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boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

I do love gorc stream when they are chill so I hope the dude puts up a good showing in TI

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boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Who is this Savage guy anyway? Pubstar?

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

So close and yet so far.

I just want the Korean boys to make it

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Why would you go for throne there. DD meant fast roshan. Might as well get it and push rax or something not all in there

Throw at the end for Jinebus

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Well im going to get my prediction battepass points for Mineski but I'm sad about it

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Man still sad about the Koreans but on the other hand Mineski has people worth cheering on

Lets go Kpii

Also who's looking strong in the CIS region?

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

I love some spicy revenge drama at my TI

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Are you saying the big unprecedented spike in the prize money is because of the location and not because of the content of the battlepass?

The average people finding more value in battlepass makes them spend more overall and it adds up

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

Getting Planetfall is like 200$+, Kid Invoker is like 240$ and Axe is around 300$. I don't know how many people could be persuaded to drop three-hundred dollars they weren't already planning on spending on the game. Even then, I don't think the "average" person is spending that much - I think Valve (like every other mobile game company does) puts the show-off prizes in the 1000-2000 range (Aegis next to your name in-game, the baby roshan) as a way to show off to everyone how much money you spend, and that draws in the whales. Appealing to the people who are going to spend significantly, significantly more than the average player has always been the correct move for microtransactions. And, the evidence points to China being the home of the Dota whales. If you look at the average battlepass level on the Chinese server, it's significantly higher than any other server. I remember one year there was a battlepass level leaderboard, and it was pretty much all Chinese players. Putting your big tournament in the home country of your statistical biggest spenders is very likely a move meant to cause more excitement among Chinese fans and prompt people to spend more

The point is there was no real merit of spending that much money before while now there's a stronger motivation with arcanas that are spread out. Sure axe is kinda out of reach for most people but there are tiny, earthshaker, invoker stuff to grab.

Like the graph this year is insane, you have to have seen the drastic jump of it right?

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

I've sacrificed sleep to watch TI, sad people here won't do the same now that the timezone has changed

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Who is ready for some clowny rear end professional dotes

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

boo dad jokes boo

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

marxismftw posted:

This would have never happened in America. :911:

We would have had endless visa issues instead

Also wonder what game I should watch

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

I can see this Alliance game might be the most shortest game of this tournament

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

I pretty much frantically guessed all the group stage predictions for each game so I'll be surprised if I get more than 50% of them correct

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Remember folks, this is all about the broodmother and she just got a midas

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:

Brood isn't a good enough hero to solo carry poo poo like this imo

I'm assuming a farmed brood will create enough space for heroes like Arc to farm later on but good god I didn't expect Arc to get shut down this hard

Also holy poo poo that DW ult

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Bad push there Alliance. Death Prophet was playing like he was going to get a guaranteed false promise but didn't get it

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Beautiful toss

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

holy poo poo the fears

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Megas wasn't worth the over extension there. Shame, Alliance played their hearts out and I wanted them to win

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

I think it's also worth mentioning that while Ogre totally hosed all over the lane, he's pretty useless into the lategame, especially when Alliance had Tiny and DP as their cores, neither of which cared about having Bloodlust basically at all.

That Ogre is the reason why Alliance had any chance in the late game though because of how well the lanes went so it was a worthwhile pick still.

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

this purge febby cast is hilarious

they are missing all the kills but their banter is good

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Very satisfied at how that Naga died

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Dota is good

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

IncendiaC posted:

im so upset i trusted some random esports site for today's fantasy picks. it said to pick sumail and rtz and i didn't think to question the fact that eg are in fact really bad

Man not sure which person you listened to cause that sounded like a bad idea. Most of the stuff I checked were like pick VG and some NAVI players like Crystallize and Sonneiko and skip EG since they are underperforming.

I regret putting in Fly honestly, should have put in notail instead

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

My fantasy points might be hosed cause of how VG is underperforming

also RTZ AGAINST THE WORLD

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Nobody can kill this loving lifestealer lmao

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Such is the of players with tournament jitters

Poor bastards must be so nervous and stressed

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Topson from downtown

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

I loving love OG

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Jesus that crit on lifestealer

Infamous clowning on EG with Wraith King

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

viva loving peru

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

OG are so good goddamn

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Its great seing both Tide and ES gently caress up their ults

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

High level BM from Ana there

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

Who has the highlight of this? I neeeeeed to show my friends

https://clips.twitch.tv/TriumphantDifficultWerewolfThunBeast

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

professional clowny dota is the best dota

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Somehow so few heroes are dying in these engagements

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boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Khezu carried his team so hard

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