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Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
February 16 2018 22:48 GMT
#3381
Well game 1 was fucking awful jesus. What on earth was happening that game.
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Gaial
Profile Joined May 2014
United States313 Posts
February 16 2018 23:14 GMT
#3382
EG has not been laning strong. They didn't against Optic either.
Sapaio
Profile Joined October 2017
Denmark2037 Posts
February 16 2018 23:38 GMT
#3383
Good game two, Sumail was awful game one and brilliant game two.
GO OG
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
February 17 2018 00:08 GMT
#3384
Yeah beastmaster hype. Plus finally they picked the gyro into chen instead of banning it like they did the otheer day which i thought was very weird xD

Game 3 im liking the draft alot too.
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Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
February 17 2018 00:41 GMT
#3385
Much better, ok lets close this out EG!
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Chewbacca.
Profile Joined January 2011
United States3634 Posts
February 17 2018 00:45 GMT
#3386
Wisp and puck, liking the start.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
February 17 2018 01:08 GMT
#3387
Doing great and now just chain fed 6-8 kills in last 5 minutes andgame is very even.
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Chewbacca.
Profile Joined January 2011
United States3634 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-02-17 02:24:56
February 17 2018 02:07 GMT
#3388
Well this isn't looking too good. Really need Fear to start carrying the game, but it seems like a pretty hard Clinkz game.

One hell of a recovery by Arteezy, he was losing that lane like 12 cs to voids 35 cs at one point.
nothingmuch
Profile Joined March 2015
448 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-02-17 10:37:35
February 17 2018 10:36 GMT
#3389
On February 15 2018 18:09 Pandemona wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 15 2018 06:18 nothingmuch wrote:
On February 14 2018 18:09 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah they seem to be like a very poor version of the old OG per se right? OG had a great captain in Fly, one of the best 4s in the world in jerax and then s4 one of the most experienced players and now a well established 3. But they had a mid player who was weak at the start then had a weirdness add to his game plus a carry in notail who also did weird ass things. Seems Optic are this but a weaker version as CCNC and Pajkatt are even lesser than notail and co.

Anyway todays games hopefully go well and we get ourselves in the grand finals hopefully. Misery seemed to be in the hospital with probably food poisoning reading between the lines so hopefully 48 hours after that he should be better. He did say he hoped to be out of hospital by the following day (yesterday) he hasn't tweeted since though. Even so with how Bulba played and EG in general i think we would only need misery for the bo5 which isn't until the 16th.


As far as I can remember OG won two majors with that weak mid and weird ass carry.

Yes they won a major or two, they also got dismantled at TI multiple times. Im sure if you ask them to replace winning a couple of Majors for a TI you know what there reply would be.




Yeah, just some of those insignificant major thingies. Pretty much like winning a coloring book at the ring toss at the local fun fair and totally not 4 out of 5 of the second highest price pool having tournaments with the hardest competition in the world at the time of each tournament. OG failed by their standards at TI, that doesn't change the fact that they were one of, if not the most dominant team(s) over a period of close to two (Dota) years. Comparing Optic with that just just plain ridiculous.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-02-17 11:34:08
February 17 2018 11:32 GMT
#3390
Ok that was a complete disaster, not respecting the qualifiers seemed to be one issue i can think of. Having Cr1t and Misery in Denmark aint helping i think rtc is in his home in canada as well.

When you don't have the luxury of getting invites you are going to have to lan every qualifier, they still would had a week or so off, but now they are without a major and will have to try and get into other moniors on points missed out.,
On February 17 2018 19:36 nothingmuch wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 15 2018 18:09 Pandemona wrote:
On February 15 2018 06:18 nothingmuch wrote:
On February 14 2018 18:09 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah they seem to be like a very poor version of the old OG per se right? OG had a great captain in Fly, one of the best 4s in the world in jerax and then s4 one of the most experienced players and now a well established 3. But they had a mid player who was weak at the start then had a weirdness add to his game plus a carry in notail who also did weird ass things. Seems Optic are this but a weaker version as CCNC and Pajkatt are even lesser than notail and co.

Anyway todays games hopefully go well and we get ourselves in the grand finals hopefully. Misery seemed to be in the hospital with probably food poisoning reading between the lines so hopefully 48 hours after that he should be better. He did say he hoped to be out of hospital by the following day (yesterday) he hasn't tweeted since though. Even so with how Bulba played and EG in general i think we would only need misery for the bo5 which isn't until the 16th.


As far as I can remember OG won two majors with that weak mid and weird ass carry.

Yes they won a major or two, they also got dismantled at TI multiple times. Im sure if you ask them to replace winning a couple of Majors for a TI you know what there reply would be.




Yeah, just some of those insignificant major thingies. Pretty much like winning a coloring book at the ring toss at the local fun fair and totally not 4 out of 5 of the second highest price pool having tournaments with the hardest competition in the world at the time of each tournament. OG failed by their standards at TI, that doesn't change the fact that they were one of, if not the most dominant team(s) over a period of close to two (Dota) years. Comparing Optic with that just just plain ridiculous.

In which every single pro says they would rather win a TI. Arsenal won a couple of FA cups lately, pretty sure they would rather win the champions league or premier league title right? Pretty sure winning the NFC/AFC championship is nothing if you don't win the super bowl?
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Saechiis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands4989 Posts
February 17 2018 12:34 GMT
#3391
EG played like a mentally disbanded team that last game, it felt like a random pub. I don't think this team is going to stay as it is now.
I think esports is pretty nice.
nothingmuch
Profile Joined March 2015
448 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-02-17 12:58:02
February 17 2018 12:52 GMT
#3392
On February 17 2018 20:32 Pandemona wrote:
Ok that was a complete disaster, not respecting the qualifiers seemed to be one issue i can think of. Having Cr1t and Misery in Denmark aint helping i think rtc is in his home in canada as well.

When you don't have the luxury of getting invites you are going to have to lan every qualifier, they still would had a week or so off, but now they are without a major and will have to try and get into other moniors on points missed out.,
Show nested quote +
On February 17 2018 19:36 nothingmuch wrote:
On February 15 2018 18:09 Pandemona wrote:
On February 15 2018 06:18 nothingmuch wrote:
On February 14 2018 18:09 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah they seem to be like a very poor version of the old OG per se right? OG had a great captain in Fly, one of the best 4s in the world in jerax and then s4 one of the most experienced players and now a well established 3. But they had a mid player who was weak at the start then had a weirdness add to his game plus a carry in notail who also did weird ass things. Seems Optic are this but a weaker version as CCNC and Pajkatt are even lesser than notail and co.

Anyway todays games hopefully go well and we get ourselves in the grand finals hopefully. Misery seemed to be in the hospital with probably food poisoning reading between the lines so hopefully 48 hours after that he should be better. He did say he hoped to be out of hospital by the following day (yesterday) he hasn't tweeted since though. Even so with how Bulba played and EG in general i think we would only need misery for the bo5 which isn't until the 16th.


As far as I can remember OG won two majors with that weak mid and weird ass carry.

Yes they won a major or two, they also got dismantled at TI multiple times. Im sure if you ask them to replace winning a couple of Majors for a TI you know what there reply would be.




Yeah, just some of those insignificant major thingies. Pretty much like winning a coloring book at the ring toss at the local fun fair and totally not 4 out of 5 of the second highest price pool having tournaments with the hardest competition in the world at the time of each tournament. OG failed by their standards at TI, that doesn't change the fact that they were one of, if not the most dominant team(s) over a period of close to two (Dota) years. Comparing Optic with that just just plain ridiculous.

In which every single pro says they would rather win a TI. Arsenal won a couple of FA cups lately, pretty sure they would rather win the champions league or premier league title right? Pretty sure winning the NFC/AFC championship is nothing if you don't win the super bowl?


I have no idea what those are, but I'm pretty sure whatever they are they're hardly analogous to the Dota tournament circuit. At the majors the same teams are competing that are at TI. So while TI is a lot more lucrative and prestigious (which is why every player prefers to win TI, duh) in terms of achievement OGs major run is humongous, unprecedented and unlikely to ever be repeated. Feel free to check back, they were among the favorites each TI, which is why their disappointing results were such an upset. When it comes to price money OG clocks in at over 6 million. Optic isn't even in the same solar system as that. So no, not every team that also hasn't won TI is comparable (in the sense that they're alike) to OG, because they haven't won TI either.
PoulsenB
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland7758 Posts
February 17 2018 13:38 GMT
#3393
Interesting post from the General Discussion thread:

On February 17 2018 22:07 cecek wrote:
There's maybe some drama incoming regarding sumail and EG. He changed his twitter profile picture and removed the EG header. Might sound like nothing, but more often then not, these hints end up hinting at some big drama. His steam account apparently now is "BulbaStandinForme". Credit goes to reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/7y5g6i/eg_drama_possibly_incoming/

I don't get why people are calling sumail best player in the world. Historically based on total amount of achievements it's probably Puppey, in terms of total pricepool won it's Kuroky, currently best individually skilled player I would say probably Miracle or GH. During TI5, you definitely had a case for Sumail being the most individually skilled player and I would agree with you. But that was almost 3 years ago, so much changed since then.

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emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
February 17 2018 14:13 GMT
#3394
Universe back to EG ? ?
TRUEESPORTS || your days as a respected member of team liquid are over
nothingmuch
Profile Joined March 2015
448 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-02-17 14:23:29
February 17 2018 14:22 GMT
#3395
On February 17 2018 22:38 PoulsenB wrote:
Interesting post from the General Discussion thread:

Show nested quote +
On February 17 2018 22:07 cecek wrote:
There's maybe some drama incoming regarding sumail and EG. He changed his twitter profile picture and removed the EG header. Might sound like nothing, but more often then not, these hints end up hinting at some big drama. His steam account apparently now is "BulbaStandinForme". Credit goes to reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/7y5g6i/eg_drama_possibly_incoming/

I don't get why people are calling sumail best player in the world. Historically based on total amount of achievements it's probably Puppey, in terms of total pricepool won it's Kuroky, currently best individually skilled player I would say probably Miracle or GH. During TI5, you definitely had a case for Sumail being the most individually skilled player and I would agree with you. But that was almost 3 years ago, so much changed since then.




I think it's difficult enough to handle "fame" when you're in your twenties. A 15y old has practically no chance to not develop some serious ego issues. An entire community celebrating you? Grown ups doing your homework so you can play video games? Money/Girls raining down on you? It's like all the "child stars" in the music/movie business- there's just no way you come through that unscathed. Concerning your question, a lot of the hype comes either from himself (see above), people stuck in the past, or people talking about the ever popular "potential" which strictly speaking means nothing at all. People dream up some magical skill level that a player could be at but for reason X is not. And then they pretend like reason X doesn't exist/matter or will go away on it's own. Only recently people have begone talking more about players "fitting" with a team instead of being the "better player". When it comes to team chemistry/ behavior I find someone like GH way, way superior to someone like Sumail. It seems like you could put that guy in literally any team (and it would work) because of his character/attitude. Much better "package" in my view.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
February 17 2018 18:07 GMT
#3396
Don't think any drama is happening they are pissed but they need to look at themselves in terms of how they approached these qualifiers. They just played with 2 people in cali, 1 person in canada and 2 people in denmark....that can't be good for ping issues and shit. That is just bad, i can't see how a professional needs time away like EG seem to plan, Universe made some light of this in the documentatries on youtube. "A life of a genius/programmer is about being on the road a long time grinding dota" something like this, which these guys don't respect enough. You need to be together grinding, they could have had a week to 10 days off before these qualifiers started after the last touranment. Now they are out of a major unless they enter that huge lottery of a open qualifier at the lan event which will be tough and then you get a group a tough group after.

Right now they need to get back to grinding, back to scrimming and back to playing in the same room and talking through strats. I mean how can bulba coach via teamspeak xD very stupid if you ask me and very "lacklustre"
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Gaial
Profile Joined May 2014
United States313 Posts
February 17 2018 18:50 GMT
#3397
I don't know how much ping was a factor in these games, but coL has simply been better in the past 3 days.

I think the biggest problem for EG getting 2nd is, unless they do very well in Katowice, they just lost their auto-invite
BigO
Profile Joined December 2011
Sweden956 Posts
February 17 2018 18:53 GMT
#3398
Doesn't Sumail do this a couple of times per year and he is still in EG. Doubt much will change, seeing as the rooster lock is now in place etc.
Sapaio
Profile Joined October 2017
Denmark2037 Posts
February 17 2018 19:58 GMT
#3399
One thing to remember is that misery was in the hospital the day before, so maybe not on top.
Think Sumail has the skills to be one of the top 3 players in the world, but needs much higher bottom level performance. I saw game 1 & 2. Think Sumail was so awful game 1 not because of enemy ganks but just getting killed by his own decision, then in game 2 he played the best Beastmaster I have seen was sublim. Think he plays to much on mood and motivation and emotions, simply not stabil enough.
EG performance is in correlation with how Samail does, and that is there problem.
GO OG
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
February 19 2018 10:55 GMT
#3400
On February 18 2018 03:50 Gaial wrote:
I don't know how much ping was a factor in these games, but coL has simply been better in the past 3 days.

I think the biggest problem for EG getting 2nd is, unless they do very well in Katowice, they just lost their auto-invite

Yeah the point was more, Cr1t, Misery and Rtc are waking up say 10am there time, playing dota solo, not talking about the upcoming game and then joining discord/teamspeak around 3/4 hours later to practice/talk about the game with Sumail/Fear etc. If they are in the same house like they should be if they respected the qualifier a bit more then when they all wake up at 10am they are talking from minute one about the upcoming game and what not. It is just a different mentality, plus Misery in the Sven game had connection issues too. I just thought it was a bit "selfish" from the players perspective to really want a what has been 2 weeks break since the last tournament even though they have a brand new roster lol.
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