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A few USA chants are fine but please don't do it too much.
Stop the stupid USA arguments, thanks.
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On August 09 2015 10:56 Lorizean wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2015 10:53 Azarkon wrote:On August 09 2015 10:52 DwD wrote:On August 09 2015 10:50 Azarkon wrote:On August 09 2015 10:50 DwD wrote:
What was the advantage of coming from the winner bracket? Not play a team. ? But everyone else had 2 lives but them? That's not right. It' what people wanted after 2012. To be fair, something like being one game up as upper bracket winner or having to win 2 series as the lower bracket contender is very heavy handed and takes out a lot of the tension. Maybe something minor like having the winner bracket team win the coin flip by default might be in order. You also have to consider that EG had to play two series today, whereas CDEC are fresh and get one more series worth of information.
1 game advantage in a Bo5 is too big. 1 game advantage is Bo7 felt like it doesn't really matter.... not sure if anyone wants to play a Bo7 either.
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13 minute Blood Stone.
Wow.
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On August 09 2015 10:58 EnvyUK wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2015 10:56 Lorizean wrote:On August 09 2015 10:53 Azarkon wrote:On August 09 2015 10:52 DwD wrote:On August 09 2015 10:50 Azarkon wrote:On August 09 2015 10:50 DwD wrote:
What was the advantage of coming from the winner bracket? Not play a team. ? But everyone else had 2 lives but them? That's not right. It' what people wanted after 2012. To be fair, something like being one game up as upper bracket winner or having to win 2 series as the lower bracket contender is very heavy handed and takes out a lot of the tension. Maybe something minor like having the winner bracket team win the coin flip by default might be in order. You also have to consider that EG had to play two series today, whereas CDEC are fresh and get one more series worth of information. In an interview I remember a player saying playing that extra series is better as it serves as a decent warm-up.
Tell that to LGD.
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Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
On August 09 2015 10:57 Daralii wrote:
Reminder:
TRALF WAS RIGHT
why didnt he predict 3-2 so we could get a 5th game, this is his fault
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This game is looking very scary for EG imo, not sure if they are gonna be able to hold on the pressure that it's about to come in the next 10 mins.
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Bloodstone before treads
Wooooooooooooooooo
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On August 09 2015 10:59 y3gz wrote:
This game is looking very scary for EG imo, not sure if they are gonna be able to hold on the pressure that it's about to come in the next 10 mins.
their cores are ahead, and they have aa/naga
theyre pretty comfortable really
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On August 09 2015 10:59 Grettin wrote:
Bloodstone before treads
Wooooooooooooooooo
Bloodstone after Arcanes*
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United States47024 Posts
On August 09 2015 10:58 Aceace wrote:
Aquila into BoT on PL.
That was meaningless. They have DK who has to push into some towers. PL with BoT's doesn't offer anything to that push. If the purpose was going late why would go for a DK mid? Pick something else!
DK lategame is very good.
DK is actually *the* pick if you just expect to get totally out-skilled mid and want a flexible pick that can play from behind but still go lategame.
With the current apparent skill difference between Sumail and Shiki in laning, you don't want a pick that needs to be not-behind to be useful, and DK is just that.
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Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On August 09 2015 10:56 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2015 10:53 Shergal wrote:
In most cases, only the lack of it is. This isn't really SC2 or a fighting game. It's super disingenuous to call Shiki losing lanes to Sumail a "lack of skill" rather than exceptional skill on Sumail's part. Even Azarkon isn't that eager to flame Chinese players. Sumail really is just that good. His Achilles heel is his relative inexperience so in really scrappy games like game 1 of the WB, some of his decision making can be questionable.
So Sumail is basically a Roger Federer of DotA at his first Grand Slam?
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Yeah I don't know how CDEC plans on winning if they don't turn on the aggression soon.
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This series is a drastic difference from CDEC vs EG yesterday. EG are far more prepared and ready to outplay here.
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The real question is whether or not ppd will get aghs before the hour mark.
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PL is the name of the game here, he is the only one keeping CDEC on the tournament
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DK is a really strong mid hero this patch imo, like you just stableize
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PL's farming very well, though, EG needs to do something quick
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The good old Aui farm alone while the rest of EG is a team.
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On August 09 2015 11:00 MoonBear wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2015 10:56 TheYango wrote:On August 09 2015 10:53 Shergal wrote:
In most cases, only the lack of it is. This isn't really SC2 or a fighting game. It's super disingenuous to call Shiki losing lanes to Sumail a "lack of skill" rather than exceptional skill on Sumail's part. Even Azarkon isn't that eager to flame Chinese players. Sumail really is just that good. His Achilles heel is his relative inexperience so in really scrappy games like game 1 of the WB, some of his decision making can be questionable. So Sumail is basically a Roger Federer of DotA at his first Grand Slam?
Sumail already won one Grand Slam.
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On August 09 2015 10:56 Lorizean wrote:
You also have to consider that EG had to play two series today, whereas CDEC are fresh and get one more series worth of information.
while playing at a high level can be exhausting, i'm not sure 3 hours in it can be considered a disadvantage. They probably play 8-12h a day, if anything 3h competitive before finals might actually be an advantage.
I don't know about the whole argument. EG had to win 1 more game to get to finals, so that's making it harder for them already. Maybe give them a Coin Toss disadvantage if the winner bracket guys must have something (like, just take the toss away and give them choice for game 1, 3, 4).
Starting a game down takes a lot of the suspense out of a Final
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EPT
