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MaCRo.gg
Profile Joined June 2015
Korea (South)860 Posts
June 07 2016 15:43 GMT
#2481
On June 08 2016 00:33 Kabras wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 08 2016 00:30 Ravensong170 wrote:
On June 08 2016 00:29 trifecta wrote:
It's been said a million times but EG and Secret reap the rewards of playing so few games rejecting online tournies amd smaller lans


sarcasm? cause coming in last place at the major doesn't seem like much of a reward for never playing games.

the reward is sitting in ur penthouse in turkey watching netflix with the cs go grill squad. i'd take that over winning dota any day honestly.

Secret ownership system is literally the most moronic self-gratification I've ever seen. 0 fiscal responsibility. :/
takahiro322
Profile Joined June 2016
1 Post
June 07 2016 16:05 GMT
#2482
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MetalMercury
Profile Joined January 2015
United States1161 Posts
June 07 2016 16:11 GMT
#2483
On June 08 2016 00:29 Dracolich70 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 08 2016 00:27 Kipsate wrote:
On June 08 2016 00:22 Dracolich70 wrote:
On June 08 2016 00:15 Kipsate wrote:
Newbee got an invite after crushing for 3/4 months and then flailing about uselessly afterwards, there is no precedent for it beause that year didn't have majors. Newbee also kept 3/5th of their players that year just like EG.

i'd imagine they'd still invite EG.
Well, China didnt play all that many tournaments, and Valve has always intended to pick a lot of Chinese teams, so it feel somewhat different.

That said, I don't think EG has been poor enough, but I do feel regardless, and also for their own sake, that they start to play more tournaments.

Valve feels obligated to invite atleast 1 American team just as much as they feel like they have to invite Chinese teams I imagine and I can't see CoL getting one over EG.

That being said EG players like no games so thats kind of worrisome, it also shows in their play though. The strongest teams right now look to be the ones that play a fuckton of games, Newbee, Liquid, MVP, OG all play a lot more I think. Hell even Na`Vi and DC because they have to suffer through qualifiers etc.
Yes, but if DC continues, they seem like they are above EG. Of course we have seen that Valve are pushing towards having two NA teams, just like they are pushing for 2 SEA teams.

EG have never played all that many games. But since they didn't decide this roster per se, I feel they should play more.



Complexity is still around at Manila too!
hfglgg
Profile Joined December 2012
Germany5372 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-06-07 16:12:57
June 07 2016 16:12 GMT
#2484
On June 08 2016 00:15 Kipsate wrote:
Newbee got an invite after crushing for 3/4 months and then flailing about uselessly afterwards, there is no precedent for it beause that year didn't have majors. Newbee also kept 3/5th of their players that year just like EG.

i'd imagine they'd still invite EG.


newbee was a bit different than secret, not eg though, because they still had somewhat reasonable results for a 4th chinese invite. they had some top 4 placements in the chinese qualifiers for various events and neither cdec, hgt nor ehome was consistently better than them. so in the end there were 4 teams who all had similar results and one of them happend to be really good 8 months ago. easy choice then.

depends on how the next 6 weeks play out, if EG gets at least some results, they are probably gonna get invited. secret however needs really really good results.
weiliem
Profile Joined January 2008
2071 Posts
June 07 2016 16:31 GMT
#2485
LOL!!! Both EG and Secret lost? What is happening in the world of Dota???
Oppa feeding style
intotheheart
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada33091 Posts
June 07 2016 16:32 GMT
#2486
Secret's won 1 BoX series since they got this roster, I'm not sure why that's surprising. ;P
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LennX
Profile Joined October 2010
4564 Posts
June 07 2016 16:54 GMT
#2487
On June 08 2016 00:43 rebdomine wrote:
Got back from the event.

I ended up missing out on the meet and greet sessions for DC and LGD but the games were fun to watch at least.




I'm jelly
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mycro
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden1579 Posts
June 07 2016 17:20 GMT
#2488
hahaha, nice work secret. Hope youre proud over you new "amazing" team.
a-game
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Canada5085 Posts
June 07 2016 17:23 GMT
#2489
On June 08 2016 01:31 weiliem wrote:
LOL!!! Both EG and Secret lost? What is happening in the world of Dota???

Burning is playing 4 position, the world of DotA has been turned upside down for a while now
you wouldnt feel that way if it was your magical sword of mantouchery that got stolen - racebannon • I am merely guest #13,678!
Daigoro
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany251 Posts
June 07 2016 18:18 GMT
#2490
The way I read it (skimmed the thread) the argument about wether Team Secret should get an invite to TI6 kinda went astray... I don't think that many dispute that

a) the current roster gives zero indication they actually deserve an invite (neither does EG)

but many presume (me too) that

b) Valve will invite both teams to TI6. The upsides:

- public interest/creation of a storyline
- Majors actually mean something
- imo THE biggest plus: There is a formal process how to get an invite not some sort of meritology where 90% of the teams bounce in their performance up and down. Valve should not afford themselves the fickle forumposter mentality where any team player bounces from T1 to dumpster tier on a monthly basis. Last year the invites were kinda dicey, qualified teams performed great (2nd and 5/6.) and deserved - in hindsight - an invite over others.

I would welcome it if the invite process was more predictable, invites are going to be more contentuous this year. Of course it is ironic that the overall (probably) best performing team gets an invite despite being horrible atm.

Personally I really miss seeing way more action throughout the year, but outside of ESL and very few other events top teams are focussed exclusively on the majors now.. i think that is a big part of team secrets problems, just a handful of official matches...
spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-06-07 18:24:12
June 07 2016 18:23 GMT
#2491
On June 08 2016 03:18 Daigoro wrote:
Last year the invites were kinda dicey, qualified teams performed great (2nd and 5/6.) and deserved - in hindsight - an invite over others.


A qualifier team doing well has very little to do with whether they deserved an invite or not. At the time of the invites, you invite the teams that are most deserving according to your criteria. It's very possible that a team does not do much to deserve an invite, improves and wins the qualifiers, improves more and does well at the event itself. Then they will start getting invites in future events.
Aldehyde
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Sweden939 Posts
June 07 2016 18:25 GMT
#2492
There should be no/very few invites and way more qualifiers. Major/TI winners should get very favourable seeds in said qualifiers but not get a completely free pass as they do now.
lolnoty
Profile Joined December 2005
United States7166 Posts
June 07 2016 18:30 GMT
#2493
idk how people are even entertaining the EG wouldn't be invited. wasn't this settled last year with Newbee? The champion team comes back.

As for Secret, they likely get invited because Valve is very invested in a year long setup where there's always relevant tournament, explicitly because they wanted teams to give a fuck for the other 6 months of the year that weren't TI season. Major winners are going to get invited because of this.

Secret not getting invited should sound insane to anyone, because they the discussion goes to why the fuck do majors exist if they don't get invited.


"PPD is a very angry guy. He controls us." - Arteezy
Aldehyde
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Sweden939 Posts
June 07 2016 18:33 GMT
#2494
On June 08 2016 03:30 lolnoty wrote:
idk how people are even entertaining the EG wouldn't be invited. wasn't this settled last year with Newbee? The champion team comes back.

As for Secret, they likely get invited because Valve is very invested in a year long setup where there's always relevant tournament, explicitly because they wanted teams to give a fuck for the other 6 months of the year that weren't TI season. Major winners are going to get invited because of this.

Secret not getting invited should sound insane to anyone, because they the discussion goes to why the fuck do majors exist if they don't get invited.




Doesn't sound insane to me, zero invites would be totally okay with me.
intotheheart
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada33091 Posts
June 07 2016 18:46 GMT
#2495
On June 08 2016 03:30 lolnoty wrote:
idk how people are even entertaining the EG wouldn't be invited. wasn't this settled last year with Newbee? The champion team comes back.

As for Secret, they likely get invited because Valve is very invested in a year long setup where there's always relevant tournament, explicitly because they wanted teams to give a fuck for the other 6 months of the year that weren't TI season. Major winners are going to get invited because of this.

Secret not getting invited should sound insane to anyone, because they the discussion goes to why the fuck do majors exist if they don't get invited.



I wonder if pro-gamers actually know of some hidden/internal points system that's not been released to the public.
kiss kiss fall in love
Provocateur
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden1665 Posts
June 07 2016 18:50 GMT
#2496
On June 08 2016 03:30 lolnoty wrote:
idk how people are even entertaining the EG wouldn't be invited. wasn't this settled last year with Newbee? The champion team comes back.

As for Secret, they likely get invited because Valve is very invested in a year long setup where there's always relevant tournament, explicitly because they wanted teams to give a fuck for the other 6 months of the year that weren't TI season. Major winners are going to get invited because of this.

Secret not getting invited should sound insane to anyone, because they the discussion goes to why the fuck do majors exist if they don't get invited.



Considering how badly they've both been underperforming it doesn't seem very insane at all. Consistent and good play should be rewarded for teams that are breaking into the top tier scene and if they're outperforming the old elite I don't see why they shouldn't get the invites instead.

After all it's not like they're totally shut out from TI if they don't get an invite, there's just rough competition in the open qualifiers and a chance to redeem themselves in that case.
TheTenthDoc
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States9561 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-06-07 18:56:51
June 07 2016 18:51 GMT
#2497
On June 08 2016 03:30 lolnoty wrote:
idk how people are even entertaining the EG wouldn't be invited. wasn't this settled last year with Newbee? The champion team comes back.

As for Secret, they likely get invited because Valve is very invested in a year long setup where there's always relevant tournament, explicitly because they wanted teams to give a fuck for the other 6 months of the year that weren't TI season. Major winners are going to get invited because of this.

Secret not getting invited should sound insane to anyone, because they the discussion goes to why the fuck do majors exist if they don't get invited.




Um, de facto inviting every organization that wins a major (even ignoring roster swaps) does the exact OPPOSITE of making teams give a fuck for most of the months of the year for all winning teams. It heavily encourages them to not give a fuck after they win a major-which can be up to 9 months of the year. 12 for former TI winners (which is bad enough). This results in a lot of shitty DotA.

Majors exist for players to win large sums of money (enough to encourage players to try) and promote the Valve brand on a consistent basis and provide an incentive not to roster ping pong. They're not qualifiers for TI-if they were, they'd be called qualifiers and would have actual rules to that effect.
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-06-07 19:02:31
June 07 2016 19:00 GMT
#2498
It was never officially confirmed by anyone that the reason Newbee got invited was because they had won the previous TI. That has always been just a widespread assumption, nothing more.

Personally, I think now that we have 20 million dollar tournaments, it's about time to have hard and transparent rules for qualifying instead of having Valve to grace us with a list of invitees pulled out of their ass every time.
hfglgg
Profile Joined December 2012
Germany5372 Posts
June 07 2016 19:04 GMT
#2499
On June 08 2016 03:30 lolnoty wrote:
idk how people are even entertaining the EG wouldn't be invited. wasn't this settled last year with Newbee? The champion team comes back.

As for Secret, they likely get invited because Valve is very invested in a year long setup where there's always relevant tournament, explicitly because they wanted teams to give a fuck for the other 6 months of the year that weren't TI season. Major winners are going to get invited because of this.

Secret not getting invited should sound insane to anyone, because they the discussion goes to why the fuck do majors exist if they don't get invited.




read my post about newbee last year pls. newbee was one of the possible 4th best chinese teams, there wasnt any other team.
Kabras
Profile Joined June 2011
Romania3508 Posts
June 07 2016 19:08 GMT
#2500
i think eg will get an invite for sure. they're the defending champs and didn't even do that bad for most of the season until the shuffle (which was none of their doing and this might actually matter) hit them hard. also now that aui's back they have 4 of the 5 ti winners. the other thing they got going for them is that they're in the least competitive region and if col loses to liquid tomorrow, which is very likely, dc is their only serious competition for a direct invite. i could see valve giving invites to both dc and eg depending on how dc does at manila and the upcoming lans they qualified for. col doesn't have much of a chance since it's pretty obvious dc are flat out better right now and i really doubt we'll see 3 na invites. Manila is their last hope to impress gaben, but again, they gotta play liquid. As for secret, i think this was the last lan we saw them play together.
"So playing SF in pubs, everyone remember that a very important point is that when using a carry hero like this you must be very selfish. Because working with team mates is a very dangerous thing" - 2009
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