[TI4] Main Event Day 2 - Page 5

On July 19 2014 22:29 toemn wrote:
Can someone explain to me why there is a reddit thread with almost 800 responses of people who don't like this years TI?
I mean yesterday we saw some of the best Dota ever played and Newbee deserve to be in the finals winning 5+ BO3s in a row. The games are on such a high level I don't get it why you could ever complain. Today should be even better since it's elimination matches for every team.

On July 20 2014 00:00 Oddball28 wrote:


Because people are expecting that because the prize pool is so high that every game will include 5 aegis steals, 2 divine rapiers and at least a base trade which comes down to a second.

Half of them are idiots who haven't watched the group stage and enjoyed the 120 games we got there. Half of them are ignorant and for some reason cannot enjoy Dota unless their favorite team is among the top 8. It's best not to bother your head with people like this..

On July 19 2014 23:09 Gevna wrote:

The format is awful and really anticlimatic. At least this is my opinion. But knowing 2 teams of the top 3 so early, splitting BO3, not having all 16 teams on the main stage, etc... is killing the hype for me.
Anyway it's still TI, I'm really eager to watch everything, love most of it, but this year is not the same than before. It feels a bit bland :-/

On July 20 2014 00:06 Goshawk. wrote:
Anyone with a good guess as to when the games will actually start? Didn't catch the start of day1, so not sure how much build up there will be.

And reddit is very mad about NB winning, that's all.

On July 20 2014 00:05 Oddball28 wrote:


Because knowing 1 team is in the final makes todays lowerbracket games and tomorrows really anticlimatic and boring. Yeah I see where your getting at. It's not like it's do or die for these teams anyways /s

Also I really do not understand the fact that we need to have 16 teams on the mainstage. If you think that the format now is bland and hypekilling I would not even dare to think seeing Arrow and Mouz losing game on game through on the mainstage delivering nothing but dissapointing performances.

Theres no winning for Valve with some people.

On July 19 2014 21:51 opterown wrote:

cos then the series tomorrow would be a bit strange, since you play one LR2 match one day and another LR2 match the next

On July 20 2014 00:08 teapoted wrote:
I don't think the format is ideal. But it's also not bad to a noteworthy degree.

The level of whine is strictly because EG lost and people want to complain about something since they certainly can't praise NB.

Or is the Chinese community also complaining about this? My guess is they're not.

On July 20 2014 00:17 Namunelbo wrote:


Haven't checked, but I don't think so. The Chinese are used dealing with the most absurd format and schedules.

If there was a major problem with the format, the whining would've come out straight away when Valve announced it, yet we see it now, when a non favorite team made it to the Grand Finals.