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King Of Coons posted:“Almost unparalleled “ seems like a gross exaggeration. I can name 5 better coaches off the top of my head and one of them is aui Bulba: 1st at TI, 3rd at TI, 5/6th at TI, tons of top 3 results at other majors Aui_2000: lmao Bulba is a really, really good coach and also a fantastic drafter. The idea that he's not is moronic. There are other coaches who have good resumes as well - QQQ, Rotk, SunBhie, and Heen are the biggest ones, and then Ceb is another good coach, but Bulba has coaches a lot of different teams to fantastic results.
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Do not respond to neo Craptacular
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Sep 16, 2019 21:55
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why is bulba an rear end in a top hat
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Sep 16, 2019 21:57
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I dunno if he is an rear end in a top hat but his drafts suck
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Sep 16, 2019 21:58
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Andrast posted:nobody remembers the losers idk everyone remembers EE pretty well
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Sep 16, 2019 22:10
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:I dunno if he is an rear end in a top hat but his drafts suck Can confirm that Bulba is a cool dude and not an rear end in a top hat.
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Sep 16, 2019 23:01
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Bulba invented basically every hero and eliminated LGD in ti3 Put some fuckin respect
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Sep 17, 2019 00:27
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I don't hate Bulba and according to Cr1t he doesn't draft for them but if that's true it really begs the question of wtf he does in the booth and maybe if he did less or more of whatever the hell it is EG wouldn't look so consistently outdrafted.
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Sep 17, 2019 01:33
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Super Rad posted:I don't hate Bulba and according to Cr1t he doesn't draft for them but if that's true it really begs the question of wtf he does in the booth and maybe if he did less or more of whatever the hell it is EG wouldn't look so consistently outdrafted. eg's drafts are poo poo all the time because the hero pools of everyone on eg are poo poo
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Sep 17, 2019 02:24
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:I dunno if he is an rear end in a top hat but his drafts suck Zurreco posted:Can confirm that Bulba is a cool dude and not an rear end in a top hat. Seems like someone has not seen him call people spics in pubs
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Sep 17, 2019 02:24
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:Seems like someone has not seen him call people spics in pubs oof
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Sep 17, 2019 02:29
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Super Rad posted:I don't hate Bulba and according to Cr1t he doesn't draft for them but if that's true it really begs the question of wtf he does in the booth and maybe if he did less or more of whatever the hell it is EG wouldn't look so consistently outdrafted. I always thought Fly was in the vein of Kuroky/Puppey where he always has to make the final call for drafting picks, using the coach to bounce ideas off of. I'm a firm believer in Bulba and I think that the crappy drafts were due to the lovely EG hero pool.
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Sep 17, 2019 02:38
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Lady Galaga posted:I always thought Fly was in the vein of Kuroky/Puppey where he always has to make the final call for drafting picks, using the coach to bounce ideas off of. I'm a firm believer in Bulba and I think that the crappy drafts were due to the lovely EG hero pool. That's kind of the problem though. A coach should be able to tell players "hey, these are the heroes you guys need to be able to play and should be practicing." The coach is exactly the person you'd expect to be trying to remedy the bad hero pool situation. Bulba is like a "cool mom" who lets their kid drink wine coolers and wants to hang out with all their kids friends but has done an incredibly bad job of preparing them for real-life responsibilities
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Sep 17, 2019 02:48
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:That's kind of the problem though. A coach should be able to tell players "hey, these are the heroes you guys need to be able to play and should be practicing." The coach is exactly the person you'd expect to be trying to remedy the bad hero pool situation. Bulba is like a "cool mom" who lets their kid drink wine coolers and wants to hang out with all their kids friends but has done an incredibly bad job of preparing them for real-life responsibilities you sound very knowledgable about what goes on in the EG boot camp; did you spend your summer there or are you just friends with the staff?
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Sampatrick posted:you sound very knowledgable about what goes on in the EG boot camp; did you spend your summer there or are you just friends with the staff? Do you have any refutations or concerns with my points about a coaches responsibilities on a team
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Sep 17, 2019 02:59
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who on eg is the stud that players want to play with is ramzes an rtz fangay??
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Sep 17, 2019 03:32
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or maybe its legendary coach mr sam bulba
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Sep 17, 2019 03:33
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Sampatrick posted:Bulba: No?
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Sep 17, 2019 03:41
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Tenkaris posted:No? Bulba was the coach for EG at TI5
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Hmm, apparently so. I even watched that entire main event and I don't remember seeing him at all.  I know coaches were less of a thing back then, but I've even been rewatching a lot of old main event VODs and was loving seeing Ceb as panel talent and Bulba really doesn't seem to come up as much as PPD in analysis. Edit: Yeah seems like he was an entirely backstage thing back then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPhIwx6E4Wo you don't even see him anywhere with them in these videos. Tenkaris fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Sep 17, 2019 |
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Sep 17, 2019 03:52
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Lady Galaga posted:I always thought Fly was in the vein of Kuroky/Puppey where he always has to make the final call for drafting picks, using the coach to bounce ideas off of. I'm a firm believer in Bulba and I think that the crappy drafts were due to the lovely EG hero pool. Fly left OG and then they won two TIs back to back so I'm certainly willing to believe Fly is a big part of the problem, which again raises the question of what it is exactly that Bulba does in the booth while Fly is drafting. I mean you can see him in there with a poo poo eating grin on his face the entire time, sometimes they do that coach interview thing post-draft where he's always super optimistic and thinks EG totally have it even though they are obviously outdrafted. Idk if he's not drafting and not making good suggestions and not trying to correct any of mistakes they make over and over again, if he's not encouraging them to grow their hero pools... then either EG are not making good use of him or he's loving useless
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it is also possible that they have confidence in the heroes that they think are good or scenarios where they think a lineup is good but that confidence is misplaced. if eg was right about all the heroes that are good and when certain lineups are good, they probably would have won ti because that is usually what makes a team win ti.
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Super Rad posted:Fly left OG and then they won two TIs back to back so I'm certainly willing to believe Fly is a big part of the problem, which again raises the question of what it is exactly that Bulba does in the booth while Fly is drafting. I mean you can see him in there with a poo poo eating grin on his face the entire time, sometimes they do that coach interview thing post-draft where he's always super optimistic and thinks EG totally have it even though they are obviously outdrafted. Idk if he's not drafting and not making good suggestions and not trying to correct any of mistakes they make over and over again, if he's not encouraging them to grow their hero pools... then either EG are not making good use of him or he's loving useless I feel it's more of a question of playstyles rather than the pools, Notail and Fly currently play the same role but Notail with a wider hero pool plays more proactive and aggressive along with his team, Fly sticks to playing pos6 type heroes protecting their cores with saves for his team. What is more scary, an early-mid gank team of Jerax Notail and Ceb roaming around versus Fly and Cr1t making plays around Sumail / S4 (now Abed / Ramzes)? Kill All Cops fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Sep 17, 2019 |
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Sep 17, 2019 04:27
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IcePhoenix posted:You can be successful without actually winning by consistently placing in the top, oh let's say three, of major tournaments. The manager who proves you don't need trophies to be a winner but he is a winner
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Sep 17, 2019 04:42
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Any team that doesn't win TI is bad. Then if you do win TI we may still call you bad. But we also might not. Depends.
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Tenkaris posted:Edit: Yeah seems like he was an entirely backstage thing back then? In either Ceb's blog or recent interviews he says coaches only started getting more attention when he started coaching in 2016, soon after he begun to coach was when they started letting coaches into booths to make drafting decisions.
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Sep 17, 2019 04:55
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EG at TI8 had like 75 heroes drafted. TI9 they had 55. Whatever they practiced during bootcamp didn't pan out bc it was too shallow I guess
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Tenkaris posted:Hmm, apparently so. I even watched that entire main event and I don't remember seeing him at all. coaches weren't allowed in the booth until last year iirc ppd has said in interviews that bulba was the one who noticed that nobody on CDEC played leshrac so they didn't have to ban it, and just gave him a lot of credit in general helping prepare for drafts
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https://youtu.be/Nt-cHd-cEXA
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Kild posted:EG at TI8 had like 75 heroes drafted. TI9 they had 55. Whatever they practiced during bootcamp didn't pan out bc it was too shallow I guess They really liked Lifestealer and Gyro. Gyro was a good hero, but EG didn't see much success with it, and Lifestealer was their preferred carry and that obviously went super badly for them. EG somehow didn't end up playing any Void or any WK on the main stage which is, y'know, pretty unusual. I'm not sure why they thought Void was so bad but clearly it didn't work out for them.
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need 96 spacejam to post any remaining team rumors plz in spirit EG got 3rd at TI9 because they only lost to the top 2 finishers QED emdash fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Sep 17, 2019 |
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Sep 17, 2019 18:19
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https://twitter.com/Team_JStorm/status/1174016918950334464?s=20
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RESOLTU1ON
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Sep 17, 2019 18:54
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Hopefully fear will play something else but ogre this time
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Sep 17, 2019 19:10
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Extremely excited for Fear to continue tarnishing his legacy
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Sep 17, 2019 19:15
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It's been proven time and time again that Clinton "Fear" Loomis is one of the few who knows what it takes to truly be a top player in the DotA community.
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Sep 17, 2019 19:19
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Still waiting for the teamup of Moo, Mooz, Moon, Moonmeander, and Moogy. Coached by SunsFan.
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Sep 17, 2019 19:33
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http://blog.dota2.com/2019/09/matchmaking-update-for-the-next-ranked-season/ for those of you who still play, a bunch of (potentially) good changes coming to ranked
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Sep 17, 2019 19:34
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Somebody at Valve decided that Dota 2's player count falling year over year was a problem that needed fixing, evidently
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https://clips.twitch.tv/ShakingHotCasetteOptimizePrime ana is literally the best player of all time
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