Pro Dota 2 The International 2019: LETS PLAY SOME DOTA!

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Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

emdash posted:

What hours will the actual TI games be on for people in Pacific/Eastern time? Probably like 9-10PM Eastern then going throughout the night, right?

Probably, yeah. They'll presumably start the day at 10-11am, and 10am Shanghai time is 7pm Pacific/10pm Eastern.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2019 03:28

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 16:17

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

lurksion posted:

We need a team plasma to complete the set then.

Team Bose-Einstein Condensate

# ¿ Jul 2, 2019 06:50

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Pudge/Morphling on the same team with a Morphling Agh's.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2019 19:41

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

McSharpie posted:

TFT are going to win this despite giving every big spell to this rubick

This Ember is having a bad enough game to offset it, though. They're basically playing the 2k pub strat of "hope the Sniper gets gigantic and just peeps everyone to death".

# ¿ Jul 13, 2019 17:36

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Ritsu holding his buyback for next game, apparently.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2019 01:00

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

I just remember the first Midas Mode tournament, where randoming gave moonbucks so the better teams just randomed and figured out a way to win anyway.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2019 22:45

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

If you're just learning the game, I'm not sure if you've tried Turbo mode or not, but that's one of the things I'd actually not advise people to try. It's going to give you a totally weird sense for how the game works that will be really difficult to adjust to if you go into regular games that are a lot longer and function completely differently. On the flipside though, if you never really care about playing ranked or anything and just want to play for fun (as much fun as you can have in a strictly competitive game, anyways), you could consider only playing turbo and never branching out into the regular game mode, because it's way more time intensive and way more toxic.

On the same note, don't spend too much time playing against bots. Practicing heroes is fine but you're going to get a bad sense of how people actually play the game. Bot's are beyond just training wheels mode, even on the highest difficulty setting. It's like playing chess against someone who doesn't use knights at all.

It sort of depends on what you're trying to learn. Bot matches and Turbo matches give you somewhat of a sense of what the heroes and items do, which is an important factor, but the game flow is very different and not reflective of the main game mode, and the game balance is noticeably different.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2019 01:40

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

That Lich/Enigma match was legendary.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2019 18:36

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

schmitty9800 posted:

Knew I should have checked first I just wasted 5 minutes doing this.

Also keep in mind for day 4 that we might have tiebreakers.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2019 01:38

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Seven buybacks in one teamfight.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2019 06:25

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

VP serving up some delicious ice cream tonight.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2019 07:38

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Ame. Stop. They had families.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2019 09:43

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Ah, there's the NA Dota we know and love.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2019 10:01

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Meanwhile, Na'vi is losing to Infamous.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2019 03:32

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

What did I just watch

# ¿ Aug 16, 2019 08:01

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

And you all thought Infamous was going out in the group stage.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2019 08:13

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

It's happening again.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2019 09:02

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Double Laguna kill!

edit: This would be a rough one for Chaos, especially since they need to gain 3 points on Liquid with 2 bo2s to play for each.

Incoherence fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Aug 17, 2019

# ¿ Aug 17, 2019 09:25

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

TheRat posted:

What the heck happened to the TNC/Chaos game

Chaos blew an early lead, then TNC ratted them to death, then TNC attempted to throw by diving too deep for megas, and then vtFaded missed a couple chronos and now we're here.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2019 10:01

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Khezu is the only reason Chaos isn't already out of this tournament

# ¿ Aug 17, 2019 10:06

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Dota 2, everybody!

# ¿ Aug 17, 2019 10:16

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Chaos now only needs 2 more wins than Liquid (or 3 more than Keen, who play Liquid) over their respective last 2 series to stay alive.

Meanwhile, NiP is on life support.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2019 10:19

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

...and NiP stakes their tournament on a mid Abaddon.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2019 10:25

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

I think we get tiebreakers if both TNC and Alliance win (3-way tie for 3rd with the winner of Newbee/Mineski), or both lose (winner of Newbee/Mineski gets 3rd, 3-way tie for 4th with remaining teams).

# ¿ Aug 18, 2019 06:14

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Well, this is a wet fart of an ending: both the remaining Group A matches are getting stompy.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2019 06:35

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

IcePhoenix posted:

8 points clinches Upper Bracket with Infamous dropping a game to RNG. Winner of Fnatic/VP game two is IN. EG just needs a split against NiP to join them. If EG gets swept by NiP then we'll get a four team tiebreak for the last UB spot

I'm pretty sure I have even less confidence in NiP than I did in Liquid.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2019 07:11

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Its Rinaldo posted:

Seeing those blinking bracelets in the crowd makes me nostalgic and jelly. Why you gotta move TI out of my backyard valve

Because Key Arena isn't a thing right now?

# ¿ Aug 20, 2019 04:46

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

1 player on one of the best teams in the world just casually catches the world's most expected arrow

# ¿ Aug 20, 2019 05:53

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Forget all that, Dendi's here

# ¿ Aug 20, 2019 06:13

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

I'm not sure if I should be worried about my VG prediction now or just amazed at how effectively TNC is using the EternalEnvy strat

# ¿ Aug 20, 2019 09:48

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

ElNarez posted:

I feel like between centaur's retaliate and lesh's nova, this is actually a loving terrible game to pick Brood into, so really it's on the casters

I don't think they expected Armel to get dunked on this hard in the early game, and now it's hard for him to recover. Especially now that Centaur maxes E, he's not super good against spiders early, so there was a window there potentially.

The bigger problem is that Kuku doesn't have a game.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2019 10:23

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

IcePhoenix posted:

wait I looked away for a second, did Alliance no-ban?

Yeah, they ran out of time and didn't use their 6th ban.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2019 11:25

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Honey badgers versus bears. Thanks, Dendi.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2019 10:24

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Did Ramzes just spend that entire fight chasing around a position 5 and not even catch him?

# ¿ Aug 21, 2019 10:51

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

The annual VP Choke at TI is in progress.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2019 10:56

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Sudden Loud Noise posted:

There are people online saying that they should have just redone the Alliance draft because of iNSaNiA's mistake. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

These are probably the same people who think we shouldn't have been treated to RTZ Phoenix last year.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2019 00:30

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Yapzor literally saving the game there

# ¿ Aug 22, 2019 08:33

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

It's happening again.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2019 08:47

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Well, that's one way to redeem yourself after throwing game 1

# ¿ Aug 22, 2019 09:02

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 16:17

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

Oh my God, that Capitalist clip

# ¿ Aug 22, 2019 09:03

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