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Zaphid

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Secret seems to have gone back to basics, today they just sat back and farmed. Then VP crushed them, but it worked on Liquid, since Miracle tried to play mid nyx without blink dagger and obviously died to random sentries several times...
 

Needless

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based singsing quit pro doter, im okay with him full time streaming; that shits way more entertaining
 

cyrusreij

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Holy fuck, Fnatic vs Mineski game 1 was one of the most SEA games I have ever watched. Jesus christ what a train wreck. Fnatic should commit group suicide.
 

Zaphid

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VP vs Secret G2, holy shit

Like, I aint even mad this is the first Valve event without anyone from the old Navi squad.
 

Zaphid

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I also question the stubborness of puppey to just spam bloodlust every time they left ogre in the pool. That hero is nice at the start, but these games weren't won on laning and ogre is kinda shit later compared to most other supports.
 

Luthair

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MSS - at least we have one core that doesnt die to ancients or roshan

based singsing quit pro doter, im okay with him full time streaming; that shits way more entertaining

Its too bad, but not too surprising. Its hard to see him being able to make more money than streaming unless he was on a top tier team. I saw someone speculating that he would cast, but he's said in the past he really doesn't like it.

I imagine he streams a bunch and goes to school.

I also question the stubborness of puppey to just spam bloodlust every time they left ogre in the pool. That hero is nice at the start, but these games weren't won on laning and ogre is kinda shit later compared to most other supports.

Going back to the start of Secret he always seems to get stuck in a rut repeatedly picking the same type of lineup.
 

Gravel

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This game is amazing. A week ago I was on a high of my massive win streak, and now I never want to play the fucking thing again.

4 game loss streak because of stupid fucking teammates. Fuck this game.
 

eXarc

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Can anyone more educated than myself comment on the conspiracy of Valve to try and make players retain a 50% W/L ratio?
 

Zaphid

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Can anyone more educated than myself comment on the conspiracy of Valve to try and make players retain a 50% W/L ratio?
If they were able to create a matchmaking system that does it in a moba game intentionally, I'd be amazed. There are simply way too many variables once the match is created to do that consistently - you pick a new role, new hero, somebody else wants to try something new, parties, hero lineups, tilt, alcohol, etc. All can cause even the most carefully matched teams to be a 20 minute stomp. There's definitely MMR even in unranked though, even if it's hidden.
 

Intrinsic

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I'm not sure what you mean by conspiracy? Like intentionally matching you with bad people? No, not even possible. But 50/50 is the target if you are playing where you should be. Otherwise people would be 20k MMR. You can be 80% win rate up past your MMR and then lose until you fall back a bit and normalize to where you should be.

Watching Bulldog commentate these games is entertaining.
 

eXarc

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I got the sarcasm bro. :emoji_ok_hand:
Haha. I feel like I should have worded it differently. Since I am returning to DoTA only recently I've just been seeing all these threads about a rigged system and shit.
I think it would be hilarious if Valve used the report system to match up known AFKers and Abandoners with people who are above their W/L threshold to try to bring them down a few pegs.
The shit cracks me up. There is literally a conspiracy for everything.
 

Luthair

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Man, I thought game-2 of VP vs Liquid was over and stopped paying attention then see TL chasing them under the T4s with T2s up haha.
 

cyrusreij

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No Secret, No Liquid, No Fnatic, no Navi or Alliance (lol~). What a major, glad Ad Finem finally made it though.