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Yeah but it's not like ESL doesn't literally have a Russian mafia gambling website sponsor as well.
And it's not like a shit ton of teams don't have betting websites sponsors as well

I kind of just wish they were better companies to do this but I think that's a bit of a pipe dream
There's only 2 production companies in dota left and they both suck ass
Same with sponsors
Betting sites and crypto are the only ones to have plenty of money to throw around
Ye
Companies like Intel or Nvidia have plenty of advertising space outside of gaming events, so they don't care that much
There was some talk about there being more subtle main stage advertising from companies like ASUS and intel
But it doesn't include banners or overlays and shit because it's mainstage
ye
they typically just sponsor the event directly and get exposure that way
but theyre not "headline" sponsors
definitely seems like theres a lack of attention really
most of the new sets are just the ones that didnt make it into previous TI one
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.
They all have to follow the creative guidelines so it's not like you're getting outdated sets that are low quality in some way.
maybe
but its still bad decisionmaking
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
the event mode is announced but missing (and its just diretide again), 1 arcana is missing, both personas are missing
theyve only shown 1 set of immortal treasures too, usually they already showed 2 but only released one
I will say that it does seem like they chose the wrong heroes to give them to ye
more than 50% of the battlepass features are "coming soon"
Are the personas just not in this phase?
nah
and i mean
not a big fan of the cm fursona anyway
i kinda like the idea of gender-swapped personas
like male PA/female AM
but CM is just getting a fursona it seems
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
nah, but from the art it seems obvious
and the description
youll just get a wolf persona
thats valve's fault
noone wants to work with them
yeah maybe
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kyle talks there about it
that noone wants to take valve's majors even
thats why we're stuck with bad pgl

but like
its not like theres a lot of other production companies
in the gaming sphere anyway
riot does their own stuff
because its incinerating money
ye
unless you're esl and have katowice/cologne
nah
their battlepasses etc. are even worse
they just have more corporate sponsors
cause they sold out
they were probably pressured to do battlepass
franchised it all etc
Ye
now there is multiple battlepasses because $$$$
and they like money
even tho dota is like 0.1% project for them
i think their revenues from battlepass/dota in general is less than 1% because yea they have better things
just take a look how active steam market is 😄
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.
there is few ways of making money yea
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
like ence does for example in csgo
or copenhagen flames or whatever the fuck that team was
but then you have orgs like complexity/eg that incinerate money
Yep
Most eSports organizations are propped up entirely by venture capital looking to make a return.
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.
wdym by "production companies"
pgl, esl
redbull used to do some as well
but yeah its less production companies and more TOs at this poiint
its kinda become the same
a TO isnt hiring a production company anymore
theyre just doing it themselves
cause its cheaper
same old same old
is it coz people hate them being so predatory about it and gating it behind level 500
or because of the adjusted prices to regions?
has to be latter one
all my friends that always buy it no matter how shit it is bought 500 anyway

also kinda unexepected
ngl
3-0 aswell
very unexpected
Yep. Not close. At all.
outsiders didnt lose a single map
and thne just got 3-0'd
i guess stubborn in drafts idk
Rodger also playing like a freak.
It's also cause it is basically just released differently
Usually we had everything from the start
Except the immortal treasures 2/3
Now it releases in like 2 blocks?
boom just looked really damn solid leading up to the finals tho
they just rolled over everybody yesterday and today
they recruited boombl4 to roll over opponents?
lmao
infamous lost all drafting priorities
cause leostyle used a monkey courier with a racist name

looks like theyre losing 0-3 anyway

or well, not anyway
this definitely caused some problems 😄
@errant tusk love losing 3 matches in a row to maphackers
feels like
old dota1 days
where you cant play outside of inhouse leagues anymore

playing dota 2
good one
i mean, playing with some old friends
just frustrating when youre in the treeling
and the mag just blinks on top of you for horntoss > skewer
with zero vision
Wonder if xg is gonna finally ban maybe puck. Dude is a menace on the hero
2k networth behind paparazzi Lina by minute 10 and still making insane plays
Puck ban finally. And paparazzi sf 

cant wait for my favourite loser to be featured in another truesight
ame 
he is the villain of that anime tho
haha

RNG is looking really good atm
kaka and maybe are in top form
if they can keep it up, they might be better than LGD
idk i have learned (learnt?) with tis
that its just
form of the day/moment/week is so big
idk
last 3 tis been won by teams from open quals
so maybe its secret's year

Doubt.
why would you doubt
that squad with zayac/reso looked so much better than iceiceice one
id put them as favourites to get through euw qual
reso one of my fav plaers
honestly
Stranger things have definitely happened for fucking sure.
always been solid
Ye
reso is amazing yea
there is 4 rly good teams in euw qual tho
nigma looked good too
I just doubt NA as a knee-jerk reaction, they're totally fine and better than average most of the time.
liquid had ok season in general
but secret isnt na

euw qualifiers are gonna be rly interesting tho
im confused
fair
i dont rly believe in any of the na teams rly
i like ccnc/quinn as a player tho
think he's rly good at the game
did he even watch them? idk
why is everyone getting sweeped in finals
nigma gonna fall to goonsquad 

ursa firsthitbash on void 
u got a auto pfp changer at this point?
The new discord updates fudged the last one so I've been testing in a little.
secret gonna lose 

would be hilarious
nigma and secret in lower bracket already
only one of them will make it into last chance

i mean nigma has not been good for a while
Every time I have watched them play I've been curious about their ability to make bracket runs.
wat is secret doin
no secret TI
book it
was it OG vs nigma in quals last year
or something similar


secret running them over now
ye this one looks giga over
i dunno crystallis just doesnt feel like a secret player
wd shard make him invis or something?
I think it makes him into the death ward
feels like there are a lot less hype leading up to ti this year or maybe its just me not caring enough
tinker seems nice
will nigma lose to brame
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.
i just want alliance to lose vs team bald
they should've already made serious changes 2 years ago or so
but they refused
and they just kept on kicking the last guy
its like the legendary nip csgo lineup all over again
@tender fox wdym team bald is qualifying
Yep
ye and for that to happen alliance must lose vs them
so loda can lose 10k per day

i dont even know any player from that team now besides nikobaby
w33ha?
i didnt even know he is there 
joined after third nigma kick
irrelevant team anyway
but yea org is scummy
and i dislike the org
nigma just keeps on kicking the 5th guy they add
because i bet they use the logic WE HAD SUCCESS AS 4
WE CAN DO ITA GAIN

surely its the 5th guy fault 
iltw couldnt work in that team ever
i used to hate on him
but i think he was just a scapegoat
like you cant pick this guy luna on pos 1
and suck miracles dick on mid 24/7
like you just cant
they needed to pick him some dogshit non carries on safelane like necro
if they wanna play like that
they needed matu
also laning with kuro
= insta lose every lane
because he was so bad
yea matu was mad underrated for ages tbh
i think
but i mean he is perfect player to play with miracles/nishas
he embraces the pos2 from safelane
and he plays ld and shit that u can and want to leave alone
he had weird af hero pool too
he could play some random garbage that would just stomp game because he'd play necrophoses
broodmothers
even ld is very quirky offmeta nowadays
besides that malaysia tournament where it was ok
i mean even if nigma wins this game i assume they get shitstomped by any decent team


i mean they took a game off of itb, no?
and itb is definitely one oft he better teams
no no
im not like
saying who the fuck are they as in they are shit
just never heard of them
ye
neat
idk i watch when i can
it just feels like the good teams are just quite far ahead of the others
dota is in a weird spot when you question whether nigma is even a good team atm
or secret
yea i mean
i watched some NA games
and honestly
as a region, i feel like NA are lightyears behind EU/China
and these lower bracket teams in EU would prob have a good run in NA
thats been the case for most esports for awhile i think
but its so boring to watch bad dota when ur used to LGD, spirit, OG pace
im also tired of just seeing fucking DP every game 
also feels like some weird metas developing in regions of picking 3 mid game oriented cores with no real late game option
or like a non traditional pos 1 and have your pos 2 be carry
i havent paid enough attention to the meta
ah yes cant wait for alliance 
the worst team in EU
it was sad watching them throw that one game away
where it was giga late
SF vs Lina
wait wtf
pango marcy is actually imba
sidekick swash on wave is like mk jingu boundless wtf
Marci sandking is s also fucking obnoxious
some dogs from the shelter
their coach is a hots player
was watching the man city game, forgot about dota
ez goal for haaland
its only been a few games
he is just fun to watch
why
he barely touches the ball
got that pippo inzaghi eye for a goal
doesnt do anything spectacular with the ball otherwise
he score goals you know, what the game revolves around
like it way more than having some backpassing andy
ye but how is it fun to watch, he's doing tap ins cus of awareness
fun to watch = ronaldinho
are you a liverpoo fan
yes
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
listen i am not saying nunez is anything like håland
i jsut dont think håland is a spectacular player playstyle wise, he scores a fuckton of goals cus he got everything except technique
pool fans after community shield or w/e vs now 
wdym
insane positioning and choice of space
yes
makes it look so easy
they were all like haaland noob nunez numba one we are the best yey 
he's like a big, physical pippo inzaghi
not spectacular though
insane
so ur saying we shouldnt celebrate winning vs city
because in the future liverpool will play like shit
and nunez will headbutt someone
ok dood
captain hindsight
nah im just sayign how they all played down haaland after first game before season started
like a troll
and alliance tapped out 
im a united fan, so far its been decent
ye loda is bleeding 10k per day
good
looking promising
compared to last season
still no insane football being played, but winning at least
and showing will
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
its so frustrating to watch
cus u didnt use to defend 
he's been ok in previous seasons, but this season he's literally not doing anything right
in defense
going forward always a threat ofc
should honestly just move him up and put in a real defender
TAA always sus defensively
but got cover from midfield like henderson
van dijk not having a good time either
hendo is on his last strides
inhalers ran out
milner is finished
our central midfield is in total shambles if thiago is injured
fabinho has also been kinda injured prone
im surprised how good eriksen has been
ye its insanity that they didnt throw money at a CM this window
if he goes out its down to 0
and firmino doing the most work on top, missing mane badly
yea i mean Eriksen is adapting
playing a low sitting role, kinda weird
but i guess it works
McFred 
casemiro not that type either
u dont need 2 passers
you start taking the noose out when you see mcfred
just get casemiro in to clean up in front
pooshited midfield has been horrendous for a long time
but the money spent on antony etc is stupid 
antony not worth half what they paid
ajax skinned them
but they were desperate and have the money
he's a fun player to watch tho
a Taarabt player
we love taraabt players
brings some flavor to the league
dribbling for the sake of it
yeah, a lot of pressure on him because of the price
but yeah kinda sad to see players like ronaldo die on the bench cus they dont wanna retire
hope he enjoys it and grows into it
did you see zlatans latest comments
no
nah
is he out injured atm or am I misremembering
well he kinda got big influence on the squad, i guess ronaldo do in someway to but yeah feels diff
"When i see someone thats better than me i will retire, so far i dont see anyone like that"
is basically what he said
giroud 
ronaldo has always been a pissbaby
imagine earning that in a week
milans team is actually kinda insane
they are all sub 23yo or something except for giroud+zlatan
ye they're looking great
hernandez and leao prolly lost next season though
honestly think chelsea might go out in the group stage
losing against zagreb and x today
milan to go

well the other teams are all losing points also
Potter is a swedish legend
made Östersund beat ppl up in europe
but fuck chelsea
I wouldnt mind a timeline where liverpool and chelsea are shit this season
but what is this 2 weeks of mourning pushing games 
no games until october :))
cus of international break
why the fuck do they have international break now
when there's a WC in 2 months
kinda weird they only push the fun games
"to few police cus funeral day after" or something
because the "fun games" aka the big games
require more police
than small team games
ye but the funeral is day after 
china was good
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
gorc kicking out alliance with pudge 
alliance 
wtf happened to void
you mean the arcana or what
no, did he die to cm 1v3
maybe watch some sea tomorrow see if ana+topson qual
team bald is choking
they all just keep tp and die

good fight finally
alliance trying to pull out win through lagging the game out with PL
yeah
tbf
its a horrendous mars game
against tusk/visage
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
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.

idk
psure it was


xcalibur just said they needed a break at the start of the series
cause one of their players had to finish their wow raid
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
only alliance meme or gorp threads on reddit 
secrekt
-Secret

pos1 player z impact both games
team bald got ez lb run ahead of them

how many dollares is that
ive never seen primal beast
In comp or casually?
ever

Yep
and its incredibly broken
talon 1-0 t1 
are you a FiftEE/FiftEE enjoye?
g3 nigma-secret 
nigma getting shitstomped
washed up team
bad draft
nisha just rolled whole team
yep secret knocked em out in lb
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
think outsiders tilted in finals
think pudge lost every game ive seen
pudge refresher just double ate tb to death middle of fight 
how is itb vs goonsquad going? Cant check not at home
1-1 and gs 20k lead ye
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
nigma dark horse 
pudge owning them
omni got caught and they won a team fight + rosh
itb just won teamfight 20k behind
pudge is 10k behind tb tho
pudge pos 1 is kinda interesting
its always been a mid in my head
and then its been shit for like 4 years
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
a nice game
haha pudge is owning this tb so hard
The team with tb lost?
Ye, kept going hg and pudge solo killed tb
Refresher aghs op
Early linked or disk would have won game ez
Noobs
old alliance
3 versions of alliance
in this EU quals
currently another old alliance is playing vs Entity
ban void
zai 
i hate this wraith pact first item enigma so much
i dont think ive seen it win a single time
in like 10 games
hmye
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
pos 5 doesnt matter when its a dog player
pos 5 positioning has to be on point the most
actually so nicely timed by slark
to pounce
i mean game is over feels like
they will never leave base against bara
spirit breaker*
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
Should have replaced cryst
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

im sure he is a good player, all of them are they just dont seem to be working as a team
its been nisha show for entire season
either nisha plays well and solo carries
or he doesnt
ye secret and nigma have dropped from the heavens
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
secret 
bro fuck these delays
thats good
Yeah they had a shit ton of delays
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
ok lesh and kka getting to big and carries
68 min game
played like 40 matches since the patch
and a lot of game go to late/very late game
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
why is it always such big delay, secret whining on servers again cus they lose?
bootcamping in some weird place
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
Unlucky PGL don't respect goonsquad as much as secret so we had to play through 3 games with packetloss while they get server change and postpone match 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
742

yes but only secret get 4h break and postponement 
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
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
Good. Reso is a ti-level player. Crystalis isn't
what if they beat liquid and entity in finals
ye reso was a good swap he keeps winning his lane and carries from p3
but crystallis is constantly losing lanes and doing weird stuff
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
he lose every lane
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
i feel like its another iltw case and he got shit on by community when him underperforming was just team dynamic and drafting
playing pos 1 is like the worst role atm
ye
last patch was even worse than this
everyone last picking vipers/razors
absolute unplayable horrendous experience
but now he lost with razor 
shoulds till win his lane vs melee
mars nerfed to the gorund according to atf
he was like 20 lasthit and 1.5k nw behind during laning
ppy was even catching up on him
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
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
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 
when I see morphling I know why I still auto ban it every game
feel like a nisha solo carry or lose game
so like secret entire season

its almost like 100% for bash with q from pango
i bet
or rly good odds
coz basher is pseudo rng too
why do they keep giving aegis to razor and zai solo dies alone 
Bo5 final wont finish today 

crystallis fucking eating his own hair 
what hair
the one on his head
entity nice to secret and finishing fast after they had some long games
entity just rolling over secret
not even breaking a sweat
the puppey pos5 cent doesnt seem to work against actual teams
thought pure got banned
pure is probably
or was it just from that specific tourney it happend
im bussing fucking argos

ill get to watch g2
just dqd from the tourney and kicked 
he just got kicked from tourney and VP
but yea pure is playing well
but has he played any good teams yet
not just afk farming
they're shit stomping 2-0 entire qualifier idk
theyre gonna 3-0 this GF as well i think
liquid had a bit of a chance in game1 if zai isnt a creep
coz these isnt even pro teams
but yea all of the games i get feeling they have full control over the game
but theyre taking apart the "best eu teams" like secret and liquid
and they do iti n style
problem i have with secret is they're new team
yeah exactly. they dont feel threatened at all
and we have expectations for them to be literally best team in the world
and they're brand new team kinda
honestly secret aint bad
they're gonna benefit a lot from another month or two before TI
they just dont have a pos1
zayac is definitely not on the level of other pos4s, but hes doing a good job still
that they're gonna be best from the get go
and its hard to play around puppey sometimes
puppey plays kinda greedy
ye
its a lot easier to play 4 if you play with a very defensive/no-networth 5
and not using it best
he plays 4 on laning stage
but aftert that i have a feeling farm prio is given to puppey
exactly, puppey had started drafting himself pos5s that can have more impact if they get a biut more farm
every game zayac is last
yea
idk these games give me vibe they play offlaner from safelane
cause yapzor couldnt play anything else other than rubick
and that woulkd be better
inactive due to health reasons not kicked 
thats a good choice imo. reso is just a better player, one of the best still
feel like he would have joiend up in any qualifier team if kicked
which team would want him?
yea
pos4 is the highest skill position in the game atm
nigma kick kky
kick your captain/drafter? 
but yeah, it seems that their lanes are switched
reso carries more than crystallis
and zayac plays more of a 5 than ppy
i think secret is gonna get biggest buff from getting more time to practice
problem is their heroes dont always fit that
as they're brand new team in my eyes
like they made 3 changes for past 2 months +/-
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
i dont see secret winning last chance
i could see them doing it
they will improve the most out of all the teams that go to wildcard last chance qual
there are some good teams in there
i mean
outsiders is good
last chance qual is gonna be outsiders+xtreme
dont think theres gonna be any competition there
liquid need sk offlane to become meta or something so zai can carry again
the quality of the matches is just not even comparable imo















