Alliance vs Escape Gaming (No Diggity) Bo5 Hypeeee

should be a great series. <3 synderen, qojqva, era, and yapzor, hope ESC wins

1) it's played on 2p2 in chat form in the puzzles and other games section. It's called werewolf

2) it's played on twitch @ twitch.tv/dailymafia. Tuesday nights it's on twitch.tv/ryuzilla (higher quality games)

i agree. **** khezu

Whoa had no idea this was a bo5. That's sick.

How is the seattle wildcard played btw? Liquipedia says it's a 4 team bracket, hopefully that's wrong and it's a round robin of bo2s.

o nice thx, i will check it out on twitch, sounds pretty fun. i played it on 2p2 once and everyone yelled at me LOL

Lmfao

not sure of exact format but apparently it's double elimination which would be alright if it's non-round robin


RTZ is also streaming and about to hit 9k: http://www.panda.tv/3332

ESC is so good playing around qojqva invoker. probably gotta ban that first phase vs them... pretty sure Alliance will do that next game


damn this is back and forth. ESC need to really work on their late game team fight execution, Alliance totally outplaying them now in that regard

omg this game PogChamp

omgomgomomgomg such 322. hope ESC don't crumble now, need 5 games pl0x

Great game. Terrorblade so strong

i wonder if there will be another small balance patch after the qualifiers... mainly TB and Timber probably need small nerf

one insane alliance game and one insane VG vs IG game damn.

ps: your boi artour just hit 9k, now officially the highest mmr player in the world. haters having a BAD MONTH

he done did it. now who's gonna hit 10k first... i hope to see a space race-esque competition between rtz and miracle-

takes like 2 hours to find every game at 9k so both accounts are probably retired in immortal 9k at this point

BTW, I'm going out there for the entire TI. Anyone else going?

Yeah, the queue times aren't worth it. RTZ said he's never gonna play on the main account again in the celebration vid: https://twitter.com/ClayCausin/statu...41469382643716

Unfortunately this is gonna be the first year where I don't go (besides TI1).

holy **** this game 5 col vs DC

great way to end some no doto qualifier

Col had that ****... DP no buy back but Tiny dies somehow yowch. Also thought they were gonna win when Swindlez Axe was super far ahead early game, but somehow wasn't able to scale that to late game. Gotta get BoTs on Axe I think in that situation and keep farming hard.

yeah tiny at the end (and swindle during... the lsat 20 minutes) kinda threw that.

I believe axe was at 11k at 20 minutes, and by 45 he was below 14k D:

^ damn thats crazy, yea gotta keep farming on that axe. now i've got a hankering to play jungle axe


bwahaha,

FeelsAxeMan ... ive had that kind of start a few times and you basically have to go for pickoffs for the rest of the game and if you fail or die goodbye your lategame relevance

Ehome vs VG.r has been a great series. 2-2 right now after a ridiculously close game 4.

that was some great dotz

i expect <the loser of that> to win the wild card over col and esc

Idk how it is in higher leagues but axe is a very high risk low reward in the mmr ghetto. Relies too much on your team not being full moron and adapting their playstyle/picks to your plan (your semi-hardstop timer at 30 minutes, espesh vs agicarry heavy lineups). Mbe he is fine as a jungle on teams you can trust, but i really doubt jungle instead of duals is +ev below 3k mmr at least. Ofc he is reasonable as a tanker if it is needed, but generally there are a lot better imo (someone with a real stun and some late carry capability).

I played A LOT of jungle ursa, almost always getting a 8 minute aegis uncontested with smoke, and my rating stayed pretty much the same in mmrhell. Like, at least 50 games jungle ursa ranked solo. Eventually I realized that we literally lose everygame where the solo lane fails, no matter how well the jungle went. Noone rotates in, you almost always lose a tower early. Its just bad bad bad.

I always found Ursa to be an insane jungler in pubs. I practice a ton in bots and got it down to a 5:25 Roshan. But that is getting 0 centaurs in your medium camp and not getting the ghost in the small camp or something. It's been a while. But since the XP change to Rosh it's nowhere near as strong as it used to be.

i'd say it's really more psychological than anything. people get really tilted if you jungle, even if it will be amazing and allow your team to have another heavily farmed hero. i guess saying nice things in chat might help, and of course ganking early is great. when i play jungle axe i usually get my blink around 10-12 min, and then i start ganking. usually it's not too late where people have given up.


also, this elder titan omnislash mechanic PogChamp : https://gfycat.com/RightSickLamprey

pretty awesome and slight counter to jugg

Meh its def not psychological when the stream noob dies 4 times and loses his tower by 5 minutes.