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tender fox
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literally biggest prize pool esport even for like 10 years straight

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im sure they can get intel etc as sponsor

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that sponsor every esl shit tourney

stiff pebble
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Yeah but it's not like ESL doesn't literally have a Russian mafia gambling website sponsor as well.

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And it's not like a shit ton of teams don't have betting websites sponsors as well

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I kind of just wish they were better companies to do this but I think that's a bit of a pipe dream

vital pollen
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There's only 2 production companies in dota left and they both suck ass

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Same with sponsors

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Betting sites and crypto are the only ones to have plenty of money to throw around

stiff pebble
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Ye

vital pollen
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Companies like Intel or Nvidia have plenty of advertising space outside of gaming events, so they don't care that much

stiff pebble
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There was some talk about there being more subtle main stage advertising from companies like ASUS and intel

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But it doesn't include banners or overlays and shit because it's mainstage

vital pollen
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ye

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they typically just sponsor the event directly and get exposure that way

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but theyre not "headline" sponsors

stiff pebble
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Ye

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I really just want them to advertise the fucking game angery

vital pollen
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definitely seems like theres a lack of attention really

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most of the new sets are just the ones that didnt make it into previous TI one

stiff pebble
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Considering how bummed people have been in the past about missing out on sets because they didn't win the lottery basically, I don't think I have a problem with that honestly.

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They all have to follow the creative guidelines so it's not like you're getting outdated sets that are low quality in some way.

vital pollen
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maybe

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but its still bad decisionmaking

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we get 2 personas for CM and PA, both of which already have an arcana, and the PA one is one of the best arcanas in the game

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the event mode is announced but missing (and its just diretide again), 1 arcana is missing, both personas are missing

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theyve only shown 1 set of immortal treasures too, usually they already showed 2 but only released one

stiff pebble
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I will say that it does seem like they chose the wrong heroes to give them to ye

vital pollen
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more than 50% of the battlepass features are "coming soon"

stiff pebble
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Are the personas just not in this phase?

vital pollen
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nah

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and i mean

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not a big fan of the cm fursona anyway

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i kinda like the idea of gender-swapped personas

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like male PA/female AM

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but CM is just getting a fursona it seems

stiff pebble
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Have there been any spoilers for that? Sometimes people show shit they're working on and this kind of stuff takes a while to do

vital pollen
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nah, but from the art it seems obvious

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and the description

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youll just get a wolf persona

stiff pebble
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Mmm

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She has so many fucking cosmetics already man.

errant tusk
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noone wants to work with them

vital pollen
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yeah maybe

errant tusk
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kyle talks there about it

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that noone wants to take valve's majors even

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thats why we're stuck with bad pgl

vital pollen
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but like

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its not like theres a lot of other production companies

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in the gaming sphere anyway

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riot does their own stuff

errant tusk
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because its incinerating money

vital pollen
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ye

errant tusk
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unless you're esl and have katowice/cologne

vital pollen
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its just not profitable

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to produce esports events

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unless you cheap out 24/7

errant tusk
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riot is probably making money

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right?

vital pollen
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nah

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their battlepasses etc. are even worse

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they just have more corporate sponsors

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cause they sold out

errant tusk
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they were probably pressured to do battlepass

vital pollen
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franchised it all etc

errant tusk
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becuase of direct comparisons to dota

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or well i mean TI battlepass

stiff pebble
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Ye

errant tusk
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now there is multiple battlepasses because $$$$

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and they like money

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even tho dota is like 0.1% project for them

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i think their revenues from battlepass/dota in general is less than 1% because yea they have better things

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just take a look how active steam market is 😄

stiff pebble
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Esports in general have just never been profitable except for some investors, and making it, or at least trying to make it, profitable just leads to gross shit usually.

errant tusk
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there is few ways of making money yea

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one of them is having some t2-t3 team of young players and hoping they have breakout performance so you can sell them for big profit to some org that actually wants to win

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like ence does for example in csgo

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or copenhagen flames or whatever the fuck that team was

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but then you have orgs like complexity/eg that incinerate money

stiff pebble
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Yep

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Most eSports organizations are propped up entirely by venture capital looking to make a return.

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Then not advertising the game is also fucking annoying because I think it's so easy to point to what's better about Dota than some of the other offerings in the genre.

buoyant sage
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wdym by "production companies"

vital pollen
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pgl, esl

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redbull used to do some as well

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but yeah its less production companies and more TOs at this poiint

buoyant sage
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I know valve position is "we're game developers, we dont do esports"

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I see

vital pollen
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its kinda become the same

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a TO isnt hiring a production company anymore

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theyre just doing it themselves

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cause its cheaper

buoyant sage
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same old same old

buoyant sage
errant tusk
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is it coz people hate them being so predatory about it and gating it behind level 500

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or because of the adjusted prices to regions?

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has to be latter one

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all my friends that always buy it no matter how shit it is bought 500 anyway

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also kinda unexepected

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ngl

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3-0 aswell

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very unexpected

stiff pebble
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Yep. Not close. At all.

errant tusk
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outsiders didnt lose a single map

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and thne just got 3-0'd

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i guess stubborn in drafts idk

stiff pebble
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Rodger also playing like a freak.

vital pollen
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Usually we had everything from the start

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Except the immortal treasures 2/3

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Now it releases in like 2 blocks?

torn girder
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Ye vp getting 3-0’d was weird lol

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Woke up and checked results and was like wtf

vital pollen
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boom just looked really damn solid leading up to the finals tho

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they just rolled over everybody yesterday and today

tender fox
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they recruited boombl4 to roll over opponents?

vital pollen
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lmao

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infamous lost all drafting priorities

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cause leostyle used a monkey courier with a racist name

stiff pebble
vital pollen
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looks like theyre losing 0-3 anyway

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or well, not anyway

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this definitely caused some problems 😄

errant tusk
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tell me

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its not real

vital pollen
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@errant tusk love losing 3 matches in a row to maphackers

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feels like

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old dota1 days

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where you cant play outside of inhouse leagues anymore

errant tusk
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playing dota 2

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good one

vital pollen
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i mean, playing with some old friends

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just frustrating when youre in the treeling

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and the mag just blinks on top of you for horntoss > skewer

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with zero vision

vital pollen
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Wonder if xg is gonna finally ban maybe puck. Dude is a menace on the hero

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2k networth behind paparazzi Lina by minute 10 and still making insane plays

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Puck ban finally. And paparazzi sf poggers

stiff pebble
errant tusk
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na quals finals

vital pollen
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yeah

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china was pog tho

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maybe with 4deaths in 3 games, over 50 kills

errant tusk
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cant wait for my favourite loser to be featured in another truesight

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ame PogU

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he is the villain of that anime tho

vital pollen
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haha

stiff pebble
vital pollen
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RNG is looking really good atm

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kaka and maybe are in top form

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if they can keep it up, they might be better than LGD

errant tusk
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idk i have learned (learnt?) with tis

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that its just

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form of the day/moment/week is so big

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idk

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last 3 tis been won by teams from open quals

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so maybe its secret's year

vital pollen
stiff pebble
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Doubt.

errant tusk
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why would you doubt

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that squad with zayac/reso looked so much better than iceiceice one

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id put them as favourites to get through euw qual

vital pollen
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reso one of my fav plaers

errant tusk
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honestly

stiff pebble
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Stranger things have definitely happened for fucking sure.

vital pollen
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always been solid

stiff pebble
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Ye

errant tusk
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reso is amazing yea

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there is 4 rly good teams in euw qual tho

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nigma looked good too

stiff pebble
errant tusk
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liquid had ok season in general

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but secret isnt na

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euw qualifiers are gonna be rly interesting tho

stiff pebble
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Is NA NA?

errant tusk
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im confused

stiff pebble
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I was only doubting NA, not Secret.

errant tusk
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fair

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i dont rly believe in any of the na teams rly

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i like ccnc/quinn as a player tho

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think he's rly good at the game

stiff pebble
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Ye

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I think I might have liked him more when he was watching MasterChef though.

errant tusk
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did he even watch them? idk

stiff pebble
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Anyway I just don't want it to be a shit show.

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Yeah a long time ago

tender fox
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why is everyone getting sweeped in finals

tender fox
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nigma gonna fall to goonsquad Kreygasm

stiff pebble
tender fox
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ursa firsthitbash on void KEKW

stiff pebble
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Always

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Void shard

100rogue 100rogue 100rogue 100rogue 100rogue

stiff pebble
tender fox
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u got a auto pfp changer at this point?

stiff pebble
tender fox
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secret gonna lose KEKL

stiff pebble
vital pollen
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would be hilarious

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nigma and secret in lower bracket already

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only one of them will make it into last chance

tender fox
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i mean nigma has not been good for a while

stiff pebble
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Every time I have watched them play I've been curious about their ability to make bracket runs.

tender fox
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wat is secret doin

versed matrix
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no secret TI

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book it

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was it OG vs nigma in quals last year

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or something similar

tender fox
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they cant kill DP

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using all their spells

errant tusk
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man no way secret doesnt qualify LOLW

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but i just came back and its 1-1 even game

versed matrix
stiff pebble
versed matrix
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secret running them over now

errant tusk
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ye this one looks giga over

vital pollen
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fml

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grubby bis

tender fox
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i dunno crystallis just doesnt feel like a secret player

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wd shard make him invis or something?

stiff pebble
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I think it makes him into the death ward

tender fox
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ah ye prolly

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reso carrying this

stiff pebble
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And I will say it again, faceless void shard is bullshit.

tender fox
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feels like there are a lot less hype leading up to ti this year or maybe its just me not caring enough

versed matrix
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tinker seems nice

stiff pebble
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Ye?

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Stormstormer is an Invoker freak this is not surprising.

errant tusk
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will nigma lose to brame

stiff pebble
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This is what I mean by what I said yesterday about Nigma.

Sometimes it feels like they're playing the game through other people's monitors or something.

tender fox
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i just want alliance to lose vs team bald

errant tusk
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they should've already made serious changes 2 years ago or so

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but they refused

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and they just kept on kicking the last guy

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its like the legendary nip csgo lineup all over again

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@tender fox wdym team bald is qualifying

stiff pebble
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Yep

errant tusk
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and gorgc is gonna beat ame in final

tender fox
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ye and for that to happen alliance must lose vs them

errant tusk
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why do you even hate on alliance

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or you mean org alliance?

tender fox
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so loda can lose 10k per day

stiff pebble
errant tusk
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i dont even know any player from that team now besides nikobaby

tender fox
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w33ha?

errant tusk
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i didnt even know he is there alkXD

tender fox
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joined after third nigma kick

errant tusk
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irrelevant team anyway

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but yea org is scummy

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and i dislike the org

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nigma just keeps on kicking the 5th guy they add

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because i bet they use the logic WE HAD SUCCESS AS 4

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WE CAN DO ITA GAIN

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surely its the 5th guy fault clueless

tender fox
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iltw+w33 has been there a few tiems right

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or maybe iltw is og

errant tusk
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iltw couldnt work in that team ever

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i used to hate on him

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but i think he was just a scapegoat

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like you cant pick this guy luna on pos 1

tender fox
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was just sad for him, joined, kicked then joined and kicked

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before ti or something

errant tusk
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and suck miracles dick on mid 24/7

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like you just cant

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they needed to pick him some dogshit non carries on safelane like necro

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if they wanna play like that

tender fox
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they needed matu

errant tusk
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also laning with kuro

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= insta lose every lane

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because he was so bad

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yea matu was mad underrated for ages tbh

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i think

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but i mean he is perfect player to play with miracles/nishas

tender fox
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he embraces the pos2 from safelane

errant tusk
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ye

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because when you have miracle/nisha you have pos 1 from mid lane

tender fox
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and he plays ld and shit that u can and want to leave alone

errant tusk
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he had weird af hero pool too

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he could play some random garbage that would just stomp game because he'd play necrophoses

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broodmothers

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even ld is very quirky offmeta nowadays

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besides that malaysia tournament where it was ok

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i mean even if nigma wins this game i assume they get shitstomped by any decent team

vital pollen
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Turn on stream. Gareth casting. Turn off sound.

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God i hope he's not casting ti

stiff pebble
tender fox
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g3 inc KEKW

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nigma byebye

stiff pebble
torn girder
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wtf is this water rune enjoyers team

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are they even div 1

vital pollen
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i mean they took a game off of itb, no?

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and itb is definitely one oft he better teams

torn girder
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no no

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im not like

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saying who the fuck are they as in they are shit

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just never heard of them

tender fox
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6th div2

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started lb

vital pollen
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ye

torn girder
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didnt know div 2 gets to play in ti quals

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this riki supp is nice

vital pollen
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yeah

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the div1 teams start upper bracket

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the div2 ones in LB

torn girder
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neat

tender fox
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few in top of div2 was in ub also

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top3 it looks like

distant yoke
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is it just me

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or is this TI quali jsut omega boring

torn girder
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idk i watch when i can

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it just feels like the good teams are just quite far ahead of the others

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dota is in a weird spot when you question whether nigma is even a good team atm

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or secret

distant yoke
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yea i mean

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i watched some NA games

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and honestly

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as a region, i feel like NA are lightyears behind EU/China

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and these lower bracket teams in EU would prob have a good run in NA

torn girder
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thats been the case for most esports for awhile i think

distant yoke
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but its so boring to watch bad dota when ur used to LGD, spirit, OG pace

torn girder
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yea

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and even then xiao8 will just throw away a grand final with naga siren spam

distant yoke
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LGD might be the weirdest team in professional dota

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sniper KEKK

torn girder
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im also tired of just seeing fucking DP every game deadge

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also feels like some weird metas developing in regions of picking 3 mid game oriented cores with no real late game option

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or like a non traditional pos 1 and have your pos 2 be carry

distant yoke
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i havent paid enough attention to the meta

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ah yes cant wait for alliance batchest

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the worst team in EU

torn girder
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it was sad watching them throw that one game away

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where it was giga late

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SF vs Lina

torn girder
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wait wtf

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pango marcy is actually imba

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sidekick swash on wave is like mk jingu boundless wtf

stiff pebble
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Marci sandking is s also fucking obnoxious

errant tusk
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gorgc team sotomping

tender fox
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alliance kekDepp

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team bald aPES2_Cheer

distant yoke
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aluliance

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idk what this alliance team is

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who the fuck is Limitless

versed matrix
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some dogs from the shelter

distant yoke
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their coach is a hots player

versed matrix
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was watching the man city game, forgot about dota

tender fox
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ez goal for haaland

distant yoke
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the HÃ¥land jerkoff competition

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can hopefully end

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sooner rather than later

versed matrix
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its only been a few games

distant yoke
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its unbearable in swedish studios

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because he's norwegian

tender fox
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he is just fun to watch

distant yoke
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why

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he barely touches the ball

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got that pippo inzaghi eye for a goal

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doesnt do anything spectacular with the ball otherwise

tender fox
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he score goals you know, what the game revolves around

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like it way more than having some backpassing andy

distant yoke
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ye but how is it fun to watch, he's doing tap ins cus of awareness

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fun to watch = ronaldinho

versed matrix
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are you a liverpoo fan

distant yoke
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yes

tender fox
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i think its fun to watch him beat down holding off like 3 defenedrs and scoring in PL when they all jerk of their own league

distant yoke
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typical stockholmer opinion

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fucking serie A wankers

versed matrix
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maybe nunez will be decent

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liverpool have been kinda shit though

distant yoke
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listen i am not saying nunez is anything like håland

versed matrix
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went for almost double the price

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market is insane

distant yoke
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i jsut dont think håland is a spectacular player playstyle wise, he scores a fuckton of goals cus he got everything except technique

tender fox
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pool fans after community shield or w/e vs now KEKW

distant yoke
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wdym

versed matrix
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insane positioning and choice of space

distant yoke
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yes

versed matrix
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makes it look so easy

tender fox
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they were all like haaland noob nunez numba one we are the best yey HYPERS

distant yoke
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he's like a big, physical pippo inzaghi

versed matrix
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not spectacular though

distant yoke
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insane

distant yoke
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because in the future liverpool will play like shit

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and nunez will headbutt someone

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ok dood

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captain hindsight

versed matrix
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that headbutt was so funny

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played like a fiddle

tender fox
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nah im just sayign how they all played down haaland after first game before season started

distant yoke
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yea idk, he's such a manchild atm

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i think everyone knew håland would be good

versed matrix
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get rid of the man bun

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looks so bad

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haland too

distant yoke
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ur allowed to banter another team tho

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if you beat them

versed matrix
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like a troll

tender fox
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and alliance tapped out KEKL

versed matrix
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im a united fan, so far its been decent

distant yoke
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alliance should tap out of dota

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forever

tender fox
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ye loda is bleeding 10k per day

distant yoke
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good

distant yoke
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compared to last season

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still no insane football being played, but winning at least

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and showing will

tender fox
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been good at counter attacking NODDERS

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rashford running

distant yoke
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literally all i ask for as a fan of a team, i want to see them give all they got, if they are shit then so be it. But liverpool right now are running around chilling on the pitch and letting in ridiculous goals

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its so frustrating to watch

tender fox
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well u have kinda been defending with 2 cb+fabinho

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getting abused on the wings

distant yoke
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never seen trent this bad

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defensively

tender fox
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cus u didnt use to defend KEKW

distant yoke
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he's been ok in previous seasons, but this season he's literally not doing anything right

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in defense

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going forward always a threat ofc

tender fox
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should honestly just move him up and put in a real defender

versed matrix
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TAA always sus defensively

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but got cover from midfield like henderson

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van dijk not having a good time either

distant yoke
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hendo is on his last strides

versed matrix
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inhalers ran out

distant yoke
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milner is finished

versed matrix
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keita permacrock

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also crap

distant yoke
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our central midfield is in total shambles if thiago is injured

tender fox
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fabinho has also been kinda injured prone

versed matrix
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im surprised how good eriksen has been

distant yoke
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ye its insanity that they didnt throw money at a CM this window

versed matrix
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if he goes out its down to 0

tender fox
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and firmino doing the most work on top, missing mane badly

distant yoke
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yea i mean Eriksen is adapting

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playing a low sitting role, kinda weird

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but i guess it works

versed matrix
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he is the pre assist

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quick transition into bruno

distant yoke
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its what we call a "hockey assist"

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in sweden

versed matrix
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because everyone else is shit

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fred and mct cant pass for shit

distant yoke
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McFred KEKK

versed matrix
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casemiro not that type either

tender fox
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u dont need 2 passers

versed matrix
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you start taking the noose out when you see mcfred

tender fox
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just get casemiro in to clean up in front

versed matrix
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pooshited midfield has been horrendous for a long time

tender fox
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but the money spent on antony etc is stupid KEKW

versed matrix
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antony not worth half what they paid

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ajax skinned them

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but they were desperate and have the money

distant yoke
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he's a fun player to watch tho

versed matrix
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so fuck the glazers

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ronaldo gash as well

distant yoke
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a Taarabt player

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we love taraabt players

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brings some flavor to the league

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dribbling for the sake of it

versed matrix
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yeah, a lot of pressure on him because of the price

tender fox
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but yeah kinda sad to see players like ronaldo die on the bench cus they dont wanna retire

versed matrix
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hope he enjoys it and grows into it

distant yoke
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did you see zlatans latest comments

versed matrix
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no

tender fox
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nah

distant yoke
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still not retiring

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he's gonna play this season

versed matrix
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is he out injured atm or am I misremembering

tender fox
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well he kinda got big influence on the squad, i guess ronaldo do in someway to but yeah feels diff

distant yoke
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"When i see someone thats better than me i will retire, so far i dont see anyone like that"

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is basically what he said

tender fox
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giroud PEPW

versed matrix
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ronaldo has always been a pissbaby

distant yoke
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Ronaldo is prob done

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with football

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just cashing in

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500k a week

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ez money

versed matrix
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imagine earning that in a week

tender fox
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milans team is actually kinda insane

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they are all sub 23yo or something except for giroud+zlatan

distant yoke
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ye they're looking great

tender fox
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hernandez and leao prolly lost next season though

distant yoke
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honestly think chelsea might go out in the group stage

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losing against zagreb and x today

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milan to go

tender fox
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well the other teams are all losing points also

versed matrix
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I lowkey hope potter flops

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everyone sucking his dick

distant yoke
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Potter is a swedish legend

tender fox
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made Östersund beat ppl up in europe

distant yoke
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for what he did to Östersund

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ye

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madness

versed matrix
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but fuck chelsea

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I wouldnt mind a timeline where liverpool and chelsea are shit this season

tender fox
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but what is this 2 weeks of mourning pushing games why

distant yoke
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no games until october :))

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cus of international break

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why the fuck do they have international break now

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when there's a WC in 2 months

tender fox
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kinda weird they only push the fun games

#

"to few police cus funeral day after" or something

distant yoke
#

because the "fun games" aka the big games

#

require more police

#

than small team games

tender fox
#

ye but the funeral is day after madgeBusiness

vital pollen
distant yoke
#

ye

#

agreed

vital pollen
#

but also a stomp

#

all of them are, kinda

#

mostly cause

#

DPC was fucking garbage

#

so a bunch of trash teams got through

#

and a bunch of good ones didnt

tender fox
#

gorc kicking out alliance with pudge dance

versed matrix
#

alliance lul

vital pollen
#

tbf pudge is a really good hero atm

#

fleshheap is broken

versed matrix
#

wtf happened to void

tender fox
#

you mean the arcana or what

versed matrix
#

no, did he die to cm 1v3

tender fox
#

maybe watch some sea tomorrow see if ana+topson qual

#

team bald is choking

#

they all just keep tp and die

versed matrix
#

good fight finally

tender fox
#

Couldnt do shit vs void

#

And its nikos best hero i think

#

Gorp Sadge

errant tusk
#

my streamer

#

this mars is some hot garbage tho

#

holy

#

actually 6th man for TB KEKW

torn girder
#

alliance trying to pull out win through lagging the game out with PL

errant tusk
#

my streamer

vital pollen
#

tbf

#

its a horrendous mars game

#

against tusk/visage

distant yoke
#

team bald is what alliance should be

#

alliance is an abomination

vital pollen
#

idk if it was on purpose, but the fact they gave farming prio to the tusk for his bkb at the start and then later to the hoodwink for pl counter, and swapped the visage to become more of a support this game.... that was pretty damn cool

#

dont think you can do good arenas against a tusk that has bkb minute 17

errant tusk
#

🔮

vital pollen
#

I feel like meme teams undermine the integrity of the league. DPC shouldn't be for joke teams that aren't taking things seriously. In my opinion, Valve should step in and ban Alliance.

errant tusk
#

HE WAS RIGHT

#

i mean not like team bald takes it super seriously

errant tusk
#

they dont even practice as much as other teams

#

they just stream

vital pollen
#

wasnt that smth loda said

#

like

#

5y ago or smth

errant tusk
#

idk

vital pollen
#

psure it was

errant tusk
#

loda says lots of dumbs hit

#

he is not a smart man

vital pollen
#

i mean

#

he is swedish so

errant tusk
vital pollen
#

xcalibur just said they needed a break at the start of the series

#

cause one of their players had to finish their wow raid

errant tusk
#

where did he say that

vital pollen
#

his stream

#

hes going over the last match rn

#

he said in one of the breaks they took to discuss strats, the guy suddenly asked if someone had any ideas on how to beat the wow raidboss they were on

tender fox
#

only alliance meme or gorp threads on reddit PEPW

versed matrix
#

secrekt

errant tusk
#

secret deleted

#

farmed real hard

stiff pebble
#

-Secret

tender fox
versed matrix
#

pos1 player z impact both games

tender fox
#

team bald got ez lb run ahead of them

stiff pebble
errant tusk
tender fox
#

how many dollares is that

versed matrix
#

ive never seen primal beast

stiff pebble
versed matrix
#

ever

stiff pebble
tender fox
#

guess it got into cm in newest patch

stiff pebble
#

Yep

vital pollen
#

and its incredibly broken

vital pollen
#

ah yes another maphacking zeus

#

finds me with his nimbus

tender fox
#

talon 1-0 t1 dance

tender fox
#

23savage is kinda like EE

#

make insane or garbo plays

tender fox
#

are you a FiftEE/FiftEE enjoye?

tender fox
#

g3 nigma-secret aPES_Shake

errant tusk
#

nigma getting shitstomped

versed matrix
#

washed up team

errant tusk
#

bad draft

tender fox
#

nisha just rolled whole team

buoyant sage
#

nigma not qualified for TI?

#

didnt rly follow, shitload of work

tender fox
#

yep secret knocked em out in lb

buoyant sage
#

oh lb

#

whats the final?

tender fox
buoyant sage
#

oh theres some to play still

#

ty

tender fox
#

secret gotta win next to get into the wild card qual if they dont win it

#

or it was called last chance qual where 2-3 from every qual duke it out

buoyant sage
#

I see

#

goodsquad has a chance too, they seemed really fine last time I watched them

tender fox
#

ye secret has not looked great so feels 50/50

#

only top2 to TI, looks pretty stacked

torn girder
#

Vici outsiders likely to just roll all i think

#

Although outsiders could choke

tender fox
#

vici is kinda a new team

#

xtreme is better

errant tusk
#

think outsiders tilted in finals

versed matrix
#

think pudge lost every game ive seen

tender fox
#

pudge refresher just double ate tb to death middle of fight KEKW

errant tusk
#

how is itb vs goonsquad going? Cant check not at home

tender fox
#

goonsquad 20k lead

#

and better team

#

g3

versed matrix
#

1-1 and gs 20k lead ye

errant tusk
#

kk ty

#

suprising tbh goonsquad doing way better than expected

versed matrix
#

pudge kinda stinky

#

if omni saves TB pudge cant double eat

tender fox
#

i mean goonsquad is doing whats expected so far right? only liquid+entity+secret got better placement in div1

#

with nigma as dark horse as winners of div2

versed matrix
#

nigma dark horse lul

tender fox
#

pudge owning them

errant tusk
#

thought itb would beat them

#

itb played kinda well

versed matrix
#

omni got caught and they won a team fight + rosh

tender fox
#

itb just won teamfight 20k behind

versed matrix
#

pudge is 10k behind tb tho

tender fox
#

5k after last fight

#

dont think it was 10k before that

versed matrix
#

pudge pos 1 is kinda interesting

#

its always been a mid in my head

#

and then its been shit for like 4 years

tender fox
#

i mean he is kinda pos2 from safelane still

#

u want something like a lina/right clicker as pos1 mid

#

and tb keep getting solo killed by pudge without using ult

versed matrix
#

a nice game

tender fox
#

haha pudge is owning this tb so hard

versed matrix
#

no boots pudka, 280 move speed

#

t5 neutrals

#

and itb gold lead now

tender fox
#

gs 20k lead and now itb got 15k lead KEKW

#

casual 35k swing

versed matrix
#

each rosh is a lot

#

on top of the fights

tender fox
#

how do they lose this

#

tb aint doing shit

#

marci getting big

versed matrix
#

bought rapier

#

gg ez

torn girder
#

The team with tb lost?

tender fox
#

Ye, kept going hg and pudge solo killed tb

#

Refresher aghs op

#

Early linked or disk would have won game ez

torn girder
#

Noobs

distant yoke
#

old alliance

#

3 versions of alliance

#

in this EU quals

#

currently another old alliance is playing vs Entity

versed matrix
#

alliance is back

#

to the fountain

vital pollen
#

yeah just greed

#

not using blackhole to kill off the void

distant yoke
#

ban void

vital pollen
#

nah

#

liquid had this

#

zai just threw this game

distant yoke
#

zai Sadge

vital pollen
#

i hate this wraith pact first item enigma so much

#

i dont think ive seen it win a single time

#

in like 10 games

distant yoke
#

khezu looks so different

#

quitting comp dota did him good

vital pollen
#

hmye

errant tusk
#

this wd

#

is actual biggest gigachad ive ever seen

#

and people say pos 5 doesnt matter

#

meanwhile he won them this teamfight so hard lmao

versed matrix
#

pos 5 doesnt matter when its a dog player

errant tusk
#

can be said about every position

#

xdd

versed matrix
#

pos 5 positioning has to be on point the most

errant tusk
#

actually so nicely timed by slark

#

to pounce

#

i mean game is over feels like

#

they will never leave base against bara

#

spirit breaker*

versed matrix
#

barathrum > spirit breaker

#

they got ran over

#

I cant put my finger on it, secret just have not been looking good in the games ive seen

tender fox
#

Should have replaced cryst

errant tusk
#

meh thats not just his fault

#

also he might be good player just might take a little bit longer time to adapt

#

its not like secret was doing amazing without him

versed matrix
#

im sure he is a good player, all of them are they just dont seem to be working as a team

errant tusk
#

its been nisha show for entire season

#

either nisha plays well and solo carries

#

or he doesnt

torn girder
versed matrix
#

nigma no TI 2 years in a row

#

secret 4th place last year or was it 3rd

torn girder
#

uhhh

#

i think one of those 2 yea

#

yea 3rd, they got beat by ruski's for spot in grand final iirc

#

tbh i forgot they got 3rd

#

not a bad showing tbh

#

they had that one tourny where they clapped group stage but then got owned

tender fox
#

secret KEKW

versed matrix
#

bro fuck these delays

tender fox
#

lol so they didnt play last game

#

and t1 got third ana topson has to try last chance PEPW

errant tusk
#

thats good

vital pollen
tender fox
#

weird secret draft

#

ppy gonna outdraft himself cus he is always trying to be to cute

#

feel like veno and invoker gonna fuck up their melee lineup so hard

tender fox
#

ok lesh and kka getting to big and carries

tender fox
#

secret KEKW

#

wd just carrying fight at 70 min

buoyant sage
#

68 min game

#

played like 40 matches since the patch

#

and a lot of game go to late/very late game

tender fox
#

crystallis is always fucking 6th in networth as pos1

#

he seems very bad at farming

#

but reso and nisha is always omega farmed so maybe he is just pos3

buoyant sage
#

couldnt really do shit with dawnbreaker at this stage of the game

#

but ye

tender fox
#

well its all games

#

game before mk pos1 6th networth

#

last of all cores every game

tender fox
#

why is it always such big delay, secret whining on servers again cus they lose?

#

bootcamping in some weird place

errant tusk
#

it wasnt just secret

#

it was every team that had issues

#

even gorgc said on stream he had lags in some game

#

goonsquad too

#

ITB too

#

also they played 70 minute game give them a break holy shit

tender fox
errant tusk
#

coz if kobe or shaq complain about sth then nba will change it

#

if some piss player from shit team does it noone cares

#

it worked the same with nba rules even

#

how it is sadly

#

idk how serious the matter was but they could've given them ultimatum that they wont play maybe secret was the only team to have balls to do so, we dont know

tender fox
#

crystallis nw again

#

so far behind

errant tusk
#

omg crystalis nw now

#

AND ULTRA KILL

#

HOLY berst player

#

with ice they'd have been already out i bet

#

they just prio other cores usually over him

#

look at the game vs ITB today

#

he didnt even go towards 'easy' farm on offlane

#

they let reso sit there for 15-18 minutes

#

and he was playing dead lane

#

also was playing into shit matchup

#

mk vs veno is so horrendous

vital pollen
#

Good. Reso is a ti-level player. Crystalis isn't

errant tusk
#

what if they beat liquid and entity in finals

tender fox
#

but crystallis is constantly losing lanes and doing weird stuff

errant tusk
#

then he is ti-level player

#

ok you go play a pub

#

and play mk vs veno

#

i wanna see you win that

#

literally unwinnable

tender fox
#

he lose every lane

errant tusk
#

thats just not true

#

even from the top of my head i remember him winning lane and getting solo kill as slark vs batrider

#

i get it people wanna shit on him but its just unfair, they're winning games so surely something is going right still and ofc reso can carry from p3 when he gets m unmch more space than a carry player

#

so does ammar

#

no doubt reso is a better player ofc

buoyant sage
#

mizu talking like it's easy to win your safelane

#

play the game my dude

errant tusk
#

i feel like its another iltw case and he got shit on by community when him underperforming was just team dynamic and drafting

buoyant sage
#

playing pos 1 is like the worst role atm

errant tusk
#

yea you lose like 99% safelanes nowadays

#

coz all the offlaners just bully you

buoyant sage
#

ye

errant tusk
#

last patch was even worse than this

#

everyone last picking vipers/razors

#

absolute unplayable horrendous experience

tender fox
#

but now he lost with razor Hmmm

buoyant sage
#

ye I had enough quickly last patch

#

sebek meant razor offllane

tender fox
#

shoulds till win his lane vs melee

errant tusk
tender fox
#

mars nerfed to the gorund according to atf

tender fox
# errant tusk

he was like 20 lasthit and 1.5k nw behind during laning

#

ppy was even catching up on him

buoyant sage
#

play the game, play pos 1 for 20 games

#

and come back

tender fox
#

or i can listen to gorgc and atf say the same thing

#

but maybe they also need to play the game more

#

but yeah ammar said he is pretty bad at farming in general and dont go to free lanes to farm so others just end up doing it instead

buoyant sage
#

oh then it's alright

errant tusk
#

or they prio other people in farm which is fair

#

if he doesnt swap lane for 10-15 minutes and plays deadlane for 10-15 mintues then idk

#

he's literally 3k mmr then

#

and secret is boosting a guy to TI

tender fox
#

this time he at least ignored mid fight and farmed 10 free waves bot

#

lol that cask

#

still feels weird he is not topping, ignored whole game and farmed free lanes last 10 minutes PEPW

buoyant sage
#

when I see morphling I know why I still auto ban it every game

tender fox
#

feel like a nisha solo carry or lose game

errant tusk
#

so like secret entire season

tender fox
#

wd can carry though

#

weird fight to take, matu owned by tusk

buoyant sage
tender fox
#

the bash

errant tusk
#

its almost like 100% for bash with q from pango

#

i bet

#

or rly good odds

#

coz basher is pseudo rng too

tender fox
#

why do they keep giving aegis to razor and zai solo dies alone KEKW

tender fox
#

Bo5 final wont finish today PEPW

buoyant sage
versed matrix
#

1h break between each game pls

#

lesgooo

tender fox
#

crystallis fucking eating his own hair WTFF

distant yoke
#

what hair

tender fox
#

the one on his head

tender fox
#

entity nice to secret and finishing fast after they had some long games

vital pollen
#

entity just rolling over secret

#

not even breaking a sweat

#

the puppey pos5 cent doesnt seem to work against actual teams

tender fox
#

thought pure got banned

vital pollen
#

pure is probably

tender fox
#

or was it just from that specific tourney it happend

vital pollen
#

the best carry in EU atm

#

legit impressed with his play

errant tusk
#

pure ruined his pro career

#

by writing Z

#

havent you heard?

versed matrix
#

im bussing fucking argos

errant tusk
versed matrix
#

ill get to watch g2

tender fox
#

just dqd from the tourney and kicked NOTED

vital pollen
errant tusk
#

depends what do you mean by EU

#

yatoro is kinda good too tbh

vital pollen
#

well

#

honestly

#

id even put him ahead of yatoro atm

errant tusk
#

but yea pure is playing well

vital pollen
#

theyre very similar

#

big hero pool

#

very active

tender fox
#

but has he played any good teams yet

vital pollen
#

not just afk farming

errant tusk
#

they're shit stomping 2-0 entire qualifier idk

vital pollen
#

ye

#

theyre just breezing through this with no issue

errant tusk
#

and all of their games yhou had a feeling they are better

#

ye

vital pollen
#

theyre gonna 3-0 this GF as well i think

errant tusk
#

the games arent close

#

like its not alliance level stomps

#

or team bald

vital pollen
#

liquid had a bit of a chance in game1 if zai isnt a creep

errant tusk
#

coz these isnt even pro teams

#

but yea all of the games i get feeling they have full control over the game

vital pollen
#

but theyre taking apart the "best eu teams" like secret and liquid

#

and they do iti n style

errant tusk
#

problem i have with secret is they're new team

vital pollen
errant tusk
#

and we have expectations for them to be literally best team in the world

#

and they're brand new team kinda

vital pollen
#

honestly secret aint bad

errant tusk
#

they're gonna benefit a lot from another month or two before TI

vital pollen
#

they just dont have a pos1

errant tusk
#

nah i dont think secret is bad

#

its just everyone has unrealistic expectations

vital pollen
#

zayac is definitely not on the level of other pos4s, but hes doing a good job still

errant tusk
#

that they're gonna be best from the get go

vital pollen
#

and its hard to play around puppey sometimes

errant tusk
#

puppey plays kinda greedy

vital pollen
#

ye

errant tusk
#

which makes sense they kicked yapzor

#

coz usually it was yapzor taking farm

vital pollen
#

its a lot easier to play 4 if you play with a very defensive/no-networth 5

errant tusk
#

and not using it best

#

he plays 4 on laning stage

#

but aftert that i have a feeling farm prio is given to puppey

vital pollen
#

exactly, puppey had started drafting himself pos5s that can have more impact if they get a biut more farm

errant tusk
#

every game zayac is last

#

yea

#

idk these games give me vibe they play offlaner from safelane

vital pollen
#

cause yapzor couldnt play anything else other than rubick

errant tusk
#

and that woulkd be better

tender fox
errant tusk
#

for them anyway

#

bruh thats such a lie

vital pollen
#

thats a good choice imo. reso is just a better player, one of the best still

errant tusk
#

dont believe orgs

#

literally got kicked

#

100%

tender fox
#

feel like he would have joiend up in any qualifier team if kicked

errant tusk
#

dont think he was any hot

#

so why would he get msgd to play

vital pollen
#

which team would want him?

errant tusk
#

yea

vital pollen
#

pos4 is the highest skill position in the game atm

tender fox
#

nigma kick kky

errant tusk
#

ye nigma kicking someone else

#

than their 5th

vital pollen
#

kick your captain/drafter? kekdog

#

but yeah, it seems that their lanes are switched

#

reso carries more than crystallis

#

and zayac plays more of a 5 than ppy

errant tusk
#

i think secret is gonna get biggest buff from getting more time to practice

vital pollen
#

problem is their heroes dont always fit that

errant tusk
#

as they're brand new team in my eyes

vital pollen
#

ye

#

like

errant tusk
#

like they made 3 changes for past 2 months +/-

vital pollen
#

if they can expand their hero selection a bit to fit this kinda gameplay

#

where you dont know which lane is gonna get farm prio

#

that'd be huge

errant tusk
#

maybe more than 2 months

#

but very few tournaments they played together

tender fox
#

i dont see secret winning last chance

errant tusk
#

i could see them doing it

vital pollen
#

also

#

can teams stop playing natures prophet?

errant tusk
#

they will improve the most out of all the teams that go to wildcard last chance qual

tender fox
#

there are some good teams in there

vital pollen
#

i mean

errant tusk
#

outsiders is good

tender fox
#

t1 can improve a lot

#

xtreme is good, outsiders

vital pollen
#

last chance qual is gonna be outsiders+xtreme

#

dont think theres gonna be any competition there

errant tusk
#

outsiders are good yea

#

but somehow they inted their qual

vital pollen
#

if extreme manages to not pick enigma

#

theyll be fine too

errant tusk
#

i know liquid wont get through last chance qualifier

#

they just never are clutch

tender fox
#

liquid need sk offlane to become meta or something so zai can carry again

errant tusk
#

they never win the close 1-1 last game

#

idk

vital pollen
#

the quality of the matches is just not even comparable imo