They hyped the crowd to do the wave, but only for Ret.
For Tarson - that was a little more explicable - he's Polish. I hope Ret > Nani, but hosts shouldn't be as biased imo ;p

Anyways, I love this event, been there in the audience, it's great!

oogieogie

United States3657 Posts

August 07 2011 16:17 GMT

#4213

why is the crowd cheering lolz

Robinsa

Japan1333 Posts

August 07 2011 16:17 GMT

#4214

On August 08 2011 01:14 Ciubhran wrote:
Why is Rotterdam allowed to cast?

You can barely hear what he says because his accent is so strong, and he mumbles and talks really, really fast.

I understand him perfectly and Im not a native speaker. Rotterdam is one of the best casters out there.

MrCon

France29748 Posts

August 07 2011 16:17 GMT

#4215

Haha, ret draw cross pos in every single map/game except temple iirc.

msjakofsky

1169 Posts

August 07 2011 16:17 GMT

#4216

On August 08 2011 01:13 oogieogie wrote:

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On August 08 2011 01:10 msjakofsky wrote:

On August 08 2011 01:05 Denzil wrote:

On August 08 2011 01:02 msjakofsky wrote:

On August 08 2011 00:51 Clamev wrote:
can anyone explain why they did choose a comp that is inferiror ?

some players don't go with the flavour of the month classes/comps, high personal skill with a not-the-most-powerful-class/comp or better understanding of the teammates can overcome the difference with the most op comp, some players just prefer one class or style

in the past there were retardedly overpowered arena compositions, like sl/sl warlock with druid healer in season 3, or double adrenaline rush rogue+mage in season 2, or affli lock/ele shaman/resto druid at the end of wotlk, but many times the rank1 team wasn't playing with those classes. don't really know what's going on with wow pvp in the past 1 year or so, but i heard death knights are quite overpowered now, and lock+dk always had stupid amounts of tools and self healing, so if the teams are even skillwise that might give them the edge- especially if it's vs spellcleave because those rely on magic burst damage and guess what are dks the kings of (mitigating spell damage that is)

i was pretty bad with my rogue and even i managed to hit 2k rating with an overpowered build;) nearly impossible to balance that many classes and skills

In Wotlk there were plenty wizard comps but they usually received loads of hate and forum bashing, so some people went with what they felt was a "skilled" comp. There was a team that was 3 hybrids (ending up with 2 DPS and 1 Healer but the DPs can heal somewhat) that resulted in BORING AS HELL games but was oh so effective. There are people that take that risk but they're far and few

that was LSD, aflli lock, ele shammy, resto drood- really became viable after a crapload of resilience, and it had a pretty huge representation in the top 100 3vs3 teams

more idiotic were protret pally or unholy dk+double healer in wotlk in , with those teams you were basically aiming towards 30 minute long matches. they even called that comp boring cleave

it wasn't LSD it was talbadars like spirest, rdruid, ele shaman i think, but the whole game they would just freaking turtle behind pillars and it was hard to kill them because of it.

actually LSD was just like that. ele shammy could heal because he had int gear, affli lock playstyle is basicly what you described. it worked with spriest too but was way better with lock (spriests had very bad mana efficiency, couldn't heal in shadowform, and locks having 10 times the survivability and the number of tools)- any spellcleave with a spriest relied on setting up a trap and killing the most fragile opponent during heroism in like 3 seconds. lsd was way more turtley

Rustug

1488 Posts

August 07 2011 16:17 GMT

#4217

On August 08 2011 01:15 zeru wrote:

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I disagree. He's a good caster and very easy to understand.

RotterdaM and Bitter are doing an awesome job.