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The process of 10man stacking and brain-storming about something is an incredible experience: fun and exciting.
This reminds me WoW, Wc3's "Impossible Bosses" map and many more games, even Dota scrims to some extent - trying to cookie-cut everything you can to perform somewhat strategy you've been discussing with your friends for hours is a great time and pure fun. And when something big is achieved - your enjoyment rises tenfold.
But you can't experience this in a random Diretide pub match, even if you're 5man stacking - you always end up with worse result rather than 10 man stack will. Even with your 100% perfect execution, you just can't beat their record.
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So the main problem with this is that you should exploit Matchmaking and overall do gimmicky stuff to be able to TOUCH this "game" - actual competition for top1. I think this is not how the game should been played in Valve's thoughts, but this is the way how it is played right now if you want to compete.
But of course if the "rosh" event requires certain heroes to perform a strategy, and in almost any circumstance this is true - you can't have fun with "candies" part, I mean if the "candy" part is different from the "boss" part, then you should separate them, because you pick only one hero and Pudge is more fun for "candy" part, but is shit for the boss fight.
And this is basically what it is right now: Public fun game about candies, and only the boss part for tryhards as the actual competition. I hope Valve is taking notes for their future events which, I think, will be at least as good as Diretide, but more polished for 5 or 10 man stacks, so everyone can be a part of competition more "officially" if this makes sense.
Or you should be able to repick or somehow adjust for each stage to play both.
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Another not that good thing is exposure of strategies. Basically, you can just look at other's people tactic and copy it, which is not a good thing at all. This can help you even if you are not going to copy it 1 for 1, but you may understand some points or things that will make your strategy better than theirs.
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This is not fair, because Party1, the best team at the moment, created their strategy from a scratch and let's pretend Party2 at the same time created theirs strat, but it worked poorly. Then they saw "something" already explored by Party1, simultaneously improving both Party1's and Party2's strategies to create the Startegy3 and eventually to take their 1st place, because there are no "world first" system, but "get most points until the end of a cycle".
My point is: you shouldn't be able to see this. At least till the end of a cycle.
If you haven't played WoW you may not know that ~3 years ago the guild Paragon (I can be TOTALLY wrong, but I heard this rumor, even if this is complete bullshit - still really cool and will make my point) when they defeated The Lich King boss, and I believe he is considered till this day as one of the hardest boss ever created, they (Paragon) did NOT release their Youtube video until there was a second guild to kill the boss - just not to reveal their strategy.
So, what do you guys think?
p.s. my English is better this time, but let me know about mistakes
Update:
Now you can 10 man premade in custom games (in other words everyone can try the boss now as IG does), and the statsman came up with one of my ideas. I feel satisfied
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