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DOTA2 |OT14| i give up like your pubs do
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As with 95% of retro games, you had to be there.
Imp the Dimp
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I played Crash Bandicoot back in the day and it was not outstanding. First time I've ever seen people obsessed with it lol. It's all right.
what about zai
on one side I hope he stays with kaipi because of the success with him but on the other hand I could totally understand if he wanted to join EG again
edit: one reddit poster says zai to eg and aui kicked, he was right about bulba and universe switch so this might be true?
on one side I hope he stays with kaipi because of the success with him but on the other hand I could totally understand if he wanted to join EG again
edit: one reddit poster says zai to eg and aui kicked, he was right about bulba and universe switch so this might be true?
Sunsfan says theres more to come so possible big changes to EG coming in the next few days
zzz
at least wait until after the major, ffs
stealing attention away from teams who can actually function
Monochromaticx
Member
This
The constant illusion that making a sequel for an old game (applies to film too) will be as good as the original is laughable. When a sequel does happen they will bitch about it and demand another "true" sequel
Lol sunsfans being an attention whore as always
universe time walking the fuck out of secret
They were always shit games, crash bandicoot is a shit character, shitty corridor level design that was awful at the time.
Monochromaticx
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Inb4 secret claims they are an Na team for "ez" qualifiers
cute games that have been retroactively elevated by naughty dog's current status tbQh
Imp the Dimp
Member
Their team looks very beatable by other highly rated open qualifier teams. I'm rather certain they won't make it unless their team chemistry miraculously turns out to be extraordinarily good.
I think there's a good chance they don't make it out of the main qualifiers if they don't sneak into NA. They'd probably have to play Alliance, Empire, Vega, VP
also the Secret owner being salty about Universe leaving after all the shit he did is hilarious
Imp the Dimp
Member
That is 100% accurate. Those games were well received back then but they were hardly ground-breaking even at the time. Naughty Dog's current reputation is quite obviously the main engine here.
SecretMoblin
Member
yes
the people in/around/behind these teams are all so young and petty
at least certain legends, like CHUAN (the best dota player) are able to work through team issues and create a sense of camaraderie.
raw skill isn't good enough
Chuan is THE example that raw skill is in fact enough. He's a rather toxic player and he's shit on his teammates publicly (Zhou and June).
StrongArmSteady
Member
Good shit, now secret has a MMR assassin as well as a tournament assassin.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Raw skill at this level is not the deciding factor. Other than the very rare case of Miracle who happens to be head and shoulders above every other player but he is just a freak of nature. The other pro players seem to be on a very similar level of skill and given how huge the fluctuations of individual players' success tend to be regardless of what team they play on, one must come to the conclusion that the meta, team chemistry and all that stuff is way more relevant than individual skill. Dota has almost 13mil monthly players and barely 100 of them make a meaningful amount of money with it. Whether you are the 10th best player in the world or the 55th obviously makes little difference and there is enough evidence to prove just that.
We're talking about the top 0.0008% players here
We're talking about the top 0.0008% players here
rakkadakka
Member
Not anymore so than the performances of the two teams involved.
It's pretty clear that Manilla terations of eg and secret wouldn't have gotten shit done at this Ti.
shira
Member
My guess:
Invited: top 8 Manilla + 1
3 China: Newbee, LGD, VGR
3 EU OG, Navi, Liquid
2 SEA Fnatic, MVP
1 NA (DC/CoL or EG depending on the TI champ rule)
4 Qualifiers
1 from china, 1 from SEA, 1 from NA, 1 from EU
4 wildcard = 3 final spot
1 from China, 1 from SEA, 1 From NA, 1 from EU
Invited: top 8 Manilla + 1
3 China: Newbee, LGD, VGR
3 EU OG, Navi, Liquid
2 SEA Fnatic, MVP
1 NA (DC/CoL or EG depending on the TI champ rule)
4 Qualifiers
1 from china, 1 from SEA, 1 from NA, 1 from EU
4 wildcard = 3 final spot
1 from China, 1 from SEA, 1 From NA, 1 from EU
nope
shira
Member
There are 4-5 LANs between now and TI, the problem being TI qualifiers are June 21-29th.
Traditionally the TI direct invites are announced just before the TI qualifiers
The one LAN between the qualifiers and Manila is ESL Frankfurt. Of which Secret and EG not playing
They can bend them too. Add EG as the wildcard NA or something.
??? Probably the worst example you could give
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Yeah it's not a rule and Valve never stated that they want to invite champions back, they just did. EG swapped so many times over the past year that I don't think they deserve one anymore, gotta enforce your own rules.
considering kaipi team member tweets and sunsfan saying more is to come I would assume that aui is kicked and zai is back
what makes you think this, specifically? I've heard a lot of speculation about zai recently, and I'm not sure where it's coming from.
lv2 pidgey
Member
nothing like waking up in the morning to fresh news drama
Mostly because of tweets from team kaipi members about roster locks and the fact that zai was a registered official sub for EG.
That's means zai/universe in the same team and zai plays support I guess?
SecretMoblin
Member
zai is a good dude. I hope he manages to avoid the dramz
also it's funny that secret shat all over kuro and he's sitting pretty right now
dota icon CHUAN remains unbothered.
also how will they nerf drewsruptor? I fear it's going to be something bad like channeling glimpse or a fence cd nerf
also it's funny that secret shat all over kuro and he's sitting pretty right now
dota icon CHUAN remains unbothered.
also how will they nerf drewsruptor? I fear it's going to be something bad like channeling glimpse or a fence cd nerf
Rofl that would be genius really but I don't see it happening.
considering Fear's insistence that he not play carry (staying supp after Aui joined, for example), and Zai wanting to move up on the farm chain, I think you can safely swap pos. 1 and 4.
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