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On July 08 2015 04:35 IntoTheheart wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:33 eieio wrote:On July 08 2015 04:27 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:
cut the middleman and just make a merlini flair for eieio I want merlini flair or icon so bad [h]merlini[/h] pls Can't you just make one for yourself, or do you have to convince (or threaten) someone to implement it for you?
i'm pretty sure r1ch would have to implement it
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On July 08 2015 04:32 tehh4ck3r wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:28 goody153 wrote:The "hype" is hugely different. The difference is that 6-10 teams on TI gets into the event without really much work like yeah sure they proved themselves the entire year so they get invited but everybody gets a huge pay even for the worst placing ones without much effort on the event itself (outside the prepartion they did before getting into TI ofc obviously). It feels like another tournament. And even if they kept the same round robin group stages(without the elimination factor aside from the bottom 1-3) there's no real guarantee that they will be serious 100% of the matches. Which really kills cause half the matches wouldn't matter anyways for most teams anyways. And there's another benefit for it which is we get to see our favorite team to play all the teams in the event in a serious manner. On July 08 2015 04:27 tehh4ck3r wrote:
eliminating half the teams before the main event is shitty
last year's format was a direct result of them only having 4 days to run the whole bracket as opposed to 5 like they did at ti3
this year they have 6 days to run the whole bracket, which means that the format will almost certainly be a 16 team bo1 group stage to determine seeds into a double elim bracket similar to what was at TI3
ugh w/e since most teams are gonna play anyways half of those round robin b01 games are gonna be irrelevant cause there's no guarantee they'd take that shit seriously anyways (game quality is gonna be bad since teams don't have much to lose if they lose) the teams took the ti2 and ti3 round robin stages seriously, and the matches there were equally irrelevant by your standards under the ti4 format there was no reason for arrow gaming or na'vi us to take any matches seriously after day 2 but they still did as well this is TI teams aren't just going to joke around
i don't believe it from what i've seen between TI3 groups( where whatever team alliance would just give up after a lead but during TI4 there were many times where teams wouldn't just give up until the throne is dead cause every game counted )
it'll still end up as "oh we lost it's ok lets count this as practice for the main event" even if it's TI cause you know there's no real threat for the championship contending teams since they will most likely get a nice seed spot into the main event. It'll turn out into some kind of "feel the other teams" event rather than something serious where they have to play their hearts out.
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On July 08 2015 04:28 goody153 wrote:The "hype" is hugely different. The difference is that 6-10 teams on TI gets into the event without really much work like yeah sure they proved themselves the entire year so they get invited but everybody gets a huge pay even for the worst placing ones without much effort on the event itself (outside the prepartion they did before getting into TI ofc obviously). It feels like another tournament. And even if they kept the same round robin group stages(without the elimination factor aside from the bottom 1-3) there's no real guarantee that they will be serious 100% of the matches. Which really kills cause half the matches wouldn't matter anyways for most teams anyways. And there's another benefit for it which is we get to see our favorite team to play all the teams in the event in a serious manner. Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:27 tehh4ck3r wrote:
eliminating half the teams before the main event is shitty
last year's format was a direct result of them only having 4 days to run the whole bracket as opposed to 5 like they did at ti3
this year they have 6 days to run the whole bracket, which means that the format will almost certainly be a 16 team bo1 group stage to determine seeds into a double elim bracket similar to what was at TI3
ugh w/e since most teams are gonna play anyways half of those round robin b01 games are gonna be irrelevant cause there's no guarantee they'd take that shit seriously anyways (game quality is gonna be bad since teams don't have much to lose if they lose as long as they secure their spot in the playoffs or get seeded nicely for the TI contenders) w/e but i'll take it as long as they keep the 16 b01's before main event
'teams playing for 15m aren't going to take games seriously' ok dude lol
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On July 08 2015 04:38 goody153 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:32 tehh4ck3r wrote:On July 08 2015 04:28 goody153 wrote:The "hype" is hugely different. The difference is that 6-10 teams on TI gets into the event without really much work like yeah sure they proved themselves the entire year so they get invited but everybody gets a huge pay even for the worst placing ones without much effort on the event itself (outside the prepartion they did before getting into TI ofc obviously). It feels like another tournament. And even if they kept the same round robin group stages(without the elimination factor aside from the bottom 1-3) there's no real guarantee that they will be serious 100% of the matches. Which really kills cause half the matches wouldn't matter anyways for most teams anyways. And there's another benefit for it which is we get to see our favorite team to play all the teams in the event in a serious manner. On July 08 2015 04:27 tehh4ck3r wrote:
eliminating half the teams before the main event is shitty
last year's format was a direct result of them only having 4 days to run the whole bracket as opposed to 5 like they did at ti3
this year they have 6 days to run the whole bracket, which means that the format will almost certainly be a 16 team bo1 group stage to determine seeds into a double elim bracket similar to what was at TI3
ugh w/e since most teams are gonna play anyways half of those round robin b01 games are gonna be irrelevant cause there's no guarantee they'd take that shit seriously anyways (game quality is gonna be bad since teams don't have much to lose if they lose) the teams took the ti2 and ti3 round robin stages seriously, and the matches there were equally irrelevant by your standards under the ti4 format there was no reason for arrow gaming or na'vi us to take any matches seriously after day 2 but they still did as well this is TI teams aren't just going to joke around i don't believe it from what i've seen between TI3 groups( where whatever team alliance would just give up after a lead but during TI4 there were many times where teams wouldn't just give up until the throne is dead cause every game counted ) it'll still end up as "oh we lost it's ok lets count this as practice for the main event" even if it's TI cause you know there's no real threat for the championship contending teams since they will most likely get a nice seed spot into the main event. It'll turn out into some kind of "feel the other teams" event rather than something serious where they have to play their hearts out.
TI3 alliance went 14-0 during the group stages dude
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On July 08 2015 04:39 andyrau wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:28 goody153 wrote:The "hype" is hugely different. The difference is that 6-10 teams on TI gets into the event without really much work like yeah sure they proved themselves the entire year so they get invited but everybody gets a huge pay even for the worst placing ones without much effort on the event itself (outside the prepartion they did before getting into TI ofc obviously). It feels like another tournament. And even if they kept the same round robin group stages(without the elimination factor aside from the bottom 1-3) there's no real guarantee that they will be serious 100% of the matches. Which really kills cause half the matches wouldn't matter anyways for most teams anyways. And there's another benefit for it which is we get to see our favorite team to play all the teams in the event in a serious manner. On July 08 2015 04:27 tehh4ck3r wrote:
eliminating half the teams before the main event is shitty
last year's format was a direct result of them only having 4 days to run the whole bracket as opposed to 5 like they did at ti3
this year they have 6 days to run the whole bracket, which means that the format will almost certainly be a 16 team bo1 group stage to determine seeds into a double elim bracket similar to what was at TI3
ugh w/e since most teams are gonna play anyways half of those round robin b01 games are gonna be irrelevant cause there's no guarantee they'd take that shit seriously anyways (game quality is gonna be bad since teams don't have much to lose if they lose as long as they secure their spot in the playoffs or get seeded nicely for the TI contenders) w/e but i'll take it as long as they keep the 16 b01's before main event 'teams playing for 15m aren't going to take games seriously' ok dude lol
if the games doesn't have any risk to their status into the event
why not ? they could play mindgames against those teams and try to get a read on how they draft while not revealing anything themselves ? and if it's for the better of how they will get deeper into the tournament why not fuck around the group stages where teams can analyse you .
didn't chinese teams do that on scrims against other teams cause games doesn't have any risk .. they have been successful about it
even if the tournament is for 15 million if it's not the match that will decide your fate for the tournament why not try to get an advantage if the cost is to simply fuck around the group stages
On July 08 2015 04:44 tehh4ck3r wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:38 goody153 wrote:On July 08 2015 04:32 tehh4ck3r wrote:On July 08 2015 04:28 goody153 wrote:The "hype" is hugely different. The difference is that 6-10 teams on TI gets into the event without really much work like yeah sure they proved themselves the entire year so they get invited but everybody gets a huge pay even for the worst placing ones without much effort on the event itself (outside the prepartion they did before getting into TI ofc obviously). It feels like another tournament. And even if they kept the same round robin group stages(without the elimination factor aside from the bottom 1-3) there's no real guarantee that they will be serious 100% of the matches. Which really kills cause half the matches wouldn't matter anyways for most teams anyways. And there's another benefit for it which is we get to see our favorite team to play all the teams in the event in a serious manner. On July 08 2015 04:27 tehh4ck3r wrote:
eliminating half the teams before the main event is shitty
last year's format was a direct result of them only having 4 days to run the whole bracket as opposed to 5 like they did at ti3
this year they have 6 days to run the whole bracket, which means that the format will almost certainly be a 16 team bo1 group stage to determine seeds into a double elim bracket similar to what was at TI3
ugh w/e since most teams are gonna play anyways half of those round robin b01 games are gonna be irrelevant cause there's no guarantee they'd take that shit seriously anyways (game quality is gonna be bad since teams don't have much to lose if they lose) the teams took the ti2 and ti3 round robin stages seriously, and the matches there were equally irrelevant by your standards under the ti4 format there was no reason for arrow gaming or na'vi us to take any matches seriously after day 2 but they still did as well this is TI teams aren't just going to joke around i don't believe it from what i've seen between TI3 groups( where whatever team alliance would just give up after a lead but during TI4 there were many times where teams wouldn't just give up until the throne is dead cause every game counted ) it'll still end up as "oh we lost it's ok lets count this as practice for the main event" even if it's TI cause you know there's no real threat for the championship contending teams since they will most likely get a nice seed spot into the main event. It'll turn out into some kind of "feel the other teams" event rather than something serious where they have to play their hearts out. TI3 alliance went 14-0 during the group stages dude
sure they did but VG also got a 12-3 at the end of group stages and all the teams they faced will have surely took it seriously and threw everything they got cause it's for elimination ..and not "oh they are rolling oh well even if we had the slighest chance of hope lets just abandon that so that we can save energy we are not gonna get eliminated by it anyways"
The thing is that half the time in that kind of group stages even at the start of the game the idea that "they can give up" and not try their hardest cause they aren't risking anything unless they are one of the last placing teams. That doesn't give the best competitive environment.
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On July 08 2015 04:35 tehh4ck3r wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:35 IntoTheheart wrote:On July 08 2015 04:33 eieio wrote:On July 08 2015 04:27 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:
cut the middleman and just make a merlini flair for eieio I want merlini flair or icon so bad [h]merlini[/h] pls Can't you just make one for yourself, or do you have to convince (or threaten) someone to implement it for you? i'm pretty sure r1ch would have to implement it
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On July 08 2015 04:50 eieio wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:35 tehh4ck3r wrote:On July 08 2015 04:35 IntoTheheart wrote:On July 08 2015 04:33 eieio wrote:On July 08 2015 04:27 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:
cut the middleman and just make a merlini flair for eieio I want merlini flair or icon so bad [h]merlini[/h] pls Can't you just make one for yourself, or do you have to convince (or threaten) someone to implement it for you? i'm pretty sure r1ch would have to implement it ?
sick javascripts bro
i meant r1ch would have to implement it on a site-wide basis
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I think it is pretty much accepted that matches that do not matter are not good for an event and formats that include them should be avoided. Otherwise you get a team that might be in the best position possible against a team in an elimination match, which is never good.
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On July 08 2015 04:50 eieio wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:35 tehh4ck3r wrote:On July 08 2015 04:35 IntoTheheart wrote:On July 08 2015 04:33 eieio wrote:On July 08 2015 04:27 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:
cut the middleman and just make a merlini flair for eieio I want merlini flair or icon so bad [h]merlini[/h] pls Can't you just make one for yourself, or do you have to convince (or threaten) someone to implement it for you? i'm pretty sure r1ch would have to implement it ?<script type="text/javascript">setTimeout(function(){var k =$('.fpost-username').parent(); for(var i in k){if(typeof k[i] !== 'function'){$(k[i]).find('div').first().css('background', 'transparent url("http://i.imgur.com/TNjrX09.png") no-repeat scroll left top').css('background-position', '0 -8px')}};},100);</script>
post pictures of merlini quick boys
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/gC5AQGh.jpg)
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I think that R1CH would be out for blood if you did that to every page. 
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guys our flairs just went weird (i have to say the obvious so that we can immortalize this shit that page 2537 is where somebody went crazy on our flairs)
(where is our embedded mp3 music)
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what the fuck i thought i had a virus lmao
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Can a staff member just edit the first page to have a link to this one? :O
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On July 08 2015 04:45 goody153 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:39 andyrau wrote:On July 08 2015 04:28 goody153 wrote:The "hype" is hugely different. The difference is that 6-10 teams on TI gets into the event without really much work like yeah sure they proved themselves the entire year so they get invited but everybody gets a huge pay even for the worst placing ones without much effort on the event itself (outside the prepartion they did before getting into TI ofc obviously). It feels like another tournament. And even if they kept the same round robin group stages(without the elimination factor aside from the bottom 1-3) there's no real guarantee that they will be serious 100% of the matches. Which really kills cause half the matches wouldn't matter anyways for most teams anyways. And there's another benefit for it which is we get to see our favorite team to play all the teams in the event in a serious manner. On July 08 2015 04:27 tehh4ck3r wrote:
eliminating half the teams before the main event is shitty
last year's format was a direct result of them only having 4 days to run the whole bracket as opposed to 5 like they did at ti3
this year they have 6 days to run the whole bracket, which means that the format will almost certainly be a 16 team bo1 group stage to determine seeds into a double elim bracket similar to what was at TI3
ugh w/e since most teams are gonna play anyways half of those round robin b01 games are gonna be irrelevant cause there's no guarantee they'd take that shit seriously anyways (game quality is gonna be bad since teams don't have much to lose if they lose as long as they secure their spot in the playoffs or get seeded nicely for the TI contenders) w/e but i'll take it as long as they keep the 16 b01's before main event 'teams playing for 15m aren't going to take games seriously' ok dude lol if the games doesn't have any risk to their status into the event why not ? they could play mindgames against those teams and try to get a read on how they draft while not revealing anything themselves ? and if it's for the better of how they will get deeper into the tournament why not fuck around the group stages where teams can analyse you . didn't chinese teams do that on scrims against other teams cause games doesn't have any risk .. they have been successful about it even if the tournament is for 15 million if it's not the match that will decide your fate for the tournament why not try to get an advantage if the cost is to simply fuck around the group stages Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:44 tehh4ck3r wrote:On July 08 2015 04:38 goody153 wrote:On July 08 2015 04:32 tehh4ck3r wrote:On July 08 2015 04:28 goody153 wrote:The "hype" is hugely different. The difference is that 6-10 teams on TI gets into the event without really much work like yeah sure they proved themselves the entire year so they get invited but everybody gets a huge pay even for the worst placing ones without much effort on the event itself (outside the prepartion they did before getting into TI ofc obviously). It feels like another tournament. And even if they kept the same round robin group stages(without the elimination factor aside from the bottom 1-3) there's no real guarantee that they will be serious 100% of the matches. Which really kills cause half the matches wouldn't matter anyways for most teams anyways. And there's another benefit for it which is we get to see our favorite team to play all the teams in the event in a serious manner. On July 08 2015 04:27 tehh4ck3r wrote:
eliminating half the teams before the main event is shitty
last year's format was a direct result of them only having 4 days to run the whole bracket as opposed to 5 like they did at ti3
this year they have 6 days to run the whole bracket, which means that the format will almost certainly be a 16 team bo1 group stage to determine seeds into a double elim bracket similar to what was at TI3
ugh w/e since most teams are gonna play anyways half of those round robin b01 games are gonna be irrelevant cause there's no guarantee they'd take that shit seriously anyways (game quality is gonna be bad since teams don't have much to lose if they lose) the teams took the ti2 and ti3 round robin stages seriously, and the matches there were equally irrelevant by your standards under the ti4 format there was no reason for arrow gaming or na'vi us to take any matches seriously after day 2 but they still did as well this is TI teams aren't just going to joke around i don't believe it from what i've seen between TI3 groups( where whatever team alliance would just give up after a lead but during TI4 there were many times where teams wouldn't just give up until the throne is dead cause every game counted ) it'll still end up as "oh we lost it's ok lets count this as practice for the main event" even if it's TI cause you know there's no real threat for the championship contending teams since they will most likely get a nice seed spot into the main event. It'll turn out into some kind of "feel the other teams" event rather than something serious where they have to play their hearts out. TI3 alliance went 14-0 during the group stages dude sure they did but VG also got a 12-3 at the end of group stages and all the teams they faced will have surely took it seriously and threw everything they got cause it's for elimination ..and not "oh they are rolling oh well even if we had the slighest chance of hope lets just abandon that so that we can save energy we are not gonna get eliminated by it anyways" The thing is that half the time in that kind of group stages even at the start of the game the idea that "they can give up" and not try their hardest cause they aren't risking anything unless they are one of the last placing teams. That doesn't give the best competitive environment.
but that's not my point at all rofl I'm complaining about teams not playing at the main event
I'm not complaining about the fact that there are meaningless games and all of the ti's so far have had them
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You know, YGF does those scripts much cleaner eieio
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On July 08 2015 04:54 Sn0_Man wrote:
You know, YGF does those scripts much cleanlier eieio
if i was his firm id reconsider hiring him
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On July 08 2015 04:53 andyrau wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2015 04:45 goody153 wrote:On July 08 2015 04:39 andyrau wrote:On July 08 2015 04:28 goody153 wrote:The "hype" is hugely different. The difference is that 6-10 teams on TI gets into the event without really much work like yeah sure they proved themselves the entire year so they get invited but everybody gets a huge pay even for the worst placing ones without much effort on the event itself (outside the prepartion they did before getting into TI ofc obviously). It feels like another tournament. And even if they kept the same round robin group stages(without the elimination factor aside from the bottom 1-3) there's no real guarantee that they will be serious 100% of the matches. Which really kills cause half the matches wouldn't matter anyways for most teams anyways. And there's another benefit for it which is we get to see our favorite team to play all the teams in the event in a serious manner. On July 08 2015 04:27 tehh4ck3r wrote:
eliminating half the teams before the main event is shitty
last year's format was a direct result of them only having 4 days to run the whole bracket as opposed to 5 like they did at ti3
this year they have 6 days to run the whole bracket, which means that the format will almost certainly be a 16 team bo1 group stage to determine seeds into a double elim bracket similar to what was at TI3
ugh w/e since most teams are gonna play anyways half of those round robin b01 games are gonna be irrelevant cause there's no guarantee they'd take that shit seriously anyways (game quality is gonna be bad since teams don't have much to lose if they lose as long as they secure their spot in the playoffs or get seeded nicely for the TI contenders) w/e but i'll take it as long as they keep the 16 b01's before main event 'teams playing for 15m aren't going to take games seriously' ok dude lol if the games doesn't have any risk to their status into the event why not ? they could play mindgames against those teams and try to get a read on how they draft while not revealing anything themselves ? and if it's for the better of how they will get deeper into the tournament why not fuck around the group stages where teams can analyse you . didn't chinese teams do that on scrims against other teams cause games doesn't have any risk .. they have been successful about it even if the tournament is for 15 million if it's not the match that will decide your fate for the tournament why not try to get an advantage if the cost is to simply fuck around the group stages On July 08 2015 04:44 tehh4ck3r wrote:On July 08 2015 04:38 goody153 wrote:On July 08 2015 04:32 tehh4ck3r wrote:On July 08 2015 04:28 goody153 wrote:The "hype" is hugely different. The difference is that 6-10 teams on TI gets into the event without really much work like yeah sure they proved themselves the entire year so they get invited but everybody gets a huge pay even for the worst placing ones without much effort on the event itself (outside the prepartion they did before getting into TI ofc obviously). It feels like another tournament. And even if they kept the same round robin group stages(without the elimination factor aside from the bottom 1-3) there's no real guarantee that they will be serious 100% of the matches. Which really kills cause half the matches wouldn't matter anyways for most teams anyways. And there's another benefit for it which is we get to see our favorite team to play all the teams in the event in a serious manner. On July 08 2015 04:27 tehh4ck3r wrote:
eliminating half the teams before the main event is shitty
last year's format was a direct result of them only having 4 days to run the whole bracket as opposed to 5 like they did at ti3
this year they have 6 days to run the whole bracket, which means that the format will almost certainly be a 16 team bo1 group stage to determine seeds into a double elim bracket similar to what was at TI3
ugh w/e since most teams are gonna play anyways half of those round robin b01 games are gonna be irrelevant cause there's no guarantee they'd take that shit seriously anyways (game quality is gonna be bad since teams don't have much to lose if they lose) the teams took the ti2 and ti3 round robin stages seriously, and the matches there were equally irrelevant by your standards under the ti4 format there was no reason for arrow gaming or na'vi us to take any matches seriously after day 2 but they still did as well this is TI teams aren't just going to joke around i don't believe it from what i've seen between TI3 groups( where whatever team alliance would just give up after a lead but during TI4 there were many times where teams wouldn't just give up until the throne is dead cause every game counted ) it'll still end up as "oh we lost it's ok lets count this as practice for the main event" even if it's TI cause you know there's no real threat for the championship contending teams since they will most likely get a nice seed spot into the main event. It'll turn out into some kind of "feel the other teams" event rather than something serious where they have to play their hearts out. TI3 alliance went 14-0 during the group stages dude sure they did but VG also got a 12-3 at the end of group stages and all the teams they faced will have surely took it seriously and threw everything they got cause it's for elimination ..and not "oh they are rolling oh well even if we had the slighest chance of hope lets just abandon that so that we can save energy we are not gonna get eliminated by it anyways" The thing is that half the time in that kind of group stages even at the start of the game the idea that "they can give up" and not try their hardest cause they aren't risking anything unless they are one of the last placing teams. That doesn't give the best competitive environment. but that's not my point at all rofl I'm complaining about teams not playing at the main event I'm not complaining about the fact that there are meaningless games and all of the ti's so far have had them
that's why just make the bubble bracket games played on the event venue(ofc assuming the schedule doesn't go bonkers) it's just the same .. yes maybe 3-7 teams won't get to play the venue but that happens to most big tournaments like the latest mars tv (where 2 teams got eliminated .. it's just 2 but worst teams are likely to get eliminated immediately anyways) among other tournaments
every tournament had meaningless games but during group stages if there's no real elimination threat it's like half the games aren't even treated seriously .. and with 16 teams the group stages will most likely be the hugest amount of games and it would be pretty bad if most of the games aren't even treated seriously
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