no posts in two months feelsbadman watched tundra today. they are super fucking good, obviously. some weird team called Shopify Rebellion played after the tundra/eu game... what a joke that arteezy and the biggest na names are playing for a team called that
NA dota is dead, and also my interest in watching it mostly. EG made me love dotes, what a sad state of affairs.
Nigma may be the worst professional Dota team i've ever watched. just hilariously awful in all facets of the game
anyone watching the major? streams aren't great but it's the first major with good hours in a long while. only day 1 but china looking rough and na looking pretty good (incl quinn on gg)
It's pretty wild how much the perception of Quinn has changed over the past year or so. He's always getting name dropped by other top mids as one of the hardest to play against. (Also moved to Europe and immediately hit top 5 MMR in the region) GG first phase picks his hero almost every game so he gets shit matchups and still performs well.
BTS is dead. Long live BTS. https://docs.google.com/document/d/...GZFjRxhFkki1_tVfmkAv80l_kMjpz_OU15YzkR8Dn/pub
Esports is dying tbh. Money is dying up. Interestingly, dota probably is least affected since it’s almost entirely fan funded through TI prizepool
Holy shit just remembered tp scrolls took an inventory slot, were expensive, observers and sentries didn’t stack and obs wasn’t free. One courier the 5 had to buy and upgrade. Those were dark times.
Position 5 was miserable. buy chicken. Upgrade. Wards expensive. 4 inventory slots were obs, sentry, tp and dust. Maybe smoke. Brown boots and wand at 20 minutes. Stacking didn’t give stacker any shared gold. miserable. also how did we ever play dota with 1 courier per team. Best position 5 patch (arguably is now) was the patch where almost every support had dieback reduction and gpm talents. You could die mid game and have like 10 second death timer. PLUS high ground had shrines/mini fountains.
all of that is true re: shitty gaming experience but all of that is why dota was such a good game and is more of a brawler now with less strategy. there's such little timings now with drafts, everyone gets farm, etc.
It’s also why players like ppd are less valuable. 5s have so much more farm, levels and items that they have more impact mid and late game. Back pre TI6, position 6 were glorified coaches/drafters who just casted their spells and died. people would be miserable going back to poverty meta but even old pros like synderen say there’s too much gold on the map and he’s said many times he’d love to see the trend reversed
It's weird seeing Chinese dota suck now. Steady downward trajectory for a couple years, but now it looks like they don't even have 1 team that's a threat to win majors. Seems like all the old guard retired and there's no one to replace them.
It's been almost 12 hours since the day started and they haven't even finished the 3rd 3 game series yet, because PC's keep crashing and causing massive delays. This is a disaster of a day.
quinn about to win a major as GG goes up 2-0. and if i'm jinxing it then it means zai wins another major. can't lose as an optic fan. new patch + hero announced tomorrow.
Quinn is probably gonna win MVP. Never would have expected that 2 years ago. SVG said over the last couple years he played a ridiculous amount of 1v1's with Sumail and now he's one of the best laners in the game.
just reading the website but the new hero's second skill seems absurd that's a gigantic aoe slow/attack slow edit and it silences holy shit
yeah, her entire kit seems pretty underwhelming. especially her ult. magic-damage right-click carry who does nothing to bkb targets? ehhh. i just think that giant aoe spell on a 20 sec cd is silly. i'm excited they fixed turbo mode. maybe i'll even re-download the game.
I’m not redownloading until there’s a new map** (Or huge gameplay changes) people have wanted a new right click carry for awhile. Kit looks p basic
Basically the entire division 2 chinese scene just got VAC banned, and about half of division 1 for match fixing or cheating.
#JustChineseThings. seriously, Chinese culture is supportive of cheating as long as you don’t get caught. American universities deal with this all the time
Some notable names on this list of 46 players: Whole Knights squad from the major (permabanned) Whole EHome squad from the major (mks permabanned, the rest suspended for 1-2 years) Mmm, a.k.a. Lin, top 6 at TI4 with LGD. Son Goku, a.k.a. June, who played at TI4 (with Black^), TI5 and DAC 2015 Three players from Team Flow who were accused of cheating on here and elsewhere. Players who matchfixed in China Closed qualifier for tour 1 idiots. knights and ehome both were last in groups in Lima.