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Mao
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Can someone explain to me what was going on with EG's second draft against Liquid? I generally like EG, but sometimes I think ppd takes all the 'I'm a drafting genius' shit too much to heart and outthinks himself into shit drafts. It looked like they let liquid have the exact drafts EG used the previous round to just shit stomp MVP. They left Liquid have a Nature's Prophet so they could first pick Enigma? Is there something my shitty Dota knowledge fails to understand cause it looked from the get go to me like they were trying to give it away.
Zaphid
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I haven't seen the game, but this whole event had some really crazy strats and you could see a lot more variety, instead of teams switching up 1-2 picks. TL's forte had been midgame teamfights, which EG is posed to completely stomp, since their combo is fucking brutal. However, to get there, you need to survive the first 10-15 minutes relatively unscathed and the other team must not be able to fight around your cooldowns. TL got just enough teamfight in phoenix, laning stability in furion and rosh threat in ursa, to be able to react to whatever EG does, for the price that their lineup peaks around 30 minutes, as opposed to EG, who can just keep going. If you have aegis, you have a big advantage, since your strongest hero comes back after you have blown all your big abilities and in theory your lineup can kill people only 2-3v1 instead of those huge teamfights. I suppose Zeus was supposed to help with that, same with Naga eventually and Enigma was supposed to give you early mek, so you could contest rosh, trade towers and take early fights.
Anyway, there is a fine line between genius draft and a flop, so I wouldn't be too hard on them. Puppey has been drafting rock solid this event, but there is a reason we have something called "Puppey draft". This time it was ppd who overshot.
Anyway, there is a fine line between genius draft and a flop, so I wouldn't be too hard on them. Puppey has been drafting rock solid this event, but there is a reason we have something called "Puppey draft". This time it was ppd who overshot.
Zaphid
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For more insight into the grand final draft, MVP.Heen wrote a pretty good blog post:Thoughts on the Shanghai Major Grand Finals
Sure, on Reddit.
I mean, that sucks and is obviously yet another sign of incompetence from Marriott/PW but I don't really care that much.
I mean, that sucks and is obviously yet another sign of incompetence from Marriott/PW but I don't really care that much.
Sulrn
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I'm not following the pro scene nearly at all, but this was supposed to be one of the new big 4 - wasn't it? If that's the case, you don't think it's worth pointing out all the issues of Valve's lack of QA involvement with vetting/underfunding a cornerstone of their fostered Esports environment? A page or two ago you were talking about underpaid/shadily paid casters and a disgruntled icefrog weren't you? You're looking at a major publisher running its "brand" in the mud - even if you just play the game, that should be important to you for the tangential issues of the future of the game's availability/server quality.
Intrinsic
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The equipment being stolen was like fuck up #205 on a list of probably 1,000 things that went wrong. More stuff will leak now that players and casters are back home and streaming / tweeting. The event is over, the next Major is coming up soon. Nothing to do but wait and see how Valve responds and they've already openly stated to be much more involved in the future.
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Zaphid
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Actually I presume they said exactly what they wanted to the travel agent or whoever was arranging their flights and he misunderstood, but in grand chinese tradition didn't bother to ask to clarify the details and just did what he thought they asked him.
