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(Jul 8-21) The International 2014 DOTA 2 Championships: $10.5 million prize pool
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Sgt.Pepper
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C9 vs VG for sure. Albeit I don't remember if it was Game 1 or 2.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Game two. That was some ridiculous Dota and was a blast to watch
Fucking emotionless robots.
throwawayname
Member
IIRC it's Dragon Knights. Their logo looks like a Knight holding a shield made out of the letters DK.
Could be Donkey Kong aswell though.
neurosisxeno
Member
There was a match with an amazing base race at the end. Someone on the Radiant was DP and had to try and die back to defend with their team but couldn't die in the fountain because they were too tanky. I think it was C9 vs one of the Chinese teams.
EDIT: DK vs. EG Game 1.
Let's have a little talk about taxes and splitting costs.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Was a single buy back even used at all on the finals?
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
I don't even know how Xiao8 looks.
hes still richer than the average man
unless more than 60% are deducted in taxes.
even then thats still a lot of money
throwawayname
Member
C9 vs VG game 2 was the shit. I never though I'd see meepo winning a big game at TI a few months ago.
SteveWinwood
Member
yeah he prob gets like 10 dollars at the end of it
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Unless 99.9% of his prize money gets taken from him he's going to be pretty wealthy.
Meepo game against DK was better iirc
then you gotta spread that $10 out over everyone in china because of all the communism
Definitely my favorite of the tournament as well. Sadly I didn't make it to Key Arena in time to catch it live, but I was able to watch it all in-client yesterday morning.
Omotesando
Member
Definitely IG vs LGD, it was by far the best series entertainment wise.
lol
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Would we go as far to say that buffing up heroes as a way of balancing has made it easier for 15 minute ggs?
What if Xiao8 lives in special economy area?
SteveWinwood
Member
this is the power creep the riot forums told me about
StarlordDial
Member
lmao steelseries pls
Suzushiiro
Banned
I also wasn't really a fan of the "get first seed, take two days off" structure. I get that you should be rewarded for doing well by having to play fewer games, but for those who didn't pay much attention until the main event we barely got to see the eventual champion play any games.
Aeriscloud
Banned
It's sad isn't it?
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
So i managed to watch the finals on work (no audio tough) and all i have to say is that fucking racism won, also burning didn't even get a win by proxy so fuck this tournament and everyone in it.
Newbee played really damn well, a well deserved victory. I think maybe VG got figured out or was it just better play from newbee um....
They have a point though. Almost every sport or game can have boring wins. Doesn't really need to mean the whole thing is doomed or it is the entire fault of a particular nation etc. It just happens.
Definitely agree, FireBatHero and Jaedong were always awesome to watch.
EVER 2007 OSL, never forget:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBzoXi13pOc
Classic FBH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv0I1X2r2oQ
i fear that im gonna get baited by a shit post
im just gonna watch watch this and laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJZrNfbHITk&list=UUfsOfLvadg89Bx8Sv_6WERg
then watch this and cry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVnYHjX4ouA&list=UUfsOfLvadg89Bx8Sv_6WERg&index=6
im just gonna watch watch this and laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJZrNfbHITk&list=UUfsOfLvadg89Bx8Sv_6WERg
then watch this and cry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVnYHjX4ouA&list=UUfsOfLvadg89Bx8Sv_6WERg&index=6
Sorry, he was referring to the tournament being rigged. Too bad that there are no double-quotes.
lmao what the fuck eg
what's the problem? people are complaining about blowouts while sober is explaining that they are part of the game...
for shit posting and trolling threads ya
Dreams-Visions
Member
The fuck.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
That's not factual. EG made several poor decisions in that game 3 in drafting, hero assignment, and tactics which they had not made previously.
EG would have been stomped by Newbee however.
My biggest issue after watching all of TI4 is the format really created a disjointed competition. There was never a lot of flow between the days and the bracket stages devalued the positional advantages of the higher seeded teams.
Gaming isn't a competitive endeavour where not playing all day lets you 'come in fresh'. That's not how muscle memory and reactive thinking works.
Ultimately the losers bracket concept needs to be abandoned. Double round robin group stage then seed 12 teams. Play it out final four style with Bo5's. Bo3's have too much variance for such a high stakes tournament.
This wont improve the quality of the final necessarily but it will shore up the terrible disjointed narrative this event had.
ADota strategy seems in its' infancy in some ways. For being the older game than LoL, professional circuits haven't really led to proper coaching/training regimens for a lot of these teams. I suspect that will change in this next year; I'll be curious to observe how the balance team can adapt to more man hours being spent leveraging in game advantages as well as the player base's response to changes motivated by the uptick in competitive play.
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