agree strongly with being dissapointed with spell animations. For spells that have such a huge impact Tiny's abilities are pretty lackluster. Leshrac stun is pretty cool. Tidehunter ult is epic, of course and AA's ult is very nice. Lina's spells are incredibly underwhelming compared to pyromancer and dota Lina.

i think the pick and ban stage is interesting its like a mental exercise predicting team lineups and the changing dynamics that each pick causes

and watching this ehome vs tyloo game highlights dire roshan advantage...just ridiculous

Pretty fun game to watch though, better than most yesterday even though it's already lasting 50mins it seems more action-packed.

that was a great game

Very good game between Ehome and Tyloo. Ehome is finally starting to get some more respect. Everyone has been counting them out since the other Chinese teams have been more dominant.

SGC vs VRS


shadowfiend pickup

i got a little hard

Here is an alternative stream in english from some NA dota pros. http://www.twitch.tv/neodota

I'm not sure whos is speaking but I know power.net is one of them. He is from Ok.nirvana.int but was not able to attend the event because he is only 16 years old. His parents supposedly did not want him to go to Germany. They mentioned that Ok.nirvana.int practiced 14 hours a day.

Sick comeback from IG, probably the most exciting game so far

I think the graphics are perfect for what it is.

I don't know wtf you guys are talking about with regard to spell animations. One of the primary NEGATIVES about HoN was how ridiculously sparkly the screen gets with too many heroes in one place.

Watching this game now, and Lina looks just like her WC3 version, with a little more transparency involved. Same with Sven and Morphling.

Did any of you who are complaining actually play the original dota? And I don't mean just trying it out and saying it sucks. I've played many hundreds of games on the WC3 engine, and this is turning out to be exactly what it was billed as: a direct port of that.

They'll use the new engine to fix issues that WC3 is lacking in. leaver protection, some quirky unit/ability bugs, and allowing the game designers to truly unleash their creativity with heroes that do things that weren't possible with WC3's engine.

I feel like a fanboi here, but I'm really not. I haven't played dota in years, but I feel like I'm the only person ITT who realizes that Valve wasn't trying to make HoN or LoL. They were trying to make Dota.

Put it on here but not hearing any commentary so far

Mith-Trust Morphling just completely ****ting all over GGNET. farm farm farm, kill tower, boots of travel back to base, heal, replicate back.

anyone know where we can watch the matches after they happened?

they will put up vods tonight. vods from yesterday are mostly available here

http://dota2.com/tournaments/interna...ule/Wednesday/

awesome thanks. i just found some of them are also on youtube

They could have made DOTA with a new engine and not intended for an RTS (aka 100 units on screen but 10).

wat?

They are all on youtube but that link in my post has it better organized by team and small groups.

no commentary on any of them though.

meniski vs nirvana.cn is a must-watch

English commentators were hyperventilating just now.

http://www.gosugamers.net/dota2/news...ped-until-2012

predictable news

+1, commentators were jizzing their pants

The outcome in the last game of the day pleased me greatly.

crappy game, interesting result yeah. omega farmed furion vs omega farmed potm

Word. This is why I only play DotA pubs... way more fun and interesting for me.