Watch the 2nd day of the Dota 2 International 5 Main Event here
After an intense first day of competition, it's time to resume the Dota 2 International 5 Main Event. Join us at Shacknews for Day 2.
The Main Event is underway at the fifth annual Dota 2 International. It's one of the biggest eSports events of the year, with the first place team taking home $6,470,659. Here are the brackets going into today's proceedings, courtesy of the official Dota 2 International website.
Dota 2 lovers are welcome to join us here at Shacknews and watch the full stream below.
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For those that are not well-versed in all the intricacies of Dota 2, the always-helpful Newcomer's Stream is also making its return this year, just in time for the Main Event. That stream can be found here.
This is also one of the most anticipated events of the year for the Shacknews community. Watch along with us and don't forget to join the conversation with the rest of Chatty. (Don't be afraid. The community won't bite.)
Also, if you're looking to take your Dota 2 International excitement on the road, remember that many bars across the country are broadcasting today's matches. A full list of those locations can be found on the Dota 2 International website.
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replyOzzie Mejia posted a new article, Watch the 2nd day of the Dota 2 International 5 Main Event here
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Wish I could watch this EG v. Complexity match.
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Both top bracket games today could be huge upsets. EHome has been looking good and it seems like the Chinese teams have something extra for these rounds so far. I wonder if we will see EG or Secret take it to another level.
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You think you have it bad, that's like 6am for some of us in the world.
At least it starts at about the time I get home from work.-
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Comcast according to reddit.
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I fell asleep during VG vs. Navi and woke up sometime during the next game. the last match finished after 3am here.
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I am looking forward to day 2. E.G. vs compLexity should be good.
http://chattypics.com/files/shackbrowseUpload_cjz19pdu8y.jpg
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So are you just staring up at the screen the entire time? Is there wifi to stream on while you are sitting there? (I am guessing no otherwise everyone would be).
While I get enjoying the party atmosphere, I don't get it as a spectator experience.
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The Secret Shop is dumb as hell. People are jonesing for that stuff so hard that they're willing to form a line around the block and miss out on the tournament that they've paid hundreds of dollars to be there for. I can't understand what motivates them but I still feel bad for 'em.
Just let people place orders ahead of time and pick up their crap when they get a moment, Valve.-
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That is what they did.
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So what's with the enormous lines?
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I can't tell if this is a joke or not; it's too feasible.
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And yet, they still can't handle it because of all their artificial scarcity creation. Valve loves creating secondary markets so much that they are willing to gimp the supposed primary experience.
Sucks in their games too.
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EG vs CoL starting
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SK :D
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Clinkz is good this patch. Give him safelane farm and he only needs treads, aquila, soul ring to transition to a roaming role. He got hugely buffed when searing arrows stopped being an orb and benefited from the cheaper deso.
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Add this one to my replay list. I wanted to see how the current meta handles Chen. I suck at Chen and don't understand him as a hero.
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They can pause for any issues. Usually it's for latency issues. But they're allowed to use them for anything else as long as it's for a real problem.
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Right now they're hitting that period on the map where they're giving AM breathing room. SK can reek havok with his ult and Naga still has Song for tough fights or possible ganks.
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And there's the swing, Horn :)
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LOL awesome use of Song
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was any TP actually cancelled? I missed it because camera was on AM. that's a delicious play.
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The good thing is Sumail can use this time to finish his homework.
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And they're back
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Game 2 starting
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any stats on day 1 heroes picked and banned? seems extremely narrow so far. as in... maybe 12 total picked for active combat duty. I realize people aren't gonna risk anything, but damn... no "surprise!" stuff the other team will have to deal with that one team has practiced with...
also my predictions is that blue orb will lose all of its games again (I think it lost all of its games, right?)-
I check this for stats: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/The_International/2015/Statistics
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I have to say I'm not a fan of TI5 so far.
I've spent longer waiting for things to start or resume than actually watching the games and on top of that this yeah has featured the most boring drafts to date. My TI5 has been a cycle of playing Hearthstone and periodically checking back in to see the game paused with the same half dozen heroes in various configurations.-
Weird, I think it's the best TI since TI3. These stalls don't bother me because I can always do something else when it happens. The teams this year have been pretty much even and the games have been more excited than last years. The drafts are good and theres just a lot more talent from every region this year then just a few pockets here and there
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Someone should do frame by frame breakdowns of the big teamfights. Trying to follow with commentary during those is impossible. I only have some clue because I know the audio cues from playing DOTA.
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People. People suck.
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You don't highlight if its a DDOS. This has always been the case with these types of attacks. Even on forums they delete posts when people are using an exploit. All it does is empower morons to do it some more.
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No surprise there. It's China and Russia.
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When this first came out there were stories that said it is not real time everywhere, but is a demo based on honeypots where they have servers. So it may be that they have a few more monitors going there (apparently that is why St. Louis appears to be a huge target is that they have their biggest honeypots running in a data center here).
So, there probably are a lot more attacks, but the ones you are seeing may not be the Dota attacks.
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On the plus side, the Noob Stream is being constructive and helping break things down and explain certain things during the downtime.
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Noob stream is the best thing in DOTA right after Purge's "Welcome to DotA, You Suck."
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Is purge doing this for the rest of the event? Whatever. I'd rather watch ODpixel than the analysis desk.
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China should think about getting good.
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Oh god she's talking to shackers now.
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This is what they've been reduced to.
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And don't draft Clinkz.
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And QoP building Octarine Core was stupid.
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It's a great item for heroes that have a secured lead and actually push with it. Like Leshrac and Bristleback, even Zeus depending on the hero comp. But if your team needs that lock down and you're a late-game QoP? Hell no.
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Octarine Core bristleback is way over rated. It sounded cool. It looked cool, but most people stick to the older builds. In an contested game you probably want the assault curass first.
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I feel like Octarine Core is way overrated is probably sufficient as a statement. I haven't seen the math, but the 25% cooldown reduction just doesn't seem worth it for the price in most instances.
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They didn't have the game at any point. They created a marginal lead pushing towers because it was a 5on4 and sometimes 3on5. Naga and am were farming. Just because you are ahead on the gold graph and towers, doesn't ever mean you are winning the game. It's all about potential gpm curve.
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The lead wasn't that immense, it was what like 5k? They had to play passive. They were out of towers to safely push and they couldn't risk the team fight at that point in the game. So they either had to harass the AM to stop the farm, or they had to farm up themselves. 14 minutes was too early for them to have bkbs to be able to team fight, especially with naga ult.
Complexity chose to farm themselves instead of shut down the AM / Naga combo split push. And I'm not even sure they could have, they didn't have the mobility.
You're way over estimating the lead they had. The impact of a few towers spread over 5 heros wasn't nearly strong as a concentrated am getting tons of farm.-
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Dude she built OC, lmao
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They lost when they allowed AM and Naga that breathing room. It didn't help that Universe is an amazing Sand King player.
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It didn't help that Universe is an amazing Sand King player.
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PLZ NO DDOSERINO
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rofl
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Secret vs EHome starting
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╰( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)つ──☆*:・ﾟ Space Cow
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Get rekt son
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Holy shit
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Awesome fight there by VG
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haha it's over
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That Storm, sheesh. Gotta get Hex on him.
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Game 2 starting
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There's a strange psychology to just having an AM there. And it's happening again, just letting him farm.
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At least EH is pressuring. Thats how you fuck with an AM
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Game is hardly over and AM is still getting farm. Secret's cores are still doing fine.
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He wont get it dying like that tho, rofl
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Doesn't second pick anti-mage seem kind of bold? It wasn't picked as a counter, they just want rtz AM.
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The bad choice was repicking SF. AM was a fine pick. Those two were not.
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I know, thats what I said too. lol
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WD was bad after they picked the dazzle too. Really gave them nothing if they didn't win those outside lanes. They lost both. They could have called GG at that point since their only hope was AM harassing top for half an hour.
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I think the pairing of WD and Dazzle just wasnt good too. Axe was just to unreliable of a pick there. Especially when they had SF who needed farm. Merlini was right, this second draft was very greedy.
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If it was my game (I am not a pro so there is something wrong with this I am sure) I would have been tempted to take a ranged damaging character like Drow Ranger to put in lane against the Dark Seer and deny shell farming. But then I would need a melee carry with a disable that Axe doesn't have. Back around Ti4 that would have been WK. Magnus maybe in this meta?
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Drow's problem is she has awful evasion. She needs to have good mid core items to become viable unless she has a support by her side all the time. She's just too slow and is very very easy to kill unless she's got her team behind her. There are better picks that are more resilient and self-proficient.
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Okay. That makes sense, I just don't know in this meta who that is and wasn't banned.
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How about a Mirana or Luna pick? I am thinking Mirana, but I know she isn't picked at this level.
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Luna is definitely a better pick than Drow. She's got a good stun and a decent range attack.
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lol thats gg. RTZ threw hard
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ROTK likes to speak in english and they always have Josh on standby for translations. ROTK has said before he's comfortable speaking in English but sometimes it gets away from him. They ask these players before hand if they want to speak in their native language or not.
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ROTK is always awkward in interviews. But I love the guy.
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They may have taken him at his word that he could handle the English. She did not slow down for him either when it was clear his English was a problem. She might have thought he was camera shy or something. Both screwed up in overestimating his English.
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The Lower Bracket - MVP.P vs Empire staring
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Yoky man. That dude.
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Holy shit QO with that aegis, blink, then two kills.
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lol wtf just happened?!
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Yeah I like MVP so far in the tournament. They are fun and I want them to keep going.
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These Bo1's always bring out the good different picks
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oh shit I forgot. That's right well still great drafts lol
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Orb team?
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Can no one call Io Io. Io is called Wisp by all the casters annoyingly. I know it is back from original dota, but good grief get over it.
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It is just really obnoxious if you want this to grow and draw more people in. People should have a clue who the casters are talking about without a wikipedia entry.
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A lot of the original Dota names are awesome. Magina = AM
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And by awesome I mean retarded
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This IO just engineered a bit of a comeback.
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IO Iowns.
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Lion is such an obnoxious bully of a hero. A little surprised he hasn't been picked more.
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He's even more obnoxious once he gets Blink
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That was crazy.
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QO is insane! lol
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So much this. These guys are fun. Will root for them.
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LOL @ Resolution rage quit.
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hahahaha
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Can we agree that was the best Io play of TI5? Holy shit!
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Best team play certainly, maybe the biggest support play too. QO's blink double there though was so amazing.
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Yeah, QO was absolutely on point. Amazing awareness to know just when to re-engage even when it's 1v3 and end up cleaning them up 1 by 1. Jesus, just insane.
But that Io play is just blowing my mind right now. When Io tethered to Lion to chase Storm, I thought that was a nice cheeky play...not often you see Storm fleeing from Lion. But then when Io relocated Lion to take out the Wyvern, man that was awesome.
MVP Phoenix is such a blast to watch.
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You shut your dirty whore mouth!
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The only thing worse than watching a Techies match is playing in a Techies match. Yes, there can be some funny mine kills, but it pales in comparison to what kind of gameplay is possible with this caliber of players and more engaging heroes.
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Not really, the pro Techies matches have actually been entertaining. Especially when Aui got to play them. Dude was playing them like the Demoman in TF2.
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I agree that pro Techies isn't like the typical pub match Techies, but it still isn't nearly as entertaining as watching heroes that just run at the enemy team and go ape shit.
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The BH SB combo is evil.
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I feel like I am watching BH call in air strikes from SB.
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They brought it back a lot on that Rosh.
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Dayum. MVP brought it back. That first wave Empire can take, but then Lina and WD stroll in and it is like.....how much damage? Oh all of it.
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lol at the spirit breaker buyback. March only knows going ham.
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Game 2 just went tits up.
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MVP is just so tactically smart in those fights. They come in waves. They bring in the big damage after the disables. It is just wonderful to watch.
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Those Death Wards have been vicious.
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So well played. I didn't watch MVP much in the group. How did they end up in loser's bracket?
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QO and Febby are just so talented in different ways. I felt like Febby Quarterbacked the early game.
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James?
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C9 vs VG starting
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I wasn't going to watch every game tonight. So much for that.
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Well this is the last match so its not too bad. Hopefully the games arent too long.
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Yeah I missed the earliest games while I was at work. I was just going to watch two series, but I can't resist C9 - Vici.
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I'm so sad that the winner of this series will be facing MVP.P in the next series, because C9 remains my #1 team, and I hope they make it into the top 4, but that means that MVP.P won't make it.
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Why did you have to bring that up? :(
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C9 is such a weird team but they also have really talented players. Sometimes they stomp and other times they just don't make sense to me.
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See what I mean? lol
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Time to bust out all the voodoo magic for C9.
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They threw away their winner bracket advantage by going 0-2 against cdec. Also was one of the original team secret members.
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I heard him do commentary during drafts for the Summit and the guy really knows some stuff. Bone7 sat down during part of it and the two of them argued a lot. If that is anything like their team dynamic, that would be frustrating and explain a lot.
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Oh yeah, you're right.
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That heart head thing may have been the best goofy segway so far from the desk today.
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I'm thinking silencer would be great as final pick for C9 here...
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Uh, maybe not after that spectre pick, lol
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Holy shit lol
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Way too even.
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The graphs are going to look like a god damn sine wave by the end...
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These teams....lol.
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It's good to see C9 doing such a good job focusing Spectre to delay him coming online, but I don't know if they're getting enough out of it...
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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?!?!
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It's Comcast bro
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DDoS assholes can go fucking die >:(
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Just ran into my office to load up the client to watch. FFS!
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sigh
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It's back
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And it's down again LOL
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And it's back
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In game is still going.
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Apparently they only DDOS the Western teams...
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W I P E O U T B O Y S
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LOL
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Ok, holy shit Rubic. Holy shit. Holy.......shit.....
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It'll end sometime tomorrow.
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What was that?!?!?!?!
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Rubick ban game 2, pls :(
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haha FATA hesitating with those right clicks. What a pussy.
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Just let it all out man. You have another game to go at least.
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That was funny. After all these kills, the creeps felt like ending the game.
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The problem is that they waited until they got the glyph back to make the move.
They have a fucking Io and they should have been using it to keep porting in and poking away at their base or pushing the lane to keep it in, then porting back. There was a good 20 minutes where Io didn't use his relocate even once.
Compare that to how aggressive the Io was using his relocate in the last series. Why pick hero's if you aren't going to utilize them at every opportunity. You can't just sit back and wait for the dream play, you need to use the tools you have to keep the pressure on.
FUCK! I'm so angry at C9 for giving that game up. But I'm just telling myself that at least C9 is looking much better today than they did yesterday. They can do this still.-
Febby called the shots as Io. N0tail got dragged around and killed a lot.
Carries are meatheads. Let them do their thing getting amazing kills, but someone needs to call the shots for the whole team and they need to have confidence everyone will go with them. C9 seems to have some severe issues with the decision tree. They make a couple mistakes early, don't turn around during that fight and then get gun shy for the rest of the game.
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Oh fuck, Rubick with the Octarine. He's going to drop every one of C9's spells in the next fight. :(
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C9 definitely hesitated way too long. Hopefully they learn and come out swinging in game 2.
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I actually think if they had not wimped out on that Dust with Hao they could have done some serious damage. Probably taken a Tier 4.
That was when they lost it.
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gyro got deleted off the map way too many times out of the blink-lift + ice blast and laguna blade. he never actually was in the fights.
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Game 2 starting
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lmao @ the Tusk Sigil
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Client is running fine if you can do that.
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Laptop and an hdmi?
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FY is just something else. That was incredible.
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I seriously think C9 would be a great team if EE wasn't in it. And maybe FATA.
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EE is a skilled player, but he should not be allowed to make any initiation decisions. Ever. Ever ever.
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lol come on, do you know how easy it would be for certain heroes to just TP in if it didn't have it?
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Never seen one played?
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My husbando
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EE going for the early throw.
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He actually did great there with the Tombstone.
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Come on C9 wtf, get your shit together. This is an elimination game...
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This draft was really, really stupid on C9's part.
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Next year when EE is kicked and n0Tail starts a new team with Fly and Dendi.
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Dendi can be mid and Fly off. I'd love to see n0tail return back to being a carry though. I miss his Meepos :(
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or find new blood :)
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Shit is over fellas. And they drafted SF for FATA again. What is it with these teams? It's like they hope that repicking the same hero that failed them miserably before it somehow going to magically work in the next.
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Which is why they should have rotated qop mid.
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Haha, oh man. C9 look so disorganized right now.
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And that's it. JFC.
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Well then. Rooting for MVP in this losers' bracket.
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See Nighteyes. Pay attention! :D
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