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andyrau
Profile Joined December 2010
13015 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-13 17:39:25
August 13 2016 17:39 GMT
#3961
woops wrong thread
"Zai is legitimately not as good as bulba." | kaipi ti3 champions
Vankuga
Profile Joined April 2012
Panama2005 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-14 04:10:17
August 14 2016 04:09 GMT
#3962
k roster changing time. I can only see -bulba for sure, but i could see also -ee -bulba -rtz -pld.

Puppey needs to get his shit together to not have a shit year again.
Vankuga
Kznn
Profile Joined March 2011
Brazil9072 Posts
August 14 2016 04:27 GMT
#3963
- bulba - envy

+? + ?

envy to CoL
TomatoBisque
Profile Joined March 2013
United States6290 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-14 04:39:50
August 14 2016 04:29 GMT
#3964
On August 14 2016 00:11 pat777 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 13 2016 19:38 a_flayer wrote:
On August 13 2016 19:13 TomatoBisque wrote:
On August 12 2016 12:40 yyfpulls wrote:
Is this leak posted on Reddit?

It's been deleted every time someone posts it (for good reason)

On August 12 2016 20:18 RubickPicker wrote:That log reads like a lot of egotism from Puppey and 1437 either ignoring it or enabling it, the prose is certainly colorful, but many would believe it would be wrong to read too much into it since nobody was supposed to see it.

I'm not going to pretend Puppey is a humble guy, and I think a majority of pro dota players are a bit arrogant. You sort of have to be to have that sort of confidence in yourself to compete at that level, and moreso to captain a team. That said, I think that what someone says in a private conversation to a close friend when they are feeling betrayed by someone they were very close to needs to be taken with a grain of salt, because a lot of it is likely to be venting and not representative of how they really feel.

And, adding on to that, Kuro may be right that his outlook on Dota was better or whatever he wanted to do to replace Puppey. However, that does not justify any shitty behavior he may have done in the name of this better end.


If anything, what we've seen at TI is that big egos cause teams to come crashing down.

Well, confidence is needed. It just needs to be managed so that it doesn't turn into too big of an ego. I think that's the tricky part. You need a lot of confidence but you can't let that confidence corrupt you.

Yes, exactly this. And it's a fine line. Sometimes you see teams throwing massive leads because they get overconfident and throw games. Other times you see teams that are afraid to lose and have no confidence in themselves. They get a big lead and fail to close the game out (EE's C9 and the TI3-4 Liquid come to mind here)

That said, Puppey has some sort of issue with how he views the game that's holding his team back, I think. Feels like when his teams have been losing it's due to a breakdown in teamwork and trust, and unfortunately this has happened with multiple iterations of Secret

I also think he puts too little value on early game, too often we see his teams take a greedy draft that gets ran over early game and never recover. I don't know how much this ties into my first point but it's a pattern I've noticed repeatedly. This might be stubbornness because when Na'vi was dominant under his leadership they could frequently take insane teamfights even from huge deficits, but the game and players have changed a lot, and you can't just draft assuming your team vastly outskills the enemy team

This is, however, just my shitter analysis and I've not studied the games enough to be confident in these claims.

Not sure about roster shuffle. I've heard rumors that Matumba has military service coming up, and honestly we don't really know what the internal state is of most teams. Secret is just a gimme that they're making changes since they got last and Puppey expressed discontent in that interview with the way some players took 1437/aui's coaching (keep in mind that OG, Secret, and EG credit'd their respective coaches for their victories at TI5 and the majors, and 7mad/1437/bulba are all players that have seen very little success as players)
rip
Papercappu
Profile Joined July 2015
Canada2210 Posts
August 14 2016 04:32 GMT
#3965
Puppey should step down to coach instead imo. He's too outdated with current state of the game.especially his drafting. 2 of his former teammates fly & misery ended up being better captain+drafter after playing with him
Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11075 Posts
August 14 2016 07:08 GMT
#3966
So shadow is a team secret fan too! Sober have that going for us
Biomine is a drunken chick who is on industrial strength amphetamines and would just grab your dick and jerk it as hard and violently as she could while screaming 'OMG FUCK ME', because she saw it in a Sasha Grey video ...-Wombat_Ni
hariooo
Profile Joined October 2013
Canada2830 Posts
August 14 2016 08:28 GMT
#3967
You guys are putting a lot of stock into creating a narrative based on a best of 1 game. DC lost their first losers bracket game too.

Not saying they would beat LGD in abo3 but reading too much into a single game loss when we have multiple examples of loser bracket runs is meh
wims80
Profile Joined February 2014
1892 Posts
August 14 2016 12:07 GMT
#3968
It wasn't just one lost game, remember when they hadn't won a single game in like 15 games in a row? Clearly they sucked
Why are my allies so weak and pathetic?
PoulsenB
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland7726 Posts
August 14 2016 12:15 GMT
#3969
On August 14 2016 21:07 wims80 wrote:
It wasn't just one lost game, remember when they hadn't won a single game in like 15 games in a row? Clearly they sucked


that was the previous roster with Universe iirc
IdrA fan forever <3 || the clueless one || Marci must be protected at all costs
wims80
Profile Joined February 2014
1892 Posts
August 14 2016 12:16 GMT
#3970
That was during TI6
Why are my allies so weak and pathetic?
Anamorph
Profile Joined September 2015
236 Posts
August 14 2016 12:30 GMT
#3971
On August 14 2016 13:32 Papercappu wrote:
Puppey should step down to coach instead imo. He's too outdated with current state of the game.especially his drafting. 2 of his former teammates fly & misery ended up being better captain+drafter after playing with him


In terms of performance its actually more than 2.
Fly, Kuro, Misery, S4

and without an exception, all ex secrets performed better
s4, universe, w33, misery, s4, kuro, zai, notail, fly

hariooo
Profile Joined October 2013
Canada2830 Posts
August 14 2016 16:53 GMT
#3972
On August 14 2016 21:07 wims80 wrote:
It wasn't just one lost game, remember when they hadn't won a single game in like 15 games in a row? Clearly they sucked


Just like Fnatic sucked this tournament.

I'm not saying secret would have done well but almost winning the only main stage game while 20k behind isn't indicative of much. Group stage games didn't tell the whole story at all for a lot of the teams that went far.
bluzi
Profile Joined May 2011
4703 Posts
August 14 2016 19:34 GMT
#3973
On August 14 2016 17:28 hariooo wrote:
You guys are putting a lot of stock into creating a narrative based on a best of 1 game. DC lost their first losers bracket game too.

Not saying they would beat LGD in abo3 but reading too much into a single game loss when we have multiple examples of loser bracket runs is meh


Reading too much ? the team is doing even worse then their darkest dreams , there is no way this team stick together , Secret has history of switching players instead of working on their issues , and this time wont be any different expect at least 2 players to be replaced.
spacecreated
Profile Joined July 2016
15 Posts
August 14 2016 19:51 GMT
#3974
That was during TI6

they have never had a 0-15 win loss. they had a 5-9 record in the group stage and 5-10 over all at TI. if that is what you're talking about please try to be more accurate.
I thought I made a mistake but I was mistaken.
wims80
Profile Joined February 2014
1892 Posts
August 14 2016 20:16 GMT
#3975
Yeah, sorry. It was only a 9 game losing streak
Why are my allies so weak and pathetic?
FuzzyJAM
Profile Joined July 2010
Scotland9300 Posts
August 14 2016 21:29 GMT
#3976
Pre-Manilla was the only period where Secret were good. They were pretty bad for most of the year through all their iterations compared to the supposed talent on the team. Shanghai was entirely out of character, and gives people a wrong impression of Secret's overall success post-Manilla - they lost all their LANs and scrims and happened to get hot for one event which was a big one.

Presumably there's something rotten in the team causing the players to underperform, because I really think all of them could have done so much better individually.
Did you ever say Yes to a single joy?
uthgard
Profile Joined January 2015
2098 Posts
August 14 2016 21:34 GMT
#3977
I love how desperate the haters sometime smh, go back to the woodwork m8.

on the topic yea secret will definitely shuffle, so will a lot of other teams. But as usual we know nothing about behind the scene thing and can only speculate
spacecreated
Profile Joined July 2016
15 Posts
August 14 2016 21:36 GMT
#3978
I saw !attacker naming his stream "secret.!attacker" can anyone comfirm anything? I don't he joined but its not impossible.
I thought I made a mistake but I was mistaken.
Shaella
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
United States14828 Posts
August 15 2016 03:28 GMT
#3979
Don't believe anything until it's confirmed
don't tell me to provide a legend for those charts cause we already got shaella in this thread - eieio | Bulba is my waifu
Kleinmuuhg
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Vanuatu4091 Posts
August 15 2016 09:19 GMT
#3980
On August 15 2016 06:36 spacecreated wrote:
I saw !attacker naming his stream "secret.!attacker" can anyone comfirm anything? I don't he joined but its not impossible.

dont take anything anyone says /does on his dota2 stream seriously ^^
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