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Ramiz1989
Profile Joined July 2012
12124 Posts
August 22 2018 04:15 GMT
#801
Icex3 asking for an Artifact key, classic. :D
"I've been to hell and back, and back to hell…and back. This time, I've brought Hell back with me."
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
12081 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-08-22 04:18:06
August 22 2018 04:16 GMT
#802
Iceiceice didn't seem very bothered by that loss. Was smiling when the interview started.

Might be more bothered later on when it has time to sink in. With the artifact thing it sounds like a dota break for a while. Though most players take their yearly vacation after TI.
DucK-
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Singapore11447 Posts
August 22 2018 04:34 GMT
#803
Don't understand why they keep giving iceiceice a hero that doesn't skirmish well without items. How does he make plays. And when they give him pango, the team drafts no carries to go along. Right from the drafts Mineski have loss the game. Basically they paid too much attention to the meta and not play to their strengths.
nuketurnal2
Profile Joined August 2018
62 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-08-22 04:37:44
August 22 2018 04:37 GMT
#804
no more SEA. sigh

lakad matatag ended
sunrazgriz
Profile Joined April 2015
Vatican City State1573 Posts
August 22 2018 04:48 GMT
#805
what is this show
6nnn
LennX
Profile Joined October 2010
4568 Posts
August 22 2018 05:02 GMT
#806
On August 22 2018 13:48 sunrazgriz wrote:
what is this show


rofl shots of energy drinks in a bar.
Mute user function on TL; http://www.liquiddota.com/blogs/491245-mute-annoying-users-in-lr-threads
bluzi
Profile Joined May 2011
4703 Posts
August 22 2018 05:04 GMT
#807
Cant believe OG are doing so well!!! it will be EPIC if they can take out EG ! I dont think its going to happen but one can hope.
MetalMercury
Profile Joined January 2015
United States1161 Posts
August 22 2018 05:29 GMT
#808
On August 22 2018 13:34 DucK- wrote:
Don't understand why they keep giving iceiceice a hero that doesn't skirmish well without items. How does he make plays. And when they give him pango, the team drafts no carries to go along. Right from the drafts Mineski have loss the game. Basically they paid too much attention to the meta and not play to their strengths.


Yeah 71 really put them in some bad situations drafting this tournament.

If you look at their play when they were behind, they were able to coordinate and put up fights when they were behind in games. It makes you wonder how they would have done if they ever won an early game...

Iceiceice was pretty disappointing this tournament, along with Jabz. The others played fine, but I think they have to say goodbye to 71 after this at the very least.
zeo
Profile Joined October 2009
Serbia6342 Posts
August 22 2018 05:35 GMT
#809
All these 2-0 wins... hope there is more of a fight from all the teams tomorrow.
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain
Kelefei2016
Profile Joined August 2016
Papua New Guinea504 Posts
August 22 2018 07:20 GMT
#810
Congratulation to the winner and of course to Valve that eventually find a meta that suit the Westerner most. There was almost absence of Death Prophet in this TI8 which was fully played by Easterner well previously. And PL too. So the ultimate aegis winner goes to.... VALVE... Yeah...
739
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29904 Posts
August 22 2018 07:36 GMT
#811
Damn I wish we had separate thread for all the nice things that happened on TI8.
Starting from Gaben announcer pack + short Gaben clips that were hilarious, to EG doing nice PR and giving away RTZ jerseys to the father and his son that plays DotA2 and other memes.
WriterSalty oldboy that loves memes | One and only back-to-back Liquibet Winner
DucK-
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Singapore11447 Posts
August 22 2018 09:01 GMT
#812
On August 22 2018 14:29 MetalMercury wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2018 13:34 DucK- wrote:
Don't understand why they keep giving iceiceice a hero that doesn't skirmish well without items. How does he make plays. And when they give him pango, the team drafts no carries to go along. Right from the drafts Mineski have loss the game. Basically they paid too much attention to the meta and not play to their strengths.


Yeah 71 really put them in some bad situations drafting this tournament.

If you look at their play when they were behind, they were able to coordinate and put up fights when they were behind in games. It makes you wonder how they would have done if they ever won an early game...

Iceiceice was pretty disappointing this tournament, along with Jabz. The others played fine, but I think they have to say goodbye to 71 after this at the very least.


A coach that doesn't play dota has no place in the drafting seat
andyrau
Profile Joined December 2010
13015 Posts
August 22 2018 09:10 GMT
#813
On August 22 2018 16:20 Kelefei2016 wrote:
Congratulation to the winner and of course to Valve that eventually find a meta that suit the Westerner most. There was almost absence of Death Prophet in this TI8 which was fully played by Easterner well previously. And PL too. So the ultimate aegis winner goes to.... VALVE... Yeah...

ye i agree the game should be balanced around a region's comfort picks
"Zai is legitimately not as good as bulba." | kaipi ti3 champions
Ramiz1989
Profile Joined July 2012
12124 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-08-22 09:46:01
August 22 2018 09:45 GMT
#814
On August 22 2018 16:20 Kelefei2016 wrote:
Congratulation to the winner and of course to Valve that eventually find a meta that suit the Westerner most. There was almost absence of Death Prophet in this TI8 which was fully played by Easterner well previously. And PL too. So the ultimate aegis winner goes to.... VALVE... Yeah...

Just lol, this has to be one of the most ridiculous comments that I've seen.

Adapting to the game, meta and picks is a huge part of the competitive scene, if you can't adapt then you are out, it is simple as that. Whining how this TI isn't "fair" because picks don't suit eastern teams is just hilarious. Death Prophet was also very well played by other teams as well, PL is very popular pick right now, you don't even have arguments, you are whining just for the sake of whining(or because your team lost which might be the case).

Half these teams aren't even prepared for the meta because they didn't have a tournament before TI to practice it, you see them forcing some strategies and picks that are in the meta at the moment, and that just doesn't suit their playstyle and not doing well with them, you can't blame anyone but those teams.
"I've been to hell and back, and back to hell…and back. This time, I've brought Hell back with me."
FreakyDroid
Profile Joined July 2012
Macedonia2616 Posts
August 22 2018 10:44 GMT
#815
Lol at the statement that Valve creates patches that favors westerners. Just fucking lol.
Smile, tomorrow will be worse
Kelefei2016
Profile Joined August 2016
Papua New Guinea504 Posts
August 22 2018 14:59 GMT
#816
On August 22 2018 18:45 Ramiz1989 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2018 16:20 Kelefei2016 wrote:
Congratulation to the winner and of course to Valve that eventually find a meta that suit the Westerner most. There was almost absence of Death Prophet in this TI8 which was fully played by Easterner well previously. And PL too. So the ultimate aegis winner goes to.... VALVE... Yeah...

Just lol, this has to be one of the most ridiculous comments that I've seen.

Adapting to the game, meta and picks is a huge part of the competitive scene, if you can't adapt then you are out, it is simple as that. Whining how this TI isn't "fair" because picks don't suit eastern teams is just hilarious. Death Prophet was also very well played by other teams as well, PL is very popular pick right now, you don't even have arguments, you are whining just for the sake of whining(or because your team lost which might be the case).

Half these teams aren't even prepared for the meta because they didn't have a tournament before TI to practice it, you see them forcing some strategies and picks that are in the meta at the moment, and that just doesn't suit their playstyle and not doing well with them, you can't blame anyone but those teams.


Ya, DAC was dominated by Easterner and rendered urge to nerf DP, which was well-played by easterner. Easterners are very well in the playstyle of small group catch and hunt, but westerner are good in teamfight. If one wanna counter this, we need to nerf DP (2 heroes cant really hunt DP, but in teamfight 5v5 DP is rather slow in damage output, he is kind of slow sustained hero), and by the same time "upgrade" VS, which is perfectly abused hero by western team.
FreakyDroid
Profile Joined July 2012
Macedonia2616 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-08-22 15:33:34
August 22 2018 15:33 GMT
#817
Aliens built the pyramids, the Earth is flat, we never landed on the Moon and Valve creates a patch that favors westerners right before TI. And whats more interesting, all these 4 things are part of the same plan. dun dun dun
Smile, tomorrow will be worse
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
12081 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-08-22 15:54:17
August 22 2018 15:53 GMT
#818
Wasn't the player with best win rate on VS part of Mineski, an Eastern team? (excluding players with less than 5 games) Nahaz said something to that effect in one of his 60s segments at least.
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