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at least its the two most aggressive chinese teams so we can expect a kill or two per hour in the finals

VG is great, and I honestly am going to enjoy the finals. Vg is one of the most aggressive chinese teams, the finals should be amazing.

That gg fight felt so forced. They needed to nignag it down to the brittle BONE and they go for the one man chrono? Was there an internal surrender or what? Anyone watching the booth streams?

People toss around the phrase "throw" so much but that Rosh sneak and the ensuing fight was a fucking throw. It took too long, they lost two and a half towers. They had the better late game team and they should have known to play it but that...that was a throw.

I"m not even mad. Just dissapointed. Rosh wasn't worth it. And that was a terrible, terrible chrono.

rotk the feels :-(

bye eg haha genuinely excited for the finals

my biggest question is, with a 10/10 all star void player on your team, WHY DO YOU GIVE VOID TO SOMEONE ELSE??

i really have an unnatural hatred for vici for some reason, their playstyle pisses me off more than Alliances.

i bet on vg but i was rooting for eg. i'm going to hell.

On the bright side they get 978k for 3rd

[QUOTE=Perhaps?;45450975]at least its the two most aggressive chinese teams so we can expect a kill or two per hour in the finals[/QUOTE] ends up being the actual dota 2 allstar match, 100 kills on both teams 5v5 techies

Goddamn Bruno. :v:

[QUOTE=Nestophales;45451014]On the bright side they get 978k for 3rd[/QUOTE] $1,038,020

Bruno's magic game too good

Bruno is the shitty wizard confirmed

[img]http://i.imgur.com/uxQtUMm.png[/img] Good thing I'm not a TL admin or I'd ban this guy for being a fucking idiot.

have to admit, the format for this year is pretty lame.

Now lets wait if they're gonna do that shit about making the longest game possible of a tournament tomorrow. 120 minutes, calling it.

[QUOTE=BeardyDuck;45451002]i bet on vg but i was rooting for eg. i'm going to hell.[/QUOTE] I did the same thing. That was really Eg's game to lose.

[QUOTE=Banned?;45451054][img]http://i.imgur.com/uxQtUMm.png[/img] Good thing I'm not a TL admin or I'd ban this guy for being a fucking idiot.[/QUOTE] The format was fuckin shit to be honest.

At this rate, with these teams at the finals, all the 5 games with last a grand total of glorious 25 minutes.

What was wrong with the format? Outside of playing 1 game of a BO3 on one day, which was fucking weird as hell.

[QUOTE=aydin690;45451071]The format was fuckin shit to be honest.[/QUOTE] Yeah but wasn't that due to scheduling issues with the venue? I'm sure next year it'll be better.

[QUOTE=aydin690;45451071]The format was fuckin shit to be honest.[/QUOTE] I don't understand. I mean I think it was too long overall, but everyone throws a hissy fit at stuff like single elimination (which I really like) and this year the group stages actually really mattered. Guess you're just mad your team got eliminated lol

Let's talk about rOtk for a sec. What a bro he is to BurNIng. Mad respect between the two.

Vici new Na'Vi confirmed

[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;45451136]I don't understand. I mean I think it was too long overall, but everyone throws a hissy fit at stuff like single elimination (which I really like) and this year the group stages actually really mattered. Guess you're just mad your team got eliminated lol[/QUOTE] Shitty BO1 group stages that eliminated 6 teams right off the bat. Shitty arbitrary games to eliminate 2 more teams for no reason. Shitty prize pool split. Navi isn't $470k better than Liquid or titan, etc. The champ team getting almost 50 percent of the prize pool and bottom 2 or even wild card teams not getting anything.

China vs China Oh boy this [I]International[/I] Grand Final will sure be fun!

why would you buy a midas on ALCHEMIST?????? also heres a nice post from reddit: [QUOTE]So many mistakes in game 3, just a few: Zai accidentally stacks ancients, fucking everything up Zai leaves the ancients after doing them for 3 minutes without actually killing any of them. He left like 3 of them on 10% hp. Easy XP, and he leaves them. Do they not fucking communicate to eachother? Why does Alch not use 1 acid spray on the ancients to help Zai out? Level 2 spray would have done wonders. Alch got aegis? Really? Not timber who can yolo in, use all the mana, and then rinse and repeat? RTZ takes aegis, uses ult, dies. Respawns dies again, no ulti on the second life. Did nothing in both lives. Alch midas? Really? Just like game 1. RTZ just panics when he's losing, and then goes to ultra late game idea. Yea it doesn't work most the time. Alch is an amazing early game fighter, midas just didn't cut it at all that game. You're in a terrible situation, get an item that does anything right now. Anything. A fucking sange raises your % to win more than a midas does. I mean, he gets midas, loses game 2 minutes later. Happened in both game 1 and game 3. I think the draft was fine, most think Universe should have been Void. I think they did fine. What they had could have worked. It was their execution that was so overwhelmingly disappointing. I'm not even an EG fanboy, I just utterly hate seeing such great teams, at the biggest tournament of the entire year, doing such sub par dota. And this game was utterly disappointing from a fan of dota, as a fan who likes seeing good games. You can justify the game any way you want, but either way I am disappointed with how it ended for them. I know most people probably don't care about China vs China final, but the Deathball they are doing is like the polar opposite of the 2 hour dota they are notoriously known for, which strategically is ultra interesting. I find it Bizarre that the same people who complain about 2 hour chinese dota, are now complaining about their deathballs. It's like polar opposites... Either way, lets hope we get some good games in the final. One of them deserves the 5 mill. [/QUOTE]