but most importantly the BKBs and Pipe were online. Weaver was able to wreck people, I could perma sheep people, and their massive magic damage meant nothing now.
We actually talked to the other team about their strat at the end, and Weaver said they ran out of time like I was saying. Storm said "The Tinker wouldn't let us push, that pick singlehandedly fucked our strategy." and that they apparently just picked with those heroes, and formed the strategy around the picks. Yeah, my antipush did help, but I think the real reason they lost it was because they let it go on for too long. I wasn't the only antipush in the house though, Veno was there as well, with wards doing some work. The Pipe pickup was huge against these guys too.
Or you could blame Pugna for not picking a blue hero.
Fun fact: Raptor and I were partied, and we got matched with this same 3-stack on our team last game: http://dotabuff.com/matches/767666701
This was easily the most interesting match I had tonight.
Basically, you can tell by the Dire lineup a few things:
1. They are squishy
2. They have a crapload of magic damage
3. They have about 30 minutes to win this game or else.
4. BKBs will win this game.
Things started off really strangely when I was mid and noticed that Storm had a Null Talisman Start with a Ring of Regen. I tilted my head in confusion when I saw those items, wondering what the hell was going on. Then it came to light after a bit: He was going Veil and Force Staff. The Veil was obvious: They had a crapload of AoE Magic Damage, and with Decrepify blowing people up was easy. You'll notice there are two Aghanim's on that team, and I'm willing to bet Leshrac was going to get one next (or it's possible he bought the Ogre Club and Staff of Wizardry, went "Aw shit I need a BKB" and bought that).
I was doing okay myself most of the time, teamfights were rough early. I advised Weaver to get a BKB and he did that. Tide followed suit and got one too. I almost did, but then changed my mind and went for an Aghanims, as these guys were squishy and no popes were in sight.
Well, take a look at this graph:
You can see right around 30 minutes, they started losing their 10k lead. Weaver was online, I was online, but most importantly the BKBs and Pipe were online. Weaver was able to wreck people, I could perma sheep people, and their massive magic damage meant nothing now.
We actually talked to the other team about their strat at the end, and Weaver said they ran out of time like I was saying. Storm said "The Tinker wouldn't let us push, that pick singlehandedly fucked our strategy." and that they apparently just picked with those heroes, and formed the strategy around the picks. Yeah, my antipush did help, but I think the real reason they lost it was because they let it go on for too long. I wasn't the only antipush in the house though, Veno was there as well, with wards doing some work. The Pipe pickup was huge against these guys too.
Or you could blame Pugna for not picking a blue hero.
Fun fact: Raptor and I were partied, and we got matched with this same 3-stack on our team last game: http://dotabuff.com/matches/767666701
Yeah, but phase two lasts for another three days
It's showing which spots on the ranking get eliminated and which advance to the next phase. Once all games are played (total of 15 games per team), that final ranking will determine who gets eliminated and who doesn't.
shira
Member
Alliance needs to win like 80-90% of their remaining games.
2 days with 36 games then a day with 12 games
Keep in mind that while it may seem Alliance needs to go on a tear for the rest of their games, that assumes other teams keep up their win rate as well. It remains to be seen whether Choke9 and Liquid's success in Day 1 are genuine, and if they can keep it up going into Day 2 and Day 3, or if it was just a fluke. These are Bo1s, after all, and are fundamentally different from Bo3s.
Purple Cheeto
Member
I had the game installed, went to try and play it after not touching it for over a month and the Battle.net launcher decided my install didn't count anymore or something. I decided I didn't really care to download those 6 gigs again.
The pubstomp listings page is so messed up this year. There's a bunch of stuff listed under countries that don't exist or are just plain wrong. Russian listings under United States
, a country called Austrilia, multiple Perus, etc. I went to one last year and it was pretty cool even though the actual setup they had kinda sucked (they streamed the game through a crappy laptop with the lowest graphic settings or something.) Anyways, I only see one place around my area... hope more pop up and they get this all sorted out. Seems like the pubstomp stuff was really late this year.
Kappa
manfestival
Member
trying to win my daily as slardar is suffering