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Gear 3rd
Profile Joined July 2011
1244 Posts
January 17 2016 11:03 GMT
#721
On January 17 2016 18:36 .mercy wrote:
it wasnt only mind control choking, Fata choked the least but matumba choked hard too

Jeez even Jerax apologized on his twitter after the game saying that he was nervous and played like shit
EXTERMINATE!
OceanLab
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
France505 Posts
January 17 2016 11:18 GMT
#722
It's all good though, they will learn from this.
I'm not too concerned, as long as they stick together. Alliance has a lot more experience, and a patch pretty much tailored to their strength.
I'm convinced Liquid will do well in the Majors, and in TI if they make it there.
Liquid through and through
trollcenter
Profile Blog Joined October 2014
362 Posts
January 17 2016 11:26 GMT
#723
It's ok, Liquid is still a family.
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
January 17 2016 18:43 GMT
#724
I would be surprised if we saw changes to this roster before TI. I think they're generally showing better games each time and there's no reason to change up something that still getting better.
Administrator~ Spirit will set you free ~
YourGoodFriend
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2197 Posts
January 18 2016 01:34 GMT
#725
On January 18 2016 03:43 Plexa wrote:
I would be surprised if we saw changes to this roster before TI. I think they're generally showing better games each time and there's no reason to change up something that still getting better.


Agreed they are looking good, they got nervous and hit baited into picking death prophet. They will shake it off.
anonymous is the most famous author that anyone can be
LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-18 02:13:41
January 18 2016 02:13 GMT
#726
Was anyone actually suggesting that? Skipped last couple pages. It'd Seem like pure desperate nonsensical attention whoring to suggest one of the top teams today to switch players no matter how they do in Shanghai. The plays and coherence this team displays is insane and unheard of in Liquid Dota Standards.

So the organization won't kick anyone, and the players don't seem to put out any chemistry issues either.
Much is the father figure that I miss in my life. Go Daddy! DoC.LemOn, LemOn[5thF]
icystorage
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Jollibee19350 Posts
January 18 2016 03:18 GMT
#727
Liquid Rising on Shanghai. You can take that to the bank.
LiquidDota StaffAre you ready for a Miracle-? We are! The International 2017 Champions!
NInoff
Profile Joined August 2011
Bulgaria1105 Posts
January 18 2016 09:00 GMT
#728
Im not concerned either. Game 1 they actually lost due to bad luck. For example - smoke gank 1 found Wisp, forcing the entire team in a bad position. Gank 2 - Fata was wondering what to do and he came down the ramp the moment the gank was there forcing him to early BKB. If the gank was there 1 second earlier or he went down 1 second later, they'd be fine.
THat fight actually lost the game, but gank 1 led to it.
Not to mention the moment Loda lived by some miracle when liquid got mid rax. If loda died there he had no BB, that was game, and so on.
Yes, Liquid didnt play their best, but they didn't play bad either. This is still one of the best teams in the world. Its Pro dota lads. Mistakes will be punished, especially by an experienced team like Alliance.
We have some online tourneys for scrims, then i'm confident they will do very good in SH Major.
MirageTaN
Profile Joined June 2012
Singapore871 Posts
January 18 2016 09:12 GMT
#729
Liquid members like mind_control and JerAx are inexperienced on LAN and high pressure situations. People can say they flopped and they did , but us Liquid fans definitely know that these kids will grow out of their shells and becoming stronger. You can count on that . The goal is not these sideshows , sure winning on would be great , but u can bet ur ass , Liquid is looking forward on the Majors and TI cos thats the goal and thats where it really matters
#TLWIN TI7, TLDota BEST TL
Geisterkarle
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Germany3257 Posts
January 18 2016 09:27 GMT
#730
On January 18 2016 18:00 NInoff wrote:
Not to mention the moment Loda lived by some miracle when liquid got mid rax. If loda died there he had no BB, that was game, and so on.

Yeah, I think this was a very important moment in the game.
But while Loda's death would be critical, I'm thinking about, what would have happend if they didn't dive him... Because they didn't get rax there! They got it like 2-3min later in the next push, because Loda came back with full health and repelled them. If they focused on the rax and "ignored" Loda they could have destroyed them then and there. Could the money of the rax and so getting some items a little bit earlier made a change? It's hard to see... those are decisions you can question later...

Don't think they should change anything!
There can only be one Geisterkarle
Saechiis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands4989 Posts
January 18 2016 11:54 GMT
#731
On January 18 2016 18:00 NInoff wrote:
Im not concerned either. Game 1 they actually lost due to bad luck. For example - smoke gank 1 found Wisp, forcing the entire team in a bad position. Gank 2 - Fata was wondering what to do and he came down the ramp the moment the gank was there forcing him to early BKB. If the gank was there 1 second earlier or he went down 1 second later, they'd be fine.
THat fight actually lost the game, but gank 1 led to it.
Not to mention the moment Loda lived by some miracle when liquid got mid rax. If loda died there he had no BB, that was game, and so on.
Yes, Liquid didnt play their best, but they didn't play bad either. This is still one of the best teams in the world. Its Pro dota lads. Mistakes will be punished, especially by an experienced team like Alliance.
We have some online tourneys for scrims, then i'm confident they will do very good in SH Major.


I wouldn't call that bad luck. Any team at this level knows Io is sitting behind Matumbaman when he's pushing out the lane that far. A smoke backstab to get the Io first and then Gyro is pretty basic stuff. And I would like to reiterate that that exact scenario has come up and owned them in at least 3 other Io games.

Loda lived because part of the team wanted to get the Rax while the rest tried to get the kill, indecision not chance.

Again, I don't want them to replace players, I actually believe all of them have the skill potential together to win a TI.I just hope they seriously look at what went wrong.
I think esports is pretty nice.
spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-18 12:14:14
January 18 2016 12:13 GMT
#732
There wasn't really big talk about roster changes, someone mentioned that MC is going to get booted at this pace and I just speculated about roster changes in the scene as a whole.

Essentially I think the post Shanghai major transfer period is precisely the time where major teams may consider changes if they don't like their progression. Frankfurt major was too soon after the lineups were formed, but Shanghai major is the last possibility for top teams to do changes, they've had more time to understand where they are heading and if there are some really interesting options stuff might happen. Strange things have happened in the past that people didn't see coming at all. Most likely scenario to me is that there may be quite a bit of shuffling in the CIS scene, and EG and EUW teams like TL, Secret, OG, Alliance are most likely to stay together. But if a few teams bomb out early at the major you never know.
icystorage
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Jollibee19350 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-18 12:16:30
January 18 2016 12:13 GMT
#733
I bet the players are to most infuriated with the loss no doubt. We only need a little bit more to be the best.
LiquidDota StaffAre you ready for a Miracle-? We are! The International 2017 Champions!
NInoff
Profile Joined August 2011
Bulgaria1105 Posts
January 18 2016 12:17 GMT
#734
On January 18 2016 20:54 Saechiis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2016 18:00 NInoff wrote:
Im not concerned either. Game 1 they actually lost due to bad luck. For example - smoke gank 1 found Wisp, forcing the entire team in a bad position. Gank 2 - Fata was wondering what to do and he came down the ramp the moment the gank was there forcing him to early BKB. If the gank was there 1 second earlier or he went down 1 second later, they'd be fine.
THat fight actually lost the game, but gank 1 led to it.
Not to mention the moment Loda lived by some miracle when liquid got mid rax. If loda died there he had no BB, that was game, and so on.
Yes, Liquid didnt play their best, but they didn't play bad either. This is still one of the best teams in the world. Its Pro dota lads. Mistakes will be punished, especially by an experienced team like Alliance.
We have some online tourneys for scrims, then i'm confident they will do very good in SH Major.


I wouldn't call that bad luck. Any team at this level knows Io is sitting behind Matumbaman when he's pushing out the lane that far. A smoke backstab to get the Io first and then Gyro is pretty basic stuff. And I would like to reiterate that that exact scenario has come up and owned them in at least 3 other Io games.

Loda lived because part of the team wanted to get the Rax while the rest tried to get the kill, indecision not chance.

Again, I don't want them to replace players, I actually believe all of them have the skill potential together to win a TI.I just hope they seriously look at what went wrong.


We can probably call the IO death bad positioning from Kuro, as he should've been in the woods at the top of the map, instead of the ones when he died.
But catching Fata farming the Big Centaur camp near mid t1 was pure luck - The big centaur barely lived and Fata went down the ramp to finish him, and at that moment Alliance's smoke party arrived.
I am not saying that Alliance won purely by luck, there are a lot of factors there - they played well, Liquid made some mistakes, MC didnt perform like he usually does - hell in that two games i saw more questionable walls than in his entire time on liquid.
Saechiis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands4989 Posts
January 18 2016 12:41 GMT
#735
Other games Kuro got caught in the trees above, if the opponent smokes around they're going to find him regardless. He needs to be all the way on the edge of the map, Matumba needs to carry a TP or they need to give up on the idea that Io makes it safe to "solo" push a lane.

It was unfortunate timing for sure that FATA got caught right at that instance but in other games Liquid sniffed out and avoided smokes very well, plus Jerax is usually very good at tanking those ganks. In these games all of Alliance's smokes caught them.
I think esports is pretty nice.
yookstah
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia655 Posts
January 18 2016 17:06 GMT
#736
On January 18 2016 21:13 spudde123 wrote:
There wasn't really big talk about roster changes, someone mentioned that MC is going to get booted at this pace and I just speculated about roster changes in the scene as a whole.


True.

However, I had to just highlight it in some thread as it seems to go on after every 'hype team' doesn't get 1st or something after only being together for a relatively short while.

Anyway, I'm derailing a little bit here. gl to Team Liquid.
"I'm saying that you are all the time aggressive. I say to you choose situations to be aggressive and not aggressive. I'm talking it" - Cooller
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
January 18 2016 19:00 GMT
#737
I'm just sad that some of Jerax's best moves had to come in a losing game. Some of those plays were really hype inducing and got the casters/crowd going. :D
LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-18 20:43:55
January 18 2016 20:43 GMT
#738
On January 19 2016 02:06 yookstah wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2016 21:13 spudde123 wrote:
There wasn't really big talk about roster changes, someone mentioned that MC is going to get booted at this pace and I just speculated about roster changes in the scene as a whole.


True.

However, I had to just highlight it in some thread as it seems to go on after every 'hype team' doesn't get 1st or something after only being together for a relatively short while.

Anyway, I'm derailing a little bit here. gl to Team Liquid.

Can anyone even say that? I think I speak for everyone that it's fucking amazing to see liquid banner play in these tournaments in the first place, yet alone doing well
Much is the father figure that I miss in my life. Go Daddy! DoC.LemOn, LemOn[5thF]
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-18 21:15:53
January 18 2016 21:15 GMT
#739
Not having a team for 2 years will do wonders to lower one's expectations.

I can barely get used to them even winning this much, I still go into games thinking there's a good chance we'll lose against anybody
yookstah
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia655 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-18 22:13:58
January 18 2016 22:13 GMT
#740
On January 19 2016 05:43 LemOn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 19 2016 02:06 yookstah wrote:
On January 18 2016 21:13 spudde123 wrote:
There wasn't really big talk about roster changes, someone mentioned that MC is going to get booted at this pace and I just speculated about roster changes in the scene as a whole.


True.

However, I had to just highlight it in some thread as it seems to go on after every 'hype team' doesn't get 1st or something after only being together for a relatively short while.

Anyway, I'm derailing a little bit here. gl to Team Liquid.

Can anyone even say that? I think I speak for everyone that it's fucking amazing to see liquid banner play in these tournaments in the first place, yet alone doing well


If you read through the last few (in this context, "few" >3) pages, there are a few posts that either state this opinion or insinuate it.
"I'm saying that you are all the time aggressive. I say to you choose situations to be aggressive and not aggressive. I'm talking it" - Cooller
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