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WolfintheSheep
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada14127 Posts
May 01 2015 00:00 GMT
#1021
On May 01 2015 08:53 FHDH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2015 07:37 Azimuth wrote:
Reason why many hate Secret is a part of their fanbase overrates the shit out of them.

EG wins a tournament with 2nd highest prizepool in history of Esports? Some hype here and there but fans aren't half as annoying as the Secret fans and EG fans actually have a reason to be annoying, their team won unlike Secret who wasn't won anything and yet is hyped a whole lot more than teams that actually win stuff.

I don't like Secret, I have my reasons and I don't think anybody cares about them but what I do hate is a part of their fanbase that is obnoxious to say the least.

EG fans were literally one million times worse -- one MILLION -- when their success was fresh.

One million.

Seems fitting when they've won millions more .
Average means I'm better than half of you.
FHDH
Profile Joined July 2014
United States7023 Posts
May 01 2015 00:42 GMT
#1022
Also Secret inherited Arteezy's dumb ass fans.
После драки кулаками не машут (Don't shake your fist when the fight is over)
Salazarz
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Korea (South)2591 Posts
May 01 2015 02:51 GMT
#1023
On May 01 2015 07:03 00Visor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2015 04:01 Azimuth wrote:
On May 01 2015 03:35 WolfintheSheep wrote:
Wait, there are still people calling Secret the #1 Western team?


Never heard best western, always best in the world alhough ironically Secret has never been either of those 2 except for those 2 days at DAC group stage.


Secret has lost 1 out of the 17 matches between DAC and Starladder LAN.
Alltime have they have a 80% winrate which is pretty unmatched by anyone.

I don't wanna claim they are #1 Western (and certainly not overall), but its ridicoulous how many people shit on Secret when they have one bad LAN.


Who cares about their alltime winrate when all of it comes from online qualifier games? Their DAC performance was a frankenstein of amazing group stage BO1s turned to barely making it to the third place off the back of some very silly mistakes by their opponents. (which is still a good result and all credit to them for achieving it but after a 15-0 group stage and all the hype as the 'super team' that's not the result people expected). Their Starladder performance is, well, you know.

I mean, they're a team called by many the best team in the scene; and they themselves said many times that they wouldn't settle for anything but being number one - yet out of their two LANs so far, one was an utter trainwreck. There's a difference between having one bad LAN after winning ten and having one terrible LAN after only showing up online, you know.
zdarr
Profile Joined September 2010
France375 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-01 05:42:45
May 01 2015 05:29 GMT
#1024
On May 01 2015 07:37 Azimuth wrote:
Reason why many hate Secret is a part of their fanbase overrates the shit out of them.

EG wins a tournament with 2nd highest prizepool in history of Esports? Some hype here and there but fans aren't half as annoying as the Secret fans and EG fans actually have a reason to be annoying, their team won unlike Secret who wasn't won anything and yet is hyped a whole lot more than teams that actually win stuff.

I don't like Secret, I have my reasons and I don't think anybody cares about them but what I do hate is a part of their fanbase that is obnoxious to say the least.


people that overhype secret aren't fans of the team, but mostly fan of the other teams. It's a pretty natural reaction, i guess all c9 fans will overhype vg/secret/eg before a tournament, and eg fan will overhype vg/secret.

And seriously, beside some casters and some troll, there aren't many people claming secret is #1 world

On May 01 2015 11:51 Salazarz wrote:.
I mean, they're a team called by many the best team in the scene; and they themselves said many times that they wouldn't settle for anything but being number one - yet out of their two LANs so far, one was an utter trainwreck.


It's just something common to every athlete in the world ? In every sports, you'll have athlete favorites to win who will claim wanting to be number one and very few achieve that. And in every sports you'll see favorites teams fall far from anyone's expectation , including the team...

On May 01 2015 11:51 Salazarz wrote:. There's a difference between having one bad LAN after winning ten and having one terrible LAN after only showing up online, you know.


Can you remember me what was the first lan of this line up and how high they ended ? Can you compare that lan, to the 2nd lan they did?
trollcenter
Profile Blog Joined October 2014
362 Posts
May 01 2015 05:59 GMT
#1025
I don't know why people claim that popularity equals the perceived skill level of a team, I doubt there are many people that seriously consider them the best in the world. There's no reason to, they're not even the best western team. They're merely good yet people like them too much? Jeez, what a problem.

Secret are liked for their personalities and their all-star roster, who cares if EG isn't as popular when it's obvious as hell they are way better and more accomplished? Any comparison of results will render any "Secret is the best" post useless, not that it needs to considering they're mostly coming from trolls.

Na'Vi was also the most popular western team even when Alliance and EG were better, let's just pretend that this erases any respectable result in that period because, you know, people liked them.
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10861 Posts
May 01 2015 06:54 GMT
#1026
I just like Puppey/Kuroky.... And Notail.
But i don't like EE so C9 is ruled out.


Actually i would like to have old Fnatic back . Didn't win anything big but was fun to watch them.
FHDH
Profile Joined July 2014
United States7023 Posts
May 01 2015 07:05 GMT
#1027
On May 01 2015 15:54 Velr wrote:
I just like Puppey/Kuroky.... And Notail.
But i don't like EE so C9 is ruled out.


Actually i would like to have old Fnatic back . Didn't win anything big but was fun to watch them.

Secret was a lot more fun to watch when they had n0tail.
После драки кулаками не машут (Don't shake your fist when the fight is over)
Racket
Profile Joined July 2013
3023 Posts
May 01 2015 10:15 GMT
#1028
I don't know how you all end up going nowhere after so many posts. Yea, Secret is overhyped/overrated, yes, RTZ fans are obnoxious, yes, every popular team will be hated more because of its popularity than for their actual results. So?

I guess the real problem in these kind of conversations is that usually people make such an effort to avoid points bringing into the table excuses or different topics.

Can the ones backing Secret accept that even after the 15-0 they are not putting a performance to back that 15-0 and that the team before that 15-0 was a different team?

If your reasons is your fanaticism, it will do you good to realize not everything is as good as you believe or want it to be. If your excuses are another team's performance then we can move over to that team's thread and discuss it there.
HighTimeDotA
Profile Joined May 2014
Canada1412 Posts
May 02 2015 03:31 GMT
#1029
On May 01 2015 09:42 FHDH wrote:
Also Secret inherited Arteezy's dumb ass fans.


how dare you diss rtz fanboys, 1v1 tl perma ban sf vs sf. and no im not joking cuz i know i would smash you.
rtz is like the Bieber of dota, true Canadian treasure.
FHDH
Profile Joined July 2014
United States7023 Posts
May 02 2015 03:34 GMT
#1030
On May 02 2015 12:31 HighTimeDotA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2015 09:42 FHDH wrote:
Also Secret inherited Arteezy's dumb ass fans.


how dare you diss rtz fanboys, 1v1 tl perma ban sf vs sf. and no im not joking cuz i know i would smash you.

You probably would since I've played SF like twice
После драки кулаками не машут (Don't shake your fist when the fight is over)
HighTimeDotA
Profile Joined May 2014
Canada1412 Posts
May 02 2015 03:42 GMT
#1031
dude why u gotta hate on rtz fans, look at his stream atm so entertaining how can anybody not be a fan.
rtz is like the Bieber of dota, true Canadian treasure.
DucK-
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Singapore11447 Posts
May 02 2015 06:18 GMT
#1032
Why can't people just accept that secret is a good team that is probably overhyped, and have underachieved in many tournaments. The fact that they performed poorer than expected does not change the fact that their overall results and performances have been good. Give their results and performances to a team like Tinker or Alliance and suddenly we would be hyping Tinker/Alliance as favourites to win tournaments.

The only thing bad about them is when you compare to what is expected of them.
Racket
Profile Joined July 2013
3023 Posts
May 02 2015 06:40 GMT
#1033
On May 02 2015 15:18 DucK- wrote:
Why can't people just accept that secret is a good team that is probably overhyped, and have underachieved in many tournaments. The fact that they performed poorer than expected does not change the fact that their overall results and performances have been good. Give their results and performances to a team like Tinker or Alliance and suddenly we would be hyping Tinker/Alliance as favourites to win tournaments.

The only thing bad about them is when you compare to what is expected of them.

Exactly, and after that comes the defenders of the expected.
meegrean
Profile Joined May 2008
Thailand7699 Posts
May 02 2015 07:44 GMT
#1034
If any team can figure out how to adapt to new patches quickly and effectively, it would be Team Secret. They may appear "overrated" due to recent performances, but I doubt any top tier team would consider Team Secret a free win compared to tier two teams.
Brood War loyalist
zdarr
Profile Joined September 2010
France375 Posts
May 02 2015 09:25 GMT
#1035
Seriously what do you guys call overhyped/overrated ? What is your top 5 of dota teams if secret isn't in it? They had 2 tournament with that roster, one where they do better then expected, and one where they do worse.
trollcenter
Profile Blog Joined October 2014
362 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-02 10:16:05
May 02 2015 10:13 GMT
#1036
They are a top 5 team, but they're nowhere near VG or EG in terms of results so far so I'd say they are indeed overhyped considering that they haven't lived up to the expectations on paper. They have a roster consisting of players from the best western teams of the last 2 years, they've all been at least top 3 in a TI, yet they haven't won a LAN together so far and their play has been really questionable at times.

I think it's still early to make a judgement on their real strength, given the fact that they only had 2 lans with the current roster (one good one, one bad one) but there are things that worry me. S4 choked in many of their big lan matches ever since their team was formed, same as Puppey with his drafts, zai has looked really off since DAC and then we have the issue of them having 2 mid players and no real carry, which hinders their strategies quite a bit.

But to not recognise them as a good team based on their results so far just because they didn't fulfill the highest expectations is a bit silly, I think they're definitely a top 5 candidate at TI although I can't see them winning it. They need to find a solution to their s4/rtz role conflict and polish their overall play before being in contention for big tournament wins.
spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
May 02 2015 10:22 GMT
#1037
Overrated in Secret's case would mean that people are expecting them to win or be in the finals all the time. They have a lot of famous names so people expect a lot from them. As s4 said himself, his expectation was to win every tournament.

I don't know exactly how to order a top5 given that pretty much all of the top teams around the world changed their lineups at some point in the last 4 months and they've each only played at most 2 LANs or so. But let's say that I would be a bit surprised if a team outside of VG, iG, LGD, EG, c9 and Secret gets into top3 at TI. I would also be a bit surprised if any of these teams fall outside of the top8. The next few LANs will give a better idea of where Secret is heading. I highly doubt they will do as poorly as they did at SL.
Racket
Profile Joined July 2013
3023 Posts
May 02 2015 17:30 GMT
#1038
Too early too judge them as bad, and good as well. Too early, lets just wait.
Murkinlol
Profile Joined August 2010
United States366 Posts
May 02 2015 17:49 GMT
#1039
Pretty much every team is shit unless you win something. So only VG and EG are halfway decent. Quality threads on this site.
Ratchets, designer jackets
Azimuth
Profile Joined April 2015
231 Posts
May 02 2015 19:08 GMT
#1040
It's simple,certain Secret fanboys overrate the fuck out of the team, the team then doesn't achieve what these fanboys were hyping them to achieve and then the community rubs it in. Simple as that really.

Also: "I expect us to win every LAN" - S4 2015
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