Fear confirms in this interview below that Captains draft was the first time the team had "seen" eachother let alone played a game together before the tournament. Makes me think of how well they did taking a game off of Secret!

https://www.theflyingcourier.com/2018/1/5/16849286/dota-2-interview-evil-geniuses-fear-clinton-loomis-captains-draft

PoulsenB

Poland7748 Posts

January 08 2018 16:34 GMT

#3264

If they can build and improve on what they showed in the games against Secret, with proper drafts they'll be a very scary team. When is their next event? I want moar gaems!!!

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

January 08 2018 19:19 GMT

#3265

Well if they dont pull out of Galaxy Battles which is that event which was a major and now has 0 points on offer atll, then it is 15th January. If not it will be 23rd in the ESL One minor in Genting!

Gaial

United States313 Posts

January 13 2018 13:32 GMT

#3266

As far as we know, EG is attending (Wiki)

Galaxy Battles/2 ?

Edit: It's been pushed back to January 19th

PoulsenB

Poland7748 Posts

January 19 2018 11:27 GMT

#3267

Easy victory today against PG.B, they looked solid with good drafts. Let's see how they do against tougher opposition.

Gaial

United States313 Posts

January 19 2018 14:53 GMT

#3268

Did anyone realize EG is scheduled to play Na'vi in 3 days @ ESL One Genting? To me, it has fatigue written for EG all over.

(Wiki)

ESL One/Genting/2018

Interesting format for sure.

emperorchampion

Canada9496 Posts

January 19 2018 16:52 GMT

#3269

On January 19 2018 23:53 Gaial wrote:
Did anyone realize EG is scheduled to play Na'vi in 3 days @ ESL One Genting? To me, it has fatigue written for EG all over.

(Wiki)

ESL One/Genting/2018

Interesting format for sure.

Ah I think it's not too bad, Galaxy Battles is probably good practice plus they shouldn't be jet lagged.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

January 19 2018 17:25 GMT

#3270

Yeah don't forget they are in Phillipines now and have to only go like 2 hour flight to that. Should be ok imo. Hoping we do well there though, we have a stupidly tough bracket, only 3 teams m ake it out of a bracket to get points. We have Newbee Liquid NaVi LFY to battle, TNC/Mineski might cause issues too so we need to be playing well there.

sCuMBaG

United Kingdom1144 Posts

January 20 2018 08:53 GMT

#3271

So Sumail back mid now or what?

I didn't see the games against OG - only Fear's last two interview questions.

Looks like we've got Sumail back mid now though. Who's offlaning then.... Fear?
Hard to judge by those two game... according to dotabuff it was two PL offlane games, once rtc once fear.

JGwinworth

45 Posts

January 20 2018 09:01 GMT

#3272

i THINK HES JUST TRYING NOT TO BE SO TRANSPARENT TO THE OTHER TEAMS i MEAN THEY'VE HAVE TO answer the dam Sumail question 80 times this week alone and Misery said yesterday everyones gonna play everywhere so I think Sumail will probably play offlane against VGJ

Sapaio

Denmark2037 Posts

January 20 2018 11:14 GMT

#3273

Think the Sumail switch was more about what type of heroes and roll he would have on team. Besides the DP on a three core lineup, i think he has gotten more space creating heroes that he wanted to play. Think he plays better and seem more motivated. Like EG picking PL early and then can adjust build (either diffusal or battlefury) to opponents lineup and when they need timing, nice way to make lineup more flexible without moving lanes.
Think Misery has already shown more in drafting and helped make them more aggressive than before. Hope this style can have succes against top tier opponents.

Atoissen

Norway1737 Posts

January 20 2018 13:00 GMT

#3274

On January 20 2018 20:14 Sapaio wrote:
Think the Sumail switch was more about what type of heroes and roll he would have on team. Besides the DP on a three core lineup, i think he has gotten more space creating heroes that he wanted to play. Think he plays better and seem more motivated. Like EG picking PL early and then can adjust build (either diffusal or battlefury) to opponents lineup and when they need timing, nice way to make lineup more flexible without moving lanes.
Think Misery has already shown more in drafting and helped make them more aggressive than before. Hope this style can have succes against top tier opponents.

Exactly this... Sumail roleis #3, either they put him safelane, mid or offlane... Dota is not so much about these static lanes anymore, all the best teams swap heroes around lanes. Its about flexibility and hero matchups.

Man that game 2 against VGJ.T!?!? Nice comeback. Good boost for the team. Learning every game. Misery is a great 5 player for EG. Cr1t is getting to play as the #4 that we saw in OG. Core players swapping lanes, being very dynamic and flexible. Love the development from EG. These are not the strongest teams in the world, but this is fantastic practice for EG atm. I can see this team becoming top3 with Liquid and VP in a couple of months.

Bleed blue!! <3

ChickenDieAlive

699 Posts

January 20 2018 14:01 GMT

#3275

Yeah, I think that the farm priority is generally:

1. RTZ
2. Fear
3. Sumail

Laning can be flexible.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

January 20 2018 19:11 GMT

#3276

Absolutely awesome games, i hate that it gets taken away from them a bit with the fact it isn't the best of tournaments in terms of team stregnth, but holy hell they played so well today.

Sumail goes mid for a series then plays Tide and Abba, awesome! Misery and Bulba drafting so well too.

But RTC holy crap he played so so so good today, farming off the chart and the plays in the last game vs VGJ on terror were awesome! Hoping we convincingly take this tourney and take it to ESL and carry on this form!

PoulsenB

Poland7748 Posts

January 21 2018 12:36 GMT

#3277

Damn, getting 3-0'd in the finals is a bummer. Still this is a decent result, we can't expect them to be the best team around after such a short time with Misery.

Atoissen

Norway1737 Posts

January 21 2018 13:27 GMT

#3278

Im very happy with theier performance.
The games in the GF was all super close, but the game 2 was the deciding one, and they were super close to taking it.
Less then 2 days until the next tournament, letts go!

DucK-

Singapore11447 Posts

January 22 2018 03:16 GMT

#3279

Fear not farming well though...

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

January 22 2018 12:25 GMT

#3280

Sumail chronos were funny as well haha. He tried so hard that game it felt but ahhh. Shame though, i also wondered why they didn't try a triple core line up vs VGJ like they did vs OG. See if they could have got away with pure greed.

Still hopefully can work on some stuff before heading into ESL. Getting some points is priority there though!