[LR] The International II - 2012 - Page 2

On August 25 2012 10:46 MrCon wrote:
Now that the groups are done, the bo1 loser bracket hurts even more ><
4 of IG, EH, Na'Vi, mTw, Orange, TF, Col and Darer will go out playing bo1, while in group A there won't be any surprise imo, CLG, Zenith, LGD and either EG or MUFC will advance and the teams in LB from group B won't be very strong.

On August 25 2012 07:41 Ottoxlol wrote:
My bet is on Zenith all the way, and NaVi for 2nd place. M5, Darer, MUFC shouldn't be here, they are a tier worse then the other teams, PB and mouz should be in imo.

EG and mtw will disband after disappointing performance. you heard here first

On August 25 2012 12:13 KlinKz wrote:


Doubt that teams would disband more likely would replace the burdens of their teams. (Demon almost got replaced i believe). That being said also suggesting PB being in TI2, PB isn't even a pro-team and if you havent seen their disappointing lost to EG in BTS which in all 3 games PB won their laning phases but were out played in meta and late-game by a losing EG that played without their captain.

Teams that have lack of motivation to play or practice are often the ones to disband.
Btw, Valve needs to add mouz pennants (wish CWM was able to get his visa) just incase and I hope everyone sees the huge differences between Blizzard and Valve when it comes to E-Sports... Blizzard got smashed by Valve lol

On August 25 2012 12:13 KlinKz wrote:


Doubt that teams would disband more likely would replace the burdens of their teams. (Demon almost got replaced i believe). That being said also suggesting PB being in TI2, PB isn't even a pro-team and if you havent seen their disappointing lost to EG in BTS which in all 3 games PB won their laning phases but were out played in meta and late-game by a losing EG that played without their captain.

Teams that have lack of motivation to play or practice are often the ones to disband.
Btw, Valve needs to add mouz pennants (wish CWM was able to get his visa) just incase and I hope everyone sees the huge differences between Blizzard and Valve when it comes to E-Sports... Blizzard got smashed by Valve lol

On August 25 2012 18:15 figq wrote:
Still not known the time when this starts? Only date?

On August 25 2012 18:40 The Great Taste wrote:


From dota2.com:

PRELIMINARIES
August 26 - 28
Games begin each day
at 9:00 AM PDT (UTC -7)
- Watch in Dota 2 with commentary
- Watch live at select community streams


MAIN EVENT
August 31 - September 2
Games begin each day
at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC -7)
- Watch in person at Benaroya Hall
- Watch our live stream on dota2.com
- Watch in Dota 2 with commentary

Also, @jD_mrblue and @PurgeGamers twitter state that MUFC are currently in Vancouver, after one player was caught smoking on the plane, forcing it to land. According to Purge: "They are still playing(probably). They are just going to miss the 2 days of warm up everyone else gets." Still, not exactly an ideal situation and if they can't make it in time (I think the games start in about 28 hours), then I suppose we'll see mouz step up.

On August 25 2012 18:55 [17]Purple wrote:
I though WE was the stand-in for teams from the east while Mouz would stand-in for western teams.

On August 25 2012 19:18 Mondieu wrote:
I haven't followed the scene very closely, but I was led to believe Complexity Gaming's DOTA 2 team was one of the better teams. How come they didn't qualify for The International ?

On August 25 2012 19:07 The Great Taste wrote:


Oh, was unaware of that. I thought it was more mouz 1st stand-in, WE second. Thanks for that I'll edit my post.

Kevin 'Purge' Godec:
‏@PurgeGamers
@qwertasdfghjkly I also asked this question. Mouz is backup team #1. They will be the first team to play, no matter which team can't play.