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Taf the Ghost
Profile Joined December 2010
United States11751 Posts
June 09 2016 15:19 GMT
#2081
The weird part is that, for as much as the panels kept talking about Bulba, he really wasn't the problem. It was clearly the coordination with Aui. But what I don't get is why they didn't switch Fear to Carry, kick Aui (again, I know) and bring Zai in as #4. They've have kept their invite.

Granted, they'd have had to convince Aui of that. Which may not have been possible. At the same time, you've got a really focused ppd and company, so I expect them to work through the Qualifiers just fine. ppd clearly trusts the core group he's got together now, so there is that.

Though Team Secret's owner may have an interesting point. Universe did just blow up their direct invite.
Atoissen
Profile Joined July 2011
Norway1737 Posts
June 09 2016 15:33 GMT
#2082
Then again, if u cannot win the open quals and wildcards, you wouldnt win TI...
“Strength lies not in defense but in attack.”
DucK-
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Singapore11447 Posts
June 09 2016 15:37 GMT
#2083
You can't really get angry with Universe when your team was the one that messed up every other team in the first place.
Atoissen
Profile Joined July 2011
Norway1737 Posts
June 09 2016 15:44 GMT
#2084
I just realized all of the Charlie anger probably is because Kemal broke the news during Major. Seems it was supposed to be announced after it was finished base on Charlies tweets.
“Strength lies not in defense but in attack.”
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
June 09 2016 15:54 GMT
#2085
Yeah which is Secret owner being very annoyed that his team is now on the ends of sabotage xd
hence #Abandoned

Wildcard is gonna be two spots right? Secret vs EG wildcard final xd
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
Taf the Ghost
Profile Joined December 2010
United States11751 Posts
June 09 2016 15:57 GMT
#2086
On June 10 2016 00:44 Atoissen wrote:
I just realized all of the Charlie anger probably is because Kemal broke the news during Major. Seems it was supposed to be announced after it was finished base on Charlies tweets.


Very possible. During the Universe/RTZ & Aui/Bulba swaps, EG didn't comment until they did a formal one.
Laserist
Profile Joined September 2011
Turkey4269 Posts
June 09 2016 15:59 GMT
#2087
On June 10 2016 00:19 Taf the Ghost wrote:
The weird part is that, for as much as the panels kept talking about Bulba, he really wasn't the problem. It was clearly the coordination with Aui. But what I don't get is why they didn't switch Fear to Carry, kick Aui (again, I know) and bring Zai in as #4. They've have kept their invite.

Granted, they'd have had to convince Aui of that. Which may not have been possible. At the same time, you've got a really focused ppd and company, so I expect them to work through the Qualifiers just fine. ppd clearly trusts the core group he's got together now, so there is that.

Though Team Secret's owner may have an interesting point. Universe did just blow up their direct invite.


Fear don't want to play carry because of health problems. His justification is carry requires more clicking than let's say support in that case as far as I know.
“Are you with the Cartel? Because you’re definitely an Angel.”
Racket
Profile Joined July 2013
3023 Posts
June 09 2016 16:04 GMT
#2088
On June 10 2016 00:33 Atoissen wrote:
Then again, if u cannot win the open quals and wildcards, you wouldnt win TI...

I agree with you, but out there there is people who thinks a team that can be cheesed out can also beat everyone else in a tournament as big as TI. You can't blame them for dreaming.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
June 09 2016 16:05 GMT
#2089
On June 10 2016 00:59 Laserist wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 10 2016 00:19 Taf the Ghost wrote:
The weird part is that, for as much as the panels kept talking about Bulba, he really wasn't the problem. It was clearly the coordination with Aui. But what I don't get is why they didn't switch Fear to Carry, kick Aui (again, I know) and bring Zai in as #4. They've have kept their invite.

Granted, they'd have had to convince Aui of that. Which may not have been possible. At the same time, you've got a really focused ppd and company, so I expect them to work through the Qualifiers just fine. ppd clearly trusts the core group he's got together now, so there is that.

Though Team Secret's owner may have an interesting point. Universe did just blow up their direct invite.


Fear don't want to play carry because of health problems. His justification is carry requires more clicking than let's say support in that case as far as I know.


Fear said it is not
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w1gga
Profile Joined June 2016
6 Posts
June 09 2016 16:06 GMT
#2090
Maelk also tweeted about universe rejoining eg, still not so sure about aui. Gonna feel for the guy if he gets the boot.
pellejohnson
Profile Joined January 2012
United States1931 Posts
June 09 2016 16:09 GMT
#2091
On June 10 2016 01:06 w1gga wrote:
Maelk also tweeted about universe rejoining eg, still not so sure about aui. Gonna feel for the guy if he gets the boot.

Why? He went back to the team that treated him poorly in the past. Also this time he hasn't even performed so this time it would make sense to kick him even from an outsiders viewpoint
Taf the Ghost
Profile Joined December 2010
United States11751 Posts
June 09 2016 16:12 GMT
#2092
We'll have most of the details after everyone wakes up tomorrow. Though I imagine someone in the EG/GG/Amazon office is going to have some rather unfun contract issues to work out.
zev318
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada4306 Posts
June 09 2016 16:22 GMT
#2093
On June 10 2016 01:05 Pandemona wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 10 2016 00:59 Laserist wrote:
On June 10 2016 00:19 Taf the Ghost wrote:
The weird part is that, for as much as the panels kept talking about Bulba, he really wasn't the problem. It was clearly the coordination with Aui. But what I don't get is why they didn't switch Fear to Carry, kick Aui (again, I know) and bring Zai in as #4. They've have kept their invite.

Granted, they'd have had to convince Aui of that. Which may not have been possible. At the same time, you've got a really focused ppd and company, so I expect them to work through the Qualifiers just fine. ppd clearly trusts the core group he's got together now, so there is that.

Though Team Secret's owner may have an interesting point. Universe did just blow up their direct invite.


Fear don't want to play carry because of health problems. His justification is carry requires more clicking than let's say support in that case as far as I know.

https://twitter.com/FearDotA/status/740817156175220737
Fear said it is not


after the aui pick up, i do remember ppd or fear saying that fear was going to stay support (a lot of people thought that fear would move back to carry when aui was picked up) because it was easier for him to practice as a support vs carry.
Taf the Ghost
Profile Joined December 2010
United States11751 Posts
June 09 2016 16:45 GMT
#2094
On June 10 2016 01:22 zev318 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 10 2016 01:05 Pandemona wrote:
On June 10 2016 00:59 Laserist wrote:
On June 10 2016 00:19 Taf the Ghost wrote:
The weird part is that, for as much as the panels kept talking about Bulba, he really wasn't the problem. It was clearly the coordination with Aui. But what I don't get is why they didn't switch Fear to Carry, kick Aui (again, I know) and bring Zai in as #4. They've have kept their invite.

Granted, they'd have had to convince Aui of that. Which may not have been possible. At the same time, you've got a really focused ppd and company, so I expect them to work through the Qualifiers just fine. ppd clearly trusts the core group he's got together now, so there is that.

Though Team Secret's owner may have an interesting point. Universe did just blow up their direct invite.


Fear don't want to play carry because of health problems. His justification is carry requires more clicking than let's say support in that case as far as I know.

https://twitter.com/FearDotA/status/740817156175220737
Fear said it is not


after the aui pick up, i do remember ppd or fear saying that fear was going to stay support (a lot of people thought that fear would move back to carry when aui was picked up) because it was easier for him to practice as a support vs carry.


Yeah, it's one time I think the collective fan-base ended up being correct. Though generally for reasons they didn't get. It really was Aui's in-fight decision making that was a major weaklink.
Taf the Ghost
Profile Joined December 2010
United States11751 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-06-10 03:08:58
June 09 2016 16:56 GMT
#2095
On some thought, I have some sympathy for the Valve people that are about to get a terrible earful from some Team Organizations. Last place teams made 55k at TI5. If the same split happens, it'd still be about 30k at this moment. 7th/8th may be worth 1mil USD to each team, this year. Universe deciding to ditch just cost Team Secret a LOT of money, as they're far & away unlikely to make it out of the Regional Qualifiers.

Though what this ends up highlight was always one of the failure points of the Roster Lock system: 1 player can really screw over a bunch of teams.

At this point, more than 8 Invites is an utter question. Valve just lost 2 of the top 5 years of the year. One a Major winner and the other the most consistent team of the year & defending TI champions. That's not gone as planned.

One point I like to make on how tight High-End Dota can be for outcomes: at The Summit 4 Finals, game 2. I remember in the draft that ppd changed up his bans a little, but he didn't quite realize that Spirit Breaker was really the hero that was messing up EG the most. In game 3, it got banned, and EG went on to win the series 3-2. That 1 ban changed the winner of the LAN.

Pretty much, this entire roster shuffle likely doesn't happen if EG wins the high ground push in game 3 against LGD in the group stage. They'd have beaten Fnatic and then lost to Newbee. Ensure top 6 but probably lose to the winner of TL vs Na'Vi. All for some small decision making mistakes in 1 game.
Taf the Ghost
Profile Joined December 2010
United States11751 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-06-10 03:09:14
June 09 2016 17:11 GMT
#2096
Combined.
Sn0_Man
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Tebellong44238 Posts
June 09 2016 17:12 GMT
#2097
Please don't triple post
If you have more to say, Edit your previous post(s)
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Shaella
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
United States14828 Posts
June 09 2016 17:33 GMT
#2098
What the Fuck
don't tell me to provide a legend for those charts cause we already got shaella in this thread - eieio | Bulba is my waifu
HighTimeDotA
Profile Joined May 2014
Canada1412 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-06-09 17:41:57
June 09 2016 17:40 GMT
#2099
universe is so smart, knew that there was no good offlaners in na and eg would take him back whenever and decided to take a couple months paid vacation to europe. now its time to go home.

if zai also returns to eg they might get another chance to win TI.
rtz is like the Bieber of dota, true Canadian treasure.
theqat
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States2856 Posts
June 09 2016 17:44 GMT
#2100
Fear's last several games on his main account are safelane carry games, for the little it's worth http://www.dotabuff.com/players/87177591
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