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VvvV1251
Profile Joined January 2016
Algeria142 Posts
February 24 2018 17:07 GMT
#3441
Good run, despite the early lose to LGD, they 2-0 everyone in the losers brackets.

Gaial
Profile Joined May 2014
United States313 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-02-28 14:05:19
February 28 2018 14:03 GMT
#3442
Really awesome Arteezy interview by Torte De Lini:

https://cybersport.com/post/arteezy-interview-esl-katowice-major

More EG in ~3 days!
PoulsenB
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland7748 Posts
February 28 2018 14:27 GMT
#3443
Nice interview, thanks for sharing this
IdrA fan forever <3 || the clueless one || Marci must be protected at all costs
theqat
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States2856 Posts
February 28 2018 16:43 GMT
#3444
gotta love losing to the eventual winner!

if EG reaches the next level of cohesion they are going to be absurdly hard to beat. That 2-0 vs Newbee showed some of the potential, just absolute dominance by a team that understands exactly what they want to do and how to do it
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
March 01 2018 08:14 GMT
#3445
thanks guys
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
March 01 2018 08:54 GMT
#3446
Yeah awesome work Torte, great questions too and Rtc gave some good answers, nice work :D

The next tournament is very annoying for me in terms of schedule/tournament system. When it was announced it was a Swiss System i thought oh wow this is going to be great! Then i learn its a full BO1 swiss system...wow. Top 8 are determined solely by a BO1 swiss system... Which after watching the BO1s in the ESL events only, anyone can beat anyone and it screws the result up. So i have no idea and expect huge shocks in this tournament now. Just hoping EG get some favorable ties.
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Gaial
Profile Joined May 2014
United States313 Posts
March 01 2018 13:07 GMT
#3447
On March 01 2018 17:54 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah awesome work Torte, great questions too and Rtc gave some good answers, nice work :D

The next tournament is very annoying for me in terms of schedule/tournament system. When it was announced it was a Swiss System i thought oh wow this is going to be great! Then i learn its a full BO1 swiss system...wow. Top 8 are determined solely by a BO1 swiss system... Which after watching the BO1s in the ESL events only, anyone can beat anyone and it screws the result up. So i have no idea and expect huge shocks in this tournament now. Just hoping EG get some favorable ties.


Yes, but it's 5 BO1s, and you only play teams with the same WL as you. That's the power of the Swiss format. It's the fairest way to determine seeding - far better than a random drawing of groups.

I think all you need to do is win 3 BO1s to advance. EG should do this when a quarter of the field is paiN, Vega, coL
GOHF
Profile Joined December 2015
United States1864 Posts
March 01 2018 17:45 GMT
#3448
On March 01 2018 22:07 Gaial wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2018 17:54 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah awesome work Torte, great questions too and Rtc gave some good answers, nice work :D

The next tournament is very annoying for me in terms of schedule/tournament system. When it was announced it was a Swiss System i thought oh wow this is going to be great! Then i learn its a full BO1 swiss system...wow. Top 8 are determined solely by a BO1 swiss system... Which after watching the BO1s in the ESL events only, anyone can beat anyone and it screws the result up. So i have no idea and expect huge shocks in this tournament now. Just hoping EG get some favorable ties.


Yes, but it's 5 BO1s, and you only play teams with the same WL as you. That's the power of the Swiss format. It's the fairest way to determine seeding - far better than a random drawing of groups.

I think all you need to do is win 3 BO1s to advance. EG should do this when a quarter of the field is paiN, Vega, coL

CSGO uses this system all the time. Going x-3 means you're out, but getting 3 wins somewhere along the line means you'll advance to the playoffs. I like this better than the Group A-Group B double elimination format.
NO MORE CHEN NERFS!!!
emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
March 01 2018 18:08 GMT
#3449
On March 02 2018 02:45 M.S.Bismarck wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2018 22:07 Gaial wrote:
On March 01 2018 17:54 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah awesome work Torte, great questions too and Rtc gave some good answers, nice work :D

The next tournament is very annoying for me in terms of schedule/tournament system. When it was announced it was a Swiss System i thought oh wow this is going to be great! Then i learn its a full BO1 swiss system...wow. Top 8 are determined solely by a BO1 swiss system... Which after watching the BO1s in the ESL events only, anyone can beat anyone and it screws the result up. So i have no idea and expect huge shocks in this tournament now. Just hoping EG get some favorable ties.


Yes, but it's 5 BO1s, and you only play teams with the same WL as you. That's the power of the Swiss format. It's the fairest way to determine seeding - far better than a random drawing of groups.

I think all you need to do is win 3 BO1s to advance. EG should do this when a quarter of the field is paiN, Vega, coL

CSGO uses this system all the time. Going x-3 means you're out, but getting 3 wins somewhere along the line means you'll advance to the playoffs. I like this better than the Group A-Group B double elimination format.


I think a "BO1" (16 rounds) in CSGO is a little more reliable than in Dota (1 game).
However, Swiss bo1 is OK in dota I think. 1 bo1 is a little random since off-day + off-game, OK you lost. With 5 games, if you have a few off-days and off-games in a row, even bo1, you probably don't deserve to move forward. The next step would be swiss bo3, of course this is more reliable but the number of games explodes.
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Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
March 02 2018 09:40 GMT
#3450
The CSGO system when it is BO1 swiss system gets hammered, the major was this and everyone was moaning because a team of unknowns made it out over some bigger names. However they normally do BO1 first round then BO3 at the end of it.
The following tournament (Starladder) did it a properly though a huge 16 team BO3 swiss group stage which was awesome, everyone liked that tournament :D

BO1 is so hard and the issue becomes seeding after wards. You seed for the first round but after that its a lottery of winners vs winners and losers vs losers. Take ESL first round as an example and loser games you could have had Newbee vs EG loser goes 0/2 and is one bo1 away from elimination. Or the winners game could have been Fnatic vs Kinguin winner is 1 bo1 away from qualifying etc. All comes down to draw which is why even in the CSGO version they normally have 1st round bo1, then bo3 afterwards.

We shall see, i just hope EG get a bit lucky in who they play vs! We also seem to never win BO1 games xD
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Gaial
Profile Joined May 2014
United States313 Posts
March 02 2018 13:30 GMT
#3451
It's hard because there's so many teams. This group stage will play 40 BO1s. That just takes a long time.

I'm interested if we'll ever see a WCS style format, except top 3 advance, and bottom team is eliminated (instead of 2+2).

4 groups of 4 -> 3 groups of 4 -> 2 groups of 4 -> 8 team playoff + loser bracket because it's dota
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
March 03 2018 11:16 GMT
#3452
See they have released who plays who round 1 and it clearly hasn't gone off seeding right? EG have the worst team round 1 where as Liquid get LFY, Secret get COL and VP get Optic. Now not saying Liquid/Secret/VP would lose to those teams in a bo1 but you can see them getting tough games in a bo1 if they aren't on point draft style right? So one of those top 3 teams could be 0-1 after day 1 which messes everything up xD

Anyway i'll stop my whining, just looking forward to a nice tourney on a new patch!!! Wonder what Rtc has discovered in 7.10 atm
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
Silent_Marine
Profile Joined April 2005
Vietnam281 Posts
March 04 2018 18:10 GMT
#3453
EG will face Liquid tomorrow, let's see !!
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
March 04 2018 18:21 GMT
#3454
Tough game but should be good fun i hope. Just want them to have a go!
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
PoulsenB
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland7748 Posts
March 04 2018 18:59 GMT
#3455
I just hope we won't get slaughtered again haha
IdrA fan forever <3 || the clueless one || Marci must be protected at all costs
nothingmuch
Profile Joined March 2015
448 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-03-05 00:04:50
March 05 2018 00:04 GMT
#3456
With EG traditionally being kind of a "come back after losses" be it in series or from the loser bracket kind of team, I worry that this format could hurt them quite a bit. And yeah, their chances against TL seem rather grim.
Atoissen
Profile Joined July 2011
Norway1737 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-03-05 07:55:29
March 05 2018 07:55 GMT
#3457
I have a good feeling for EG against Liquid today, Liquid is super strong, but not unbeatable atm.
Expecting some Morph, with mind games around support picks like Io, Kotl, ET and AA.
Letts see if its Rtz or Miracle on the morph today
“Strength lies not in defense but in attack.”
spacek
Profile Joined June 2010
United States213 Posts
March 05 2018 11:55 GMT
#3458
probably the best game this new lineup has played, what a blast to watch
yaya
Atoissen
Profile Joined July 2011
Norway1737 Posts
March 05 2018 12:07 GMT
#3459
Man, what a game!! What a ending!! This is the type of wins that really make you feel good and give alott of confidence.
Looked a bit grim in the beginning there, and Fear has probably never died so many times in one game, but I had a good feeling today, happy the boys managed to get the W here
“Strength lies not in defense but in attack.”
PoulsenB
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland7748 Posts
March 05 2018 12:14 GMT
#3460
So the Liquid curse was broken today, I'm so happy
IdrA fan forever <3 || the clueless one || Marci must be protected at all costs
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