games

Technically it's Russin/Serbian, Russian/Estonian, and Russian/Kazhakistan

This is for my predictions

But team reverse image search would be cool too

Bro, china makes cool stuff

when does the game start

10? I think

well that's when the draft starts

so 1030

the draft is the start

i think genuinely

half the wins and losses

the past few days

were done in the draft

the drafting has been brutal

full agree

so many teams are falling apart stumbling in the draft

yandex and spirit battle it out to see who gets the privilege of losing to vision at grand finals

the process of the draft I find to be sorta insane, because it is so important

and yet I feel like teams just fuck it up

due to ego or w/e

its not just ego its like

draft is extremely important yeah

they create flowcharts

like

Oh if they ban xyz then we pick this or that

vision does a funny thing

and then when they get stumbled over

they fucking fold

first pick shadow fiend for satanic and then 4 counterpicks

you cannot convince me some of these people aren't yelling in the booth "PICK ME XYZ, I'LL SHOW HIM"

because some of the picks are 100% ego

can any of us be convinced that something like that is or is not happening

"I think I can beat the odds in this shit matchup"

the team spirit games vs BB this morning were genuiinely sad

they just outdraftd them twice

yep, the 2nd one especially

and you could even seen BB like them slamming their desks

and your carry slams the desk like a faggot next to you

just quit the team right there

i think a lot of teams are way too focused on the like

counter aspect

i think just having damage and good team fights is way more important than the statistical counter

this isnt pubs

you dont need every single inch

Some of these pros cannot win their lanes there have only been a couple players I've seen that were actually technique gods

everyone else just seems way too willing to be 1-2k behind

because you can do that in pro dota

its not like pubs where you winning your lane ensures 4 other retards cant troll you

you can be behind and come back a lot easier

theres been multiple 10k gold defcicit upsets

when the team fight is the focus and much stronger

sure, and that's the whole point of the team aspect of the game, and knowing when your characters hit certain jumps in power and playing around it

you can afford to lose lane

its also because

but honestly

theres so many more camps now

if you cannot draw even in lane when you have to

like the early group stage games there was a ton of farming in the back camps, and then everyone started blocking them

wtf are you doing

the amount of gold you can get by maintinaing an at tower lane and just free farming now is rlly good

very strong carrys will like, push the lane and then twin gate over

the exception being when you're up against those couple actual gods

and farm the enemys water camps

who are just *better*

yatoro did that during the first game this morning

and completely fucking stomped

back to your flowchart thing

I'm sure that's what they should actually be doing

the flowchart thing is what they TRY to do and then it fucks them over

but idk, I just don't get the vibe most of these teams are that rigid

yatoro and satanic ignore that shit and just go with what theyre vibing with

watching ti made me realize just how shit I am at the game

and it lets them win 90% of the time

yatoro picking TA this morning was W

templar is just one of those heroes

i think you always want your carry to pick what theyre confident at

rather than the counte rpick