On February 09 2016 03:10 nanaoei wrote:
i haven't really seen their games lately, but tuned into their second Captain's Draft game.
aloha is playing 1 these days?

He has been for a lil while, with xbox on offlane

Elyvilon

United States13143 Posts

February 09 2016 14:57 GMT

#344

On February 09 2016 14:23 yookstah wrote:

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He has been for a lil while, with xbox on offlane

yeah right now it's
1 aloha
2 fn(dunno if this will be the permanent selection)
3 xboct
4 funn1k
5 nofear

Racket

3023 Posts

February 15 2016 15:13 GMT

#345

Really, that new logo... I never recognize it. I am looking at liquiddota and I end up wasting 30 seconds every time.

goody153

44125 Posts

March 07 2016 15:36 GMT

#346

http://team.empire.gg/news/2592/

New empire roster:

ALOHADANCE
NoFear
Ghostik
yoky-
fn

i have no idea who these players are outside yoky and alohadance

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

March 12 2016 23:53 GMT

#347

long interview with XBOCT, Sheaves on reddit translated most of it, here are some points related to Empire

Kick from Empire:

Team decided to get a rest during Shanghai Major (due to lack of opponents for training)
Xboct was in Egypt with his friends when he was told about the kick
First if was Funn1k who contacted him and told about the possibility of the kick
Korb3n (Empire dota2 squad manager) informed Xboct about the kick while apologizing and claiming he didn't see it coming
StrangeR (Empire director) also tried to call Xboct but skype conversation didn't happen due to internet problems
Xboct mentions the only episode when team confronted him about having a small offlane hero pools. It happened about 2 weeks after he took the offlane role. Xboct admitted the fact and said he was going to learn more heroes with time
Xboct admits to not being able to play Nature's Propnet or Broodmother professionally and claims that he can play Lone Druid, but the team as a whole didn't know how to play with it so they decided not to
Xboct basically told teammates "either you play with some friends, no problems, or we keep trying and see how it goes" and they were willing to keep trying. Since then Empire won 3 key series and lost one

Future of team Empire and Xboct's opinion on players and scene:

Ramzes666 will probably still join Empire later (after dotaPit), Ghostik is a stand-in
NOFEAR is the only one who Xboct really didn't like at all and he doesn't see Nofear as a good leader in the future. Hard to translate, but Xboct says NOFEAR is "slightly moronic, to put it lightly".
Alohadance will be just fine when he grows up a little and gets more experience
Fn is a great guy, pleasant to play and communicate with, although not without his own quirks
Most problems are caused by players being really yound and not mature enough, not in game but in life
Xboct himself admits to possibly being like that earlier but he was lucky enough to join Na`Vi, a team with 4 great players, and said he was willing to learn (admitting he was behind in macro, thinking, decision-making and experience why being roughly on the same level skill-wise). On the contrast, young players today consider themselves already on top and aren't that willing to learn
Empire players aren't serious enough and are often just laughing/joking during draft and don't contribute much
Xboct wishes them luck going forward

A lot more info and opinions about the CIS scene, old Na'Vi, right and left, the recent Major and XBOCT's future among others, but not really relevant to Empire per se.

Read for yourself:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/4a3k4s/someone_to_translate_recent_interview_with_xboct/d0x55q8

OmniEulogy

Canada6592 Posts

March 13 2016 03:23 GMT

#348

I'm hoping Empire surprises us in Croatia

Zeelah

Ireland172 Posts

March 25 2016 11:43 GMT

#349

Team Empire havn't disbanded,but it seems they are having a complete roster re-shuffle,not even Aloha staying and NoFear has moved to Vp.

Byyk

457 Posts

March 25 2016 18:21 GMT

#350

What is happening? :-(

Atoissen

Norway1737 Posts

March 25 2016 18:21 GMT

#351

On March 13 2016 08:53 StarVe wrote:
long interview with XBOCT, Sheaves on reddit translated most of it, here are some points related to Empire

Show nested quote +

Kick from Empire:

Team decided to get a rest during Shanghai Major (due to lack of opponents for training)
Xboct was in Egypt with his friends when he was told about the kick
First if was Funn1k who contacted him and told about the possibility of the kick
Korb3n (Empire dota2 squad manager) informed Xboct about the kick while apologizing and claiming he didn't see it coming
StrangeR (Empire director) also tried to call Xboct but skype conversation didn't happen due to internet problems
Xboct mentions the only episode when team confronted him about having a small offlane hero pools. It happened about 2 weeks after he took the offlane role. Xboct admitted the fact and said he was going to learn more heroes with time
Xboct admits to not being able to play Nature's Propnet or Broodmother professionally and claims that he can play Lone Druid, but the team as a whole didn't know how to play with it so they decided not to
Xboct basically told teammates "either you play with some friends, no problems, or we keep trying and see how it goes" and they were willing to keep trying. Since then Empire won 3 key series and lost one

Future of team Empire and Xboct's opinion on players and scene:

Ramzes666 will probably still join Empire later (after dotaPit), Ghostik is a stand-in
NOFEAR is the only one who Xboct really didn't like at all and he doesn't see Nofear as a good leader in the future. Hard to translate, but Xboct says NOFEAR is "slightly moronic, to put it lightly".
Alohadance will be just fine when he grows up a little and gets more experience
Fn is a great guy, pleasant to play and communicate with, although not without his own quirks
Most problems are caused by players being really yound and not mature enough, not in game but in life
Xboct himself admits to possibly being like that earlier but he was lucky enough to join Na`Vi, a team with 4 great players, and said he was willing to learn (admitting he was behind in macro, thinking, decision-making and experience why being roughly on the same level skill-wise). On the contrast, young players today consider themselves already on top and aren't that willing to learn
Empire players aren't serious enough and are often just laughing/joking during draft and don't contribute much
Xboct wishes them luck going forward

thanks bro, I missed this. always cool hearing some stuff from "inside the scene".

havent really been impressed by nofears play, hearing this from xboct makes the switch on vp even more strange, moving lil down, to make room for nofear ><

I miss empire tho... hoping they can come back with a strong squad... I really liked parts of theier play with fn! he seemed really good to me.

the bear jew

United States3674 Posts

May 06 2016 23:02 GMT

#352

Well I as many doubted new squad but it's worked out well so far. Good luck in Manilla Empire!

DucK-

Singapore11447 Posts

May 07 2016 02:44 GMT

#353

Oh wait. Scandal finally in a valve tournament?!?!? Congrats to him! About time!

Byyk

457 Posts

May 07 2016 06:18 GMT

#354

Well played Team Empire! This random squad now looks promising...

Byyk

457 Posts

July 23 2016 17:17 GMT

#355

That was nice pwnage of Allicane. The Scandal just had to leave so the team can go forward.

Racket

3023 Posts

October 26 2016 11:10 GMT

#356

Why wasn't Empire in the second round of the Open Qualifier?

spudde123

4814 Posts

October 26 2016 11:48 GMT

#357

On October 26 2016 20:10 Racket wrote:
Why wasn't Empire in the second round of the Open Qualifier?

They did play, they just lost in ro32 to Alternate Attax

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2734527774

Racket

3023 Posts

October 26 2016 12:13 GMT

#358

On October 26 2016 20:48 spudde123 wrote:

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They did play, they just lost in ro32 to Alternate Attax

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2734527774

Oh wow! I am blind, thanks.

I never expected to find them there...

Barkley

Brazil103 Posts

October 26 2016 15:43 GMT

#359

Pretty sad to see them in such a state. Hopefully next shuffle reinvigorates them as it did before, as it stands I dont see them having success with this roster, even if skill-wise they are all certainly capable.