Chinese reaction after Frankfurt Major - Page 2

Back then, EU was considered the strongest, and the Chinese did care about and respect the top Western players and teams, your LoHs, Lodas, Vigosses, because frankly Chinese dota was very underdeveloped. Some of the earliest webcasted games were atrocious to watch and seemed like some #dotapickup midskill stuff. However that started to change going back to Kingsurfs top 4 in the mym pride tourney, surprising pretty much everyone that an Asian team can play that well and on that kind of ping. Even then people were saying that EU would only lose because of the shit ping and not because of skill.

So western teams kind of mostly kept to themselves, Asian ones did the same cause of the really bad pings. The Chinese however did follow certain players and teams in the west just based on the replay archive at sgamers. Again the facade that western teams were superior was perpetuated since we never really had a straight up LAN fight. Until the Alienware Cup and ESWC 2008 (I think, the one in California), where Asian teams absolutely curb stomped the fuck out of the top western teams. ESWC 2010 in Paris pretty much confirmed it with Ehome just dismantling every one. This period is what Puppey referred to when he said something like he thought he was good at this game and then getting a very rude wakeup call.

Around this time is when I noticed a significant shift in how the Chinese treated their players and teams, much more pride and "chest thumping" than before. The illusion was effectively dispelled, it was obvious who had the best teams. Basically, there was an actual reason for chinese to care about their teams and only their teams. Western teams never fully recovered until TI1 with Navi. Now its kind of funny to see the Chinese scene end up where the western scene was, formerly at the top and rest of the world caught up when they were too busy feeling themselves.