Kick old chicken. Iceiceice mid please, and get new carry XD
Might be cty, he's "face-god" over at the Chinese side. I didn't hear the context though, so no idea. Never heard that term used to refer to old chicken though, he's just lao ji.
Kick old chicken. Iceiceice mid please, and get new carry XD
Open qualifiers whooohoo
And ice 3 wasn't convincing on offlane in recent months and his support is also looking subpar,/so idk what makes u think he will be better mid than old chicken
By the simple fact that nobody is worst than old chicken mid.
On April 23 2016 17:50 ptbl wrote: I thought maybe Shanghai was a one time thing, but it seems the Chinese teams have really fallen off a cliff. Did age catch up to the chinese scene all of a sudden?
You thought that even though they lost every single tournament for eight months?
Well VGR won starladder and LGD placed high. So, I thought maybe Shanghai was a fluke.
You must remember that 4 out of top 6 at TI is the sign of a failed scene in the Bible of the A-God.
The worst Chinese results came after that.
It is about peaking at the right time. Most teams or even regions fall off right after doing well at TI, which explains why TI changes region hands back to back.
Furthermore these last two patches catered to the CIS style of play.
TI is massively influenced by the patch it is played in. Like last year you could predict c9 would get dumpstered because none of the meta heroes played to that team.
It just makes sense that teams would suffer in teh following meta relatively.
I use this instead of the twitch website, auto opens things in livestreamer with a lot of options. Included is optionally opening a chat window. Pretty nifty little program.
I haven't been following the scene as closely because of work, but is it the consensus that Liquid is the best team in the world right now because they didn't have any roster changes? I read somewhere they were second in ELO, too.
On April 23 2016 17:50 ptbl wrote: I thought maybe Shanghai was a one time thing, but it seems the Chinese teams have really fallen off a cliff. Did age catch up to the chinese scene all of a sudden?
You thought that even though they lost every single tournament for eight months?
Well VGR won starladder and LGD placed high. So, I thought maybe Shanghai was a fluke.
You must remember that 4 out of top 6 at TI is the sign of a failed scene in the Bible of the A-God.
The worst Chinese results came after that.
It is about peaking at the right time. Most teams or even regions fall off right after doing well at TI, which explains why TI changes region hands back to back.
Furthermore these last two patches catered to the CIS style of play.
I don't know why teams still think this way. The international isn't what it used to be with the new system; it's no longer the only high reward tournament and it's not even necessarily going to get the same support this year.
I use this instead of the twitch website, auto opens things in livestreamer with a lot of options. Included is optionally opening a chat window. Pretty nifty little program.
On April 23 2016 17:50 ptbl wrote: I thought maybe Shanghai was a one time thing, but it seems the Chinese teams have really fallen off a cliff. Did age catch up to the chinese scene all of a sudden?
You thought that even though they lost every single tournament for eight months?
Well VGR won starladder and LGD placed high. So, I thought maybe Shanghai was a fluke.
You must remember that 4 out of top 6 at TI is the sign of a failed scene in the Bible of the A-God.
The worst Chinese results came after that.
It is about peaking at the right time. Most teams or even regions fall off right after doing well at TI, which explains why TI changes region hands back to back.
Furthermore these last two patches catered to the CIS style of play.
I don't know why teams still think this way. The international isn't what it used to be with the new system; it's no longer the only high reward tournament and it's not even necessarily going to get the same support this year.
Well, probably because of the high prizepool, it is so bad that teams ditch 150-200k tournaments, not to mention the bigger teams do not participate a lot outside the governing Majors that mostly serves as a prelude and a qualifier to TI in their minds.
I think if teams don't change their mindsets, the power struggle will change hands contineously, and can only succeed on the back of facing other teams that rested on their laurels.
On April 23 2016 18:11 nanaoei wrote: holy SHIT could they have printed some better shirts for WINGS like a LOGO or something
The Wings logo strikes me as very similar to the SBENU logo, which I believe is currently involved in a lawsuit because it's too similar to a logo of yet another company.