Reality Sinner posted:

Join us Duzzy we're way better than league of legends

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

The real way to shut down bad posting is to just ignore it instead of thirty people all trying to have an argument with the person. Just never respond to them and they'll get bored and stop posting

Craptacular! posted:

Can’t wait until next TI when that goblin grandmother of the year is the hero teams dread to face head-on.

I think people don’t like when grand finals look suspiciously similar to pubs, and so the complaining and reflections to TI4 over these stomps are mostly because OG used low cooldowns that do moderate amounts of damage and denied Liquid the high cooldown moves associated with big plays like ravage and black hole.

We like that poo poo because we can’t actually hear the players talk, so seeing a team hiding smoked in the trees waiting to spring a big move is about the only time the audience is witness to the strategy discussion. OG’s strategy, without the comms, just looks like a bunch of diving and clowny manfighting. Obviously they’re a super talented team and conformed to the winning playstyle, but the vulnerability they found in Icefrog’s design this year was a pretty stupid one.

TheRat posted:

Lmao. I was rewatching OG vs LGD game 3 and Blitz literally says "Ame has so much armour I don't think he even cares about tide anchor smash" one minute before Topson pretty much two-shots him

Andrast posted:

The worst posters always crawl out of their holes during TI

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Secret.Arteezy

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-Rumor that Sumail wants to play with his brother Yawar,if so there is a chance of CCNC joining EG

Indecisive posted:

Has anyone compiled a list of all the games with links to timestamps of the different streams somewhere, wanna catch stuff I missed but it's hard to dig thru these huge vods

Andrast posted:

Dota 2 channel on youtube has all the games

Indecisive posted:

Has anyone compiled a list of all the games with links to timestamps of the different streams somewhere, wanna catch stuff I missed but it's hard to dig thru these huge vods

boredsatellite posted:

God i love team shuffle drama

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Fy the Fgod is considering leave the Dota scene Source: rotk’s live stream
fy is considering going to LOL

Not Al-Qaeda posted:

Centzon Totochtin posted:

https://twitter.com/Febbydota/status/1165666138669420545?s=19

Yall missing the real drama

Vando posted:

what sort of hosed up rear end in a top hat would choose to play league just because they're only on the third best dota team in the world?

Craptacular! posted:

What I was getting at is that TI is usually defined by some sort of big play: the play 2012, the million dollar dreamcoil, the whatever million dollar echo slam, etc. Someone after TI4 derisively referred to the main event as “the [$] tier one tower push” because there wasn’t a single big highlight teamfight. Part of the problem was the meta of giving big rewards for T1s and the lack of a bounce back for a bad start, but ultimately it was just a team outplaying another team hard by doing everything well. This TI’s meta wasn’t really at all like TI4, the only comparison was one team outplaying another by doing everything well. You could kind of say game 4 had a fifteen million dollar Diffusal Blade, but that was kind of overshadowed by how broken Wisp is.

All I wanted to say was that OG probably worked harder than people comparing to TI4 are giving them credit for, they compare it to TI4 mostly because the see any attempt at a big memorable play is constantly rebuffed by just charging in and murdering the Tidehunter and then running away, which is is effective but unsatisfying.

Not to take anything away from OG. They have all the strategies and make use of them, they didn’t just always play this one game this way and wait for the meta to shift their way. They’ve shown they can do anything.

The REAL Goobusters posted:

rtz with Secret makes sense because of his past time with Puppey and Zai. But I’m not sure how he would fit with a player like midone. The cool thing about nisha was that they were able to make both of them work in game. Idk what other team Nisha would join

IcePhoenix posted:

Fly and S4 are rumored to leave EG.

Carrier posted:

When are we getting the Fly redemption ark

The REAL Goobusters posted:

The big lesson coming out of this TI is that teams should be filled with players that enjoy each other’s company and can form a good bond of trust