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NewBee won and everyone was sad. -----  Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Pro Dota 2 thread. (Previous threads 1 2) There are professional Defense of the Ancients Two events taking place every day all over the world, and this is the place for live reactions and commentary. Posting here is more relaxed than in the main Dota 2 thread, and more in line with SAS GDT or TVIV style posting. The main Dota 2 thread is located here.  There is a TI4 Goon meet happening here  Every year, Valve Software hosts The International (TI), bringing the top 16 Dota 2 teams in the world to compete for a prizepool of over 1 million dollars. The past two events have been held in Seattle in August, with last year paying out over $2.7 million in total with a top prize of over $1.3 million. Games are broadcast free through the Dota 2 client and on Twitch and other streaming platforms. The event lasts about two weeks, and last year there was a strong goon contingent who made the trip to Seattle for the final weekend. Past Winners 2011: Natus Vincere 2012: Invictus Gaming 2013: The Alliance 2014: TBD The 2014 edition, The International 4, begins on July 8th with preliminary stages, with the Main Event taking place at Seattle's Key Arena from the 18th to the 21st. The total prize pool is currently over 10 million dollars, with the winning team receiving almost $5 million. Sixteen teams will be competing at this year's International. Eleven of the top teams in the world were invited directly, four teams were invited after winning their regional qualifiers, and one wild card team will earn their way in. In Phase One, the four regional runners-up will fight for the wild card slot to enter the main tournament. In Phase Two, each team will play each other once in a round robin, with the top ten teams being seeded further in to the playoff and the bottom six teams eliminated. In Phase Three, teams will face off in successive Best-of-3s to advance to the main event. Games on broadcast through the Dota 2 client, and on Twitch.tv. Broadcasts will be available in many languages, English, French, Russian, Chinese, Portugese, Korean, and likely others. Last year's event doubled the previous year's viewership, reaching over 1 million concurrent viewers for the Finals. http://www.dota2.com/international/overview/ SCHEDULE July 8 - Playoffs Phase One, Wild Card play-ins July 9-12 - Playoffs Phase Two, round robin July 13-14 - Playoffs Phase Three, elimination rounds July 18-21 - Main Event, conclusion of the upper and lower brackets, and the Grand Finals MEET THE TEAMS The 11 Invites Team DK  quote:DK’s roster is one of the most versatile in Dota. Looking at the number of different heroes played by each player since 6.80, DK has three players in the top 10. Mushi–who played the most different heroes at TI3–, Burning–who played a different hero in each game of DK’s undefeated run at StarLadder 9–and MMY. Being able to pull from such a large hero pool gives DK a few advantages like making them hard to predict, allowing the team to play a variety of strategies, and giving the team flexibility in the draft. BARONS GAMES WHINER posted:
ROSTER: Carry: Xu "Burning" Zhilei (c) Mid: Chai "Mushi" Yee Fung Offlane: Daryl "Iceiceice" Koh Pei Xiang Support: Zhi "LaNm" Cheng Zhang Support: Lei "MMY" Zengrong Natus Vincere (Na'Vi)  quote:NaVi is the most successful and perhaps the most popular team in Dota 2. NaVi was the winner of The International (TI) 2011, and runners up at TI2 and TI3. Puppey, XBOCT, and Dendi have been with the team for all three TIs while KoroKy and Funn1k joined prior to TI3. Dendi is one of the top mid players in the world, XBOCT is a great carry, Puppey and KuroKy are fantastic supports, and Funn1k is a dynamic offlaner. So why is a team this experienced and this talented performing so poorly heading into TI4? ROSTER: Support: Clement "Puppey" Ivanov (c) Carry: Oleksandr "XBOCT" Dashkevych Mid: Danil "Dendi" Ishutin Offlane: Gleb "Funn1k" Lipatnikov Support: Kuro "KuroKy" Salehi Takhasomi The Alliance  quote:Alliances returns everyone from The International (TI) 2013 winning team. Alliance was the favorite entering TI3 and–outside of the grand finals at TI3–dominated the competition. The roster is talented and experienced. Loda is a versatile player (he’s played the 4th most heroes in 6.80 and later) and one of the best carry players in the game. ROSTER: Carry: Jonathan "Loda" Berg Mid: Gustav "s4" Magnusson Offlane: Henrik "AdmiralBulldog" Ahnberg Support: Jerry "EGM" Lundkvist Support: Joakim "Akke" Akterhall Fnatic  quote:Fnatic has the 8th highest tournament winnings since TI3. Notable performances include 2nd place at the EMS Fall Finals, 2nd in the D2L Season 4, 1st in the MLG TKO, and 2nd at in the D2CL Season 3. ROSTER: Support: Tal "Fly" Aizik (c) Support: Johan "n0tail" Sundstein Carry: Adrian "Era" Kryeziu Mid: Kai "H4nni" Hanbueckers Offlane: Kalle "Trixi" Saarinen Coach: Steve "Xcalibur" Ye Invictus Gaming (iG)  quote:iG sports the 2nd most tournament winnings since TI3. Highlights include 1st place at ESL Frankfurt, 1st place in the 2014 WPC ACE, 2nd place in the 2013 WPC ACE, and 1st in the Redbull ECL 2014. ROSTER: Offlane: Jiang "YYF" Cen (c) Mid: Luo "Ferarri_430" Feichi Support: Zeng "Faith" Hongda Carry: Luo "Luo"/"Xi" Yinqi Support: Wong Hock "Chuan" Chuan Vici Gaming  quote:VG shuffled its roster in the post TI3 transition period. The two supports–Fenrir and fy– remained and were joined by former DK players rOtK and Super. Sylar joined in October and since then VG has had one of the most stable rosters in China, behind only DK. Sylar is a premiere carry, best known for his days in LGD.cn. fy is a fantastic support and has been known to win 1v1 tournaments. ROSTER: Offlane: Bai "rOtk" Fan (c) Carry: Liu "Sylar" Jiajun Support: Chao "Fenrir" Lu Support: Linsen "fy" Xu Mid: Xie "Super" Juanhao Cloud 9  quote:C9′s victory at MLG Columbus was impressive. Not only did the team play so well but did so with a stand-in and with the Speed.int’s manager undercutting the players. C9 has the talent to compete with anyone and has shown short stretches of being among the best team in the world. The team has a lot of upside. ROSTER Support: Johan "pieliedie" Åström (c) Mid: Weh "SingSing" Sing Yuen Offlane: Pittner "bOne7" Armand Support: Kurtis "Aui_2000" Ling Carry: Jacky "EternalEnvy" Mao Titan Esports  quote:Titan formed in September when kYxY, Net, Ohaiyo, and XtiNcT left Orange to join Titan. The only member not to come from that Orange squad that finished third at The International (TI) 2013 was Mushi, who was arguably the squad’s most important player (and possibly the best player at TI3). Titan went through a few players before YamateH joined in January. ROSTER Support: Joel "XtiNcT" Chan Zhan Leong (c) Carry: Ng "Yamateh" Wei Poong Support: Wai "Net" Pern Lim Offlane: Chong "Ohaiyo" Xin Khoo Mid: Lee "kYxY" Kong Yang Evil Geniuses  quote:EG retooled after failing to qualify for TI3. The post TI3 roster struggled well into the winter, until current EG players Fear and Universe played under the tag sadboys with Arteezy, ppd, and zai. Eventually, sadboys ended and the five were officially incorporated into EG in February. Since then EG has been on fire. Even when an injury ended Fear’s season, the stand-in (now an official member) mason performed admirably and EG has kept up its strong performance. ROSTER Support: Peter "ppd" Dager (c) Carry: Mason "mason" Venne Mid: Artour "Arteezy" Babaev Offlane: Saahil "Universe" Arora Support: Ludwig "zai" Wahlberg NewBee  quote:Don’t let the recent join dates of the players fool you. This is an experienced squad. Banana, Hao, Mu, and SanSheng played together as TongFu on the 4th place The International (TI) 2013 team. xiao8 is the former captain of LGD.cn and brings many of the positive traits that LGD had to Nb. Hao is one of the premier carries in the game and Banana and Mu impressed a lot of people last year at TI3. ROSTER Offlane: Zhang "xiao8" Ning Mid: Zhang "Mu" Pan Carry: Chen "Hao" Zhihao Support: Jiao "Banana" Wang Support: Zhaohui "SanSheng" Wang Empire  quote:Empire reformed in August-September of 2013 in the post TI3 transition period. A couple of months later Resolut1on joined the squad and the team started to gel. Over the winter of 2013-2014 Empire had one of the hottest stretches of Dota of any team, winning nearly 80% of their games over a three month span. Unfortunately that stretch occurred during online play, and the squad was not able to see if its hot streak would carry over to an offline environment. Empire is a bit light on major offline event and TI experience compared to most of their competitors but a 2nd place finish against the stacked field at StarLadder 9 has allayed most of those concerns. ROSTER: Offlane: Andrew "MAG~" Chipenko (c) Carry: Airat "Silent <3 Mila" Gaziev Mid: Roman "Resolut1on" Fominok Support: Ivan "VANSKOR" Skorokhod Support: Andrey "ALWAYSWANNAFLY" Bondarenko The Four Qualifiers LGD Gaming  quote:Yao, DD, and DDC return from The International (TI) 2013 team that finished tied for 9th. The all-star carry Sylar left in September for xiaotuji and former long-time captain xiao8 left in February. The team went through multiple replacements (Icy and Maybe) before settling on lin. LGD qualified for TI4 by dominating the TI4 China Qualifiers, only losing two matches, and at the time looked like the best team at the any of the qualifiers. However since then results have been middling. ROSTER: Mid/Offlane: Yao "Yao" Zhenzheng (c) Mid/Offlane: Xu "Lin" Ziyang Carry: Wang "Rabbit"/"Xiaotuji" Zhang Support: Xie "DD" Bin Support: Leong "DDC" Fatmeng Mousesports  quote:mouz picked up the former team DOG in May, prior to mouz winning the The International (TI) 2014 European Qualifiers. DOG formed in February of 2014 when former LGD.int teammates Misery and Pajkatt joined with MSS and others. DOG then picked up Sigma.int players paS and FATA prior to becoming mouz. All the players except for MSS have TI experience, though mouz (FATA and paS’s TI3 team) and LGD.int (Misery and Pajkatt’s TI3 team) both had disappointing TI3 performances and finished outside the money. ROSTER: Carry: Per Anders "Pajkatt" Olsson Lille (c) Mid: Adrian "FATA-" Trinks Offlane: Arif "MSS" Anwar Support: Rasmus "MiSeRy" Filipsen Support: Pasal "paS" Lohmeier Arrow Gaming  quote:Arrow is one of the newer teams to qualify for The International (TI). The squad formed in January of 2014, though most of the roster had some history together while playing under the Lowyat name. While the team looked impressive in the TI4 SEA qualifiers and against SEA competition, the roster is light on experience and is largely untested. ddz is a player to keep an eye on. While he may not be as accomplished as some other solo mid players, he can be electric in his playmaking. ROSTER: Offlane: Johnny "JoHnNy" Lee (c) Mid: Kok Yi "ddz" Liong Carry: Fua "Lance" Hsien Wan Support: Chung "MoZuN" Kah Sheng Support: Chiok "xiangzia" Soon Siang Na`Vi.US  quote:As NAR, these five players won the The International (TI) America Qualifiers before being picked up by the NaVi organization and branded as NaVi.US . NAR formed in April of 2014 when some of the best known, teamless North American players banded together. All five of the players appeared at TI3. Fogged and Sneyking for Dignitas, Korok for Liquid, and Brax and 1437 for LGD.int. In the months following TI3, the players left their teams for a variety of reasons until finding success as NAR. ROSTER: Offlane: Braxton "Brax" Paulson (c) Carry: Jing Jun "Sneyking" Wu Mid: Steven "Korok" Ashworth Support: Ioannic "Fogged" Loucas Support: Sivatheeban "1437" Sivanathapillai The Wild Card Teams CIS Game  Chinese Qualifiers. One of the more innovative teams in China. Started the trend of Blink Dagger Wraith King and solo mid Sniper in the competitive scene. Ayo's support Mirana is top notch. Despite the language barrier, goon favorite Black^ has been a mentoring force for this young team. ROSTER: Carry: Dominik "Black^" Reitmeier (c) Mid: He "inflame" Yongzheng Offlane: Lin "June" Shiyang Support: Fan "Ayo" Tianyou Support: Xiao "demons" Zuoyi Virtus.Pro  European Qualifiers. Can beat anyone on a good day, but unfortunately good days can be few and far between for this team. After a middling 5-4 in the Qualifier group stages, they surprised everybody beating RoX.KiS to make it to the finals, and even took eventually winners Mouz to 5 games before losing 3-2. Very experienced team. ROSTER: Support: Yaroslav "NS" Kuznetsov (c) Carry: Ilya "Illidan" Pivcaev Mid: Sergey "God" Bragin Offlane: Sergey "ARS-ART" Revin Support: Egor "JotM" Surkov Team Liquid  American Qualifers. The 2013-14 season has been very disappointing for Liquid after a surprisingly strong finish at TI3. Qojqva had been playing out of his mind in the leadup and during the American Qualifiers, but other players will need to step up. The players have a lot of experience, but there's been a lot of turmoil surrounding this team, and this group has only been together for a short while. ROSTER: Carry: Tyler "TC" Cook (c) Mid: Max "Qojqva" Broecker Offlane: Sam "Bulba" Sosale Support: Jimmy "Demon" Ho Support: Peter "Waytosexy" Nguyen MVP.Phoenix  South-East Asian Qualifiers. Historically the second best team in Korea, they've been on a tear since the addition of QO. Their run through the Qualifiers surprised many, though their magic seemed to wear off for the finals where they looked outclassed against Arrow. Very young team, and without a lot of Dota experience to draw from in their home country. ROSTER: Carry: Park "March" Tae Won (c) Mid: Kim "QO" Seon Yeob Offlane: Lee "Forev" Sang Don Support: Lee "Reisen" Jun Yeong Support: Lee "Heen" Seung GoN What can I earn for watching this and other event? By watching games in client or on Twitch, you can earn special ingame drops. These drops will be tied to specific ingame events, such as first bloods or multikills, and will be tagged with the time, date, and players involved. For most tournaments, you will have to have bought the ticket to be eligible for drops. I want to earn cool hat drops and level up my Meepo set but I'm stuck going to the movies with my wife. What can I do? You have two options. Using the console command dota_spectator_auto_spectate_games leagueid you can set Dota 2 to automatically join tournament games of a given tournament. See this page for individual league IDs. Alternatively, you can link your twitch.tv account to Steam, making you eligible for ingame item drops. UPDATE: There is now a tickbox on each tournament page allowing you to autospectate games. I'm having issues with Twitch/DailyMotion/Ustream/whatever. Help! Kyrosiris posted:I have noticed that people who have stream issues with either Twitch or DailyMotion have them considerably reduced with Livestreamer. RESOURCES Statistics http://www.datdota.com http://dotabuff.com/esports http://dotametrics.wordpress.com/ VOD/Streams http://dailydota2.com/ http://www.dotacinema.com/vods Dota 2 Match Ticker extension for Chrome News http://esportsexpress.com/category/dota-2/ http://www.liquiddota.com http://www.joindota.com http://www.gosugamers.net/dota2 Betting http://dota2lounge.com/ - Bet Dota 2 items on games. Meat Recital fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Oct 20, 2014 |
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Guidos Python posted:
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Jan 10, 2014 07:43
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Orange is gonna win TI4
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EternalEnvy made a long post on Team Liquid on how to get in to the pro scene and how to make money playing Dota. It's kind of old though. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=385238
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Jan 10, 2014 23:55
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Winter's cool, but caster of the year? Huh. Fy is another surprise, even if he deserves it.
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Jan 11, 2014 02:58
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Burning is on record as saying 4 protect 1 doesn't work anymore, and he's always been willing to TP in to help in fights, especially since DK got their new roster. If you want examples of a farm a lot but do nothing carry players, you're looking at Sylar or Black^, not Burning.
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Jan 11, 2014 03:47
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First big overlay fuckup of 2014.
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Jan 11, 2014 05:52
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Someone needs to organize an intervention for Goblak. Second pick Treant, really?
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Jan 12, 2014 22:49
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RoX KIS needs more stuns. Or any stuns.
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Jan 12, 2014 23:21
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Tobi joking how he gets too drunk to watch Dota is the Tobiest non-racist thing he's ever said.
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Jan 12, 2014 23:23
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This is a good example of how to play against Tiny + Wisp. Offensive tri lane them and they'll never get started.
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Jan 13, 2014 00:34
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Devor posted:Edit: Apparently game 5 will not be tonight. Burn it all down It now appears that it is.
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Jan 13, 2014 00:46
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Hahahaha, what are these stats? Chance to throw? Hardliner?
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Jan 15, 2014 18:19
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Alliance isn't even playing that bad, they're just not doing anything.
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Jan 15, 2014 18:34
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Now it's Speed Gaming's turn to not do anything.
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Jan 15, 2014 18:52
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You killed someone. now do something jfc
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Jan 15, 2014 19:05
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That cheese transfer 
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Jan 15, 2014 19:08
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Kaipi threw that more than anything. They did NOTHING past the 20 minute mark. It was infuriating.
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Jan 15, 2014 19:22
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TheRat posted:You need some pretty solid items to push highground into chakram/horses/rip tide/fissure/echo/starfall. But there were still T2s up that they didn't even try to push. They could have done something.
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Jan 15, 2014 19:27
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I'm guessing Timbersaw is Bulldog's next hero to try to learn.
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Jan 15, 2014 19:40
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And now the casual racism from pieliedie
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Jan 15, 2014 19:48
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Reoxygenation posted:Unsure if Alliance is back on track or if Speed is just poo poo right now Speed are a good team but they react poorly to clowniness. They played poorly in game 1 though.
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Jan 15, 2014 20:00
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Digging this triple Gauntlet Clockwerk build.
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Jan 15, 2014 20:14
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From the lobby chat on the Russian stream, it looks like they're stuck with Meepo, Loda is gone (?), and Alliance are volunteering each other to play Meepo.
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Jan 15, 2014 20:43
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Where's the meepo? gently caress.
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Jan 15, 2014 20:59
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They said in lobby chat they would play it.
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Jan 15, 2014 21:01
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Meepo picks are serious business.
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Jan 15, 2014 21:07
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Farming Bristle happens a lot. Some of the Starladder teams, and Empire in particularly, do it quite often.
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Jan 15, 2014 21:08
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OoV/Poor Man's Shield/Vanguard Spectre is going to win this game.
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Jan 15, 2014 21:29
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Kunkka cleave and Spectre Desolate deal pure damage, HOW ARE THEY GOING TO KILL VIPER, HIS MAGIC RESIST IS SO HIGH? these casters are the worst.
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Jan 15, 2014 21:39
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Game killing kill
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Jan 15, 2014 21:49
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kick Aui, fly in Black^ from Korea
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Jan 15, 2014 21:52
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I think EE's game sense is okay but he sometimes tunnel visions in engagements and he gets caught out because of it. 6.79 has not been kind to Black^ and his style of carry play, and until he changes I dont think it would be a good idea.
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Jan 15, 2014 21:58
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How did LD get these pastel pink/baby blue minimap icons?
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Jan 17, 2014 16:46
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OYOYOYOYOYOY is not one of LD's better catchphrases.
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Jan 17, 2014 16:53
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Two hour wait between games, blargh.
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Jan 17, 2014 17:07
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Frankston posted:I don't have dota installed but I'd like to watch this, where do I click? Click here in an hour and a half http://www.twitch.tv/dotastarladder_en
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Jan 17, 2014 17:26
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Puppey mocking Ayesee owns.
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Jan 17, 2014 17:31
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Sheever is hopelessly over her head trying to get this interview on track.
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Jan 17, 2014 17:46
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When are teams going to learn Slark is not a real carry?
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Mirana's okay as a carry, but she does need a lot of farm. Slark really needs to snowball, then they play him as a farmer and he just doesn't hold up lategame.
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