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goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44238 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-03-09 14:37:54
March 09 2016 14:36 GMT
#1541
It's not really the first time ppd failed in a draft but honestly any drafter has failed before.

Puppey has that naive "give the enemy team everything they want" draft, ppd drafts some drafts that has no synergy, pie drafted the legendary c9 support tinker (lol), envy has the elimination series so fucking greedy " give all his teammates whatever they want" draft, i've seen lanm draft some really weird draft from DK 2014, ROTK did the all venomancer draft in the TI4 finals, s4 did some really weak 3,4,5 pos draft and i bet even xiao8 had some bad drafts or got outdrafted from time to time.

Even those who drafted a long amount of time still gets outdrafted by the classic very common 5th pick AM which is the most obvious shit in the world but it still happens. So I wouldn't really worry much about that.
this is a quote
Gaial
Profile Joined May 2014
United States313 Posts
March 09 2016 16:02 GMT
#1542
It's kind of the same scenario as it was in the Summit 4 finals, EG vs VP.

PPD never banned SF even though they just lost 2 games in a row, and PPD again let SF through the first ban stage. However, EG's strategy against eventually SF worked and they won the series. Here, with NP against Liquid, and EG continually going for Enigma, it didn't pan out.
hariooo
Profile Joined October 2013
Canada2830 Posts
March 09 2016 16:19 GMT
#1543
EG won't win as long as Sumail is playing on Notail's level. Dude has not really had the overwhelming performance you expect from him. I guess Lina/Lesh/Storm have been nerfed out of the meta but still.
wims80
Profile Joined February 2014
1892 Posts
March 09 2016 16:23 GMT
#1544
On March 10 2016 01:02 Gaial wrote:
It's kind of the same scenario as it was in the Summit 4 finals, EG vs VP.

PPD never banned SF even though they just lost 2 games in a row, and PPD again let SF through the first ban stage. However, EG's strategy against eventually SF worked and they won the series. Here, with NP against Liquid, and EG continually going for Enigma, it didn't pan out.

It worked in the summit because VP was completely knackered after playing the lower bracket finals before they played the grand finals. It was also in the middle of the night CIS time so that didn't help VP either
Why are my allies so weak and pathetic?
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
March 09 2016 16:29 GMT
#1545
PPD looks like he is pretty sick right now. Travelling when you're sick must not be cool xd
He also confirmed that next week they leave for Croatia for Dota Pit indeed, should be fun. 2 day European lan perfect!
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
lolnoty
Profile Joined December 2005
United States7166 Posts
March 09 2016 17:24 GMT
#1546
On March 10 2016 01:23 wims80 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 10 2016 01:02 Gaial wrote:
It's kind of the same scenario as it was in the Summit 4 finals, EG vs VP.

PPD never banned SF even though they just lost 2 games in a row, and PPD again let SF through the first ban stage. However, EG's strategy against eventually SF worked and they won the series. Here, with NP against Liquid, and EG continually going for Enigma, it didn't pan out.

It worked in the summit because VP was completely knackered after playing the lower bracket finals before they played the grand finals. It was also in the middle of the night CIS time so that didn't help VP either

This is a silly thing to say. Are you their manager or something? How on earth are you able to disregard a 0-2 to 3-2 change as not game related?

In fact, I'll just use that excuse too. Every tournament EG didn't place first was because they were tired and sick, let's ignore the games.
"PPD is a very angry guy. He controls us." - Arteezy
wims80
Profile Joined February 2014
1892 Posts
March 09 2016 17:26 GMT
#1547
On March 10 2016 02:24 lolnoty wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 10 2016 01:23 wims80 wrote:
On March 10 2016 01:02 Gaial wrote:
It's kind of the same scenario as it was in the Summit 4 finals, EG vs VP.

PPD never banned SF even though they just lost 2 games in a row, and PPD again let SF through the first ban stage. However, EG's strategy against eventually SF worked and they won the series. Here, with NP against Liquid, and EG continually going for Enigma, it didn't pan out.

It worked in the summit because VP was completely knackered after playing the lower bracket finals before they played the grand finals. It was also in the middle of the night CIS time so that didn't help VP either

This is a silly thing to say. Are you their manager or something? How on earth are you able to disregard a 0-2 to 3-2 change as not game related?

In fact, I'll just use that excuse too. Every tournament EG didn't place first was because they were tired and sick, let's ignore the games.

I'm not their manager or a VP insider or anything, I just thought it was pretty obvious when I watched the Summit finals. It struck me immediately, in fact, it struck me at the end of game 2 that VP was running out of gas
Why are my allies so weak and pathetic?
Diavlo
Profile Joined July 2011
Belgium2915 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-03-09 18:46:27
March 09 2016 18:43 GMT
#1548
On March 10 2016 01:19 hariooo wrote:
EG won't win as long as Sumail is playing on Notail's level. Dude has not really had the overwhelming performance you expect from him. I guess Lina/Lesh/Storm have been nerfed out of the meta but still.

The guy was 34-5 against Col-MVP and had the most damage dealt in every game...
He doesn't "shine" as much as he used to because the team isn't built around him like it was when Fear carried, he has to play heroes like Bat, Nyx and Brew and if the game doesn't go right for him he doesn't have a stacked jungle to come back from.

EG wins half of the tournament they enter and get top 2-3 in the rest. Considering the competitiveness of the field right now that's pretty impressive. But someone has to be blamed for not winning everything I guess...


On March 10 2016 02:26 wims80 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 10 2016 02:24 lolnoty wrote:
On March 10 2016 01:23 wims80 wrote:
On March 10 2016 01:02 Gaial wrote:
It's kind of the same scenario as it was in the Summit 4 finals, EG vs VP.

PPD never banned SF even though they just lost 2 games in a row, and PPD again let SF through the first ban stage. However, EG's strategy against eventually SF worked and they won the series. Here, with NP against Liquid, and EG continually going for Enigma, it didn't pan out.

It worked in the summit because VP was completely knackered after playing the lower bracket finals before they played the grand finals. It was also in the middle of the night CIS time so that didn't help VP either

This is a silly thing to say. Are you their manager or something? How on earth are you able to disregard a 0-2 to 3-2 change as not game related?

In fact, I'll just use that excuse too. Every tournament EG didn't place first was because they were tired and sick, let's ignore the games.

I'm not their manager or a VP insider or anything, I just thought it was pretty obvious when I watched the Summit finals. It struck me immediately, in fact, it struck me at the end of game 2 that VP was running out of gas


Yes each game got tougher for VP and then they lost. You say that's because VP was tired, he says it's because EG adapted. Who's right? Who knows...
"I don't know how many years on this Earth I got left. I'm gonna get real weird with it."
bluzi
Profile Joined May 2011
4703 Posts
March 09 2016 18:48 GMT
#1549
Diavlo has it right , you should read what he writes .....
Geisterkarle
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Germany3257 Posts
March 09 2016 20:03 GMT
#1550
Hm... Arteezy is not in the Leaderboard anymore! Can you "hide" yourself from appearing there?
There can only be one Geisterkarle
wims80
Profile Joined February 2014
1892 Posts
March 09 2016 20:30 GMT
#1551
I don't think so, but if you're inactive playing ranked then you will not qualify for the list, no matter what your mmr is
Why are my allies so weak and pathetic?
zev318
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada4306 Posts
March 09 2016 20:39 GMT
#1552
he'll probably show back up after today's update
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28097 Posts
March 09 2016 20:51 GMT
#1553
At least 15 solo ranked games in the last 21 days in the same division


Considering he was in China for quite some time I'd assume he just doesn't have enough games to show up atm. He should be back soon.
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plasmidghost
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgium16168 Posts
March 11 2016 02:28 GMT
#1554
We need to vote for Trump so he can deport Sumail and MEGA (Make EG Great Again)
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Joking, obviously
Yugoslavia will always live on in my heart
goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44238 Posts
March 17 2016 12:12 GMT
#1555
zai interview cause he's more EG than Secret and he's a standin of eg
this is a quote
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
March 17 2016 22:02 GMT
#1556
Thanks for that goody, good interview. He seems to believe and i guess why not, that he is going to join any team he wants when he leaves.
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
Voronoff
Profile Joined May 2010
United States302 Posts
March 20 2016 01:55 GMT
#1557
With day 1 of Dota Pit in, EG is once again the favorite to make it furthest, outlasting Secret and OG.
Chewbacca.
Profile Joined January 2011
United States3634 Posts
March 20 2016 02:01 GMT
#1558
Nice series between EG and Empire, could have easily gone either way.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
March 20 2016 02:02 GMT
#1559
Was very scared at one point for EG! But nice nice they came out on top and now looking good.
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
March 21 2016 08:54 GMT
#1560
We keep getting so close and finishing 2nd doh! Oh well back home for a month of rest until off to Kyiv and Russia in the space of 2 weeks?
29th - 1st May = WePlayLeague (Kyiv?)
9th May - 15th = Epicenter (Moscow)
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
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