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Intrinsic

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I've watched the last 30 min or so of that game 3 a few times now from a couple of different people. Two things jump out:

1) MNT played incredible on that ES. Not winning the game but the number of times his Echo Slams or Enchant saved the team and the fight are incredible. His last 3 echos or so completely changed the landscape of what was going on and his patience was phenomenal.

2) Rubik has two items. Aghs and Blink. In an 80m with 10k networth he was maybe the most impactful player. Just absolutely crazy what Spartan pulled off with that hero. That game is like a clinic of how to play Rubik. Just ridiculous what he pulled off with all the Omnislash steals, Disruption, his Arrows.

Whole game was unreal. AF was over 10k networth down at like 28m. Then they were 10k up. Then 10k down. Then OG was 20k UP! And lost.

LOL MNT has 0 building damage according to the scoreboard!
 
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Dandain said:
Wheeee 14 hours. Nice event. I think I like the single elim for the majors. I think it will make results more volatile
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Pre-major Sunsfan was stating the format was due to Valve's original plans for another venue falling through which forced a more compressed time schedule. I think Valve arrived at the previous format after talking with the players. Cheaper to have a shorter event though! :)
 
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Gravel said:
Didn't realize 6.0 started back in 2005.

Seems like this might be massive.
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At the original EU Hub Kuroky talked to someone (Bruno?) about the early evolution of dota including the pre-icefrog guys, not sure if it is archived anywhere but was pretty interesting. Its really unbelievable how well Icefrog and his team balance the game with this many heroes & interactions.

Its also a bit sad games no longer really have mods (dota2 now withstanding I guess) given the genres and gametypes that originated from them.

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I forgot that Purge had said it'll take several hours to go over the patch notes. I'm hyped.
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Purges are interesting, but I wish Aui2000 still did them.
 
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Intrinsic said:
I've watched the last 30 min or so of that game 3 a few times now from a couple of different people. Two things jump out:

1) MNT played incredible on that ES. Not winning the game but the number of times his Echo Slams or Enchant saved the team and the fight are incredible. His last 3 echos or so completely changed the landscape of what was going on and his patience was phenomenal.

2) Rubik has two items. Aghs and Blink. In an 80m with 10k networth he was maybe the most impactful player. Just absolutely crazy what Spartan pulled off with that hero. That game is like a clinic of how to play Rubik. Just ridiculous what he pulled off with all the Omnislash steals, Disruption, his Arrows.

Whole game was unreal. AF was over 10k networth down at like 28m. Then they were 10k up. Then 10k down. Then OG was 20k UP! And lost.

LOL MNT has 0 building damage according to the scoreboard!
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0 building damage all game until he hit the ancient haha, what a fucking legendary game that was

i've been playing Sniper in non competitive matches tonight... what a ludicriously retarded hero against non coordinated groups. This invoker was demolishing me until i hit lvl 6 in mid and then it was literally game over lol

edit: remove Dragon Lance in 7.00 pls
 
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Luthair said:
Pre-major Sunsfan was stating the format was due to Valve's original plans for another venue falling through which forced a more compressed time schedule. I think Valve arrived at the previous format after talking with the players. Cheaper to have a shorter event though! :)
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Valve runs things as experiments, so they sometimes tinker with things that don't really need changing. Of course, it is cheaper and simpler to plan a single elim bracket, however it is understandable if they stick with it for the whole season. They might have also felt that their own events kinda smothered all competition, since it was essentially 3 mini TIs last season. It also makes the event more flexible, because it seems like they want to have a major in a different place every time.

Anyway, 3 hours for 7.00, I wonder what's going to be in there. Probably new UI, possibly 1 extra new hero ? (Besides Monkey King)
 
Gravel

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Lots of conjecture. Could be a massive change to the map, new (now-WC3) heroes, updated UI, rework to mechanics. There's really no telling.
 
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Zaphid said:
Valve runs things as experiments, so they sometimes tinker with things that don't really need changing. Of course, it is cheaper and simpler to plan a single elim bracket, however it is understandable if they stick with it for the whole season. They might have also felt that their own events kinda smothered all competition, since it was essentially 3 mini TIs last season. It also makes the event more flexible, because it seems like they want to have a major in a different place every time.

Anyway, 3 hours for 7.00, I wonder what's going to be in there. Probably new UI, possibly 1 extra new hero ? (Besides Monkey King)
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It makes me wonder whether the two major format will be the new norm to enable more events.

Something I didn't see before apparently they are splitting EU and America's regions.
 
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Luthair said:
It makes me wonder whether the two major format will be the new norm to enable more events.

Something I didn't see before apparently they are splitting EU and America's regions.
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It's pretty obvious that if they want to showcase teams from every region, they will have to give them a leg up, if not an exclusive spot. EU came dangerously close to dominating NA qualifiers, which Valve probably wants to prevent in the future, but it begs the question if a stacked region shouldn't get more spots in the first place. I also don't see them directly inviting more than 4 teams next major.
 
Gravel

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So a few people have mentioned shrines. Not sure I like them. Possibly also moved runes and reworked how they function.

Edit: Also talent trees.

And holy shit at this Agh's:

Added a Scepter for Anti-Mage. Causes Spell Shield to passively block and reflect a targeted spell once every 12 seconds. Disabled with Break.
 
Zaphid

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It's plausible since icefrog can do literally anything, but some of those bonuses are a bit questionable, like who needs +25% xp at lvl 15...
 
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