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On April 26 2013 07:01 Unleashing wrote:
Casted games that HE felt were more suitable for him to cast, leaving some games without english coverage regardless of valve telling the casters who would cover what :/
Also lied to slesh about him getting to cast, as synderen basically just replaced slesh as soon as mtw got eliminated (which was very early), while slesh was told he'd get to cast a lot more than that.
Or something like that, I don't remember and I didn't really care that much.
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So given that there are 13 invite spots, how are they going to be divided up? 6 east, 6 west + LGD.int?
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On April 26 2013 07:51 DeltaX wrote:
So given that there are 13 invite spots, how are they going to be divided up? 6 east, 6 west + LGD.int?
AKA 7 east?....
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On April 26 2013 07:52 Porkz wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2013 07:51 DeltaX wrote:
So given that there are 13 invite spots, how are they going to be divided up? 6 east, 6 west + LGD.int? AKA 7 east?....
6.5 each? 
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They favoured east last year over west and I don't see them changing that. If anything based on last years standings you would invite less west but doubt they will do that. Something like 8-5 might happen with 2 NA, 2 CIS , 1 EU and 5 CN, 3 SEA. Prob 4 CN and 2 EU though.
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LGD.Int
LGD.Cn
IG
DK
4 team for China
Orange
Zenith
MUFC?
For Sea
Alliance
Na'vi
Fnatic
VP(?)
For EU
EG
Dignitas
For NA.
Rest i dunno. Western scene is really volatile right now. Empire basically died (Vigoss kill every fucking team, i'd have liked to see a LoH exchange with Funnique, but i guess he's too busy getting pussy), VP pro has too many high and downs, while teams like Qpad or Mouz feel a step below top tier EU. NA scene is a joke, EG and Liquid are their top team, but they're both playing horrible lately, and Dignitas may as well be the top team NA right now. I'd give the spot to EG before Liquid though, if only because i feel EG may be better on LAN due to the experience of some of their players (Maelk and Fear).
Old Empire when scandal was on fire was so awesome.
EDIT: confused Fnatic with Dignitas
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VP is going to get an invite. There is absolutely no way that Valve invites only one CIS team. The CIS viewerbase for DotA 2 is too big and too important.
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I don't pay as much attention to the eastern scene as the western. If they got 7 invites, and then another eight for the east qualifier, who would those 15 teams likely be?
I can think of iG, DK, lgd.cn, zenith, Orange, Zenith, TongFu, MUFC, and possibly lgd.int, but that is only 8 (9 if you count lgd.int).
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On April 26 2013 08:20 Gheizen64 wrote:
LGD.Int
LGD.Cn
IG
DK
4 team for China
Orange
Zenith
MUFC?
For Sea
Alliance
Na'vi
Fnatic
For EU
EG
Fnatic
For NA.
Rest i dunno. Western scene is really volatile right now. Empire basically died (Vigoss kill every fucking team), VP pro has too many high and downs, while teams like Qpad or Mouz feel a step below top tier EU. NA scene is a joke, EG and Liquid are their top team, but they're both playing horrible lately, and Fnatic.Na may as well be the top team NA right now. I'd give the spot to EG before Liquid though, if only because i feel EG may be better on LAN due to the experience of some of their players (Maelk and Fear).
Old Empire when scandal was on fire was so awesome.
... Fnatic.NA over Dignitas and Liquid? -.-
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On April 26 2013 08:22 Shaella wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2013 08:20 Gheizen64 wrote:
LGD.Int
LGD.Cn
IG
DK
4 team for China
Orange
Zenith
MUFC?
For Sea
Alliance
Na'vi
Fnatic
For EU
EG
Fnatic
For NA.
Rest i dunno. Western scene is really volatile right now. Empire basically died (Vigoss kill every fucking team), VP pro has too many high and downs, while teams like Qpad or Mouz feel a step below top tier EU. NA scene is a joke, EG and Liquid are their top team, but they're both playing horrible lately, and Fnatic.Na may as well be the top team NA right now. I'd give the spot to EG before Liquid though, if only because i feel EG may be better on LAN due to the experience of some of their players (Maelk and Fear).
Old Empire when scandal was on fire was so awesome. ... Fnatic.NA over Dignitas and Liquid? -.-
Confused Fnatic with Dignitas.
But yeah, if they're going to invite 2 CIS, add VP to that List and it's complete. It's not a team that can really go anywhere imho, but i'll hope to be proved wrong.
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On April 26 2013 08:21 TheYango wrote:
VP is going to get an invite. There is absolutely no way that Valve invites only one CIS team. The CIS viewerbase for DotA 2 is too big and too important.
Yea too many people forget this. Navi/VP are pretty much in. Empire would be too if they didn't go to shit.
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On April 26 2013 08:22 Shaella wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2013 08:20 Gheizen64 wrote:
LGD.Int
LGD.Cn
IG
DK
4 team for China
Orange
Zenith
MUFC?
For Sea
Alliance
Na'vi
Fnatic
For EU
EG
Fnatic
For NA.
Rest i dunno. Western scene is really volatile right now. Empire basically died (Vigoss kill every fucking team), VP pro has too many high and downs, while teams like Qpad or Mouz feel a step below top tier EU. NA scene is a joke, EG and Liquid are their top team, but they're both playing horrible lately, and Fnatic.Na may as well be the top team NA right now. I'd give the spot to EG before Liquid though, if only because i feel EG may be better on LAN due to the experience of some of their players (Maelk and Fear).
Old Empire when scandal was on fire was so awesome. ... Fnatic.NA over Dignitas and Liquid? -.-
well liquid has won like what 1 tourney so far?
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On April 26 2013 08:24 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2013 08:21 TheYango wrote:
VP is going to get an invite. There is absolutely no way that Valve invites only one CIS team. The CIS viewerbase for DotA 2 is too big and too important. Yea too many people forget this. Navi/VP are pretty much in. Empire would be too if they didn't go to shit.
Empire has been falling apart since the departure of Funn1k
I'd expect 2 CIS, 2 Euro, 2 NA
My predictions would be
Na'vi
VP
[A]
Fnatic.EU
Liquid
Dignitas
I could swap either Liquid or Dig for EG, it depends though, EG needs to show a bit more stability, though they're definitely looking stronger again
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On April 26 2013 08:26 FinestHour wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2013 08:22 Shaella wrote:On April 26 2013 08:20 Gheizen64 wrote:
LGD.Int
LGD.Cn
IG
DK
4 team for China
Orange
Zenith
MUFC?
For Sea
Alliance
Na'vi
Fnatic
For EU
EG
Fnatic
For NA.
Rest i dunno. Western scene is really volatile right now. Empire basically died (Vigoss kill every fucking team), VP pro has too many high and downs, while teams like Qpad or Mouz feel a step below top tier EU. NA scene is a joke, EG and Liquid are their top team, but they're both playing horrible lately, and Fnatic.Na may as well be the top team NA right now. I'd give the spot to EG before Liquid though, if only because i feel EG may be better on LAN due to the experience of some of their players (Maelk and Fear).
Old Empire when scandal was on fire was so awesome. ... Fnatic.NA over Dignitas and Liquid? -.- well liquid has won like what 1 tourney so far?
They've been consistently placing into the finals of almost every tournament they've been in.
With the exception of the embarrassment that was Liquid's EMS 1 run, and the Ritmix Russian Dota 2 League
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EG has three things going for them:
- They've had a consistent roster since the initial roster change post-TI2
- They have more LAN experience than the other NA teams
- They have more star power than the other NA teams
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im seriously hoping TL gets an invite @_@
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Too many good teams, not enough invites.
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patch is live
http://store.steampowered.com/news/10475/
Dota 2 Update - April 25th, 2013
Product Update - Valve 18:22
GAMEPLAY
- Enabled Drow and Tusk in Captain's Mode (Tournament Version)
- Enabled Bristleback, Slark and Skywrath Mage in Captain's Mode (Latest Version)
- Brewmaster: Fixed primal splits not always starting with the correct unit selected.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed hitbox being too small.
- Slark: Fixed Shadow Dance giving Slark flying vision.
- Slark: Fixed Shadow Dance granting passive bonuses to Slark illusions.
- Slark: Fixed an issue causing Shadow Dance's passive modifier to not update in the UI, despite being active.
- Slark: Fixed Dark Pact continuing while Slark is dead.
- Slark: Essence Shift counters on both Slark and enemy heroes will show the total duration ( i.e. the time that the most recent stack will expire.)
- Slark: Fixed a number of incorrect spell interactions with Dark Pact.
- Slark: Fixed a number of horizontal movement ability interactions with Pounce.
- Troll Warlord: Fixed Berserker's Rage bonus damage not being applied as base damage.
- Tusk: Fixed Frozen Sigil not affecting magic immune units.
ECONOMY
- All Defense 2 War Dogs are now Vintage quality.
- Dota 2 Vintage quality items can now be traded on the Steam Community Marketplace.
WORKSHOP
- Added HUD Skins to the Workshop Importer.
PERFORMANCE
- Reduced CPU usage for rendering
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