It would be no surprise if Liquid goes home after this cutoff. I don't hope it but they seem to struggle at this years DAC. On the other hand it would be no surprise either, if LGD is the last standing Chinese team after that day. This tournament feels pretty close!
so the first four teams that lose the bo3 are eliminated and then from that point its bo1 through the lower bracket to top 4 for the teams that lose in the "first" round of the upper bracket, that's some awful shit. I somehow completely missed that when looking at the bracket.
Can't believe that our Minors weren't all that bad but the last two Majors were all about shoving as many Bo1s down our throat as possible. The DPC was pretty nice up until this bullshit started happening.
On April 03 2018 04:41 OmniEulogy wrote: so the first four teams that lose the bo3 are eliminated and then from that point its bo1 through the lower bracket to top 4 for the teams that lose in the "first" round of the upper bracket, that's some awful shit. I somehow completely missed that when looking at the bracket.
Are they ? Seems the teams that lose their bo3 aren't eliminated but go to the lower bracket (where it's bo1)
On April 03 2018 04:41 OmniEulogy wrote: so the first four teams that lose the bo3 are eliminated and then from that point its bo1 through the lower bracket to top 4 for the teams that lose in the "first" round of the upper bracket, that's some awful shit. I somehow completely missed that when looking at the bracket.
Are they ? Seems the teams that lose their bo3 aren't eliminated but go to the lower bracket (where it's bo1)
kaka's expression says "i am not doing interview let alone in this costume wtf"
On April 03 2018 11:52 CxWiLL wrote: sccc used to play amazingly on invoker but this one is just terrible
it is invoker issue that he is very passive until he gets 2-3 big items. compare it with puck or DK which only need < 3k gold item to make things happen on map.
On April 03 2018 04:41 OmniEulogy wrote: so the first four teams that lose the bo3 are eliminated and then from that point its bo1 through the lower bracket to top 4 for the teams that lose in the "first" round of the upper bracket, that's some awful shit. I somehow completely missed that when looking at the bracket.
Are they ? Seems the teams that lose their bo3 aren't eliminated but go to the lower bracket (where it's bo1)
Nope they are eliminated.
So that lose against newbee with mid rubick was quite dumb in retrospect...I hope it won't be even dumber after next bo3 ><
These intros still feel really over the top (kneeling with a sword, etc). I guess they're better than "carry you into the abyss of suffering" from the first DAC I recall
This is why VP are such a good team , they can make a call of letting go of a rax @ 20 min while VGJ just went and feed 1 by 1 vs liquid on TOP of losing the rax .... such bad calling .....they were never holding it 3v5 not sure what the hell they were thinking , no wave clear without the freeze , GG GO NEXT
Also liquid to their bread and butter of 5 man lineups with good high ground pushes that won them so much money , lets see if CN can counter it (dont think so).
On April 03 2018 13:54 bluzi wrote: This is why VP are such a good team , they can make a call of letting go of a rax @ 20 min while VGJ just went and feed 1 by 1 vs liquid on TOP of losing the rax .... such bad calling .....they were never holding it 3v5 not sure what the hell they were thinking , no wave clear without the freeze , GG GO NEXT
tbh i like vp the best cause of how classy most of them are even when they tilted and lost to og at one of the majors they applauded them to the crowd
but sometimes they give up to early, games can be won on opponents mistakes
On April 03 2018 14:12 LemOn wrote: Thunder ban Veno? I feel like yeah great meta pick but it just isn't that good matu hero can anyone explain?
I'm not even going to bother to question it. As long as I don't have to see another low impact, low networth Matu Veno doing nothing while the enemies are allowed to farm BKBs.
On April 03 2018 14:43 bluzi wrote: CN are not up to par , lets see what LGD can do .... seems like for the first time the one CN one Western in TI is going to break.
So says everyone always and then we still get 4 CN teams in the top 6 at TI.
On April 03 2018 14:43 bluzi wrote: CN are not up to par , lets see what LGD can do .... seems like for the first time the one CN one Western in TI is going to break.
calm down, don't get exited yet. last time CN team got slaughtered like this is during Shanghai Major in 2016, and we knew how TI6 went. in other retrospect I would like to have SEA winner. But I dont think current SEA team is up there already. MVP was the closest we can get.
What a crazy game , that fight top when VG were SO strong and Sylar just turns around after seeing the dark rift with all of liquid and just goes yolo and even after he dies they almost win the fight .... he cost them the game right there , they commited 4 bb after that and lost shortly after with liquid pressure , at least they show some resilience and didnt crumble right away like i thought they would! but still what a dumb dumb play from Sylar.
Not sure if Liquid will want to continue this playstyle against VP. Feels a little one-dimensional with the enormous emphasis on winning the lanes and playing for global pickoffs.
On April 03 2018 15:08 Kamisamanachi wrote: sylar made such a blunder at that top fight ..gifted the game to liquid
No doubt..... why would he do it ? he was away already ..... he didnt have bb money and his team was on the way ! WAITTTT FOR THEM.
IDK maybe he thought, he could manfight them with his newly purchased butterfly until his team arrives, but then again , his bkb was down and he was playing against disruptor and es. that was such a weird move.and it was deciding factor for the game ,which costed them entire game,
On April 03 2018 15:21 Vertical wrote: btw during downtime. can someone help me list official valve TI documentary? I want to watch some. I saw for TI1 and TI5, but never seen the others.
On April 03 2018 15:21 Vertical wrote: btw during downtime. can someone help me list official valve TI documentary? I want to watch some. I saw for TI1 and TI5, but never seen the others.
one of the best
they dont have documentary when the Chinese team winning don't they?
On April 03 2018 15:21 Vertical wrote: btw during downtime. can someone help me list official valve TI documentary? I want to watch some. I saw for TI1 and TI5, but never seen the others.
one of the best
they dont have documentary when the Chinese team winning don't they?
On April 03 2018 15:21 Vertical wrote: btw during downtime. can someone help me list official valve TI documentary? I want to watch some. I saw for TI1 and TI5, but never seen the others.
one of the best
they dont have documentary when the Chinese team winning don't they?
not long, just this 5 minutes of stuff
thanks a bunch I didnt know these things exist before
its very sad looking back at Wings, a truly one hit wonder (heck same goes for their grand final opponent)
wow this seriously reminiscence of Shanghai Major 1. Both are first Major held in China during the season 2. more Chinese teams than usual and all Chinese team bomb out of the tournament 3. One Chinese team in the upper bracket, interestingly both times is LGD 4. Overperforming NA team, back then was CoL now is Optic 5. Overperforming SEA teams back then was MVP & Fnatic, now is Mineski and TnC (both times Mushi are in it) 6. The worst team still from Americas, back then was Archon, now is PaiN 7. there are 2 rounds of BO1 lower bracket
God, Liquid now will have 2 bo1 >< That mid rubick's consequences will never be the same. It's ironic, I think they're the only team that always give VP a run for their money and at the same time I don't see them winning at all. They should have been waiting instead of TNC ><
On April 03 2018 19:02 sCuMBaG wrote: same stuff as so many commentators are calling them "VC"... it's "VG" guys... at least they are getting that one right this time.
They are not calling them VC, but Vici, short of Vici Gaming.
On April 03 2018 19:13 Snakesneaks wrote: why would you aim for abaddon first ?
Because it is pretty much impossible to kill anybody with level 20+ Abaddon that has Octarine Core, Lotus Orb and Halberd still alive. They tried it to do with Fata rushing Silver Edge coupled with 2 Silences but they didn't think about OD saving Abaddon every single time with Astral. Abaddon countered their draft quite nicely and they were not going to win drawn out fights against Aba and Int stacked OD, coupled with ET that allows them to disengage in fights because of the stomp.
On April 03 2018 19:39 Tegenaria wrote: Good to see Shadow Demon, he is one of the best hero right now in my opinion.
He is quite underrated, with the latest changes he hard counters a lot of heroes that relies on dispellable buffs, I guess we will see more and more of him in the next tournaments.
Don't know about that Phoenix pick, except for him they don't have enough AoE for CK, and he is quite unreliable when played as support.
Last 3 fights from Secret were really bad. Kunkka hitting Egg, didn't use Ghost Ship in last 2 fights for some reason, I just don't know what they are doing.
On April 03 2018 19:39 Tegenaria wrote: Good to see Shadow Demon, he is one of the best hero right now in my opinion.
He is quite underrated, with the latest changes he hard counters a lot of heroes that relies on dispellable buffs, I guess we will see more and more of him in the next tournaments.
Don't know about that Phoenix pick, except for him they don't have enough AoE for CK, and he is quite unreliable when played as support.
As a CK picker, playing against Phoenix is worse than about anything save for agh-medusa. Go into demo, get items for 5k hp (not uncommon with armlet+heart+1/2 more items) and have a lvl 7 max sun ray phoenix channel it on him and you'll see why. You need like 2/3 of a sun ray channel to kill 5k hp illus. On top of that spirits are AoE and kills your DPS, and on top of THAT, illus cant kill the egg.
On April 03 2018 19:39 Tegenaria wrote: Good to see Shadow Demon, he is one of the best hero right now in my opinion.
He is quite underrated, with the latest changes he hard counters a lot of heroes that relies on dispellable buffs, I guess we will see more and more of him in the next tournaments.
Don't know about that Phoenix pick, except for him they don't have enough AoE for CK, and he is quite unreliable when played as support.
As a CK picker, playing against Phoenix is worse than about anything save for agh-medusa. Go into demo, get items for 5k hp (not uncommon with armlet+heart+1/2 more items) and have a lvl 7 max sun ray phoenix channel it on him and you'll see why. You need like 2/3 of a sun ray channel to kill 5k hp illus. On top of that spirits are AoE and kills your DPS, and on top of THAT, illus cant kill the egg.
And tiny+OD are legit heroes against him too..... this wasnt the game to bust out CK.
I know, I mean I have CK flair, trust me CK is my most played hero haha, but even though Phoenix is amazing against CK when he is played as support and doesn't have great game he feels like a piece of paper, he is usually underleveled and dies too fast in team fights. Though that didn't happen in this game as Secret lost all of their lanes and fucked up few team fights hard, they are playing from behind whole game, and Phoenix here feels more like a core.
On April 03 2018 19:02 sCuMBaG wrote: same stuff as so many commentators are calling them "VC"... it's "VG" guys... at least they are getting that one right this time.
They are not calling them VC, but Vici, short of Vici Gaming.
Not sure I agree with that pronunciation either...
Depends on what they intend "Vici" to mean here. I was told it's from "veni, vidi, vici" - in which case pronouncing it "vidgi" would be the correct way (more or less, if you want the proper lating it would even be "viki"), and that sounds the same as VG as well.
If it is supposed to mean something completely different, I'm wrong I guess
On April 03 2018 20:45 juuto wrote: Secret and VP have been so inconsistent this season compared to Liquid. VP might be turning things around but Secret certainly hasn't.
At ESL and PGL majors there were interviews with Yapzor and Ace where they talked about the team not really practicing lately and there being some issues in the team. Similarly for Dreamleague they just took a break, though obviously they still played great (but the event didn't have many of the best teams and Liquid wasn't at full strength).
Interesting to see how they develop as TI approaches. In some of the past TIs it hasn't necessarily been the case that Puppey's team starts grinding when TI is close
On April 03 2018 21:05 uthgard wrote: TI is a whole different beast, you never know what will happen there even close to the event
I'm sure cn team will win tho (tradition ftw)
TI is gonna be another China vs the World. Chinese teams always peak during TI regardless of how they performed or how the western teams performed before TI.
Maybe they won't win but they'll have a bunch of teams on the top 8 again like it was nothing,
On April 03 2018 20:42 Kipsate wrote: VG and LGD all on them
honestly who the fuck is going to stop this juggernaut called Virtus Plow tho.
I think all teams in the upperbracket can potentially beat VP (except liquid or eg they seem too familiar with both of them). Just potential though(the closest being VG cause they're the only one who took a series against this iteration)
but we'll probably just gonna see Virtus Plow most likely
On April 03 2018 21:05 uthgard wrote: TI is a whole different beast, you never know what will happen there even close to the event
I'm sure cn team will win tho (tradition ftw)
TI is gonna be another China vs the World. Chinese teams always peak during TI regardless of how they performed or how the western teams performed before TI.
Maybe they won't win but they'll have a bunch of teams on the top 8 again like it was nothing,
On April 03 2018 20:42 Kipsate wrote: VG and LGD all on them
honestly who the fuck is going to stop this juggernaut called Virtus Plow tho.
I think all teams in the upperbracket can potentially beat VP (except liquid or eg they seem too familiar with both of them). Just potential though(the closest being VG cause they're the only one who took a series against this iteration)
but we'll probably just gonna see Virtus Plow most likely
Part of China's general performance at TI is I think all of the TI teams end up playing each other almost endlessly in the weeks leading up to the tournament, so they end up creating a hyper-focused meta to start Scrim period that happens at TI. The best of the Chinese teams end up surviving into the bracket stage, as a result, then all of the Chinese teams help each other throughout the tournament.
Though that doesn't change things like TI6, where it was Wings vs The World. (Only 2 Chinese teams in the Top 8, in a year China won.) Being mindful that if Faith`bian hadn't morphed into the best player in the world during the Bracket, they wouldn't have probably placed above about 6th.
As for the rest of DAC, the main thing about those Bo1s is the Meta was clearly not settling into anything, especially as the mass tie-breakers showed. VP is still the team to beat, and the top teams can beat them, it'll just depend on how everyone plays that day.
I think all teams in the upperbracket can potentially beat VP (except liquid or eg they seem too familiar with both of them). Just potential though(the closest being VG cause they're the only one who took a series against this iteration)
but we'll probably just gonna see Virtus Plow most likely
VP and other russian teams over the past few years have had trouble breaking top 6 in the most important tournaments despite displaying strength. VP beating secret at TI5 only to drop out in the next round comes to mind
I think all teams in the upperbracket can potentially beat VP (except liquid or eg they seem too familiar with both of them). Just potential though(the closest being VG cause they're the only one who took a series against this iteration)
but we'll probably just gonna see Virtus Plow most likely
VP and other russian teams over the past few years have had trouble breaking top 6 in the most important tournaments despite displaying strength. VP beating secret at TI5 only to drop out in the next round comes to mind
Yeah, but...Secret was actually kind of terrible at TI5. Sure, they had a hot streak going into the tournament, but TI5 was pure Puppey meme-drafting.