Euros pretty much dominate dota now. NA dead and China is awful. The skill level is super high. I just can't care about the teams cause I don't have ppd, Fear, Universe type boys trying to bring it home.
sneyking and aui (coach) on tundra quinn on gg blitz (coach) and zai (formed in na) on liquid euros are only good because of NA tbh
Game is super popular these days, but Valve puts in 0 effort and just coasting. The prize pools were probably too nuts to begin with. But it's hard to go from that to this mentally I think for fans and pros.
Love watching Tundra play. So fun and creative. I haven’t played half a year or so but still watch a ton. This TI feels so anticlimactic because the prize pool is so low
Remember when valve split last years compendium in two parts and kept all the money from part 2 when it had the cooler stuff? Good times.
nouns beats tundra to get to the upper bracket and send tundra to the lower bracket beat them with witch doctor pos3 in the first game and ogre pos2 in the second game some turbo cheese with a bunch of midases
that's awesome. Gonna rewatch that one. I think sometimes that's what TI can be about early on. You find something that can work given the circumstances against a team that's so honed into the meta that it just throws them.
Games are all going 60+ minutes. Meta makes for exciting replays but shitty viewing from minutes 20-40
I know it's CFB day, but how the hell this Spirit/LGD game still going. Also, I just want Spirit to win it all again. Great team.
i don't really mind any of these teams. spirit already won and quinn is too toxic so i find myself sort of rooting for the chinese teams. it's weird.
Rooting for GG just because if they win it’s probably the greatest season in esports history. Every major + TI.
Will be shocked if they don’t win it all. Yatoro is by far best carry in dota. I would like to see Azure win because fy is amazing. appreciate GG push strats spirit is best by far, don’t think I’ll root for them. LGD - I have absolutely no feelings about this team at all.
Pretty fitting final, GG vs Spirit. Picked up some food, popped an edible. Ready to enjoy the GF and laugh at Twitch chat which is funnier stoned.
congrats to spirit. the flexibility and excellence of yatoro and collapse is just unmatched. i didn't watch dota during ti4 but this was the least interesting TI of my viewing life. boring tanky farming meta. i feel it a lot rn in my turbo games (especially as i work through the all hero challenge) where just a huge number of heroes are not viable against the blademail+heart shit.
Is Spirit’s run better than OG’s? I feel like Spirit’s hero pool is much larger and OG found out the meta and counter meta super fast. I haven’t watched as much Dota the past few years but did catch some of this one. I don’t love the farm meta, but I think it expands the hero pool significantly whereas any push meta shrinks it significantly.
does anyone still play? or still watch? feels lonely out here... i still play a bunch of turbo and would love to party up with people who don't grief. current patch feels pretty good imo, lots of viable heroes. and for our "na dota" and rtz fans, shopify is looking better than ever at dreamleague right now.