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If you have 4-6 buddies make a 5-7 man ranked matchmaking team - it contains a unique mmr rating. Lets you have a name and a flag.

I have about 100+ eggs accumulated and I want to add them to some part of my Ltron / DXQX healer/light team. Candidates would be Ltron, Valk, Venus, Echidna or DXQX. I'm assuming I should put them on the Ltron - but does anyone have any compelling reasons why it should just be on the...

So team tinker is just an offseason project? as opposed to leaving any teams officially just yet?

12-10 would be a lore split based on unit size. 3 IS lances vs 2 Clan Stars.

Lycan is currently considered one of the strongest heroes this patch. He pushes very fast, with your understanding of league I have no doubt you can keep up a really high winrate. He has to be shut down constantly and one lost teamfight can cost multiple towers or rax, not to mention being...

So, besides all the other good advice - take advantage of the completely unlocked cast and don't be afraid of trying anything, remember you're already playing the same game as the rest of us past mode choices, supports can offer an extremely aggressive and roaming alternative to league's...

That 27 million number is a misleading total to divide globally. Largely because the userbase in China - which is counted - is obscenely large strictly due to there being a billion of them. Liquiddota.com recently began listing Chinese players streams just after TI4 with current viewer...

If you regularly play with any kind of 5 stack (up to 7 players total) you really should try out team matchmaking. Its nice because it doesn't attempt to rate your team based on your overall individual MMRs - but it calibrates you as a group instead. You have a unique mmr to the team, and...

Glad they moved quickly, there is still yet hope that heroes can be played with my terrible gaming friends who dislike league/dota.

1 Roll, Minerva - worthless at this time, but a god's a god so no complaints - no dupe no trash.

So I can stick my + eggs on L.Tron, DXQX, Valk, Echidna - who would you guys + egg first.

Champions all out, no repeats this year either.

Come on america - we need usa nerds in this final. Mu is on fire I agree.

You can say its nothing, but its a big first step regardless. Seriously you're saying that even having it mentioned on the biggest sports network in the states isn't good enough when having no mention was the expectation?

at 8:30 EST prime time on ESPN 2 a show previewing the finals - haha that's sick as fuck. I really hope EG makes the grand final - or Navi/C9.

Late to party: I finally ran hera and valk on this cycle - even though I'm sure I could have managed them sooner. Valk I just used 2xluci/71 max skilled persephone - 2 rainbow keepers, and 1 lvl 22 basic hera (default drop). Slow but 100% safe. Took 3 runs - first time I didn't take...

Also - if valve employee's are running the tournament - maybe they like to work their normal work hours in Seattle.

Is there no-rerolling in this game? contrast to PAD? so if you install it and get your first random rolls that's all you get right?

Keep perspective about other Esports - League / SCII - when it comes to finals, regional diversity, and skill. Sure top 8 this year is a bit on the Chinese heavy side, but EG has a real chance of taking the whole event. They are a legitimate favorite. In the other two big Esports this...

2 western teams in top 6, 4 east? that's not a bad outcome - Not like its a clean sweep - and EG could win. If Na'vi go out to C9 - a disappointing tournament for european dota certainly.

Light Meta is actually really good card both as a fun healer team lead as well as an in team sub for a ton of healer/light teams. She doesn't take a lot of other rem pulls to make solid teams. Echidna/Valk/Shinee/Sandalphon/Angelion - Even Mermaid/Lilith can at least be used if you're...

Sad Titan/Liquid didn't make it to the main event, both came close - that Titan G3 - that's worse than the aegis deny in many ways - they lost out on what 400k? Which is more than they took home last year in 3rd I think.

I guess my feeling is that Dota is such a great game because there are so many paths to victory. Even if the naga siren game is boring - its important that you can play a naga siren strategy because its mere existence applies pressure on the entire hero pool. If the strategy isn't invincible...

TI4 Group Stages Day 1: By The Numbers

Demon interview at the end of the day. Interesting stuff about how his Redbull sponsorship lead to a more - action sport athlete type bootcamp at Redbull's office - including sports psychologists.

datdota's international section gives an up to date picture of the tournament. 76 unique picks in the first 36 games. Certainly not all those panned out - but they have been attempted datdota: The International 2014

I keep telling myself this group stage is long - 15 games per team. So going 0-3 isn't good - but its not even close to being out. Gonna be awesome drama.

Go Liquid, I just knew that NA had the best second best qualifier team in the world.

Have you tweaked your mouse settings, is it the same mouse? Did you play without mouse specific drivers on the old machine vs with the specific drivers on the new one? or vice versa? What resolution are you playing the game on - did you increase it drastically?

Beaten to it, amazing stuff. Marketing genius great items. There are some great pieces of art - more than half of the items in the catalog are community submitted. That's pretty intense. Spoiler Free NFL Redzone Style Newbies - This is an absolutely brilliant idea.

I'm not impressed with that decision either cyb, there are what 19 teams at the international counting the 4 playins? I'm not sure why 19-15 couldn't have received something for making it through the qualifiers. Honestly, half a million bucks and the bottom teams all get a shit load of...

Total Prize Amount $10,296,180 1st - $4,736,243 (46%) 2nd - $1,389,984 (13%) 3rd - $978,137 (9%) 4th - $772,214 (7%) 5/6th - $617,771 (6%) 7/8th - $489,069 (5%) 9/10th - $46,333 (0.4%) 11/12th - $36,037 (0.3%) 13/14th - $20,592 (0.2%) Source:Dota 2 - Overview - The International...

So you guys just had a discussion about talents, specs, and the blizzard matchmaker itself lists the heroes in roles, 5 classes in fact. Along with"the biggest frustration is certain heroes on certain maps aren't nearly as good". Truly the WoW BG comparison seems stupid surely. You even...

So the medium camp that was small in dire, pull it towards the big camp that's closest to the base, don't pull it upwards to the tower. Pull it east instead of north. Part of the issue of stacking that camp towards the tower is you used to be able to agro the lane creeps. Now that its a...

So camps all have different shaped spawn boxes, there are slight variations and directions that are easier to get stacks to spawn. You can stack some locations on as little as just a few seconds, the timing is variable - depending on the shape of the box. The shapes here are close to...

The odins/ronia's and metatrons all have the same drop rate (read random) during any godfest. Given that you're interested in the U&Y team, just balance the amount of team subs you could get in this godfest. For example - this is a great godfest I think if you do not have a combo lead of...

But its not, because the map is everything in league and dota, absolutely everything. The map defines both games and the genre more than any other singular aspect. Its not the heroes, its not the item shop, its the map. Every single game of league or dota played in its most balanced...

Right but you're making the point for me. We will ultimately discuss HoTS in the context of all of its maps. Much like we would discuss in context WoW battle grounds the balance of the map and how certain heroes or classes are better or worse at certain kind of objectives. Best Team comps...

First, its a really accurate description to call HoTS a Hero Arena game that plays on a tactical level more like WoW BG's than Dota or League. The map defines the moba genre - there is a reason league and dota's base competitive map both contain 3 lanes, jungles of a certain size, and...

I went 0/16 on my lilith, and I went 2/18 and 2/16 on seig and chu. My vampire capped out easily, had like 10 extra baddies. Got a mastering, Poring tower, see you in the fall.