First new dota thread on TL.net!
Will pudge carry be meta by the time the major rolls around?
Will China make it to the major?
Will EG make top 2 in NA?
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emperorchampion
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First new dota thread on TL.net! Will pudge carry be meta by the time the major rolls around? Will China make it to the major? Will EG make top 2 in NA? | ||
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Geisterkarle
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I can recommend todays SEA games! The 80min nailbiter of NGX.Sea vs. Talon, game 2 was very entertaining. And both games of SMG vs. Polaris are just a bloodfest! First map - 37min - 72 kills; second map - 48min - 84 kills. You will have no downtimes there, even if you watch the whole game and not just some highlight reel! | ||
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On June 16 2022 05:12 Geisterkarle wrote: Welcome to TL I can recommend todays SEA games! The 80min nailbiter of NGX.Sea vs. Talon, game 2 was very entertaining. And both games of SMG vs. Polaris are just a bloodfest! First map - 37min - 72 kills; second map - 48min - 84 kills. You will have no downtimes there, even if you watch the whole game and not just some highlight reel! Agreed! Lots of nice dota past two days. edit2: too add that smg had wyvern mid vs pudge carry Other highlights: clock mid in Tundra vs OG, the king carrying secret super hard and EG struggling their way past WC Also Arkosh throwing games as usual | ||
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On June 16 2022 05:49 Waxangel wrote: When anyone has the time, could you try adding this event to the TL.net calendar? It seems to be implemented correctly for Dota2, but just want to test it. I submitted a game (I think correctly) | ||
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Very entertaining games in NA DPC today! The region is slowly improving compared to others to the point that I'm not embarrassed to be from NA anymore. =) | ||
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On June 16 2022 07:51 MetalMercury wrote: Can we get the Dota 2 tournaments on the sidebar now that we're integrated back into the regular site? It would be nice to have a direct link to the DPC at the very least in the same way that there's HoTS and Counterstrike stuff over there. It's functional now; you might need to turn Dota2 on manually in sidebar customization (we'll look at getting this automated). Also we need to add an icon for it Also, just another reminder that the TL calendar has always been generated from user submissions | ||
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On June 16 2022 09:54 Waxangel wrote: Show nested quote + On June 16 2022 07:51 MetalMercury wrote: Can we get the Dota 2 tournaments on the sidebar now that we're integrated back into the regular site? It would be nice to have a direct link to the DPC at the very least in the same way that there's HoTS and Counterstrike stuff over there. It's functional now; you might need to turn Dota2 on manually in sidebar customization (we'll look at getting this automated). How do you do this? | ||
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The Sidebar Settings are ... wait for it ... below the sidebars! Or just go here: https://tl.net/mytlnet/sidebars.php | ||
Merany
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Thanks! | ||
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(well, ok, basically they are both ) | ||
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Hopefully, they will get invited to ESL One Malaysia and compete against the top teams of each region, although I fear that it will be to close to the TI-qualifiers and they may wanna rest/bootcamp instead of going to a LAN. | ||
emperorchampion
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Secret placing 4 linkens on their TA to prevent any single target abilities haha | ||
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On June 22 2022 01:28 emperorchampion wrote: Sumail carried OG to top 8 last TI, I'm sure he can carry Nigma to TI this year Secret placing 4 linkens on their TA to prevent any single target abilities haha Sumail sure brings new possibilities to the table! Did Nigma - before Sumail - go with a Mid KotL? And that 4 Linkens play was a beauty! I'm sure, not many teams would do that! | ||
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On the other hand, I'm a bit skeptical about Secret's ability to make it to TI. I think it will depend on if Tundra secures an invite and if Secret can beat the likes of Entity/Liquid/Nigma. I don't think they come out on top at the moment, we'll see when they play these teams though. Would be sad if Secret doesn't make it since it would break puppey's streak :/ | ||
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And Alliance just lost the first map against Liquid. But damn, that Mid Hoodwink of W33 did a lot of work (and even more damage!) | ||
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Alliance looked really lost against Liquid, although Liquid was not playing their A-Game. w33 did his very best in game 1 to keep them in the game, but how is it even possible that a Pos1-Void is doing only 10k damage in a 50 minute game? He did the least damage in his team in that game and all four players combined from Alliance did less damage than w33 in this game. Nikobaby seems to be really struggling since quite some time. Looking grim for Alliance, next two series will basically decide if they remain in Div I or have to play the TI-qualifiers from the lower bracket. Suma1l currently looks like the player Nigma needed, he can held his lane even without getting help of supports, so that Nigma does not have to sacrifice the game of MC which was always pivotal for Nigma to perform well. Div II can give them the confidence back to be a serious contender for the TI-quals. | ||
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Also, missing Yapzor hurts them! And Div2: It "slowly" looks, that Nigma is in the wrong league... | ||
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TSM basically out of the race for going to the last Major with their loss against EG, they dropped the ball hard in game 3...that failed HG-push into chain feeding. Uff...but they should have enough points to qualify for TI anyway. QC looking pretty strong as usual in NA-qualifiers. | ||
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On June 23 2022 16:23 Rufus Dupres wrote: Yes, although Brame seems to have some serious internal issues, replacing their Pos1 after three series and now playing for the remaining season with a stand-in. Both games were an absolute beatdown for them. TSM basically out of the race for going to the last Major with their loss against EG, they dropped the ball hard in game 3...that failed HG-push into chain feeding. Uff...but they should have enough points to qualify for TI anyway. QC looking pretty strong as usual in NA-qualifiers. Hopefully at least 3 NA teams can still make it to the TI group stage. Also Fata looking like a really good addition for QC and I hope to see them at the major. Actually a lot can still happen in NA: eg lose to qc, nouns lose to both qc and tsm, or qc lose to nouns and eg. Force tie breakers for at least one of the slots. Of the four teams, qc seem to be in the best position at the moment. | ||
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First map NGX.Sea vs. BOOM was great! What plays! | ||
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Geisterkarle
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Very good kiting of the troll. Matu did nothing! Oh, about nothing, to quote myself: On June 22 2022 04:25 Geisterkarle wrote: [snip] But damn, that Mid Hoodwink of W33 did a lot of work (and even more damage!) W33 is still crushing dmg numbers! If a Tusk does more than a Lifestealer, something is wrong... and his Ember did more than the other cores combined! Not sure what is happening with Alliance... | ||
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On June 29 2022 03:18 Geisterkarle wrote: Yeah. Secret broke the 3:1 quadruple at the top! (well would have changed in any way ) Very good kiting of the troll. Matu did nothing! Oh, about nothing, to quote myself: Show nested quote + On June 22 2022 04:25 Geisterkarle wrote: [snip] But damn, that Mid Hoodwink of W33 did a lot of work (and even more damage!) W33 is still crushing dmg numbers! If a Tusk does more than a Lifestealer, something is wrong... and his Ember did more than the other cores combined! Not sure what is happening with Alliance... Alliance looks to be too heavy for w33 NA report: ench carry doing fairly well in nouns vs qc game 1 | ||
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ench carry lost | ||
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Geisterkarle
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On related note: I think I have never seen such a similar dmg distribution: > https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/6640666137 | ||
emperorchampion
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On June 30 2022 13:54 Geisterkarle wrote: Wait, I went to bed. They did that two times?? What do they know (or at least: think) that is so great about carry Ench? On related note: I think I have never seen such a similar dmg distribution: > https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/6640666137 Apparently it's matu's favourite carry (he may have been trolling) and yeah like all equal damage lol. nouns looked so lost in their two games, hard to believe that EG lost to them, but maybe they just got baited hard by ench | ||
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But also checked around: Nigma (WEU2), Team Spirit (EEU1), QC (NA1), KBU.US (NA2) and Ravens (SEA2) are still undefeated! (and I mean: no map loss!) So we have quite a few stand-out teams! | ||
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Any EU-Team should try their very utmost to secure enough points for a TI-invite, the qualifiers are going to be a bloodbath. | ||
Geisterkarle
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Sounds serious... hope everything will be fine! Also loosing one of the best pos4 in the world hurts on a gaming perspective. But that is probably not important now! | ||
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Let´s cross fingers that YapzOr will fully recover, but for Secret´s chances to make it to TI, same is a serious hit. Puppey´s all-time attending spree is really in danger this year. | ||
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On July 04 2022 17:12 Rufus Dupres wrote: Nigma really looking to be a serious contender again. The interview with Kuro gave a little insight when Sheever asked him how are scrims against Div I - Teams are going and he smiled and said "you can ask them". Really looks like the addition of Suma1l was what this team needed for a revamp, a player who has the confidence and is able to turn a winning lane into effective rotations while keeping on par with the networth and not falling off in the late game with a good decision making. Any EU-Team should try their very utmost to secure enough points for a TI-invite, the qualifiers are going to be a bloodbath. That's great haha, yeah it's cool to see Nigma back in form | ||
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On July 05 2022 20:31 Rufus Dupres wrote: Indeed, must be something really serious if Valve is allowing a mid season-change without any penalties, he was not on par during the first two seasons(compared to his own standards), maybe he had already been affected back then. Let´s cross fingers that YapzOr will fully recover, but for Secret´s chances to make it to TI, same is a serious hit. Puppey´s all-time attending spree is really in danger this year. Yeah hope yap is alright, really sucks for secret If secret win game 3 vs gaiman they still have hope for the major because their last series is vs goonsquad and liquid/entity play each other. They can at worst force tie breakers with two wins, and if they get lucky, straight up qualify (I believe) for the major. That said, I think they need to show a huge improvement to do well at the major or qualify for TI at this point. | ||
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Nishas back must be hurting like hell after that series, that Timber-game was the best one Ive seen since w33 played it a few years ago against the old Liquid-squad. Gaimin Gladiators close to be relegated or have to play at least a series for thei survival at Div I. Most likely they will qualify to TI considering their good result at Stockholm, but what a downfall. | ||
Geisterkarle
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56:51, 52min game! Completely crazy map 2! Thanks to the "South American Commentators" to jump into the breach of a power outtake at the Dreamleague studio! | ||
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On July 07 2022 05:05 Merany wrote: Fuck, was only able to catch the last 5 minutes Worth watching the VOD I guess? TSM vs Nouns? worth a watch, definitely | ||
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On July 07 2022 05:05 Merany wrote: Fuck, was only able to catch the last 5 minutes Worth watching the VOD I guess? Game 2 from Nigma vs EU REJECTS was a clownshow with ridiculous picks from Nigma-side, but they had quite the comeback. They clearly did not take this game to serious with their draft or they wanted to make it interesting for themselves. Game 1 from TSM vs Nouns is worth watching, huge comeback from Nouns against an Alch line-up. Game 2 was a beatdown by Nouns with an early GG from TSM. TSM clearly tilted like hell. Quincy Crew is now the gatekeeper for EG for the Major...imagine EG is not making it to the Major and have to go through TI-qualifiers. Most likely with nouns and QC(unless both are making it to the Top8) as their opponents... | ||
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But I take all recommandations, thanks guys! | ||
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WEU1: OG and Tundra are already at the major. Behind that... anything can happen WEU2: Nigma and ITB are still undefeated and will be in Div1 next season. Also the group ends with them battling it out! Will Nigma go without Maploss?? EEU1: Navi, TS and Outsiders are all 5:1 and don't play against each other. So... three 6:1 incoming? EEU2: Nemiga is already looking up, HR and cybercats are doing the final series to see who will join them! (if CC win, I think they have an additional tiebreaker...) China1: RNG are safe for the major. But they all are very close! Will be a deciding last week! China2: liquipedia doesn't have infos, I'm to lazy to search for them Sea1: Boom made it, a lot can happen behind them. A highlight in the other direction would be SMG vs. Nigma.Sea to see who drops down to Div2! Sea2: Execration and Lilgun are already fixed for Div1. So kinda boring... but Sea matches are normally total bloodbaths, so maybe at least we see some fun games! NA1: QC are without maploss... and still not Major safe, because nouns and EG are 5:1 behind them. So: EG-QC will be the grudgematch! NA2: KBU.US are the last team without maploss (sorry SA) and will be in Div 1 with Alpha. So, not much going on; maybe see which team falls out of the DPC (and has to go to qualifiers again) SA1: bc and TA are fighting who will be at the major and who has to tiebreak against Infamous for that (Infamous are playing against the team in last place, so they should win that; but maybe upset and the "looser" of bc/TA is good to go) SA2: Three teams with 5:1! Coritiba and Dreamers are against each other to fix one Div1 slot. But if Ravens loose, we could a 3-way-tie for the second slot! good games everybody! | ||
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On July 11 2022 19:36 Geisterkarle wrote: Ok, last play week is starting! Let's look at the groups! WEU1: OG and Tundra are already at the major. Behind that... anything can happen WEU2: Nigma and ITB are still undefeated and will be in Div1 next season. Also the group ends with them battling it out! Will Nigma go without Maploss?? EEU1: Navi, TS and Outsiders are all 5:1 and don't play against each other. So... three 6:1 incoming? EEU2: Nemiga is already looking up, HR and cybercats are doing the final series to see who will join them! (if CC win, I think they have an additional tiebreaker...) China1: RNG are safe for the major. But they all are very close! Will be a deciding last week! China2: liquipedia doesn't have infos, I'm to lazy to search for them Sea1: Boom made it, a lot can happen behind them. A highlight in the other direction would be SMG vs. Nigma.Sea to see who drops down to Div2! Sea2: Execration and Lilgun are already fixed for Div1. So kinda boring... but Sea matches are normally total bloodbaths, so maybe at least we see some fun games! NA1: QC are without maploss... and still not Major safe, because nouns and EG are 5:1 behind them. So: EG-QC will be the grudgematch! NA2: KBU.US are the last team without maploss (sorry SA) and will be in Div 1 with Alpha. So, not much going on; maybe see which team falls out of the DPC (and has to go to qualifiers again) SA1: bc and TA are fighting who will be at the major and who has to tiebreak against Infamous for that (Infamous are playing against the team in last place, so they should win that; but maybe upset and the "looser" of bc/TA is good to go) SA2: Three teams with 5:1! Coritiba and Dreamers are against each other to fix one Div1 slot. But if Ravens loose, we could a 3-way-tie for the second slot! good games everybody! Thanks for the summary In WEU, half of me wants Liquid to beat OG because I want OG to lose, and half of me wants Liquid to lose so there is a 3-way tiebreaker. In either case, I hope secret wins their series for a chance at tie breakers. The EG-QC match is insane. I expect the fata magic to continue and QC to win out, sending QC/nouns. Hopefully EG can pull it out and force the NA special 3-way tiebreaker. | ||
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On July 12 2022 15:44 Rufus Dupres wrote: For WEUs sake it would be good if Liquid wins, so that they can try to secure their TI-invite by points and ease a little bit the competition at the TI-qualifiers, they will already be hard enough with Nigma, ITB and most likely Entity, Secret and goonsquad. Fair enough (for WEU) Man, the lack of China at the second major and some variations in placements have really hurt China. LGD is at the top and otherwise Aster is right on the edge of qualification, but I wouldn't like that spot going into the major and Aster's history of choking on LAN. | ||
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Regarding non-presence of China at the Major, still do not see them competing/attending at the Arlington Major, the daily changing rules at China are a mess. Just imagine a TI with only one directly qualified team(LGD) and the remaining ones have to fight it out at the qualifiers for one spot....Aster,VG,RNG,Xtreme,Ehome,iG...holy crap, it would be even more stacked than WEU. | ||
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On July 13 2022 16:37 Rufus Dupres wrote: Nisha again with two absolute stellar performances yesterday. Currently the only one from Secret having a TI-winning form. Still not completely sold on Crystallis, Icex3 not looking very hot as well, but Zayac seems to be working better with them with every series they play. Regarding non-presence of China at the Major, still do not see them competing/attending at the Arlington Major, the daily changing rules at China are a mess. Just imagine a TI with only one directly qualified team(LGD) and the remaining ones have to fight it out at the qualifiers for one spot....Aster,VG,RNG,Xtreme,Ehome,iG...holy crap, it would be even more stacked than WEU. Could be the case that teams are willing at this point to stay outside China until after TI | ||
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On July 14 2022 04:59 PoulsenB wrote: Why is EG v QC so late in the night for EU :C In NA WEU games start at 6am, and NA games are on in the middle of the work day :/ | ||
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On July 14 2022 09:09 PoulsenB wrote: And EG forces another three-way tie in NA. That game 2 ending was so clutch from EG! run from it, hide from it - NA 3 way tie for top3 is inevitable | ||
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On July 14 2022 03:19 emperorchampion wrote: game 2 of the div2 finals didn't disappoint lol Just got time to watch the VOD. Crazy game! Mabe a little of "meme draft" by Nigma. The WR did not do much in the later stages... Bit ITB played well! Deserved Div1 for them! | ||
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Fata showing Kuro how to play Pos5-Razor in a deciding game 2, although it was not enough in the end. QC must be mad, they had game 2 before Yawar getting caught out in front of EGs base. Considering that nouns have ended their bootcamp and costabile having to play with a ping of 150-200, presume QC and EG will be going to the Major. | ||
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WEU TI qualis are gonna be crazy games seem too hard when nisha isn't carrying, ice3 did well this series though | ||
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Been a long time I saw a team under Puppeys leadership to crumble like that as in game 3. Wondering if they may consider to replace Crystallis again prior TI-qualifiers, did not look like he is the carry to rely on in case Nisha is having a bad game, Icex3 played most likely his best series so far which was still not enough. Giving Stormstormer two times Puck as a first pick and not able to counter it, raises the question if Puppey should have changed his bans for the first phase.While I understand that Marci is broken, there are more ways to deal with a first phase Viper-pick than with Puck. Next week starts a tournament at Riyadh with a price pool of a total 5.000.000 USD. The winner will get an amount of 1.500.000 USD which is 7,5 times higher than the winner of the Arlington Major and similar to the amount earned by Teams placing 5th-6th during the last TI. | ||
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On July 15 2022 20:16 Rufus Dupres wrote: Kuro preparing the strats for denying Puppey his 11th TI-attendance in a row. Call it here right now...Kuro will be again the cryptonite for Puppey when it comes down to TI. Been a long time I saw a team under Puppeys leadership to crumble like that as in game 3. Wondering if they may consider to replace Crystallis again prior TI-qualifiers, did not look like he is the carry to rely on in case Nisha is having a bad game, Icex3 played most likely his best series so far which was still not enough. Giving Stormstormer two times Puck as a first pick and not able to counter it, raises the question if Puppey should have changed his bans for the first phase.While I understand that Marci is broken, there are more ways to deal with a first phase Viper-pick than with Puck. Next week starts a tournament at Riyadh with a price pool of a total 5.000.000 USD. The winner will get an amount of 1.500.000 USD which is 7,5 times higher than the winner of the Arlington Major and similar to the amount earned by Teams placing 5th-6th during the last TI. Well here we are with the Riyadh tournament. Encouraging to see TSM beating Liquid (with a stand-in). | ||
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On July 22 2022 14:24 emperorchampion wrote: How have the games been looking ? Haven’t had a lick of time to watch past two days :/ So far the opening games of the playoffs is competitive | ||
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