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Dignitas Wins the MLG Fall Invitational at Full Sail University
Team Dignitas just won the Fall Invitational championship match 2-1 over Typical Mistakes. The series was great overall, but in the end Dignitas was just too strong for these amateur teams. With this win they will be taking home $10,000, and their first LAN win with this new roster.
Dignitas did not plow through this event like they expected. They took their first two rounds 1-0, but they definitely had a few close moments. And Typical Mistakes put up a great fight in the finals. Although they had a long day of games battling their way out of the loser's bracket with an extra series compared to how many Dignitas played.
Next up in MLG we will have the Fall Championship in Columbus, taking place from November 22-24. Expect to see many of these teams again in top shape.
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Dignitas didn't destroy as I thought, but still won 
I'm not too crazy about the new lineup, but maybe they are working out the kinks?
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It was a fun LAN and I thoroughly enjoyed what it had to offer.
MLG has done nothing but good work on DotA thus far and with Columbus coming soon, i'm pretty hyped. Good job MLG!
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On October 19 2013 12:08 TheEmulator wrote:Dignitas didn't destroy as I thought, but still won I'm not too crazy about the new lineup, but maybe they are working out the kinks?
Time will tell. NA dota has a long way to go, but winning 10K is a good start. They had some good plays during the matches.
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I felt like the production was great, and Merlini/GoDz did awesome as always. The level of play could have been better, but these teams are all starting out basically.
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On October 19 2013 12:08 TheEmulator wrote:Dignitas didn't destroy as I thought, but still won I'm not too crazy about the new lineup, but maybe they are working out the kinks?
I think they're getting better and I don't necessarily think the teams they played against were bad or anything like that even though there isn't much of an argument that Columbus will be a far greater challenge.
I mean I almost immediately gave up hope on new Dignitas but some of their games against notable teams shows faint signs of promise.
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I liked the event and seeing new teams scrap it out is fun too. They will tighten up the more they play over time.
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now here after watching dignitas pull out a great win... i'm here waiting for this planetside 2 thing to finish... Best of luck to Dignitas in MLG Columbus and GL to TM in the MLG Columbus Qualifiers!
edit: amg that free ingame ticket! MLG knocking another one out of the park
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I really hope they become competitive, I would love to see more foreigners in TI4. This is a great, but expected, win!
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United Kingdom24425 Posts
Discounting the level of competition, in comparison to other tournaments in Dota I think this one probably had the least flaws. It had a tone which wasn't too jokey or too serious, the latter usually being a problem with MLG, the first being a problem for GDStudio produced events (it doesn't feel epic or grand if no one takes it seriously, it needs balance). There weren't a lot of technical issues, audio on adds a bit high, dota servers being dota servers, nothing too bad. Interviewer was good. Casting was good. Filler for such a small event was good, but for something larger would need more, like a top 5 video shouldn't really be shown on stream more than once (per day at least).
As for the level of competition...
I get that this event is a bit of a feeler, and they obviously wanted to make sure things worked technically and not put on something too big their first go around. But in the future I think if you really want to put spotlight on amateurs, you need to put them next to the pro teams. Like if you have an amateur league and a pro league, and you do the amateur final before the playoffs of the pro league that will give much more exposure to the amateur teams as more people will be tuning in.
I'd imagine this will be less of a problem though later as now Liquid and EG are back in the game and if there is another NA only tournament they'd probably be in it. But this tournament felt somewhat wasted on lackluster competition.
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On October 19 2013 12:43 Panthae wrote:I really hope they become competitive, I would love to see more foreigners in TI4. This is a great, but expected, win!
I don't understand what your definition of foreigners is implying here.
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On October 19 2013 12:56 Kuroeeah wrote:Show nested quote +On October 19 2013 12:43 Panthae wrote:I really hope they become competitive, I would love to see more foreigners in TI4. This is a great, but expected, win! I don't understand what your definition of foreigners is implying here. Everyone who isn't Swedish/Ukranian/haveyellowblueflag presumably, right?
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TD was meh, not really good at all. I wish TM proved way more than what they showed. But oh well.
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On October 19 2013 12:08 TheEmulator wrote:Dignitas didn't destroy as I thought, but still won I'm not too crazy about the new lineup, but maybe they are working out the kinks?
Idk if they tried as hard as they should have
but some of the Dignitas players have a long way to go before they can take on the teams at columbus
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Kind of expected. Dignitas has some weak links but they're still way above all the other ixdl stack teams.
Also not sure why they've decided to host a 8 match tournament in Orlando, making people fly.
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I enjoyed the event more than I thought I would. I am really looking forward to Columbus :D
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Hmmm, judging from the games I have seen so far, in terms of the best teams in NA, it looks like
1. Team Liquid
2. Take 5
3. Evil Geniuses
4. Dignitas
There is a sizeable gap between 1 and 2. Dignitas has some ways to go before I think they can consistently take games from tougher competition.
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On October 19 2013 14:43 ptbl wrote:
Hmmm, judging from the games I have seen so far, in terms of the best teams in NA, it looks like
1. Team Liquid
2. Take 5
3. Evil Geniuses
4. Dignitas
There is a sizeable gap between 1 and 2. Dignitas has some ways to go before I think they can consistently take games from tougher competition.
I don't disagree with you but without actually seeing liquid play games against other NA teams, we can't really make that snap judgement.
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On October 19 2013 14:53 Kuroeeah wrote:Show nested quote +On October 19 2013 14:43 ptbl wrote:
Hmmm, judging from the games I have seen so far, in terms of the best teams in NA, it looks like
1. Team Liquid
2. Take 5
3. Evil Geniuses
4. Dignitas
There is a sizeable gap between 1 and 2. Dignitas has some ways to go before I think they can consistently take games from tougher competition. I don't disagree with you but without actually seeing liquid play games against other NA teams, we can't really make that snap judgement.
I agree, I never seen Liquid play so we can't really make that decision. Also I feel like with more practice EG>T5 because T5 is not into dota2 competitively. They are just 5 really good player occasionally play together for tournys. Also whether T5 is better than EG right now is debatable.
I do agree that Dignitas is the weakest of these 4 teams but will be better than T5 with more practice.
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Tournament was great but level of play wasn't the highest.
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Dignitas versus random ixdl players. Looked like easy money up front. Level of play wasnt that great either.
But I like korok so all is well.
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was the win ever really in doubt?
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Came home still on time to watch a 10 min blink dagger ursa from Korok melting faces, so i was happy :D
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Typical Mistakes did well considering they had to go to the LB and still gave Dignitas a run of their money. Too bad it was so late for me that I couldn't watch.
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On October 19 2013 19:54 Denzil wrote:
was the win ever really in doubt?
Typical Mistakes put up a reasonable fight.
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disappointed by rtz slayer
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I thought TM was much more impressive. The dignitas roster looks incredible weak, and I must admit, I do not expect anything at all from them.
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On October 19 2013 19:54 Denzil wrote:
was the win ever really in doubt?
TM won the first match of the final series and looked a lot better than dignitas right then, tbh.
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SO my Java Programming partner is CakeZ from Typical Mistakes. Didnt learn that until Friday when i saw him at the event
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I wish stayfree had been able to have attended
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Congrats to Dignitas even if they were the clear favorites from the start.
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Congrats to Dignitas.
Hopefully having a regular well-run circuit like MLG going should convince more NA teams to get into competitive Dota. I wanna see more teams in international competition so I can irrationally fanboy them
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NA event right? Why no Liquid/EG ?
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On October 20 2013 09:46 tadL wrote:
NA event right? Why no Liquid/EG ?
Already invited to MLG columbus.
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Nice to see MLG giving some boost to grassroots NA dota.
Prize pool seems a little high, but hey, it's their money.
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On October 21 2013 00:41 Kontys wrote:
Nice to see MLG giving some boost to grassroots NA dota.
Prize pool seems a little high, but hey, it's their money.
If that irks you, I just want you to know that there will be 4 more $15k prizepool NA only qualifiers next year from MLG.
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Best team name i've seen in awhile. Coming in second is the icing on the cake.
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GRATZ Team DIG! Sorry to say it though, I forgot all about this MLG..... Oh how times have changed.
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Not a surprise, but I doubt they will be able to compete with the big names in Columbus. Still, gg wp, and good luck!
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Nice first appearance from tm, they're gonna use the nadota tag now right?
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