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On August 07 2015 23:10 Latham wrote:Show nested quote +On August 07 2015 22:21 TanGeng wrote:
By the way, as staff you can filter for all the Azarkon comments as the TI LR thread happens and see the changing thought process alongside results. It's hilarious.
It's hilarious in both victory and defeat. :D
If that's not a reason to be staff, I don't know what is. :D Make a copy pasta paint document for us please. BTW I'm surprised VG beat EHOME 2-0 D:, i thought they looked a lot more shaky overall throughout this tournament. Maybe it's just a case of 1 playstyle being an answer to the other... i dunno myself, I went to sleep when the series started so I'm just speculating. Also: let's go EG and CDEC finals :D
VG found their footing, their game1 draft was gutsy as hell. TBH, EHOME should've won that game but Rotk didn't play his best and VG did.
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On August 07 2015 15:41 plasmidghost wrote:Show nested quote +On August 07 2015 14:17 blobrus wrote:
I'm ready for the intense anti EG circlejerk in 17 hours. They hate us cause they ain't us I did not know this
I always spelled it cee-dee-ee-cee but after hearing every single commentator say otherwise I decided I was wrong.
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is it starting 1 hour late today or is the calendar accounting for that 1hour "pre-game show"?
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On August 08 2015 00:56 Sif_ wrote:
is it starting 1 hour late today or is the calendar accounting for that 1hour "pre-game show"?
I'm pretty sure that it is starting later. We only have 3 Bo3's today, so the schedule is later for the players. There's always going to be pre-game shows before the matches, so just expect it!
(Also this is the same time as yesterday)
+Lets go VG vs EG finals. ;D
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On August 08 2015 00:56 Sif_ wrote:
is it starting 1 hour late today or is the calendar accounting for that 1hour "pre-game show"?
broadcast is still at 10 but games usually start at 11 anyway
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I am 99% sure that West, and especially Americans, are going to win this tournament now that Secret is out.
In case they don't, I'll never talk shit about Chinese Dota again.
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On August 08 2015 01:15 Azarkon wrote:
I am 99% sure that West, and especially Americans, are going to win this tournament now that Secret is out.
In case they don't, I'll never talk shit about Chinese Dota again.
now it's getting serious
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I'm a belieVPer
maybe they can do it without even picking Silencer
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On August 08 2015 01:15 Azarkon wrote:
I am 99% sure that West, and especially Americans, are going to win this tournament now that Secret is out.
In case they don't, I'll never talk shit about Chinese Dota again.
Holy fucking shit.
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On August 08 2015 01:15 Azarkon wrote:
I am 99% sure that West, and especially Americans, are going to win this tournament now that Secret is out.
In case they don't, I'll never talk shit about Chinese Dota again.
At this point you shouldn't really. Your idea that there is some fundamental problem with Dota in China that is exclusive to them is already desestimated from everything that happened since TI3, no matter what the results of this one particular tournament are.
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alright azarkon i'll hold you to it
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VG has been improving throughout the main event, but I don't think yesterday's performance will be enough if LGD actually shows up today.
Ehome...  They were so so close. Ehome was the most strategically calm team in the tournament. They never fell apart. They always had a clear idea of where they were at in the game and how they were going to play the next minutes. They were always on the same page in fights. They were limited maybe (and that cost them the series vs EG), but that narrowness can also be an advantage at times (you don't turn into ti4 dk for one... ).
In the end, I think it came down to individual weaknesses. Cty, while really good, did not perform up to the level of the other top youngsters (sumail, maybe, shiky), especially when it comes to laning. Zyf almost always got less out of his lane than you'd expect from a top carry (partly because Ehome babysat him very little, but still). rOtK had his moments, but he was a burden in several games including almost the entire VG series. And their very defined style and hero preferences made it basically impossible for them to get outdrafts in the main event (except against Secret of course, but Secret were arrogant fucks coming into that series).
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On August 08 2015 01:24 opterown wrote:
alright azarkon i'll hold you to it
So it begins
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I love azarkon. I mean I was hammered last night and still making more sense in here i think what a man
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how can you even shit talk china with all the great games we've seen this ti from not just the old guard but the young blood?
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On August 07 2015 18:24 blobrus wrote:
The finals last year were pretty much universally agreed on as being awful. I don't think it's a western bias at all, if Na'vi and Alliance played those exact same games everyone still would have hated them.
If the finals are bad in any way you can guarantee there's going to be a reddit thread about it, they complain about everything. Threads complaining about some minor thing valve hasn't fixed hit front page, do you really think they won't criticize a bad finals just because it's a western team?
Yes, on reddit. Stop thinking you're the center of the world.
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On August 07 2015 21:33 Shergal wrote:
EG are overwhelming favorites at this point. They haven't played the best Dota in the event, but to them that's irrelevant. They will just outdraft the opposition and bore them out of the game like they always do. I don't really see any of the remaining teams beating them unless ppd chokes.
PPD's pick strategy, especially against Chinese teams, is simple:
Ban: Leshrac, Gyrocopter
Pick: Techies/Naga/Bounty
It works because no Chinese team wants to play two out of those three heroes. As such, PPD is able to get what he wants every time. And he isn't afraid of other teams getting bounty, because he knows how to play against it.
PPD wins simply because he and his players know both what to pick and how to play it. Had other teams known how to play these heroes, there'd be no issue, but they don't.
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On August 08 2015 00:55 Ufnal wrote:I always spelled it cee-dee-ee-cee but after hearing every single commentator say otherwise I decided I was wrong.
C D E C isn't nearly as chant-able as c-dec though
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On August 08 2015 01:34 Azarkon wrote:Show nested quote +On August 07 2015 21:33 Shergal wrote:
EG are overwhelming favorites at this point. They haven't played the best Dota in the event, but to them that's irrelevant. They will just outdraft the opposition and bore them out of the game like they always do. I don't really see any of the remaining teams beating them unless ppd chokes. PPD's pick strategy, especially against Chinese teams, is simple: Ban: Leshrac, Gyrocopter Pick: Techies/Naga/Bounty It works because no Chinese team wants to play two out of those three heroes. As such, PPD is able to get what he wants every time. And he isn't afraid of other teams getting bounty, because he knows how to play against it. PPD wins simply because he and his players know both what to pick and how to play it. Had other teams known how to play these heroes, there'd be no issue, but they don't.
Man a few weeks ago this guy couldn't stop jizzing over secret and now he's ppds biggest fan lmao
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