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A few USA chants are fine but please don't do it too much.

Stop the stupid USA arguments, thanks.

On another note, CDEC flairs are now live. Sorry about the delay on that.
Ufnal
Profile Joined September 2013
Poland1435 Posts
August 08 2015 21:20 GMT
#2661
I've grown to love Kaci.
OG | Secret | Liquid | Nigma | Alliance | VP | Fnatic | EG | T1 | LGD
lolnoty
Profile Joined December 2005
United States7166 Posts
August 08 2015 21:21 GMT
#2662
On August 09 2015 06:18 Loanshark wrote:
LOL, three girls with a selfie stick in the background of this interview

I liked the homeless guy staring them down more
"PPD is a very angry guy. He controls us." - Arteezy
Loanshark
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
China3094 Posts
August 08 2015 21:21 GMT
#2663
On August 09 2015 06:19 icystorage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2015 06:19 Loanshark wrote:
Wait, 45 minutes until finals? Let me take a nap fuck this

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, you'll regret it if you wont wake up on time


Yeah you're right, I'll stick around.
No dough, no go. And no mercy.
Azarkon
Profile Joined January 2010
United States21060 Posts
August 08 2015 21:21 GMT
#2664
On August 09 2015 06:20 WolfintheSheep wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2015 06:19 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:19 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:18 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:16 WolfintheSheep wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:14 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:11 WolfintheSheep wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:08 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:07 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:06 Azarkon wrote:
[quote]

The lack of another Eastern country in the last two years that is able to win the best of the West and China does not = we ignore the fact that there were only two Western teams in the last five teams of 2013, too.

So, you have the guts to claim that West>East despite it being top West teams ~ China > rest of West? Heh.


How is West not > China when the West win all the tournaments? I don't understand how you want to play this. Just because Secret failed this year, West < China? Even when China loses yet another tournament? What?

How about "EG is a good team and so are CDEC, LGD and VG"?


They are, and so are Secret, Virtus Pro, etc.

But at the end of the day, one group of these win tournaments, another don't.

EG, LGD, Secret and VG...?


Win international tournaments with the best teams there.

Short list of teams that won international tournaments with the best teams there after Spring shuffle:

1. Secret.

2. End of list.


Which is why Americans aren't the best team in the world... Unless they win this tournament.

Confirmed Azarkon will say Chinese are the best in the world if CDEC wins.

We're holding you to this.


I already said I'm going to.
Elurie
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
4716 Posts
August 08 2015 21:21 GMT
#2665
On August 09 2015 06:14 Azarkon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2015 06:11 WolfintheSheep wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:08 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:07 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:06 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:04 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:03 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:03 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:01 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 05:58 lolfail9001 wrote:
[quote]
The difference of which team's results? Also, obviously i am not giving a fuck about group games because remember where top 2 of group A finished?


Natus Vincere in 2013. Had they not made it, it'd have been one Western team against three Chinese/Eastern teams, same as 2015.

There is big difference between Chinese and Eastern team, bro.


Which is fine but for the fact you're not even looking at MVP.

Yes, i absolutely ignored SEA vs China in my stats, because that's out of point. Also, where is your MVP top 3 or something?


The lack of another Eastern country in the last two years that is able to win the best of the West and China does not = we ignore the fact that there were only two Western teams in the last five teams of 2013, too.

So, you have the guts to claim that West>East despite it being top West teams ~ China > rest of West? Heh.


How is West not > China when the West win all the tournaments? I don't understand how you want to play this. Just because Secret failed this year, West < China? Even when China loses yet another tournament? What?

How about "EG is a good team and so are CDEC, LGD and VG"?


They are, and so are Secret, Virtus Pro, etc.

But at the end of the day, one group of these win tournaments, another don't.

Why do you have to put them in groups except to boost your point of arguements? Puppey is in Team Secret, not Team Estonia; Iceiceice is in Team VG, not Team Singapore; Fear is in Team EG, not Team USA.... etc etc etc.
Logo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States7542 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-08-08 21:24:03
August 08 2015 21:21 GMT
#2666
On August 09 2015 06:19 Drazerk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2015 06:16 hfglgg wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:11 Logo wrote:
I don't see why everyone wants to see a finals where one team is heavily favored to win by having an advantage.



this is actually why i hate any form of WB advantage in the finals.

if you play two sets, the first set loses a lot of its meaning when the team from the lower bracket is ahead. the games become less interesting when they dont change anything and just give us more meaningless games.
if you give a one map advantage and the team from the upper bracket wins the first game, game 2 and 3 lose all meaning if the team from the lower bracket is ahead or wins.


And at the same time you look at it from the other way around and you see a team from winners bracket never lose and then they never get a safety net like the lower bracket team thus even though the lower bracket team lost the same amount of sets they are the grand champions.

Takes any meaning from the championship. Having to have the loser's bracket claw at it and earn it through the advantage - THAT is a story and a hype moment.


If you do that in a format like DotA where the Bo#s are pretty low (3 and 5) then you're almost always making the Winner Bracket Finale the tournament finale.

If both teams are entirely even in skill then the one from the LB will only win 25% of the time which is incredibly anti-hype that 75% of the time they win.

Even worse even if the WB bracket team is worse because the # of games is so low they still have a really high chance of winning because the loser bracket team's skill won't necessarily come through in such a small sample size.

Fighting games and the like can get away with WB advantage because you're often playing like a bo5 of bo3 which is way more games.
Logo
GeneralStan
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States4789 Posts
August 08 2015 21:21 GMT
#2667
On August 09 2015 06:20 Ufnal wrote:
I've grown to love Kaci.


How could you not love kaci
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Supamang
Profile Joined June 2010
United States2298 Posts
August 08 2015 21:22 GMT
#2668
On August 09 2015 06:19 Drazerk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2015 06:16 hfglgg wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:11 Logo wrote:
I don't see why everyone wants to see a finals where one team is heavily favored to win by having an advantage.



this is actually why i hate any form of WB advantage in the finals.

if you play two sets, the first set loses a lot of its meaning when the team from the lower bracket is ahead. the games become less interesting when they dont change anything and just give us more meaningless games.
if you give a one map advantage and the team from the upper bracket wins the first game, game 2 and 3 lose all meaning if the team from the lower bracket is ahead or wins.


And at the same time you look at it from the other way around and you see a team from winners bracket never lose and then they never get a safety net like the lower bracket team thus even though the lower bracket team lost the same amount of sets they are the grand champions.

Takes any meaning from the championship. Having to have the loser's bracket claw at it and earn it through the advantage - THAT is a story and a hype moment.

Like said when I first responded to you. Their safety net is not having to play extra sets. How is this hard to see?
WindWolf
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
Sweden11767 Posts
August 08 2015 21:22 GMT
#2669
On August 09 2015 06:21 GeneralStan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2015 06:20 Ufnal wrote:
I've grown to love Kaci.


How could you not love kaci

Kaci is awesome. I can't either understand how someone could hate her
EZ4ENCE
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
August 08 2015 21:22 GMT
#2670
March did so much work for Korea considering how many fewer players they have
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lolfail9001
Profile Joined August 2013
Russian Federation40190 Posts
August 08 2015 21:22 GMT
#2671
On August 09 2015 06:20 CherryNubCakes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2015 06:14 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:13 CherryNubCakes wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:11 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:10 CherryNubCakes wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:05 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:04 TheYango wrote:
TI2 is the only time the WB finalist lost in the Grand Finals, and the one time they did, it was 3-1 anyway. For all the hubbub people make about no WB advantage, it hasn't really made a difference.

Also, was not it working out in a way that TI2 schedule had LGD play 2 series in a row, Navi having a break between LB and GF and iG having like 1 game that day? Or was iG vs DK first match of final TI2 day?

iG played DK, LGD, and Na'Vi all in one day. I heard that YYF was vomiting in between matches.

Well, thankfully for them Navi went full retard in finals.

Na'Vi didn't go full retard, they lost because their selection of pocket Naga counters got figured out and they had absolutely nothing else left in the tank vs iG.

Navi did go full retard that series actually, if you re-watch it now. Hell, Navi were the ones picking Naga in 3/4 games as well (that was almost hilarious seeing Naga being first ban whole tournament getting last picked by Navi in game 1).

How did they go full retard? At the time, iG had better players on positions 1 through 5 who could play all the top heroes of the TI2 meta while Navi's drafts were severely restricted by XBOCT not knowing Morphling, Dendi not knowing TA or DK, Puppey being lackluster on any non-junglers, etc.

Watch game 1: wasted song by XBOCT and 0 heroes sonic wave by Dendi were the absolute highlight of that for me.

Then ArsArt failing to zone bear resulting in easiest offlane of YYF's life.

Then nyx pick by Puppey and general play in that last game.
DeMoN pulls off a Miracle and Flies to the Moon
Azarkon
Profile Joined January 2010
United States21060 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-08-08 21:24:08
August 08 2015 21:23 GMT
#2672
On August 09 2015 06:21 Elurie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2015 06:14 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:11 WolfintheSheep wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:08 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:07 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:06 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:04 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:03 Azarkon wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:03 lolfail9001 wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:01 Azarkon wrote:
[quote]

Natus Vincere in 2013. Had they not made it, it'd have been one Western team against three Chinese/Eastern teams, same as 2015.

There is big difference between Chinese and Eastern team, bro.


Which is fine but for the fact you're not even looking at MVP.

Yes, i absolutely ignored SEA vs China in my stats, because that's out of point. Also, where is your MVP top 3 or something?


The lack of another Eastern country in the last two years that is able to win the best of the West and China does not = we ignore the fact that there were only two Western teams in the last five teams of 2013, too.

So, you have the guts to claim that West>East despite it being top West teams ~ China > rest of West? Heh.


How is West not > China when the West win all the tournaments? I don't understand how you want to play this. Just because Secret failed this year, West < China? Even when China loses yet another tournament? What?

How about "EG is a good team and so are CDEC, LGD and VG"?


They are, and so are Secret, Virtus Pro, etc.

But at the end of the day, one group of these win tournaments, another don't.

Why do you have to put them in groups except to boost your point of arguements? Puppey is in Team Secret, not Team Estonia; Iceiceice is in Team VG, not Team Singapore; Fear is in Team EG, not Team USA.... etc etc etc.


Because that's the way it is? Do people not say "Koreans win" when MVP wins? Do people not say "Chinese win" when CDEC wins? The West is one because its teams don't care about getting people only from the same country. Therefore, one says "the West wins" when Western teams win.
PhoenixVoid
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Canada32746 Posts
August 08 2015 21:23 GMT
#2673
On August 09 2015 06:22 stuchiu wrote:
March did so much work for Korea considering how many fewer players they have

He's called the grandfather of Korean Dota for a reason.
I'm afraid of demented knife-wielding escaped lunatic libertarian zombie mutants
Tanzklaue
Profile Joined January 2012
Germany1415 Posts
August 08 2015 21:23 GMT
#2674
that allstar amtch was hype as fuck.
dmnum
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Brazil6910 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-08-08 21:25:29
August 08 2015 21:23 GMT
#2675
On August 09 2015 06:19 Drazerk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2015 06:16 hfglgg wrote:
On August 09 2015 06:11 Logo wrote:
I don't see why everyone wants to see a finals where one team is heavily favored to win by having an advantage.



this is actually why i hate any form of WB advantage in the finals.

if you play two sets, the first set loses a lot of its meaning when the team from the lower bracket is ahead. the games become less interesting when they dont change anything and just give us more meaningless games.
if you give a one map advantage and the team from the upper bracket wins the first game, game 2 and 3 lose all meaning if the team from the lower bracket is ahead or wins.


And at the same time you look at it from the other way around and you see a team from winners bracket never lose and then they never get a safety net like the lower bracket team thus even though the lower bracket team lost the same amount of sets they are the grand champions.

Takes any meaning from the championship. Having to have the loser's bracket claw at it and earn it through the advantage - THAT is a story and a hype moment.

It doesn't take any meaning from the championship in my opinion. How are we going to decide who's right and wrong?

Also, you as a SC2 fan should know what winner's bracket advantage makes for pretty shitty finals when the WB team wins a game. Valve, considering that, decided to give no advantage to the team coming from the WB. So now we have two options: either we make a single elimination tourney or we make a double elimination with no advantage to the WB team.
Which do you think teams prefer?
plasmidghost
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgium16168 Posts
August 08 2015 21:23 GMT
#2676
420 Booty Wizard for TI6 allstars
Yugoslavia will always live on in my heart
WindWolf
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
Sweden11767 Posts
August 08 2015 21:24 GMT
#2677
On August 09 2015 06:23 Tanzklaue wrote:
that allstar amtch was hype as fuck.

Dendi was awesome. And at least we got to see something unique for a while
EZ4ENCE
Kittan
Profile Joined April 2012
Poland3999 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-08-08 21:26:59
August 08 2015 21:24 GMT
#2678
10v10 teamwipe, what are the odds of that

Edit:250 kills in 40min, it seems that bloodbath is proportional to the number of contestants squared. 32v32 Battlefield-type game mode next year?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=81288 <--- How I fell in love with a man, a team, a game and a website in a single day... | "There are no false gods, there is only the Emperor, and Choi Yun Sung is his prophet." -> Zona 40k
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
August 08 2015 21:24 GMT
#2679
ARTEEZY

OH ARTEEZYYY

ARTEEZYYY
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
lolfail9001
Profile Joined August 2013
Russian Federation40190 Posts
August 08 2015 21:25 GMT
#2680
Ok, CDEC, i don't believe in your ability to not choke, but please, crush Azarkon.
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