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Liquid and Fnatic have collided in some sort of black hole of horrible that has created an entertaining game.
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What the gently caress was the bat doing
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Mar 11, 2014 22:00
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mikeraskol posted:Liquid and Fnatic have collided in some sort of black hole of horrible that has created an entertaining game. Enigma isn't in this game.
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Mar 11, 2014 22:00
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Lant posted:Enigma isn't in this game. Given the chaos in this game you can't be sure on that.
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Mar 11, 2014 22:01
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EVERYBODY'S TEXTING
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Mar 11, 2014 22:04
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Naga + Aghs Disruptor is so disgusting.
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Mar 11, 2014 22:08
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Kainser posted:Naga + Aghs Disruptor is so disgusting. Seriously you pretty much have to bkb as soon as you hear the song to survive
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Mar 11, 2014 22:12
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And BKBing in to Song is a good way to get yourself focused by 5 people.
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Mar 11, 2014 22:20
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Exactly. Fnatic had a disgusting line up with their potential push and hero pick offs
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Mar 11, 2014 22:25
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James you colossal prick.
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Mar 11, 2014 22:29
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I cannot think of a team that has such a clear lack of leadership or even a simple "frontman" than Liquid. The team seems to be a collection of passive, or passive aggressive at best dudes. Unless there's something I'm missing.
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Mar 11, 2014 22:30
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Interviewing a guy from a team that lost all their games that day seems like a bit of a dick move.
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Mar 11, 2014 22:31
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Kainser posted:Interviewing a guy from a team that lost all their games that day seems like a bit of a dick move. Counterpoint; TC would answer this interview exactly the same, even if they had won all their games.
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Mar 11, 2014 22:32
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Kainser posted:Interviewing a guy from a team that lost all their games that day seems like a bit of a dick move. Even if it weren't, James really made it a dick move with his opener.
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Mar 11, 2014 22:48
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Holy poo poo, Livestreamer actually has a MLG plugin with the new 1.7.5 build. No more watching the network tools in Chrome Dev tools to see the stream then adding +1 to it. Doing "livestreamer http://tv.majorleaguegaming.com/show/dotacinema best" is so much easier than dealing with that adblock hating webpage. YouTuber fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Mar 11, 2014 |
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Mar 11, 2014 23:22
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Watching some dude play pub Meepo against a team that includes EE. Envy's Lone Druid is 0-4-0 after 20 minutes.  EDIT: It's now just turned clowny with Envy being held in place by Meepo nets unable to move and writing "idk i give up" Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Mar 11, 2014 |
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Mar 11, 2014 23:45
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Liquid is so loving bad right now it's amazing. They are losing to this team called Osiris right now. It's like these guys forgot how to play. Edit: They kind of turned it around right as I made the post, but still, it shouldn't be this close.
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Mar 11, 2014 23:47
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Craptacular! posted:EDIT: It's now just turned clowny with Envy being held in place by Meepo nets unable to move and writing "idk i give up" I tuned in just in time to see this, it was beautiful.
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Mar 11, 2014 23:52
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Fear and Universe keep initiating one after the other with not support and eHugs Lifestealer cleans them both up. He's getting really farmed, a bit scared for EG
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Mar 12, 2014 01:19
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"they're just cocksucker mids, they're really annoying, BUT THAT'S JUST WHAT PAJKATT CALLS THEM" come on merlini, you're better than this
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Mar 12, 2014 02:27
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Revenge are dunking some even more terrible team that don't know what sentry wards are 
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Mar 12, 2014 02:42
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On the subject of Liquid, Fluff just released a blog that basically confirms what everybody already knew:quote:Forget the formatting, forget the formalities, all I have is here and now. I can already tell that this blog will be a total cluster-fu*k judging by my emotions at the moment, so bear with me. I barely edit these things and usually do them in one sitting. quote:How many of you readers know of teams that just have no one out there calling shots or being assertive about the team? Every single team has this problem and I've said in the past that I don't believe there are many true leaders in this world. I believe that most leaders are the ones who rise to the occasion of challenge and adversity. quote:Our team started to see some success barriers and I began almost co-captaining TC's drafts. Which, I feel, undermined his ideas and created an even more dense tension between us. After all, he was the drafter and I have no place telling him things when I'm not doing it myself. Things were just not working out and people started to get scapegoated for a lack of leadership. Ixmike and Korok were two of the biggest targets for our blameless failures as a team. Some of the things were valid, but many of the things were on my back. When things were rough I tried to draft and lead again but I felt distrust and an unwillingness to fail, so I backed down once more. I noticed I had failed as leader, I had failed to garner my confidence and my teams trust, and at the end of the day I could never return to captain the team. TC was never meant to be our permanent leader, it was just a technique for me to recuperate myself and I never did. quote:I always get asked why Team Liquid players don't play together on stream that often and a lot of it has to do with the fact that we aren't great friends. We are all decent friends, but I can't tell you that I know much about Bulba's life or anybody else's for that matter because we don't spend much time together outside of scrims. Part of the reason for that is that we spend the majority of our days together already for practice and tournaments. 8am/9am to the afternoon is when we scrim and we find that afterwards we really had enough of each other and would rather talk to our other friends and play with them. We simply cease conversation after scrims except for a couple of messages here and there regarding Dota. When we go to LANs I feel like there's more of a disconnect between our team than any other. We walk together, but mainly in silence and when we laugh it's mostly because someone's making a fool of themselves.
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Mar 12, 2014 07:00
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drat that's depressing stuff
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Mar 12, 2014 07:20
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 Bloodseeker picked to counter a Slark http://www.twitch.tv/dotastarladder_en
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Mar 12, 2014 10:17
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boredsatellite posted:drat that's depressing stuff I started laughing at first, but as I kept reading, it just gets more and more sad. 
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Mar 12, 2014 10:40
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Phantasmal posted:On the subject of Liquid, Fluff just released a blog that basically confirms what everybody already knew: I agree with him - at the moment, Liquid shouldn't get a direct invite to TI4. They've not been a "team" at any point and it's catching up with them.
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Mar 12, 2014 12:45
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That reads too much like a middle aged man deciding that his career is poo poo, not like a 21 year old. He probably needs to leave. I'm not saying the team's problem exists with him, but he's clearly running out of energy and doesn't like being in a place of attention. Sticking around is only going to prolong that. If he would feel more comfortable playing with his friends and perhaps also being one of the scene's frequent standins, then that's what he should do. I don't know how many teams are "great friends." Alliance and pre-shuffle LGD were sort of exceptional for that.
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Mar 12, 2014 13:37
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Craptacular! posted:I don't know how many teams are "great friends." Alliance and pre-shuffle LGD were sort of exceptional for that. I don't think they need to be great friends but it would probably help if they really wanted to spend any time with each other at all. As it stands they're little more than colleagues, which isn't very conducive to getting good performances.
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Mar 12, 2014 14:00
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mfcrocker posted:I don't think they need to be great friends but it would probably help if they really wanted to spend any time with each other at all. As it stands they're little more than colleagues, which isn't very conducive to getting good performances. That's my thinking as well. I mean, based on the post, it sounds like they're basically 5 strangers that play together, like they met in a pub game one day and decided "Let's form a pro team!" and that was how it happened.
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Mar 12, 2014 14:11
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Craptacular! posted:That reads too much like a middle aged man deciding that his career is poo poo, not like a 21 year old. Fnatic is also a team that seems to be a pretty tight knit bunch.
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Mar 12, 2014 14:25
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I think Korean Dota has really improved a lot. This is a legit good game with good players e: I'm basing this on my subjective viewpoint from not watching Korean Dota for a long time so maybe it has been good for a while GOOD TIMES ON METH fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Mar 12, 2014 14:29
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I've been trying to catch all the Zephyr games at least because they have the only players I know. It's been pretty fun watching most of the games, even with some of the teams I don't know. With that said Zephyr wins a lot of games where they come back in the late game, always exciting. EDIT: It also sucks that both Zephyr and EoT Hammer didn't get invites for the star series, they were first and second in the last big Korean LAN
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Mar 12, 2014 14:39
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You know for me Fluff comes off real bad after reading that huge blog post. I can understand being frustrated with how you are playing and maybe pushing for some changes but I don't think you tell the world that. I know he has blogged before about stuff but ,with a team thats playing badly already, it seems like a bad idea to put yourself out there right now like that. Parts of it also come off as him giving veiled threats of leaving if he doesn't get his way. Whoever is captaining that team right now is probably a bit pissed after reading that.
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Mar 12, 2014 16:14
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ChaosReaper posted:You know for me Fluff comes off real bad after reading that huge blog post. I can understand being frustrated with how you are playing and maybe pushing for some changes but I don't think you tell the world that. I know he has blogged before about stuff but ,with a team thats playing badly already, it seems like a bad idea to put yourself out there right now like that. Parts of it also come off as him giving veiled threats of leaving if he doesn't get his way. Whoever is captaining that team right now is probably a bit pissed after reading that. Yeah, divisions within teams happen in any competitive environment, but "don't air your dirty laundry in public" is a pretty standard rule that everyone should know to follow.
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Mar 12, 2014 16:27
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ChaosReaper posted:You know for me Fluff comes off real bad after reading that huge blog post. I can understand being frustrated with how you are playing and maybe pushing for some changes but I don't think you tell the world that. I know he has blogged before about stuff but ,with a team thats playing badly already, it seems like a bad idea to put yourself out there right now like that. Parts of it also come off as him giving veiled threats of leaving if he doesn't get his way. Whoever is captaining that team right now is probably a bit pissed after reading that. That's the thing, it doesn't sound like anyone's doing a particular job of captaining right now. It sounds like they utterly lack anyone to call.
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Mar 12, 2014 16:40
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[A] vs Na'vi coming up soon on Starladder.
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Mar 12, 2014 16:55
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FLUFF got a beta key by directly asking Icefrog for one. That rules.
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Mar 12, 2014 16:56
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Sven is the most Swedish hero 
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Mar 12, 2014 17:12
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Meat Recital posted:FLUFF got a beta key by directly asking Icefrog for one. That rules. I got mine because my bro created a hosting bot for WC3 Dota and icefrog liked it so much they were bff's and handed my friend 3 keys! But all the early games were full of pros or semi pros and oh lord > Game is hard. I'd probably have 7000 games by now if I stuck to it at the time.
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Who plays Lion on Navi?
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