EPTAnd I can't really sleep now, 7:30 am.
Soooo, [A] are pretty evenly matched with the crazy russians+kuro.
S4 doesn't always win his lane but damn if he won't dictate the flow of the game in his favor.
Look at his ns and his puck games.
Loda has being the most consistent western carry for the past decade.
Xboct is crazy. The opening to the money game was both absurd and hilarious. He was outfighting [a] in 1v4 situations with fog moves that merlini's zeus would be jealous about.
EGM and kuro don't shine that much without their respective heroes(naga+rubick) but they can still make top 10 plays all day long.
Dendi is a killer. That's his difference with s4.
Same tier, different breed.
Puppey managed to reason out [a]'s dominance in egm's naga. He banned it and they finally outplayed them in teamfights.
Bulldog I feel was the weakest of all 10 in this series, something to do with his very little experience in top level.
The other way to see it is that this guy managed to get his hands on the TI Aegis having 1/4th the experience of most of the other players. What will he be like 1 year from now?
Funnik and akke with some solid plays, deserve to play in ti finalist squads.
My general view on the series is that navi kinda deserved it more, they played better but lost it in just 2 fatal moments.
1 being the 1st teamfight in the ns game with their worse teamfight I can remember, score going from 1-0 to 1-5 and then losing complete control of the game.
The other being ofc the brilliant read disrupted tp's by s4's puck.
Can't say that [a] don't deserve it though, they played magnificently and their final record is jaw dropping.
Also ratdoto needs more love.
That last game was the reason we love dota.
#cu@ti4
