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TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Classic jimmy

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Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

triad posted:

ppd look like he just rubbed a balloon all over his head

No Safe Word
Feb 26, 2005

Team Secret finally posts about their roster change

Of note, Kuro is back to a support, Arteezy will carry and Zai will offlane:

quote:

The change in roster also includes a few role changes with KuroKy switching to a support role, Arteezy taking the carry role and zai taking the offlane role.
Team Secret
1. Artour 'Arteezy' Babaev
2. Gustav 's4' Magnusson
3. Ludwig 'zai' Wåhlberg
4. Clement 'Puppey' Ivanov
5. Kuro 'KuroKy' Salehi Takhasomi

e: N0tail with quite the professional statement in there as well, good for him

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Illdan is a raidboss, heh

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH
VPP status: still owns.

klaphark
Mar 10, 2013
I dunno about this ppd doc teaser.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free
I see the work on the new EG team house is coming along nicely:

HATEPOSTING
May 27, 2011

No Safe Word posted:

Team Secret finally posts about their roster change

Of note, Kuro is back to a support, Arteezy will carry and Zai will offlane:


e: N0tail with quite the professional statement in there as well, good for him

Welp looks like kuroky himself recognizes hes a subpar carry.

klaphark
Mar 10, 2013
What the gently caress was that ad.

CampingCarl
Apr 28, 2008




No Safe Word posted:

Team Secret finally posts about their roster change

Of note, Kuro is back to a support, Arteezy will carry and Zai will offlane:


e: N0tail with quite the professional statement in there as well, good for him
So I guess Arteezy will be playing safe lane? I guess I am not really feeling this is much better than what they had before until I see how good offlane Zai is.

triad
Jan 6, 2007

YOU KNEADED SOMEONE TO BLAME, SO YOU CRUST IT ON ME
Aye$ee gotta make that money somehow

edit: are going to see the dreaded new meta shadow blade cm?

triad fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jan 7, 2015

Joda
Apr 24, 2010

When I'm off, I just like to really let go and have fun, y'know?

Fun Shoe
I'll probably never understand why they'd kick n0tail and to have kuroky take his place as a support. I'm by no means an expert, but isn't n0tail a significantly better 5 than kky?

that one guy
Jun 3, 2005
Sumail looks like a baby. I know it's because he is literally a child, but he's just such a stark contrast to the other players.

Wezlar
May 13, 2005



Joda posted:

I'll probably never understand why they'd kick n0tail and to have kuroky take his place as a support. I'm by no means an expert, but isn't n0tail a significantly better 5 than kky?

Arteezy is the best carry player in the world.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

that one guy posted:

Sumail looks like a baby. I know it's because he is literally a child, but he's just such a stark contrast to the other players.

Universe looks like he's playing dota with his son.

triad
Jan 6, 2007

YOU KNEADED SOMEONE TO BLAME, SO YOU CRUST IT ON ME

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Universe looks like he's playing dota with his son.

lol

also, D I R E B O Y S

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_O88IQrQx0

no idea what this is all about

Joda
Apr 24, 2010

When I'm off, I just like to really let go and have fun, y'know?

Fun Shoe

Wezlar posted:

Arteezy is the best carry player in the world.

What I mean to say is, wouldn't it make more sense to kick kuroky and keep n0tail as their 5, if they were gonna change kky to a 5 anyway? I was in no way trying to comment on the merits of rtz or kky as carries.

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009

Joda posted:

What I mean to say is, wouldn't it make more sense to kick kuroky and keep n0tail as their 5? I was in no way trying to comment on the merits of rtz or kky as carries.

Kky and Puppey are good friends so Kky is never going to go while Puppey is still on the team.

No Safe Word
Feb 26, 2005

Joda posted:

What I mean to say is, wouldn't it make more sense to kick kuroky and keep n0tail as their 5? I was in no way trying to comment on the merits of rtz or kky as carries.

If you read n0tail's statement it's pretty clear he just had some personality clashes with either kky (maybe?), Puppey (maybe?) or s4 (my guess but who knows) that meant it'd be tough to stay on the team together.

I think n0tail is regarded as a more skilled support than kky but possibly with a smaller pool, though with all the hero/meta changes since kky was last a support who knows what the gently caress anymore

Wezlar
May 13, 2005



Joda posted:

What I mean to say is, wouldn't it make more sense to kick kuroky and keep n0tail as their 5? I was in no way trying to comment on the merits of rtz or kky as carries.

Oh, Kuroky and Puppey are BFFs and will probably never split again.

EE said on Reddit that Arteezy actually wasn't under consideration for Secret at first so I think he was a package deal with Zai.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Joda posted:

What I mean to say is, wouldn't it make more sense to kick kuroky and keep n0tail as their 5, if they were gonna change kky to a 5 anyway? I was in no way trying to comment on the merits of rtz or kky as carries.

has to be personality issues. notail is quite literally one of the best players in the world and even if zai is great (he's decent at the very least) he's not as good as notail.

triad
Jan 6, 2007

YOU KNEADED SOMEONE TO BLAME, SO YOU CRUST IT ON ME
EG

they still got it

edit: forgot how fun it is to watch universe on timber

mistermojo
Jul 3, 2004

Wezlar posted:

Arteezy is the best carry player in the world.

maybe in the West

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008

Joda posted:

I'll probably never understand why they'd kick n0tail and to have kuroky take his place as a support. I'm by no means an expert, but isn't n0tail a significantly better 5 than kky?

notail and kuroky don't play 5 support.


hope this helps

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


why has every single tournament since TI4 been a complete loving disaster, both online and at LAN

How hard is it to keep 10 computers running and connected to the internet, jesus

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

Taffer posted:

why has every single tournament since TI4 been a complete loving disaster, both online and at LAN

How hard is it to keep 10 computers running and connected to the internet, jesus

Gotta do the finals at a loving casino bro, a casino!!!

Ragingsheep
Nov 7, 2009

Taffer posted:

why has every single tournament since TI4 been a complete loving disaster, both online and at LAN

How hard is it to keep 10 computers running and connected to the internet, jesus

Apparently very hard.

triad
Jan 6, 2007

YOU KNEADED SOMEONE TO BLAME, SO YOU CRUST IT ON ME

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH
It probably doesn't help that they're streaming out at a very high quality, too.

CampingCarl
Apr 28, 2008




The REAL Goobusters posted:

notail and kuroky don't play 5 support.


hope this helps
They both seem to think they do and that is what both teams have them doing now?

Taffer posted:

why has every single tournament since TI4 been a complete loving disaster, both online and at LAN

How hard is it to keep 10 computers running and connected to the internet, jesus
Because TI4 was the last time Dota was actually played on a LAN server. It is Valve's fault as much as the tournament's.

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Gotta do the finals at a loving casino bro, a casino!!!

Local lobbies? gently caress that poo poo!

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Craptacular! posted:

It probably doesn't help that they're streaming out at a very high quality, too.

that does not take some uber internet connection, even a residential connection can do that easily


if pub dota games had even 1/2 the connection issues that pro games have, dota would die in a week

Srice
Sep 11, 2011

Taffer posted:

that does not take some uber internet connection, even a residential connection can do that easily


if pub dota games had even 1/2 the connection issues that pro games have, dota would die in a week

That would be an improvement over what US East has been like for the past month or so.

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH

Taffer posted:

that does not take some uber internet connection, even a residential connection can do that easily

Residential connections don't have very good upload, and one guy uploading can max out a connection and kill the ten other clients downloading.

Really though, CES brings a lot of people using every hotel's connection, and the hotels all use Cox cable. Business accounts, but it brings a lot of load mostly to one ISP.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Craptacular! posted:

Residential connections don't have very good upload, and one guy uploading can max out a connection and kill the ten other clients downloading.

Really though, CES brings a lot of people using every hotel's connection, and the hotels all use Cox cable. Business accounts, but it brings a lot of load mostly to one ISP.

that's beside the point, the issue is obviously not that their connection can't upload a single stream. their computers are either just failing in some way or losing connection to the server constantly. I've been watching this stream for 40 minutes and the game has been paused for 30 of that

Superrodan
Nov 27, 2007
I was trying to visit the site for this tournament but it seems to be super broken. What day are the final finals? I haven't been following this at all but I read that it's in Vegas and admission is free. I'm not that far from Vegas so I might be able to make the trip.

Elyv
Jun 14, 2013



Superrodan posted:

I was trying to visit the site for this tournament but it seems to be super broken. What day are the final finals? I haven't been following this at all but I read that it's in Vegas and admission is free. I'm not that far from Vegas so I might be able to make the trip.

They're today, and were supposed to start 2 hours ago. They're on game 2 of loser's finals currently.

Superrodan
Nov 27, 2007
Welp, not gonna happen I guess. Thanks anyways!

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008

Superrodan posted:

Welp, not gonna happen I guess. Thanks anyways!

You would definitely arrive in time for the finals.

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CampingCarl
Apr 28, 2008




The root of the problem is that people are able to ddos a LAN tournament in 2015 because Valve doesn't let tournaments use local lobbies.

Superrodan posted:

I was trying to visit the site for this tournament but it seems to be super broken. What day are the final finals? I haven't been following this at all but I read that it's in Vegas and admission is free. I'm not that far from Vegas so I might be able to make the trip.
The grand final should be right after this series.

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