DOTA 2

No weird picks excuse for 2nd game.

Well I think every team needs to start practicing seriously if they want to improve their games and beat the chinese reliably. Na'Vi definitely has what it takes to be the best team in the world but they need to practice more yeah. And arguably they should replace XBOCT but I guess it'd be hard to rebuild the team synergy and shit. I feel he's the weak link in the Na'Vi lineup though, he's their hard carry player yet he's inconsistent as hell and plays way too risky. This is basically what you'd want from your offlane or mid but not from your carry. It works out sometimes though but I feel he shows limits quite often skillwise. Doesn't help that it seems he doesn't adapt very well to new picks so he needs multiple games with a hero to be remotely good at it, and since he doesn't practice enough that means multiple pro games.

Na'Vi is still leagues above a lot of the teams though but they show they're not untouchable very often now when it comes to other top tier teams. If they trained seriously I think it'd be different.

earthfell_sl said:

where are these matches yall are talking about?

i like navi but i hate their fans. it was great watching sven wipe out their entire team with an auto attack.

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Was the Asus tournament semi finals, possible linked it in the competitive thread. On that note I don't think it's worth making competitive threads about dota2 tournaments unless it's the International, there's tournaments all the time and most of the matches aren't interesting anyway, might as well keep it all here. For TI3 sure, shit's gonna be beyond epic most likely but for "smaller" tournaments like The Defense or Starladder, meh, just adds 1-2pages threads in other places, makes it annoying to check.

Sheever's main weakness is when she's doing play by play during ganks/teamfights, it's messy, doesn't mean much and she isn't talking about the important stuff(or missing it). Also her voice is pretty annoying but it's not that bad imo, some people dislike it a lot. On the plus side, she puts a lot of effort into casting every game possible and often is the only caster on it seems.

Ayesee's voice is good but yeah he never stops talking and say the most pointless shit ever. At least he gets usually get Draskyll to commentate which balances it out but Draskyll has been losing his touch lately I feel, makes a lot of innacurate statements especially about team's playstyles or hero picks or whatever, like he's not following the scene very closely.

Epi is fairly terrible but he's gotten better a bit.

All in all they're not super good casters but they do fine if they have good co casters. Which is NOT Reesion, god, if I wanted to listen to a 14years old not talking about anything useful I'd play cod. Not a big fan of EternalEnvy either, do love Merlini, Puppey, Synderen(back when he was casting, now he doesn't really anymore). Paintitgold and Wagamama were pretty good too.

Unrelated note but if you've not been following Reddit, the website for frostivus has been updated everyday by Valve with new stuff. It started by having more greevils in the pictures, and then the presents disapeared and now the website page is basically completely destroyed with a hidden message that says "We haz ur prezzenz" and "u waz rob". Pretty fun stuff.