Watch Dota 2 - The International Main Event Here - TI6 Grand Finals - $9 Million Prize on the line
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Dota 2 - the International 2016 Main Event concludes today!. The record prize pool has surpassed $20 million! Watch the Twitch stream with us here at Shacknews.
You can also watch the entire tournament live through Steam Broadcasting, YouTube, Twitch, or WatchESPN. Get real-time stats, graphs, and Steam chat as part of the DotaTV Live Streaming experience. HTC Vive owners will have an opportunity to spectate The International in virtual reality using the recently released Dota VR Hub. Folks with a Vive head mounted display will have the option of viewing a big screen alongside their friends in a virtual space as well as an opportunity to be thrust into the action with the choice of various points of view.
DAY FIVE RESULTS
Fnatic sent MVP home in 2 games to start off Day 5. Wings knocked EG down to the Lower Bracket Finals with a 2-0 victory in their match. DC defeated Fnatic in the fourth place match, advancing to play EG for a chance to reach the Grand Finals against Wings.
Dota 2 - The International Main Event 2016 Bracket
DAY SIX SCHEDULE (Broadcast begins at 10:00am PDT. Each match will begin after the previous one concludes.)
Final Battle! Evil Geniuses, the American champs, square off against Digital Chaos in the Lower Bracket Finals for a chance to take on the wings gaming from China in the Grand Finals. Evil Geniuses could earn themselves a chance at redemption with a win over Digital Chaos. DC could get their revenge on EG as this is a rematch of the Americas Finals. Either way, this best of 3 matchup is going to be a sight to see. The best-of-five Grand Finals will conclude this amazing week of competitive gaming when Wings takes on the winners of the EG vs DC match.
Learn more about the teams on the official website of Dota 2 - The International 2016.
It isn't everyday that gamers can win $9 million playing a video game but today the winners of TI6 stand to walk away with just that. 25% of all Battle Pass sales go directly to The International 2016 prize pool. You still have time to pile more cash on top of the record setting $20 million prize pool by buying a Battle Pass.
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Nope, but I wanted to preempt the other threads.
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It's kind of all over the map. The most successful supports this patch are probably shadow demon, Ogre magi and elder Titan. Initiators are the classic beast master, faceless void, slardar, and interestingly tide hunter in my opinion. Lots of carries, from Luna, to Mirana to timbersaw, jugg or huskar. Basically id say the key to winning is to get an early lead and transition that into tower pushes. Then farm out the map to starve your opponent. Finally get a high ground push
Lots of different strategies: early game death push, gank mercilessly until you have your items, Go for the late game better heroes, all the classics. I'm sure someone else can do a better job of summarizing it than I can-
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Good recap video from the greatest game in esports history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ghm5oCSnhg
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Nice!
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How do the pros in this game actually practice?
Each game is 45 min - 1 hour and requires such a huge ramp up before anything interesting occurs (usually) where most of the time is spent fighting creeps.
Seems so hard to practice anything late game with serious stakes because once you get to that level you won't be able to fight anyone but other pro teams to develop strategies and tactics and such. Or maybe that's all they do is fight each other as practice outside tournaments?-
Farming is actually a hugely technical and demanding part of the game so it's as important to practice as teamfighting, if not more so.
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Sure. But it's about the same as healing in TF2 and Overwatch where you are required to have it but by itself you can't win games. Securing advantages via ganks and team fight victories is enabled by good items but it isn't as critical as say target selection and ability sequencing in a fight.
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Think of it like skating in ice hockey. It's not obvious in its value, but it makes a big difference in lots of different ways.
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They scrim against one another. Though they choose who to scrim against. Many teams will stay away from certain ones to not showcase any strats or possible draft combos they might use.
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Honestly to be a pro dota player many say you need to play 6-9 hours a day. At that rate you have at least 8 games if not more and probably triple that number of team fights. People also analyze replays in great detail to understand what went wrong. It's insane how fast the decision making is in the game it's like speed chess played by 5 people in real time vs each other. Which is why it's fun but also incredibly complicated.
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So tired of illusion heroes.
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I wonder if there will be a hard nerf to them after TI. A couple of late game Tier 4 pushes have been 100% illusions. That just seems wrong.
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This filling time bullshit is so awful. I wish the fucking game would start already.
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All of this man on the street stuff is so cringeworthy.
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Evil Geniuses vs Digital Chaos starting
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DC is confident for letting them have Void
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DC's lineup right now looks shakey. Will need a lot of coordination to get their damage off.
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DC showing that EG's drafting is too rigid.
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Such a bad initiation by EG
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Fucking rekt
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These are 2 bad Chronos by Universe this game. DC seems to not care about their Void and it's showing.
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This is over for EG
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Crazy. After that EHOME match I would have sworn EG was locked in for the Grand Final.
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It's not over but PPD drafted a bit too rigid. I've never liked when PPD drafts QoP for Sumail. She falls off way too hard in this game and its not enough for Sumail to make an impact.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "rigid." I agree that the QoP pick failed, but the Luna, QoP, and Kunka picks were all pretty uncommon for EG. The Void was tough against Song and Ravage, and DC did a nice job of spreading out, which made it hard for Universe to hit his usual insane Chronos.
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PPD these last 3 games has been picking pretty predictable lineups. It's why these teams have been able to draft against them so well. Universe had tons of bad Chronos this game. Specifically going on the Razor and them blowing everything on him only to not kill him. Razor's passive makes it hard to hit him already so going on him was dumb. Then you had the other Chrono in the Radiant jungle where he goes right on the Tide with the Naga right next to him.
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LOL
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DC saying fuck you to Universe's Void
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Oracle once again proving to be insanely effective when played well.
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Why does this retard keep calling her "Lady Mirana"
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It was a mirana alternative pick since they didn't get mirana (but certainly wanted her).
It didn't work well.
Overall EGs draft was a bit more greedy and a bit later timing than DCs. They also played poorly which really pushed it back further. DC just out drafted them hard for the midgame fight imo.
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lol now DC drafted the Void
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lol rekt
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Chichi's Christ
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We were 100% convinced that Jakiro would not get picked, to the point that we made it a running gag during our Yahoo Esports recaps. In fact, our recap from last night ended with our Street Fighter expert asking "When's Jakiro?" and our recapper just going "Never."
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Never listen to anything that comes out of that retards mouth.
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Disclaimer- I like both scenes but the League casting is still way ahead of DOTA in every way. There is such consistency too. DOTA feels very ragtag and insider level casting.
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OLD MAN FEAR
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A game 3, sweet.
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You guys are watching DOTA 2 while Kassidy Cook is diving right now?
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Who dat bitch?
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Fat Merlini is falling asleep
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Kaci sould like a party clown you would hire for a kid's birthday most the time. The people on the floor have been terrible.
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Slacks, autist supreme.
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Purge commentary >>>> Everyone elses
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oh boy another illusion hero
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They're still fucking talking? HOLY FUCK MAN NEXT GAME
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is Wings basically walking all over it ? Does it matter? Didnt' EG beat Wings in 1 game?
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DC beat wings in one game back in the first round
http://www.dota2.com/international/replays/10/1
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TERRORBLADE UP IN THIS BITCH
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Brew too!
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Did DC go a little light on range? SD isn't really a ranged damage dealer, so that sorta walks into the tidehunter doesn't it?
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SD is there for saves and team fight control not damage
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Right so there is no real ranged damage other than Beast?
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Nope
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I haven't seen a brew in so long, felt like at one Ti every game had a brew.
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Terrorblade out the gate does stupid damage once he gets a few levels. Brew also does well if we can max his Thunderclap. You also have Elder Titan's Aura and the damage from Dazzle's heal.
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w33 plz
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What a blink
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Told you they had damage. I'm still surprised they let EG have Elder Titan. It totally fucks their aggressive burst damage lineup.
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Zai has always been an amazing player. Every team he has played for he's always exceled. Ludwig is a beast.
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How do you mute Dota TV ingame chat but keep the players?
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Top right bar, look for the eye symbol and click on that. It will drop a menu and tick the "Spectator Chat" box.
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Thanks. They were getting annoying and I had just been switching channels, but realize I would miss pause fun.
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No problem. Dota TV chat is pure cancer. It reminds you that stupid little kids play this game too.
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change the channel to /shacknews or something
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Once TB gets his Manta, the annoyance level will be over a 1000. More copies of TB means more damage.
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Do you put a battlefury on someone? Just shiva's guard? What is the counter?
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"Usually" the counters for someone like TB are good initiators like Earthshaker or someone with a good disable and then a silence. You gotta stop him before he uses that ult on you.
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Ah. That makes sense, DC didn't bring much AOE. Put an orchid on slark?
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An orchid could work, the issue is DC then has to worry about the rest of EG. Tide's ult, ET's ult and Brewmaster. Not to mention that Dazzle can still keep TB alive even after a silence.
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Yeah. Not real solution for a lack of aoe. I guess that is why they are splitting.
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Rat dota?
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Yeah DC knows they cant 5v5 head to head. So they're pushing all the lines as much as they can to stave off any pushes from EG. The problem with this is it means EG will just keep farming.
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They dont need one. Everyone on EG is dealing with him just fine. Dazzle can keep people alive if he tries to pick one off.
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Naw that was the ratting by Beast doing that. When they let Beast take down their last two racks EG should have taken their Ancient. But they couldnt.
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Ratting created so much space for Slark. Fear's TB just kept growing in power, which kept it close.
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Holy crap this is close.
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LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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Brew just didnt make an impact. Sumail has been handed a few weak picks this and the last series. It was a good start but he just became easier and easier to kill. I think Tinker would have been a better pick to add another split-pusher to EG's lineup.
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These last two games were perfect Tinker games
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I don't feel like they made much room for him this time around either. Universe was a very weak tide that game in my mind. He was mostly good at getting in the way, that's it. He didn’t force team fights with ravage until the end. Maybe those were PPD's calls, but it seemed under utilized.
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What an important detail.
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Moo's Beastmaster was top notch.
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HOOOOOLLLLLYYYYY SHIIIIIIIIIIIT!
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These finals are gonna be crazy. Wings and DC trying to out crazy each other.
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I'm gonna watch that 100 times to understand wtf happened, lol.
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Haha, holy shit, I'd never seen the muppets before. LOL
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So glad Jugg got the Arcana win. Fuck those Io voting assholes.
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I may have dumped all my votes on Io just because I thought it would be amusing for Valve to have to figure out arcana for a ball of light.
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Eat shit
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Deep down, you know you are curious what it would look like. We all know what Jugg will probably look like because he has so many sets already.
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Naw, I wanted WK to win because I wanted the Skeleton King back.
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Valve putting everyone to sleep here
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Everything outside of the directly related broadcast is really lame.
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DC vs Wings - The Grand Final (Best of 5)
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LOL
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lol @ that sign
#tacotacoburrito
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Boy those are some bad hooks
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DOOM :D
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Misery fed a lot
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lol @ DC
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DC is tilting
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Those heroes are good but I think Misery is awful on SK and Clinkz was a poor pick against a DP and an Oracle. Should have picked a better carry.
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That was so bad
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Its definitely wearing. They've been playing since 11am
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Misery continues to feed the enemy team
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A good 4 kills there for DC. The BKB is helping for Clinkz in these pick-offs
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Blink was a monster on Void. Insane.
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RNG definitely on his side.
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Seems so. This is ridiculous slarking.
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Great fight from dc there though
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I didn't get why they chased. KOTL wasn't much of a prize, but they had nothing to chase with low health and spells.
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lol @ that call by Axe
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Yeah this is over. Wings has this.
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LOL
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Yep.
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What are you talking about? Wings was totally running the 'beat you with anything we pick, we can even troll you with garbage picks' meta. It's in the FAQ.
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He then called his teammates stupid or incapable of caring for themselves.
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Everyone in the crowd who spoke chinese was laughing before it was translated, I'm sure it was a joke.
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Either this is lost in translation or that was a really dickish set of answers. Who didn't he burn?
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Yea, this dude came off awful.
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haha what was that
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Does China let them keep any of this? When do they start their mandatory military service?
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They earned it in the U.S., probably have to pay some of that in taxes here.
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I always thought that the GF should be held on its own day. Instead of it going from LB > GF in the same day.
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