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ForTehDarkseid
Profile Joined April 2013
8139 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-11 04:28:42
July 11 2014 04:20 GMT
#181
I think Cloud9 is done, tbh. iG/VG are given loses, and you're already 5-6. If you lose 2 games to Empire/Alliance/Fnatic, you're out, if you lose 1 you will have to play tie-breakers for top8, if you win all of them you're at best tied for top6.
I think their strategy is to dumpster bad Western teams (c) uriel
Elyvilon
Profile Joined August 2008
United States13143 Posts
July 11 2014 04:28 GMT
#182
On July 11 2014 13:20 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
I think Clou9 is done. iG/VG are given loses, and you're already 5-6. If you don't take at least one additional win out of Empire/Alliance/Fnatic, you're out, but even if you do chances are quite high you will have to play tie-breakers.

No one is a given win or loss at this TI.
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ForTehDarkseid
Profile Joined April 2013
8139 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-11 04:30:47
July 11 2014 04:29 GMT
#183
On July 11 2014 13:28 Elyvilon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 11 2014 13:20 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
I think Clou9 is done. iG/VG are given loses, and you're already 5-6. If you don't take at least one additional win out of Empire/Alliance/Fnatic, you're out, but even if you do chances are quite high you will have to play tie-breakers.

No one is a given win or loss at this TI.

eh, not really. it's day 3, and it's more about style of the playing team, not a general rule.
I think their strategy is to dumpster bad Western teams (c) uriel
ampson
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2355 Posts
July 11 2014 05:22 GMT
#184
I think that 8 wins will get a team through at the very least. Empire, fnatic, and LGD are very winnable while alliance, IG, and VG may be a bit harder. But I beliEEve that C9 can pull off at LEAST 3 wins from their matches tomorrow, more if they play like they did on day 1. Let's go C9!
icystorage
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Jollibee19350 Posts
July 11 2014 05:46 GMT
#185
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Ravness
Profile Joined May 2014
United States56 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-11 07:10:49
July 11 2014 07:10 GMT
#186
On July 11 2014 14:46 icystorage wrote:
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;_; I still believe
EE sama pls have mercy
MadaoStream
Profile Joined May 2014
Greece68 Posts
July 11 2014 10:59 GMT
#187
We still BeliEEve mortals actually the Chen tinker if it worked it could make a huge impact on the next game drafts
If u wanna be a man BE A MADAO
ShAdZ_ZX
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia635 Posts
July 11 2014 12:06 GMT
#188
I'm expecting 9 wins to be the pass mark for a top 8 finish, with 8 wins leaving you in a real deadlock in the 5th - 10th spots. 6 games to go, none of which will be easy, but we'll need to win at least 3 to stay in the 8 I'd have thought.

The games against Fnatic, LGD and Empire are absolute must wins I think. VG and iG will be extremely tough, and though I'd definitely give us a shot I couldn't back us with much confidence. Alliance game is kind of a coin flip, who knows how that'll play out. Having a better head to head against NAR, Titan and TL who are likely to be caught in that deadlock will certainly be nice incase there is a tie scenario, but loses to Navi and Newbee could hurt.

It's going to be a cracking last 2 days, especially the later matches. Ideal scenario is we manage to sneak into the top 6 in groups, guaranteeing us a top 8 finish overall. I'd feel a lot better if I know that worst case we walk with 500k, instead of the 50k for 9/10th.
Elyvilon
Profile Joined August 2008
United States13143 Posts
July 11 2014 18:07 GMT
#189
On July 11 2014 21:06 ShAdZ_ZX wrote:
I'm expecting 9 wins to be the pass mark for a top 8 finish, with 8 wins leaving you in a real deadlock in the 5th - 10th spots. 6 games to go, none of which will be easy, but we'll need to win at least 3 to stay in the 8 I'd have thought.

The games against Fnatic, LGD and Empire are absolute must wins I think. VG and iG will be extremely tough, and though I'd definitely give us a shot I couldn't back us with much confidence. Alliance game is kind of a coin flip, who knows how that'll play out. Having a better head to head against NAR, Titan and TL who are likely to be caught in that deadlock will certainly be nice incase there is a tie scenario, but loses to Navi and Newbee could hurt.

It's going to be a cracking last 2 days, especially the later matches. Ideal scenario is we manage to sneak into the top 6 in groups, guaranteeing us a top 8 finish overall. I'd feel a lot better if I know that worst case we walk with 500k, instead of the 50k for 9/10th.

Top 8 in group stages isn't actually important though, top 2, top 4, top 6, and top 10 are. There's not much of a difference between getting 7th in phase 2 and 10th in phase 2.
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babysimba
Profile Joined November 2010
10466 Posts
July 11 2014 21:03 GMT
#190
I have been waiting for EE-voker for over a year since he first played it in Kaipi.
Ravness
Profile Joined May 2014
United States56 Posts
July 11 2014 21:30 GMT
#191
I'm getting nervous for C9 right now
EE sama pls have mercy
Maand
Profile Joined April 2010
326 Posts
July 11 2014 21:38 GMT
#192
Yeah it's saddening seeing how Alliance throws game versus VG and then stomps C9 . Gotta be some kind of curse. Alliances push always wrecks C9.
Khylol
Profile Joined June 2014
United States279 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-11 21:47:18
July 11 2014 21:39 GMT
#193
The game against alliance seemed to begin going downhill when bone7 spent chrono on an already caught out and very likely dead Loda, leaving them with no chrono for the ensuing teamfight afterwards and unable to do anything as loda bought back and walked all the way to rosh from the well.. Then his chronos got worse and worse and finally he just tried to chrono s4, hit nothing, and left the game and envy called GG...

I hope he's okay, and not tilting too much for these next games, bone chan you just choked but we still believe in you!
"I basically just do manga shit so fuck off." - EternaLEnVy // youtube.com/kyluls
NeoRussia
Profile Joined January 2013
Canada381 Posts
July 11 2014 21:57 GMT
#194
Really upset at the game vs Alliance. It was practically a single core lineup with everything revolving around bone7 on the offlane void, who bought an orb of venom and maxed timewalk over timelock, weird choices especially since he kept getting silenced by skywrath anyway. Did not seem like they practiced this draft at all. The biggest turn around was the Roshan fight where PieLieDie handed Alliance the aegis by killing the roshan outside of the pit with serpent wards, right next to Loda. His team would have gotten it otherwise from what I saw. Very dissapointed.
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sacrilegious
Profile Joined September 2012
Canada863 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-11 23:42:03
July 11 2014 23:41 GMT
#195
So I'm going to tie in EG in this... I think this team would have been 1000x better if Arteezy never left back in September for school. No disrespect to Aui, because I don't think the team is underwhelming because of him but if you had a choice between still having Arteezy on your team versus Aui 2000 then wouldn't the former be obvious? It brings me to the fact that while Singsing has been an ok replacement for Arteezy, that's the key word... just "ok". He's not great, he's not bad, he's just ok... he's not a Dendi, Arteezy, S4, or Mushi. I really thought when they were still Kaipi and Singsing stood in as a roaming support they were starting to become a good team... I think going forward I just can't see this team being together after TI4 (and no I don't think EE-sama is the biggest problem, but he could be better)

But yea, really really sucks EG snatched up Arteezy (wtf weren't you supposed to finish school then full time DOTA??) and now have a chance at winning TI4. Especially disgusting with that a-hole Mason having a chance to do so
ShAdZ_ZX
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia635 Posts
July 11 2014 23:52 GMT
#196
On July 12 2014 03:07 Elyvilon wrote:
Top 8 in group stages isn't actually important though, top 2, top 4, top 6, and top 10 are. There's not much of a difference between getting 7th in phase 2 and 10th in phase 2.


Yeah sorry I actually meant top 10.
Mungem
Profile Joined May 2014
United Kingdom76 Posts
July 12 2014 00:02 GMT
#197
On July 12 2014 08:41 sacrilegious wrote:
So I'm going to tie in EG in this... I think this team would have been 1000x better if Arteezy never left back in September for school. No disrespect to Aui, because I don't think the team is underwhelming because of him but if you had a choice between still having Arteezy on your team versus Aui 2000 then wouldn't the former be obvious? It brings me to the fact that while Singsing has been an ok replacement for Arteezy, that's the key word... just "ok". He's not great, he's not bad, he's just ok... he's not a Dendi, Arteezy, S4, or Mushi. I really thought when they were still Kaipi and Singsing stood in as a roaming support they were starting to become a good team... I think going forward I just can't see this team being together after TI4 (and no I don't think EE-sama is the biggest problem, but he could be better)

But yea, really really sucks EG snatched up Arteezy (wtf weren't you supposed to finish school then full time DOTA??) and now have a chance at winning TI4. Especially disgusting with that a-hole Mason having a chance to do so

Have you forgotten that Aui and Arteezy play different roles? Replacing Aui with Arteezy would force them to change their play style or change some positions around. Also Aui has been doing fine recently in my opinion. I think that the main reason C9 lose their games is due to poor decision making either in the draft or in game.
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Khylol
Profile Joined June 2014
United States279 Posts
July 12 2014 00:32 GMT
#198
On July 12 2014 09:02 Mungem wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2014 08:41 sacrilegious wrote:
So I'm going to tie in EG in this... I think this team would have been 1000x better if Arteezy never left back in September for school. No disrespect to Aui, because I don't think the team is underwhelming because of him but if you had a choice between still having Arteezy on your team versus Aui 2000 then wouldn't the former be obvious? It brings me to the fact that while Singsing has been an ok replacement for Arteezy, that's the key word... just "ok". He's not great, he's not bad, he's just ok... he's not a Dendi, Arteezy, S4, or Mushi. I really thought when they were still Kaipi and Singsing stood in as a roaming support they were starting to become a good team... I think going forward I just can't see this team being together after TI4 (and no I don't think EE-sama is the biggest problem, but he could be better)

But yea, really really sucks EG snatched up Arteezy (wtf weren't you supposed to finish school then full time DOTA??) and now have a chance at winning TI4. Especially disgusting with that a-hole Mason having a chance to do so

Have you forgotten that Aui and Arteezy play different roles? Replacing Aui with Arteezy would force them to change their play style or change some positions around. Also Aui has been doing fine recently in my opinion. I think that the main reason C9 lose their games is due to poor decision making either in the draft or in game.


Not only do aui and arteezy play different roles, but it's clear that arteezy fits very well with zai ppd and mason, they are all young and in some way very much just... NA dota. Aui and Envy both theorycraft and think alot about the game and tryhard in a very C9 way. They get along.
"I basically just do manga shit so fuck off." - EternaLEnVy // youtube.com/kyluls
Mungem
Profile Joined May 2014
United Kingdom76 Posts
July 12 2014 00:47 GMT
#199
On July 12 2014 09:32 Khylol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2014 09:02 Mungem wrote:
On July 12 2014 08:41 sacrilegious wrote:
So I'm going to tie in EG in this... I think this team would have been 1000x better if Arteezy never left back in September for school. No disrespect to Aui, because I don't think the team is underwhelming because of him but if you had a choice between still having Arteezy on your team versus Aui 2000 then wouldn't the former be obvious? It brings me to the fact that while Singsing has been an ok replacement for Arteezy, that's the key word... just "ok". He's not great, he's not bad, he's just ok... he's not a Dendi, Arteezy, S4, or Mushi. I really thought when they were still Kaipi and Singsing stood in as a roaming support they were starting to become a good team... I think going forward I just can't see this team being together after TI4 (and no I don't think EE-sama is the biggest problem, but he could be better)

But yea, really really sucks EG snatched up Arteezy (wtf weren't you supposed to finish school then full time DOTA??) and now have a chance at winning TI4. Especially disgusting with that a-hole Mason having a chance to do so

Have you forgotten that Aui and Arteezy play different roles? Replacing Aui with Arteezy would force them to change their play style or change some positions around. Also Aui has been doing fine recently in my opinion. I think that the main reason C9 lose their games is due to poor decision making either in the draft or in game.


Not only do aui and arteezy play different roles, but it's clear that arteezy fits very well with zai ppd and mason, they are all young and in some way very much just... NA dota. Aui and Envy both theorycraft and think alot about the game and tryhard in a very C9 way. They get along.

Exactly. You can not just put a bunch of good players together and expect them to play well. Team chemistry is a very important factor to a team's success.
myanimelist.net/profile/Quenzashi
ShAdZ_ZX
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia635 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-12 02:07:39
July 12 2014 01:44 GMT
#200
Oh god double rapier. Plz no throw.

Edit: YES FUCK YES
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