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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Welcome to Birmingham Dota! :D
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Papua New Guinea504 Posts
Most boring : Group B
Most interesting : Group C
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hoho yes team spirit is in! good old time VP (minus lil) where I can cheer for them without the bandwagoners.
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Certainly not an unpopular opinion but come on... how is this a format for a major in any way? 1 bo1 and 1 bo3 and you are out. Congrats, you played vs a team on equal footing and lost a hard fought out bo1. GL playing VP in the next bo3 since they got cheesed into the elimination match (VP just as an example). This format is more like a gamble than anything else. Can't wait for valve to adjust the rules for next years DPC.
but enough of that. hope we see some exciting dota at least.
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seems like the teams are at the hotel or internet café. watching some pubs with paparazi, rtz, old eleven, crit etc. and they are all disconnected in their respective pub 
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
Good schedule for games, Imma watch at work >.<
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On May 22 2018 17:12 Kelefei2016 wrote:
Most boring : Group B
Most interesting : Group C
Why is group B boring? We get to see how Pain (the only legitimate SA team) are progressing with w33 and Vici just came third in a major, plus the reigning TI champs are fresh after resting through MDL. Also OG showed signs of improvement at MDL.
All three groups are interesting imo, there is no clear cut top 2 for any of them.
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On May 22 2018 18:30 Sloke wrote:
Certainly not an unpopular opinion but come on... how is this a format for a major in any way? 1 bo1 and 1 bo3 and you are out. Congrats, you played vs a team on equal footing and lost a hard fought out bo1. GL playing VP in the next bo3 since they got cheesed into the elimination match (VP just as an example). This format is more like a gamble than anything else. Can't wait for valve to adjust the rules for next years DPC.
but enough of that. hope we see some exciting dota at least.
I wonder if ESL has a competition for shittiest event format and the winner gets their format used in the upcoming major
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Papua New Guinea504 Posts
On May 22 2018 20:27 DropBear wrote:Show nested quote +On May 22 2018 17:12 Kelefei2016 wrote:
Most boring : Group B
Most interesting : Group C Why is group B boring? We get to see how Pain (the only legitimate SA team) are progressing with w33 and Vici just came third in a major, plus the reigning TI champs are fresh after resting through MDL. Also OG showed signs of improvement at MDL. All three groups are interesting imo, there is no clear cut top 2 for any of them.
Things can be very easy, if u have 1 million to bet, and there is win survive, lose u dead, which team match u will put ur bet:
Liquid vs Pain?
Optic vs LFY?
Mineski vs LFY?
Mineski vs Newbee?
I think you got the answer, OBVIOUSLY, lol.
Match become boring when one team is few grades higher than their counterpart.
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Regardless of if Fnatic wins, comes in last place, or anywhere in between, fuck this format and fuck ESL because of their shitty Facebook stream which I can never get to work on my phone
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On May 22 2018 17:17 Vertical wrote:
hoho yes team spirit is in! good old time VP (minus lil) where I can cheer for them without the bandwagoners.
Glad to see Illidan back in the cockpit after goofing off in western Europe for so long. Team Spirit might actually be on track to be the next best thing in CIS. With Navi in a sad state, VP already going to TI, Vega Squadron kinda down and out, Empire barely being a team right now, and the relatively new FlyToMoon being the only respectable team left, I think TS get to TI at least through the qualifiers. If the can place high in both these events (they go to Super Major too), even better.
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On May 22 2018 20:27 DropBear wrote:Show nested quote +On May 22 2018 17:12 Kelefei2016 wrote:
Most boring : Group B
Most interesting : Group C Why is group B boring? We get to see how Pain (the only legitimate SA team) are progressing with w33 and Vici just came third in a major, plus the reigning TI champs are fresh after resting through MDL. Also OG showed signs of improvement at MDL. All three groups are interesting imo, there is no clear cut top 2 for any of them.
having w33 will only have them win 1 more game
SA still sucks and should redistributed the slot elsewhere or merged back with NA
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Bo1 always a shitty format
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Only the first match is Bo1. Though you can lose 3 games and be out of the Tournament. (Though ESL would counter this was the best they could do with the issues that cropped up.)
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On May 23 2018 16:47 Taf the Ghost wrote:
Only the first match is Bo1. Though you can lose 3 games and be out of the Tournament. (Though ESL would counter this was the best they could do with the issues that cropped up.)
Esl always have some shitty excuse, mdl had a 2 Day group stage that was good. But esl took a format that takes the same time to execute and is far worse.
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What a strange format. This secondary group stage seems like a cheap excuse to have a few more "top-tier" matches. Oh well, still hoping Liquid can finally get that major win.
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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Lets goooooo!!!! Rtc Babevski in Birmingham <3
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