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Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On October 04 2011 12:07 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2011 12:05 overt wrote:
Tip for casters: Don't call whichever team that wins this whole thing the best team in the world. I think that at least in the NA scene the top teams are all really close and one event is not a good gauge of how good the Chinese teams are.
Honestly Dignitas, CLG, and TSM are all pretty even imo. rampage spoilers if you didn't watch Sunday + Show Spoiler +Dignitas has stomped everyone so far in the rampage showmatch. Maybe I'm just a fanboy, but I think they're that level above every one else right now.
Hm.
+ Show Spoiler +It's also arguable that Curse has some problems. Doublelift is playing Range ADs but plays like he's playing Melee so gets caught a lot. Crs is also playing Dignitas again for WCG in a week or so too. Maybe they didn't want to give away secrets and just treated it as practise?
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Well we have our very own hammer. So for now that should suffice.
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When is the next international tournament featuring Chinese / Asian teams?
RS has looked really strong lately, while Crs has been largely 'meh' when I've seen them play.
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TO casters: Could we get an interview with one of the chinese teams at some point with a translator? Really interested to hear how the scene is developing, and how long they have been practicing as a group to train for tournaments. Also would like to know what they think of the foreign teams in terms of how they compare in skill to the rest of the asian teams. Thanks!
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They should talk more about what they've been doing in China. Seems like CLG have been getting their meals at Mcdonalds most of the time from the blog.
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Dang that is disappointing was looking forward to having the chance to finally meet Z.
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Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On October 04 2011 12:09 Craton wrote:
When is the next international tournament featuring Chinese / Asian teams?
IEM NY should have an Asian Invite.
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On October 04 2011 12:07 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2011 12:05 overt wrote:
Tip for casters: Don't call whichever team that wins this whole thing the best team in the world. I think that at least in the NA scene the top teams are all really close and one event is not a good gauge of how good the Chinese teams are.
Honestly Dignitas, CLG, and TSM are all pretty even imo. rampage spoilers if you didn't watch Sunday + Show Spoiler +Dignitas has stomped everyone so far in the rampage showmatch. Maybe I'm just a fanboy, but I think they're that level above every one else right now.
They're super good. Probably the most "in form" team. But in LoL I've learned that one team can crash and burn and then dominate the next few tournaments.
Dignitas really strong though, if I was held at gun point and had to name a "best team" it'd probably be them. It only takes like one tournament loss until people say team X is better than them though. It gets really annoying that after every major tournament there's a "new best team in the world."
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On October 04 2011 12:10 Irave wrote:
Dang that is disappointing was looking forward to having the chance to finally meet Z.
Yeah...
I'd much rather have Joe / Deman than Phreak. Rivington isn't bad, but he needs someone who can drop the knowledge as a co-caster.
On October 04 2011 12:09 Gooey wrote:
TO casters: Could we get an interview with one of the chinese teams at some point with a translator? Really interested to hear how the scene is developing, and how long they have been practicing as a group to train for tournaments. Also would like to know what they think of the foreign teams in terms of how they compare in skill to the rest of the asian teams. Thanks!
I never find interviews through a translator to be particularly useful. They just always end up saying the same few generic things.
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On October 04 2011 12:09 MoonBear wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2011 12:07 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:On October 04 2011 12:05 overt wrote:
Tip for casters: Don't call whichever team that wins this whole thing the best team in the world. I think that at least in the NA scene the top teams are all really close and one event is not a good gauge of how good the Chinese teams are.
Honestly Dignitas, CLG, and TSM are all pretty even imo. rampage spoilers if you didn't watch Sunday + Show Spoiler +Dignitas has stomped everyone so far in the rampage showmatch. Maybe I'm just a fanboy, but I think they're that level above every one else right now. Hm. + Show Spoiler +It's also arguable that Curse has some problems. Doublelift is playing Range ADs but plays like he's playing Melee so gets caught a lot. Crs is also playing Dignitas again for WCG in a week or so too. Maybe they didn't want to give away secrets and just treated it as practise?
Besides that, they have so many people on their team that overall they have very little play time together - especially their bot lane.
Then many of their players do make a lot of mistakes on a regular basis (probably not Pobelter but w.e). And then to top it off they argue a lot and have basically zero chemistry.
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United States4053 Posts
On October 04 2011 12:09 Gooey wrote:
TO casters: Could we get an interview with one of the chinese teams at some point with a translator? Really interested to hear how the scene is developing, and how long they have been practicing as a group to train for tournaments. Also would like to know what they think of the foreign teams in terms of how they compare in skill to the rest of the asian teams. Thanks!
One of the WE players, WE_Yms, has an AMA on a chinese forum. I could look through it for any questions relevant to IEM which he's answered.
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Do they play those games on China public server? I mean, since I switch from US to CN, I got no lag, no dis at all out of my 200 games.
IEM must have really some very bad luck in this event with LoL.
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Speaking of which, 76toys and one of the other guys on that team both have accounts on NA. They were 1800s/1900s in the last week of the season (I ran into them a few times in solo q).
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Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On October 04 2011 12:12 Caphe wrote:
Do they play those games on China public server? I mean, since I switch from US to CN, I got no lag, no dis at all out of my 200 games.
IEM must have really some very bad luck in this event with LoL.
Regular Servers do not support Obs. So they're using custom servers.
Also, if Joe and Zenon keep showing so much special treatment to us, we're really going to be invaded ahahaha.
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On October 04 2011 12:09 tissue wrote:
They should talk more about what they've been doing in China. Seems like CLG have been getting their meals at Mcdonalds most of the time from the blog.
Pity for them, They missed out one of the most amazing food in the world. But well they can't still enjoy it after the event is over.
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On October 04 2011 12:10 MoonBear wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2011 12:09 Craton wrote:
When is the next international tournament featuring Chinese / Asian teams? IEM NY should have an Asian Invite.
Yeah but asian invites, is abit different to a chinese invite kinda, pretty vague, they could throw in a team like Flash or Some other South East Asian team.
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United States37500 Posts
On October 04 2011 12:13 MoonBear wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2011 12:12 Caphe wrote:
Do they play those games on China public server? I mean, since I switch from US to CN, I got no lag, no dis at all out of my 200 games.
IEM must have really some very bad luck in this event with LoL. Regular Servers do not support Obs. So they're using custom servers. Also, if Joe and Zenon keep showing so much special treatment to us, we're really going to be invaded ahahaha.
I doubt we'll get invaded. :o
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It's not really an issue, even if we do.
Also, if Joe and Zenon keep showing so much special treatment to us, we're really going to be invaded ahahaha.
We're like the only place they can get to, so we've got a monopoly going.
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On October 04 2011 12:13 Caphe wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2011 12:09 tissue wrote:
They should talk more about what they've been doing in China. Seems like CLG have been getting their meals at Mcdonalds most of the time from the blog. Pity for them, They missed out one of the most amazing food in the world. But well they can't still enjoy it after the event is over.
I think a lot of it came from the fact that the McDonald's is really close to the hotel/event.
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On October 04 2011 12:13 MoonBear wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2011 12:12 Caphe wrote:
Do they play those games on China public server? I mean, since I switch from US to CN, I got no lag, no dis at all out of my 200 games.
IEM must have really some very bad luck in this event with LoL. Regular Servers do not support Obs. So they're using custom servers. Also, if Joe and Zenon keep showing so much special treatment to us, we're really going to be invaded ahahaha.
Oh, thats why.
Also, Moonbear, Do you work for Riot? And I am missing all your LR in SC2  .
I was hoping to watch one LoL game since I don't want to watch PvP SC2 semi..oh well.
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