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ElNarez
Nov 4, 2009
I like this ongoing thing where, having been to the top of the mountain, OG have set out to destroy the game of Dota this TI.

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dovetaile
Jul 8, 2011

Grimey Drawer
EG should've just all random picked this last game. No strats just slam that random button.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

omg vp

Red Red Blue
Feb 11, 2007



VP have really not looked good but they might end up upper bracket anyway

ElNarez
Nov 4, 2009
you know what? it worked for OG last year

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008
It was a tough road but the boys made it to upper bracket.

Bleed blue

IncendiaC
Sep 25, 2011
Final group standings (the remaining games are meaningless):

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


The REAL Goobusters posted:

It was a tough road but the boys made it to upper bracket.

Bleed blue

They are just going to get stomped by LGD or Secret

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
Are there two worse cores on a team than Ace and Fata

Jen X
Sep 29, 2014

To bring light to the darkness, whether that darkness be ignorance, injustice, apathy, or stagnation.

Reality Sinner posted:

Are there two worse cores on a team than Ace and Fata

Well in a few weeks there sure will be, when they’re both kicked

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Reality Sinner posted:

Are there two worse cores on a team than Ace and Fata

vtfaded and whichever other core you want to pick from chaos

Mainwaring
Jun 22, 2007

Disco is not dead! Disco is LIFE!



Very curious who OG and LGD pick as their opponent. I dont think either choice is obvious

Original_Z
Jun 14, 2005
Z so good
Well we can cross Wyvern off of the unpicked list.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Mainwaring posted:

Very curious who OG and LGD pick as their opponent. I dont think either choice is obvious

They'll probably just pick whichever team is seeded fourth, which is TNC for Group A, and probably Fnatic for group B (but if EG loses this game Fnatic has the tiebreak over them)

I'm interested in how they determine which players represent a team for the allstar game if more than one is in the top ten at their position. If it's just straight up points regardless then it looks like allstars will be

Core: Mickie, Ramses, Miracle, Nisha
Mid: Somnus, Sumail
Support: dy, pieliedie, Tims, Sonneiko


disregard that, looks like position doesn't matter

Top ten fantasy players are:
dy, pieliedie, yawar, tims, somnus, sonneiko, sumail, xnova, gabbi, eyyou, armel, mickie, ccnc, ame, paparazi, fly, dark, taiga, ori, puppey, abed

Topson will probably get into that, though, with the last game against VG

IcePhoenix fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Aug 18, 2019

IncendiaC
Sep 25, 2011
what the gently caress is going on in this VG/OG game

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Tiny aghs is sure a thing

Alchenar
Apr 9, 2008

OG burning a game to make a point to all the topson haters why they are wrong

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
Gyrocopter, what a hero

ElNarez
Nov 4, 2009
this is about as honest an OG game there was, and still they took it

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

I'm entirely unsure how the three-way tiebreakers work with Bo2s but I think Na'Vi should be 5th in Group B, but liquipedia has them 7th.

Anyway that's important because if they are actually seventh, Alliance could pick them for the Bo1 in the first round of the LB. They probably won't but they could.

e: nvm I think I figured it out

IncendiaC
Sep 25, 2011

ElNarez
Nov 4, 2009

IcePhoenix posted:

I'm entirely unsure how the three-way tiebreakers work with Bo2s but I think Na'Vi should be 5th in Group B, but liquipedia has them 7th.

Anyway that's important because if they are actually seventh, Alliance could pick them for the Bo1 in the first round of the LB. They probably won't but they could.

head-to-head, then record against the lower seeds, then coin flip

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

ElNarez posted:

head-to-head, then record against the lower seeds, then coin flip

yes that's how it's written but I had to figure out how it actually works when you can have ties in the head to head against one team but a win against others

Infamous had a 2-0 and a 1-1, Fnatic had a 2-0 and an 0-2, na'vi had a 1-1 and an 0-2, and I was trying to reconcile them as "wins, losses, and ties" by counting an entire set as one instead of just "add up the wins from the individual games"

Ravus
Jan 15, 2009



Bracket hype!

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
Liquid/ Fnatic in an elimination game already

Arzachel
May 12, 2012

IcePhoenix posted:

They'll probably just pick whichever team is seeded fourth, which is TNC for Group A, and probably Fnatic for group B (but if EG loses this game Fnatic has the tiebreak over them)

OG has had some bad past experiences with TNC in TI so they might pick Newbee :v:

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Arzachel posted:

OG has had some bad past experiences with TNC in TI so they might pick Newbee :v:

They said on stream that they flipped a coin

Emmideer
Oct 20, 2011

Lovely night, no?
Grimey Drawer
This year we learn if the TI curse is real, because OG is looking really good.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Jon Joe posted:

This year we learn if the TI curse is real

Probably not considering more than half of the previous winners won their groups. Hell, the only previous winner to not start in the upper bracket was newbee in the year they did that really weird format

Arzachel
May 12, 2012
There is a slight chance that one of the groups ends up being much stronger like it did last year because accurate seeding for an event like this is impossible.

Edit: lol 3/4 of the upper bracket is the same as last year

Arzachel fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Aug 18, 2019

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

while the body is still warm

https://twitter.com/Peterpandam/status/1163010690581323776?s=19

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010



https://twitter.com/Peterpandam/status/1163018500723503104

The other four? Probably not

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Ravus posted:



Bracket hype!

Looks like Alliance got decently lucky in their BO1 opponent at least

Centzon Totochtin
Jan 2, 2009
NiP.Envy for the most hated team in esports

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

It's a bloody shame Envy didn't pull himself together to make it to the Chinese TI considering how many Chinese fans there are

Also I wanted to see him throw in the main stage

jsoh
Mar 24, 2007

O Muhammad, I seek your intercession with my Lord for the return of my eyesight
eg is going to get eliminated in 9-12th place and disband. and the new eg will be 1 ee 2 rtz 3 universe 4 aui2000 5 ppd with fear as coach and the team wil ldisband the first time ee misses a cs

BabyRyoga
May 21, 2001

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021
I doubt there are any Tier 1 or 3 players willing to play with EE at this point. He is stuck with tier 2 players, who are not good enough to win majors but not bad enough to be sacrificial.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/skrff/status/1163006004411297792

lmao

GOOD TIMES ON METH
Mar 17, 2006

Fun Shoe
Envy is just waiting for the annual prize pools to max out before putting in any effort to win TI. Excited to see him easily roll the competition in 2021

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goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

That is some high class disrespect. Their psychology is on point.

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