[TI3] Playoffs Day 5 - Page 4

On August 11 2013 20:42 ZaaaaaM wrote:
What time will the grand finals be played?

On August 11 2013 15:25 rabidch wrote:

ACE is CeSPA, if you mean the organization that the professional chinese dota teams use for rules, sanctions and tournament organization. They are very arguably one of the reasons why there was an extreme lull in competition this year.

On August 11 2013 14:46 Shellshock1122 wrote:

I can be him in spirit if you want

On August 11 2013 21:14 LSF wrote:


Unless they have a fixed schedule for that one, it will be anywhere between 1 and 3 hours after the LB final starts.

On August 11 2013 12:49 DDie wrote:
Disappointing drafts from puppey, the game we all wanted to see was chaos mode navi against methodical rock solid stable alliance.

The winner bracket finals is not the place to try and surprise the best team of the tournament, just stick with your style, that's how you won tournaments before.

Imho puppey's draft 'make sense'
high burst magic damage on the first game and fast push on the second game

looks like puppey want to see whether these strange strats works on Alliance without letting Alliance experience the real na'vi on lan.

On August 11 2013 22:00 Intact wrote:



I feel the opposite, Puppey have been drafting questionably and his banning has been even worse. Picking up wisp for a fast push strategy while letting both Naga and KotL slip to the other team while you ban gyro. Thats hardly world class drafting

On August 11 2013 21:33 sandyph wrote:


imho puppey's draft 'make sense'
high burst magic damage on the first game and fast push on the second game

looks like puppey want to see whether these strange strats works on Alliance without letting Alliance experience the real na'vi on lan

On August 11 2013 21:18 Namunelbo wrote:


I know you can somehow relate ACE to being their own version of CeSPA regarding ruling, sanctions and tournaments... But they are still far away from KeSPA's strict training regimen, players contract, ...

On August 11 2013 22:21 unkkz wrote:

Puppeys drafts made no real sense to me if you look at navi themselves. DendI in non playmaker role on skywrath, wisp pick with no real plan for it just omg we got wisp. If a notoriously good drafting team like alliance let's you have wisp for free twice you have to know something is fishy. It felt to me puppey drafted right into s4s hands. Also push lineup with dendi on tide and kuro on wisp? What's wisp good for when you go for push? Kuro on tide and let dendi be dendi with a big play hero instead of a ulti bot like tide.

Look at alliances only loss, playmaker s4 on dk accomplishes nothing, while when he gets bat or puck he wins games alone for alliance almost. Game after loss he drafted himself a playmaker and just dominated. Also why not ban kotl if u go for push?

On August 11 2013 22:34 FairForever wrote:


Alliance made really good decisions (And I believe will continue to do so) - they always let Wisp through - in Navi vs Alliance Alliance always picks Dire side so Navi gets first pick each game too.

Problem is, if Alliance doesn't ban Wisp, Navi HAS to take Wisp with first pick. If not, Alliance gets a free Wisp (and we know how good Alliance is with that hero). On the other hand, it seems that Navi has not wanted to waste a ban on Wisp... usually as FP one big advantage is you can get away with not banning the hero under the threat that you will take him.

If Navi bans Wisp with FP... that means that Alliance is likely getting the Lone Druid, or the Chen, or something else (or two) that they really want with their first two picks. I don't know... if I were Navi I'd probably ban out the Wisp, even with FP.