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Louis
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Really curious to see what the "secret team" ends up being. It was stated that it was going to be 2 past TI winners on it. So basically 1 player from Na'vi (Pup) and 1 player from Alliance (rumors point towards S4 and to a lesser extent EGM). Most predictions say puppey, kuroky, S4, fly, and N0tail.
Dandain
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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.
Stand-in for Xcalibur no?
I've been wondering if SingSing will be in the same team as kuro as they've seem friendly and were on mouz at the same time iirc.
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Zaphid
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I believe Sing is staying in Team Tinker, of course until neither this, nor the "Mystery Team" is announced officially, stuff can change. People were commenting that Excalibur seems to be Bulldog 2.0 - amazing on a few heroes, but mediocre or worse on the rest.
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I really dont understand the hype for excalibur. Outside of being really good w tinker and meepo he doesn't bring much to the table and I dont really see the connection between him and bulldog other then the pubstar to pro thing. Bulldogs np and ld where game changing where as excalibur had one great game on meepo
Szeth
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Yes and puts you in a queue with other 4-5 locks that actually care to win, rather than pick Slardar with no blink dagger. At least in unranked our opponents have a chance of being the same.
I've said that
The problem with team tinker as a permanent is that 3/5 are still on their respective teams. Who knows though, maybe they've just been holding the places warm
Dandain
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Right but here's the thing - your team will calibrate its MMR to the skill bracket that playing blinkless slardar will allow. You will get much superior games once your team has calibrated - lets say you normally play mid - but in your friend stack no one plays even a passable 5 except you. With Team MMR you can play the 5 - the team will calibrate around the performance of you at the 5 with your friends on cores. This makes for better games in the long run than trying to assume performance based on all variations of group queueing as 2's/3's/5's. No one has to be stressed out about losing team points, its more about the quality of games once you get sufficiently calibrated as a group.
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I'd still find it really frustrating to play with someone who doesn't give a fuck when I do. I can't imagine playing a carry when one or two people just wander around lategame and die, thereby costing you the game.
Team Tinker vs Power Rangers was pretty close.
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Valve promised Techies before the end of August, so I guess in a week or so. Give or take Valve time
reddit rumors:
Mystery team - puppey/kuro/notail/fly/s4
Navi - Funn1k/XBOCT/Dendi/Vanskor/FnG
Alliance - Bulldog/Loda/Akke/Misery/Chessie (HoN god apparently, can't wait for him to disappoint)
Team Tinker ?Sing/Bulba/Qojqva/EGM/Pajkatt
So Excalibur teamless again
reddit rumors:
Mystery team - puppey/kuro/notail/fly/s4
Navi - Funn1k/XBOCT/Dendi/Vanskor/FnG
Alliance - Bulldog/Loda/Akke/Misery/Chessie (HoN god apparently, can't wait for him to disappoint)
Team Tinker ?Sing/Bulba/Qojqva/EGM/Pajkatt
So Excalibur teamless again
Tinker didn't look particularly good yesterday. Their issue seems to be drafting, its a bit reminiscent of EG during TI where they'd try to draft they want without much regard for what their opponents are doing. It also seems they particularly favour supports which get stronger later (e.g. Earthshaker, Disruptor) subsequently making the early game very hard on themselves, seems they should consider at least one strong early game support particularly if they're running something like tiny+wisp mid which hamstrings the other lanes.
Oh, I was going to say they should probably prioritize Mirana, they have 3 great Mirana players so they can use it effectively and it doesn't give away the draft.