Sad that ESL was a dissapointement, but it was not very surprising... Guys havent been playing alott of Dota i suppose, atleast not anything near Vega. Vega been playing like two bo3 for 2 weeks or so, and against strong teams.
EG will need some official games to find theier mojo...

goody153

44020 Posts

October 08 2015 07:14 GMT

#1064

it's eg man i never get surprised when they show a disappointing performance cause they do that from time to time but they almost always deliver when the important series comes anyways

wims80

1892 Posts

October 08 2015 11:09 GMT

#1065

Historically every team that has slacked after winning TI have never really come back in a big way.

Atoissen

Norway1737 Posts

October 08 2015 13:28 GMT

#1066

On October 08 2015 20:09 wims80 wrote:
Historically every team that has slacked after winning TI have never really come back in a big way.

Navi reached 3 finals in a row, 2 finals after they won TI themself.
I think EG will be back, just needs some time.

goody153

44020 Posts

October 08 2015 14:09 GMT

#1067

On October 08 2015 20:09 wims80 wrote:
Historically every team that has slacked after winning TI have never really come back in a big way.

navi is a huge contradiction of that

although if you meant winning 2 TI's that maybe very unlikely since every TI happens yearly i feel like so much happens every year that unless your team has super synergy for a long time and the team managed to fix their internal shits everytime they encounter 1

Faruko

Chile34167 Posts

October 08 2015 14:51 GMT

#1068

The only way i see EG not coming back to their level its

A) internal problems (i doubt it)
B) some key player leaves the team

otherwise i dont think theres any reason to overreact, yes, they played awfully bad against Vega, but Vega is seriously no free pass (ask iG and Secret).

Swagtastic

11 Posts

October 08 2015 15:22 GMT

#1069

I think everyone hating on EG is oblivious to how tournaments work. For example you go to Starcraft 2 you have different tournaments like when I was following it MLG and huge GSL best in the world players would come and lose to guys you had never heard of who were making a huge name for themselves. A lot of reasons for why this occurred and still does occur, despite SC 2 being a more consistent game meta than dota. Its because of tournament format. The international is similar to the GSL you have a lot of time to study and take in a lot of replay analysis to really know your opponent and play style picking pool and so on. Where as ESL one its on the spot quick draw and right after rooster changes and a new patch. Give it time and they will be back wrecking everything. Also they lost the to team that won the whole tournament that's worth noting since this round of 8 game could have easily been a grand finals.

BTW Not EG fan boy

goody153

44020 Posts

October 08 2015 15:24 GMT

#1070

Vega had the run of the week that everyteam has once in a while (assuming their stability won't last and that;s only during esl) has where they beat everybody or at least almost everyone but yeah they won so EG fought against a tough opponent which is ok. I mean i've seen eg lose to not today 2-0 before lmao but that didn't stop them from winning and running deep on the next tournaments to follow.

goody153

44020 Posts

October 13 2015 02:36 GMT

#1071

alright honestly when the fuck are we gonna see this team play again .. yeah everybody streaming individually doesn't count

Voronoff

United States302 Posts

October 13 2015 03:07 GMT

#1072

Friday at MLG. The format is okay for them - EG does best in long tournaments with a big group stage and a losers bracket, where they can adapt. There is a reason why Day 1 EG is a meme.

ForTehDarkseid

8139 Posts

October 16 2015 23:08 GMT

#1073

Hey, what's people's excuse now?

Spicy_Curry

United States10573 Posts

October 16 2015 23:12 GMT

#1074

can u wait until they get eliminated

Chewbacca.

United States3634 Posts

October 16 2015 23:18 GMT

#1075

On October 17 2015 08:12 Spicy_Curry wrote:
can u wait until they get eliminated

Yeah....as if doing poorly on day 1 is anything new for EG

goody153

44020 Posts

October 16 2015 23:22 GMT

#1076

On October 17 2015 08:08 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
Hey, what's people's excuse now?

*shrug*

ti5 winning eg lost mlg many times to a bunch of shit teams

Plansix

United States60190 Posts

October 16 2015 23:47 GMT

#1077

On October 17 2015 08:08 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
Hey, what's people's excuse now?

It's ForTehDarkseid, he lives to talk shit in fan threads.

goody153

44020 Posts

October 16 2015 23:59 GMT

#1078

On October 17 2015 08:47 Plansix wrote:

Show nested quote +

It's ForTehDarkseid, he lives to talk shit in fan threads.

it's easy to return the favor just shittalk the chinese everytime they lose and get eliminated he gets triggered by it for sure

he does pretend he does not care but he shows support