On June 03 2015 04:04 Ingvar wrote: "Ever since TI4 they have not been able to claim a single tournament win." False, they won Major All Stars. "They have, in general, not even been in the top 4." Probably also false, they were clear top4 of the world from March reshuffle until 6.84. While it is a short period of time, it is worth noting.
I understand that previews are mainly written based on impressions but small factual checks are what gives them quality.
When I looked at the tournaments I focused on tournaments considered premier on LP. Don't know why MAST wasn't in there though. Might have been the "low" prizepool.
Again when looking at premier tournaments these are their finishes in premier tournaments (since TI4) i-league Season 3: 5-6th The Summit 3: 5 - 6th Star Ladder Star Series Season 12: 2nd Dota 2 Asia Championships: 7 - 8th i-League Season 2: 5-6th World Cyber Arena 2014: 4 - 8th i-league: 3 - 4th The International 2014: 7 - 8th
Well, it's a funny coincidence jD MLG Season 1 and Dreamleague Season 3 are premier when MAS and Red Bull are not. Still, if we speak of premier tournaments in the sense of "all super top teams attending" than during this year their winners were a tight group of 4. Add to that Newbee's last win was in October and Secret's first in May and it narrows to only 2 teams in a year. It's probably not the best way to judge teams success.
On June 03 2015 04:04 Ingvar wrote: "Ever since TI4 they have not been able to claim a single tournament win." False, they won Major All Stars. "They have, in general, not even been in the top 4." Probably also false, they were clear top4 of the world from March reshuffle until 6.84. While it is a short period of time, it is worth noting.
I understand that previews are mainly written based on impressions but small factual checks are what gives them quality.
When I looked at the tournaments I focused on tournaments considered premier on LP. Don't know why MAST wasn't in there though. Might have been the "low" prizepool.
Again when looking at premier tournaments these are their finishes in premier tournaments (since TI4) i-league Season 3: 5-6th The Summit 3: 5 - 6th Star Ladder Star Series Season 12: 2nd Dota 2 Asia Championships: 7 - 8th i-League Season 2: 5-6th World Cyber Arena 2014: 4 - 8th i-league: 3 - 4th The International 2014: 7 - 8th
Well, it's a funny coincidence jD MLG Season 1 and Dreamleague Season 3 are premier when MAS and Red Bull are not. Still, if we speak of premier tournaments in the sense of "all super top teams attending" than during this year their winners were a tight group of 4. Add to that Newbee's last win was in October and Secret's first in May and it narrows to only 2 teams in a year. It's probably not the best way to judge teams success.
So if we move away from the stats, would you say IG has had a great year? I wouldn't even call it a good year seen to their lineup
On June 03 2015 04:04 Ingvar wrote: "Ever since TI4 they have not been able to claim a single tournament win." False, they won Major All Stars. "They have, in general, not even been in the top 4." Probably also false, they were clear top4 of the world from March reshuffle until 6.84. While it is a short period of time, it is worth noting.
I understand that previews are mainly written based on impressions but small factual checks are what gives them quality.
When I looked at the tournaments I focused on tournaments considered premier on LP. Don't know why MAST wasn't in there though. Might have been the "low" prizepool.
Again when looking at premier tournaments these are their finishes in premier tournaments (since TI4) i-league Season 3: 5-6th The Summit 3: 5 - 6th Star Ladder Star Series Season 12: 2nd Dota 2 Asia Championships: 7 - 8th i-League Season 2: 5-6th World Cyber Arena 2014: 4 - 8th i-league: 3 - 4th The International 2014: 7 - 8th
Well, it's a funny coincidence jD MLG Season 1 and Dreamleague Season 3 are premier when MAS and Red Bull are not. Still, if we speak of premier tournaments in the sense of "all super top teams attending" than during this year their winners were a tight group of 4. Add to that Newbee's last win was in October and Secret's first in May and it narrows to only 2 teams in a year. It's probably not the best way to judge teams success.
So if we move away from the stats, would you say IG has had a great year? I wouldn't even call it a good year seen to their lineup
IG has been performing kinda meh after the honeymoon period of B-God joining them was over.
On June 03 2015 04:04 Ingvar wrote: "Ever since TI4 they have not been able to claim a single tournament win." False, they won Major All Stars. "They have, in general, not even been in the top 4." Probably also false, they were clear top4 of the world from March reshuffle until 6.84. While it is a short period of time, it is worth noting.
I understand that previews are mainly written based on impressions but small factual checks are what gives them quality.
When I looked at the tournaments I focused on tournaments considered premier on LP. Don't know why MAST wasn't in there though. Might have been the "low" prizepool.
Again when looking at premier tournaments these are their finishes in premier tournaments (since TI4) i-league Season 3: 5-6th The Summit 3: 5 - 6th Star Ladder Star Series Season 12: 2nd Dota 2 Asia Championships: 7 - 8th i-League Season 2: 5-6th World Cyber Arena 2014: 4 - 8th i-league: 3 - 4th The International 2014: 7 - 8th
Well, it's a funny coincidence jD MLG Season 1 and Dreamleague Season 3 are premier when MAS and Red Bull are not. Still, if we speak of premier tournaments in the sense of "all super top teams attending" than during this year their winners were a tight group of 4. Add to that Newbee's last win was in October and Secret's first in May and it narrows to only 2 teams in a year. It's probably not the best way to judge teams success.
So if we move away from the stats, would you say IG has had a great year? I wouldn't even call it a good year seen to their lineup
No. They had pretty average year. What I wanted to say - they definitely won MAS so they're not C9 and that I get wrong vibes from their description: they're consitently top3 in China after reshuffle meaning they are a contender in any tournament they enter. Everything else is unnecessary additions to that thought.
EU qualifiers hardest? Have you forgotten about CN?
CDEC, the CN runners up can probably go 50-50 with Navi, the EU winners, and they just beat Navi, obviously though, Navi was missing one and had a standin.
On June 03 2015 17:53 Beyond Magic wrote: I wonder why EG wasn't invited or were they?
If memory serves ppd said that they were invited but turned up fowl. That invite went to c9, again according to my own fuzzy recollection of what ppd said.
EPT
