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Steveling
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Greece10806 Posts
August 12 2013 04:50 GMT
#1
This is kind of my impressions, wanna write it just 10mins after the event finished while it's all fresh.
And 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

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Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-12 05:24:02
August 12 2013 05:23 GMT
#2
My general view on the series is that navi kinda deserved it more


While I guess you could make that argument about the series (though not sure how), part of the reason I'm so happy Alliance won is that after the fountain hook game and the aegis deny game I just felt like NaVi owed a lot to luck to even be there. They are both fantastic games and the final game had me screaming my heart out but I definitely feel like the tournament was won by the best team in the world, and that makes me happy. The prolonged Rosh fight in game 5 as well as Alliance's brilliant split pushing plays were some of the most exciting things fitting for a TI3 game 5.
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Vaelone
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Finland4400 Posts
August 12 2013 05:47 GMT
#3
Well no matter how much I dislike Alliance they were the strongest team overall in TI3.

Although that decisive matches rat dota left a sour taste in my mouth just because things we're looking so good for Na'Vi and then everything went to hell within a few seconds.

In any case I don't want to see another professional game anytime soon, severe case of burnout.
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