On June 18 2016 10:03 Kamisamanachi wrote: Hoping for fnatic to advance from group A and navi to advance from B. But given the wonky nature of drafts ,anything can happen .
If Fnatic keep playing as they did against Alliance it'll be a fast exit. Liquid wont be as forgiving.
On June 18 2016 10:03 Kamisamanachi wrote: Hoping for fnatic to advance from group A and navi to advance from B. But given the wonky nature of drafts ,anything can happen .
If Fnatic keep playing as they did against Alliance it'll be a fast exit. Liquid wont be as forgiving.
Yea. It felt like they were too overconfident after that stomp at major and slacked too much in their plays, especially their gameplan and shotcalling was lazy . Hope they learnt their lesson yesterday
On June 18 2016 17:27 Gear 3rd wrote: Yessir. It's still filling up we were pretty early. Watch out for a green beanie in first row of the back segment
On June 18 2016 17:28 Keardan wrote: I'm quite possibly stupid or not awake yet, but how do these brackets work?
Gsl format? Loser of both matches from group a yesterday fight first. Loser of this match will be eliminated. Winner will fight alliance to secure spot in semifinals
On June 18 2016 17:28 Keardan wrote: I'm quite possibly stupid or not awake yet, but how do these brackets work?
Gsl format? Loser of both matches from group a yesterday fight first. Loser of this match will be eliminated. Winner will fight alliance to secure spot in semifinals
Wtf those comments? Liquid has a bazillion way to disengage and have only to worry about shards and crush, you sound like the guys who never pick any stun in my pubs.
On June 18 2016 18:47 Kipsate wrote: this PA coulda been any other hero and they woulda won too, not impressed by the PA pick
guess its good for them to test it.
Which hero could offer this kind of burst damage associated with 50% dmg reduction against all ennemy damage?
We'll see, I don't think us nor Liquid are convinced in her being a viable pick
Fnatic's line up relied entirely on right clicks and blinked allowed to dodge everything outside of slithereen crush and bypassing dusa, eventually PA did some good work 8 2 11 while tanking so many things
On June 18 2016 18:47 Kipsate wrote: this PA coulda been any other hero and they woulda won too, not impressed by the PA pick
guess its good for them to test it.
Which hero could offer this kind of burst damage associated with 50% dmg reduction against all ennemy damage?
We'll see, I don't think us nor Liquid are convinced in her being a viable pick
Fnatic's line up relied entirely on right clicks and blinked allowed to dodge everything outside of slithereen crush and bypassing dusa, eventually PA did some good work 8 2 11 while tanking so many things
Yeah they didn't understand what was going on clearly Blink on Jugg, blink force on slardar, and way more punch heavy Dusa build to compensate
On June 18 2016 19:16 LemOn wrote: come on liquid, a fun last pick! Bleh
game's over
Told you before , Liquid arent messing around , ppl think "hey its not that kind of money" and shit like this , first it IS a lot of money for someone with short carrer , second its their home crowd in the main event and last those guys are competitors who hate to lose in a pub so for sure they are not happy or "dont care" when they lose officials
that was some serious pub stuff from fnatic, like one of those games where things are going well but one play (just before second rosh) tilts the entire team.
On June 18 2016 19:16 LemOn wrote: come on liquid, a fun last pick! Bleh
game's over
Told you before , Liquid arent messing around , ppl think "hey its not that kind of money" and shit like this , first it IS a lot of money for someone with short carrer , second its their home crowd in the main event and last those guys are competitors who hate to lose in a pub so for sure they are not happy or "dont care" when they lose officials
Eh they went either new stuff with PA, lol drafts yesterday or totally standard draft this game. But hey - if Fnatic just hands those to them why not take a freewin
On June 18 2016 20:06 Elurie wrote: They are playing on stage?
Yup. All of Days 2 & 3 are on stage. It was ESL's response to the Single Elimination Bracket being unliked by a lot of top teams. And fans, as well. You still get to see everyone play on stage at least once, and at least twice for 6 of 8 teams.
On June 18 2016 20:06 Elurie wrote: They are playing on stage?
Yup. All of Days 2 & 3 are on stage. It was ESL's response to the Single Elimination Bracket being unliked by a lot of top teams. And fans, as well. You still get to see everyone play on stage at least once, and at least twice for 6 of 8 teams.
I like it Breaks are annoying But still cool to see the crowd there
It's really awesome. Great atmosphere and it feels like it's just starting to heat up Navi game should be a blast Also obligatory woooooooh liquid goooo
On June 18 2016 20:06 Elurie wrote: They are playing on stage?
Yup. All of Days 2 & 3 are on stage. It was ESL's response to the Single Elimination Bracket being unliked by a lot of top teams. And fans, as well. You still get to see everyone play on stage at least once, and at least twice for 6 of 8 teams.
I like it Breaks are annoying But still cool to see the crowd there
It's also a good format for a "2 Day" tournament, at least in-stadium. You avoid the issue inherent in a Single Elimination when it comes to Dota, and the team that outright wins their group gets a day off. Good trade off for all involved.
On June 18 2016 21:48 Xendarii wrote: VP playing like the absolute trash team that they are. That was embarassing.
I put it all on the Tide , you dont get to be a greedy tide when facing a Jug + Slark against VP lineup you need to push HARD and team fight early , they didnt and they lost , with the kind of start they had they should close out this game 8/10 times if played correctly , they had Navi on the ropes wobbling from a left hook but never capitlized.
Navi out CIS VP ... that's pretty much sums up the game imo
VP's biggest issue was that they had no way to take down towers quick enough after pick off in the early game --> poor cores other than G, and thus Slark and Void couldn't get items quick enough to out damage the Phoenix' heal ...
On June 19 2016 00:47 bluzi wrote: Cap going with Ill pick Alliance and look smart if they win and if they lose "Well its Liquid 2nd best team in the world what did you expect"
On June 19 2016 00:47 bluzi wrote: Cap going with Ill pick Alliance and look smart if they win and if they lose "Well its Liquid 2nd best team in the world what did you expect"
Thats not what we're doing tho, right?
EDIT: woops mighty double post.
Im picking Liquid but i want Alliance to win , if i was a pro caster that needs to give his proffesional opinion there is 0 reasons to pick Alliance here aside from what i wrote.
that's pretty much the unfunniest tweet I've seen for years
Yeah that's actually a retarded tweet. That joke has been beaten to death and proven wrong over and over. Mind_Control is quicky becoming the "can only play x heroes-guy"
S4 is at least showing signs of realizing he has limits. Doesn't blindly blink in for ganks on QoP like he did at Manilla. You can see he wants to though
Im just amazed by Alliance decsion making , what the hell is oging on? Alliance didnt lose a SINGLE fight team vs team so far , they are only getting picked out all game long , EVERY team fight Alliance won so far.... crazy
Alliance playing scared all game and just getting outfarmed. Liquid supports will have so much impact while EGM and Akke got nothing. Pretty sad to watch alliance lately, they just seem lost.
On June 19 2016 01:52 bluzi wrote: Saddest game i ever seen alliance play for a while , No roars no push no nothing , just run around like headless chickens
well thats because they seem to lack confidence, and the other team does force them into those bad decisions. but some of those are are just bad plays from single members to be honest.
On June 19 2016 01:53 Faruko wrote: Come on, dont be too harsh, is liquid we are talking about here not some random tier2 team.
Sure , but they actually did win the team fights they had no choice to fight , other then that just got picked off by a Slark what a surprise!!! actually team fighting was better for them but they played scared as hell They just have no confidence
Rofl what is this draft? How did they expect to kill timber and slark with 1 stun? Like seriouly, what the fuck is (the literally worst hero in the game) a sd and an enchantress supposed to do in this game?
On June 19 2016 01:56 GiveMeYourtTots wrote: Rofl what is this draft? How did they expect to kill timber and slark with 1 stun? Like seriouly, what the fuck is (the literally worst hero in the game) a sd and an enchantress supposed to do in this game?
Im telling you the sad thing is that they won all 3 team fights in the game , they just got picked off non stop
The idea behind the SD is that you siege high ground with the TB, make illusions of the TB to get even more Metamorphosis illusions to destroy the base
On June 19 2016 02:02 Kipsate wrote: The idea behind the SD is that you siege high ground with the TB, make illusions of the TB to get even more Metamorphosis illusions to destroy the base
of course you have to get to that point first.
Or try... they didnt even try , in no point in the game (until it was wayyy too late) they were in a point they couldnt fight , if anything playing as 5 is better when you have a slark running around with 5k behind your TB getting kills on your solo pushers in lanes. i actually thought they did great early shutting down the Tide and farming on everyone..... eeeefffffffffffffffff
On June 19 2016 02:09 BurningSera wrote: do feel like A trying to rat when they are not even with rat heroes...i mean, loda is not great at TB isnt it
Why ? how did you feel Loda played bad this game ? he was actually the only guy doing his job , AB did nothing with that beast master , like nothing at all ......
only caught the last 10-15 minutes of the game so can't really tell how it started out but couldn't help but think this would be an amazing game to just sit behind cores and counter any pick-off attemps from matumba / fata. Fata is certainly killable if you get a silence on him from qop followed up by magic dmg from her. Probably going to result in sudokostone deny but that's something
For instance just a small idea , this game you pick a doom #4 instead of Ench , how doom does vs Slark and Timber? anyone knows? i feel abit more flexability will go a long way to help them outdraft teams.
On June 19 2016 02:25 bluzi wrote: For instance just a small idea , this game you pick a doom #4 instead of Ench , how doom does vs Slark and Timber? anyone knows? i feel abit more flexability will go a long way to help them outdraft teams.
Tough call, the nerfs on doom CD are really hurting the hero and we have yet to estimate how big those nerfs are.
On June 19 2016 02:09 BurningSera wrote: do feel like A trying to rat when they are not even with rat heroes...i mean, loda is not great at TB isnt it
Why ? how did you feel Loda played bad this game ? he was actually the only guy doing his job , AB did nothing with that beast master , like nothing at all ......
because it looks like he was hesitating to defend/fight/push all game, probably cant blame him with DS and Ench in line up like that but still i am not sure about him playing TB if you know what i mean.
Alliance had a window to win game 1 once qop had her orchid arround the 20th minute.
What they would have to do is find meaningful solo pickoffs so it enables them to push tier 2 and 3 towers. Liquid wasnt fully ready to fight for maybe 5 minutes arround that time and it would have been the perfect moment to snowball their push from there.
But Alliance instead relyed on their splitpush and didnt choose to go for a more pickoff/snowbally style of play and most of us saw how it ended.
A very bad decision at roshan looks like the nail in the coffin in retrospective!
On June 19 2016 02:44 Zenmx wrote: Seems s4 badly need to practice laning against timbersaw..
Yeah, that is what I thought too. He still can do incredible things (like the dodges last game), so it's probably not just lack of form or deteriorating skill - he just seems to be completely lost laning against a timber.
On June 19 2016 02:49 pellejohnson wrote: I hope this embarrassment of a game will be the wake up call for alliance tofinally disband or make some huge changes to the team
I have no idea why Alliance keeps doing these drow strats, they always pull it out in games that unless they win they're eliminated and it always fail and looks so pathetic.
On June 19 2016 03:20 TheTenthDoc wrote: Yeah Liquid only needs 4 heroes to teamwipe Alliance, they were never in a losing position this game and were always dictating the pace
Casters wanted to make it a lot closer than it was because Liquid was misplaying quite a bit but there never really was an opening for Alliance to win this. Even when Liquid messed up their fights, Alliance couldn't do anything with it.
On June 19 2016 03:22 Xurr wrote: So the casters really tried, again, to talk alliance big the whole game.
I think it's fine. Them clearing that Alliance with that poor laning phase and early game had no chance to win this game no matter how badly Liquid screwed up would do no good to anyone.
On June 19 2016 03:22 Xurr wrote: So the casters really tried, again, to talk alliance big the whole game.
Well 2/3 of them did
Bamboe basically said "[A] is still at a massive disadvantage even though Liquid are clowning" as politely as he could while his cocasters were trying to say the opposite
On June 19 2016 03:20 TheTenthDoc wrote: Yeah Liquid only needs 4 heroes to teamwipe Alliance, they were never in a losing position this game and were always dictating the pace
Casters wanted to make it a lot closer than it was because Liquid was misplaying quite a bit but there never really was an opening for Alliance to win this. Even when Liquid messed up their fights, Alliance couldn't do anything with it.
Well they could do something, that is get 2-3 kills. It's only the question of whether they could have eventually translated into a game win provided [A] played perfectly.
On June 19 2016 03:22 Xurr wrote: So the casters really tried, again, to talk alliance big the whole game.
Well 2/3 of them did
Bamboe basically said "[A] is still at a massive disadvantage even though Liquid are clowning" as politely as he could while his cocasters were trying to say the opposite
that's what you got to do as a caster though. You can't just get in there after 5 minutes and be like "well, this is just over"
If you want to counter linkens wouldn't euls be cheaper? 3100 vs 2735 gold. I also think euls is better with the ability to cast it on oneself and the move speed.
I'm pretty sure OG vs TL will be 2 super standard drafts just so that they don't reveal any counters against their nemesis likely to battle for the TI title.
Or we may silently hope for some Na'Vi vs Alliance TI3 style wacky pick madness :D
Either way I'd say that series is 50:50, there's no WB advantage like last time
On June 19 2016 06:24 LemOn wrote: I'm pretty sure OG vs TL will be 2 super standard drafts just so that they don't reveal any counters against their nemesis likely to battle for the TI title.
Or we may silently hope for some Na'Vi vs Alliance TI3 style wacky pick madness :D
Either way I'd say that series is 50:50, there's no WB advantage like last time
idk man, could also be really wonky stuff they're trying out for shitz and giggles. Just baiting them into thinking that this wonky strat is stupid and they don't need to think about it because they crushed it at ESL Frankfurt into super refined strat for TI that blows OG away!
So we're getting one CIS team in the finals. Too bad it's so easy to root for a charismatic team like Na'vi and so hard to root for Vega who 1) we've barely seen and 2) despite having respectable players like No[o]ne and Mag, also have a douche canoe in the form of fn.
On June 19 2016 07:11 M.S.Bismarck wrote: So we're getting one CIS team in the finals. Too bad it's so easy to root for a charismatic team like Na'vi and so hard to root for Vega who 1) we've barely seen and 2) despite having respectable players like No[o]ne and Mag, also have a douche canoe in the form of fn.
noone ist the nicest person around either. calling other people monkeys and fat pigs. Maybe he should look in the mirror...
On June 19 2016 07:11 M.S.Bismarck wrote: So we're getting one CIS team in the finals. Too bad it's so easy to root for a charismatic team like Na'vi and so hard to root for Vega who 1) we've barely seen and 2) despite having respectable players like No[o]ne and Mag, also have a douche canoe in the form of fn.
noone ist the nicest person around either. calling other people monkeys and fat pigs. Maybe he should look in the mirror...
On June 19 2016 09:46 Kipsate wrote: I wonder if this secures Alliance and CoL a place in the qualifiers instead of getting invited.
Quite possibly. Depends on how many invites Valve will give out how much these teams could have influenced the decision this event but assuming no more than 8 invites both these teams are sort on the fence for the last spots, and now possibly more on the qualifier side.
On June 19 2016 09:46 Kipsate wrote: I wonder if this secures Alliance and CoL a place in the qualifiers instead of getting invited.
Quite possibly. Depends on how many invites Valve will give out how much these teams could have influenced the decision this event but assuming no more than 8 invites both these teams are sort on the fence for the last spots, and now possibly more on the qualifier side.
The subtlety is in how Valve is going to value the Year compared to the recent Months. Na'Vi has a chance to possible bounce Alliance out from a Direct invite, rather than Fnatic. But that's going to come down to the final result. But either Vega or Na'Vi really need an outright victory.