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Sulrn
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This for truth. So many games played that live up to this alone.
Losing games to trash teams because of your team throwing...Bah!
Nirgon
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I surfed around but couldn't find a direct reward for doing this outside of just completing a collection.
I will gladly trade unused common items for player cards or do a bigger trade of a few cards for higher rarity items. If anyone is interested look me up on steam, same name as here.
Dandain
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Its looks for the international smeevil, he gets a crab mount. Add yourself to the spreadsheet if you haven't.
I have about 6 or 7 duplicate players I'll trade for other cards I don't have. I need Notail Era from fanatic, and Kabu Lanm and Icy for Rattlesnake -
I have about 6 or 7 duplicate players I'll trade for other cards I don't have. I need Notail Era from fanatic, and Kabu Lanm and Icy for Rattlesnake -
I have an extra Faith, X!!, and xfreedom to trade. Have a decent amount fo cards in the compendium now so will have to check needs when we trade. Hit me up.
Game 1 of the Kaipi v Alliance game was great (and KP won the series and they were heavy underdogs). I've been thinking about starting a recap blog or entry system so I've been taking notes as I've watched.
Game 1 is what I want to talk about because of the execution of KP. [A] Drafted a very stuffy, kind of retro-meta NP, KOTL, Alchemist, and Rubick with a very obvious defensive trilane in Alch, Rub, Magnus, and KOTL. Kaipi drafted a Naga Siren, Nyx, Mirana, SD, and SF. They went for an offensive trilane.
Personally I am a HUGE fan of offensive trilanes, and this trilane was executed so so well. First blood was secured by KP with a well-timed SD disruption into Mirana arrow, and they kept their cool through a Loda Alchemist stun. [A] sent NP top (piloted by Bulldog and NP is a signature hero of his) against Eternal Envy (who I think is actually a shit player but he did well here), and NP bossed him around, which was expected. But as soon as Nyx was 6 he immediately rotated and pressured [A]'s defensive tri even harder. Bulldog ported in to help the tri but it never did much that early and he was too easy to deal with with Disruption and Arrow. Then KP wisely sent Naga top for some freefarm, and she took the tower.
Obviously a SF/Magnus matchup mid goes to SF, and he used the early advantage by ALSO rotating bottom to further pressure alchemist who 20 minutes in had a total of dick for net worth. Then offensive warding on the part of KP netted them some easy support/Bulldog kills. KOTL and Rubick just died way too much to pickoffs and SF's gold advantage meant an early BKB and [A] just had no dps to be able to finish RTZ's SF even when he was out of position.
Anyway it's a great example of a very well executed offensive trilane, and KP used their advantage lane (Mid) and the lane they knew they would lose (top to NP) to make sure alchemist never got off the ground. They then secured two rosh kills and finished the job with RTZ tanking straight through Reverse Polarities.
If you're curious about how to organize an offensive trilane it's a good game to watch, and it's especially interesting since [A]'s defensive tri is so classic and it's still a decent matchup until KP rotates in heroes to wreck the late-game alchemist carry.
I bet on KP as a long shot, and wouldn't have been sad to see them lose since I think [A] is actually one of the best teams in the world, but KP just put them through a very, very aggressive meatgrinder.
Game 1 is what I want to talk about because of the execution of KP. [A] Drafted a very stuffy, kind of retro-meta NP, KOTL, Alchemist, and Rubick with a very obvious defensive trilane in Alch, Rub, Magnus, and KOTL. Kaipi drafted a Naga Siren, Nyx, Mirana, SD, and SF. They went for an offensive trilane.
Personally I am a HUGE fan of offensive trilanes, and this trilane was executed so so well. First blood was secured by KP with a well-timed SD disruption into Mirana arrow, and they kept their cool through a Loda Alchemist stun. [A] sent NP top (piloted by Bulldog and NP is a signature hero of his) against Eternal Envy (who I think is actually a shit player but he did well here), and NP bossed him around, which was expected. But as soon as Nyx was 6 he immediately rotated and pressured [A]'s defensive tri even harder. Bulldog ported in to help the tri but it never did much that early and he was too easy to deal with with Disruption and Arrow. Then KP wisely sent Naga top for some freefarm, and she took the tower.
Obviously a SF/Magnus matchup mid goes to SF, and he used the early advantage by ALSO rotating bottom to further pressure alchemist who 20 minutes in had a total of dick for net worth. Then offensive warding on the part of KP netted them some easy support/Bulldog kills. KOTL and Rubick just died way too much to pickoffs and SF's gold advantage meant an early BKB and [A] just had no dps to be able to finish RTZ's SF even when he was out of position.
Anyway it's a great example of a very well executed offensive trilane, and KP used their advantage lane (Mid) and the lane they knew they would lose (top to NP) to make sure alchemist never got off the ground. They then secured two rosh kills and finished the job with RTZ tanking straight through Reverse Polarities.
If you're curious about how to organize an offensive trilane it's a good game to watch, and it's especially interesting since [A]'s defensive tri is so classic and it's still a decent matchup until KP rotates in heroes to wreck the late-game alchemist carry.
I bet on KP as a long shot, and wouldn't have been sad to see them lose since I think [A] is actually one of the best teams in the world, but KP just put them through a very, very aggressive meatgrinder.
If you ever make a post on dev.dota2 or the discussions about this you get branded a racist, even if your only point is about latency, culture, or general common sense. Then if you ask some Brazilian why he isn't playing on the SA servers he'll say something like "Brazilians suck" and then go 0-6-2 as Antimage instalock.
I don't see a region lock happening even though we all know it would be beneficial.
Dandain
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Add yourself to the spreadsheet weaponsfree. In my experience shitty games are shitty games, if its a crappy American kid trolling the fuck out of a game, or a non communicative foreigner feeding, just report them. There are plenty of decent players and plenty of shitholes as well from every part of the globe.
Dandain
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You can pick your language preference, and so can they, if they want to troll that aspect of the game report them for it. The control is better in the communities hands than dictated upon high, Chrysamere lives in japan, should he be banned from us west as he's an aussie (I think) living there? You can't just blanket ban a region, Because you punish people who might be in that region for work or school or whatever. If every US west player bans playing with SEA IP's then what. I didn't say you were a racist, I just said that your solution punishes innocent people for your preference, hence report them. It is your recourse - sure there may need to be a more robust system to report that kind of trolling, but region bans is not it.
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If every US west player bans SEA, then that means no one wants to play with SEA players at all, so don't see a problem. A personal level ban similar to the solo queue tag would be in the community's control. You select who you want to be queued with, instead of selecting a language that anyone can select regardless of wether or not they speak it. If you queue when there's no other people for the region you selected, you get shit queue times, if you don't you run the risk of having idiots who don't speak english in your team but most likely much shorter queue times. Seems like a decent enough tradeoff. It's not a region ban either, it's not "russians play with russians only", it's whoever can select to queue only with western europe IPs. If there's no problem with the russians then not many people will do this and it's not an issue right. Same with the south americans.
I think it'd be nice done this way. I also don't think rigid IP bans is the way to go but if you could filter your queues it'd be nice, and since they added solo queue matchmaking, surely it's possible to do the same thing and restrict based on region. Reporting doesn't solve shit, there's way too many players and way not enough people reviewing the cases or the automated process sucks whichever they use. Only works fine for muting, because the penalty is less so they're more lax with how you get muted.
I think it'd be nice done this way. I also don't think rigid IP bans is the way to go but if you could filter your queues it'd be nice, and since they added solo queue matchmaking, surely it's possible to do the same thing and restrict based on region. Reporting doesn't solve shit, there's way too many players and way not enough people reviewing the cases or the automated process sucks whichever they use. Only works fine for muting, because the penalty is less so they're more lax with how you get muted.