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OuchyDathurts
Profile Joined September 2010
United States4588 Posts
August 09 2017 04:44 GMT
#1801
On August 09 2017 13:41 Wineandbread wrote:
lol EG.Puppey for crit would be the most mind-blowing roster change

here's a hot take boys: rtz to cloud9


After the RTZ + EE dumpster fire on Secret? I like it.
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dtz
Profile Joined September 2010
5834 Posts
August 09 2017 04:45 GMT
#1802
rtz envy duo was an even bigger disaster than this and i think their relationship haven't really recovered from being in secret that one time.

unless you mean rtz to replace envy lol.
trifecta
Profile Joined April 2010
United States6795 Posts
August 09 2017 04:46 GMT
#1803
trade rtz for mason-god
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
12095 Posts
August 09 2017 04:47 GMT
#1804
On August 09 2017 13:46 trifecta wrote:
trade rtz for mason-god


Does Mason have better placings at TI? From memory he does but I can't be sure.
caiovigg
Profile Joined July 2014
Brazil1802 Posts
August 09 2017 04:48 GMT
#1805
Teams from the great NA scene with their super stacked qualifiers getting rofl stomped by a team from the stupid weak cis region. Who would've guessed.
PhoenixVoid
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Canada32748 Posts
August 09 2017 04:49 GMT
#1806
On August 09 2017 13:47 Yurie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2017 13:46 trifecta wrote:
trade rtz for mason-god


Does Mason have better placings at TI? From memory he does but I can't be sure.

mason's last TI was TI4 where he got 3rd. Funnily enough that was the EG where Arteezy was mid.
I'm afraid of demented knife-wielding escaped lunatic libertarian zombie mutants
sunrazgriz
Profile Joined April 2015
Vatican City State1573 Posts
August 09 2017 05:01 GMT
#1807
EG... :D :D :D :D
6nnn
Danzo
Profile Joined March 2011
2820 Posts
August 09 2017 05:04 GMT
#1808
On August 09 2017 14:01 sunrazgriz wrote:
EG... :D :D :D :D


XD
Getting too old for this..
Kamisamanachi
Profile Joined April 2015
4665 Posts
August 09 2017 05:06 GMT
#1809
whom will Mia Khalifa give blowjobs now? artour pls
fan of dream runs. orange ti3 , fnatic ti6 , wings ti6 , cdec ti5 !! B-god's anti mage , mushi's shadow fiend
caramel-
Profile Joined September 2016
Indonesia66 Posts
August 09 2017 05:12 GMT
#1810
So happy EG get eliminated

Hope LFY will kick VP's ass tomorrow.
Caladbolg
Profile Joined March 2011
2855 Posts
August 09 2017 05:24 GMT
#1811
If EG stick together after this, I hope they make another documentary. If there's one thing I really like about current EG, it's their chemistry outside the game.

But maaaan this loss is really tough for them.
"I don't like the word prodigy at all. To me prodigy sounds like a person who was 'gifted' all these things rather than a person who earned all these talents by hard training... I must train harder to reach my goal." - Flash
Uranium
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1077 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-08-09 05:49:03
August 09 2017 05:40 GMT
#1812
On August 09 2017 13:27 wuhan_clan wrote:
Obviously not all the blame is on one guy. I believe Arteezy is incapable of ever winning TI. Everyone on EG was underwhelming. You would have never thought that Sumail was anything special looking at his games these last 2 days.

That being said, when you are the "captain" or pseudo-captain, and your teams have gone 1-4 and 0-4 on TI main stage, its pretty fucking bad.

In today's games:
RTZ didn't get that much farm, didn't have much impact in team fights, mostly just pussied out and tried to rat and stay alive. Also he was playing a squishy illusion hero against Sven both games.

Sumail didn't make many insane plays. Mostly he just took Sunstrike kills that were fed to him and did some nice combos in team fights. But he wasn't able to make crazy solo pickoffs or cleanup after fights like the old Sumail Ember/Storm from TI5.

Universe wasn't on his infamous playmaker team fight heroes. Instead they had him on rat farmers so his impact was limited. Normally we can count on Universe to make a couple plays a game with one of those big team fight heroes that will really swing things in the favor of EG.

Zai's roam was mostly shut down and he ended up feeding a lot. His impact felt limited because of these failed ganks and he was really poor.

Cr1t played well in team fights IMO, actually making some nice saves on the WW. However we can blame him more for the poor drafts which led the 1/2/3 position to have these squishy rat heroes vs Empire's beefy team fight lineup.

To conclude, I thought that the draft was poor. If everyone on the team collaborated on the draft then the blame can be laid on all of them. And each of their players also failed to perform to expectations, especially the "stars" RTZ/Sumail/Universe who didn't really do anything spectacular.

HOWEVER I also thought that Empire played extremely well. Fn and Resolut1ion were on point of course. However the supporting cast was great especially Rodjer's Nyx in game 2 which was an absolute menace. So all credit to Empire for really gelling as a team and putting up a solid performance.
"Sentry imba! You see? YOU SEE??!!" - Sen | "Marauder die die!" - oGsMC | "Oh my god, she texted me back!" - Day[9]
Elurie
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
4716 Posts
August 09 2017 05:58 GMT
#1813
Did they show any "Top 10 plays" clip from the previous day?
Zea!
Profile Joined November 2006
9589 Posts
August 09 2017 06:24 GMT
#1814
What a fail for EG.... this is huge, expecting massive reshuffle for next year.

Resolution <3
The Real Power~
Caladbolg
Profile Joined March 2011
2855 Posts
August 09 2017 06:54 GMT
#1815


Quite pointed when Artour talked about PPD vs Crit as captains... he basically said that PPD opened discussion but ultimately trusted himself and his own ideas, and the team went along with it. Crit opened discussion and tried to get consensus from everyone. So again I think it's the one vision thing: a sports team or a competitive team cannot really reach their potential as a team unless there is a final say, a final word in things (be it drafts or taking teamfights or overall gameplan), and someone with the vision to say it and get everyone to believe in it.

I think that's the reason RTZ and PPD can't gel. RTZ has very specific ideas on how best to play the game that clashes with PPD. Same reason PPD gave about the trainwreck that was WanteD. He and QO just had a radically different perspective on Dota that couldn't be merged, and as two strong captain-type personalities, they just clashed.

I think RTZ and Crit should make another team. I feel they get along really well and have the same viewpoint towards Dota, and they can get others to fall in. But RTZ is really a mid at heart, and Crit is a 4 position captain who needs some farm to be effective. He needs another to sacrifice farm for him.

How does a c9-EG hybrid sound? Fear-RTZ-MSS-Crit-PLD and Aui-Sumail-Uni-Zai-PPD.
"I don't like the word prodigy at all. To me prodigy sounds like a person who was 'gifted' all these things rather than a person who earned all these talents by hard training... I must train harder to reach my goal." - Flash
Furikawari
Profile Joined February 2014
France2522 Posts
August 09 2017 07:30 GMT
#1816
It's always the same story, democracy cant lead to elite.
Mafe
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany5966 Posts
August 09 2017 07:34 GMT
#1817
So liquid made it in the end
a_flayer
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Netherlands2826 Posts
August 09 2017 09:05 GMT
#1818
On August 09 2017 15:54 Caladbolg wrote:
Quite pointed when Artour talked about PPD vs Crit as captains... he basically said that PPD opened discussion but ultimately trusted himself and his own ideas, and the team went along with it. Crit opened discussion and tried to get consensus from everyone. So again I think it's the one vision thing: a sports team or a competitive team cannot really reach their potential as a team unless there is a final say, a final word in things (be it drafts or taking teamfights or overall gameplan), and someone with the vision to say it and get everyone to believe in it.

Consensus may be achieved in practice and outside game events, but there is not enough time for an efficient consensus in the draft itself. Only an effective one where potential weaknesses exist that can be abused by opponents. It is not optimal.


I can't wait to see VP play again. They were absolutely brutalizing their opponents. I hope they can take on LFY this time.
When you came along so righteous with a new national hate, so convincing is the ardor of war and of men, it's harder to breathe than to believe you're a friend. The wars at home, the wars abroad, all soaked in blood and lies and fraud.
Asha
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United Kingdom38257 Posts
August 09 2017 09:22 GMT
#1819
Didn't expect to wake up this morning and find that Empire bopped EG lol

good stuff
Barkley
Profile Joined August 2015
Brazil103 Posts
August 09 2017 09:45 GMT
#1820
Resolution the EG killer, second time in a row. Teams will be racing to get him after this.
"This guy, he always gets second place."
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