faceit are ****ing up these qualifiers so badly.

if theyre getting paid properly with enough staff, no excuse, **** em next year

https://youtu.be/uxbK2MyzDQE?t=8m50s

Wow @ 9:30

Wow EG picked PA into slardar witch drow mirana vs optic....

EG Complexity up next. EG just got destroyed by VGJ:Storm, self implosion continuing.

pa is a common counter to drow

they got outplayed tho

Yeah she is fine against drow alone, but not against mirana with 2 other stuns + drow damage passive. Slardar totally dumpsters PA until the late mid game and witchdoctor coconut is very problematic.

Also can't evade those hits from the bong o

Think I will be trying to get together a low tier battlecup party for NA east tonight if anyone is Lfg. I am pretty bad at this game but thankfully so are the people they match me against.

EG is a best if 3 (vs immortals) away from qualifying. Both Optic and Complexity in the low bracket now. The lower and upper bracket winners both qualify. So Eg would need to both lose to Immo then to winner of Optic v Complexity throw their way out of TI8.

EG qualified. Will have to catch the VODs.

#bleedblue

yeeeeeee

hoping optic pulls through they havent looked this mediocre since... like their first month.

optic were the favourites coming in and 3 TI slots... if they cant get in its a huge upset and super disappointing

Honestly IMO, they would be the best team in the world if they would have gotten jerax instead of the other guy and if they were tp punch tz in the balls until he learns to play around sumail. They (TZ/Sumail) looked totally disjointed in the best of 1s.

I like watching optic but think pajkatt should probably be replaced, more so because they will draft around him and he will underdeliver on the last pick.

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eg has seemed pretty clearly on a tier below optic and vgj

gonna take a lot of practice to avoid being embarrassed at TI

they 2-0'd vgj a few days before in opens losing 0-1 to them

eg also looked better than optic against col and immortals... (optic losing a bo3 to immortals was pretty shocking to me)

i still have hope

Is it just me, or is cap the most smug and arrogant guy ever? I think its worse than purge,

Think it's just their mannerisms and way of speaking for both.

cap is way less arrogant in the way he talks than purge

and hes like 1k mmr higher than purge too lol.

blitz is wayyyyy more arrogant than cap i really dislike him lately (along with the fact that he doesnt want to cast anymore and acts like his job is awful)

Blitz definitely has a certain arrogance in words and speaks lowly of many players (in his team) but at the same time he doesn't sound mean spirited to me at all.

I played with him once and even though the other 4 of us were all playing like **** and giving him plenty of opportunities to flame, he didn't flame/belittle at all. Calmy coached us in a seemingly kind manner. Also I like that his dota advice is often a bit more conceptual than what others provide.

Purge and especially cap can sometimes tilt me a bit.

he did the exact opposite the time i played with him on his smurf so IDK

this is my take

blitz: met him at ti2 and ti3, he introduced himself to us and immediately asked if we had heard of him. since he lost weight, all this **** gone to his head. he couldnt make it as a mid on a t3 team.

cap:hugely arrogant in the silent way, like im too good for these guys. if you question him in reddit, he shows up. guy legit searches any references people make about him on reddit.

purge: hugely arrogant, but more open and is actually cool to hang around, is really knowledge about the technical side, but i think the decision making side, he really struggled as a player.

the one who I cant really stand is Lumi. Cap and Lumi just make me cry.

Been playing another smurf. Never calibrated ranked. Won 10/10 ranked games solo carrying every game and calibrate 1900 crusader 3. The games at this bracket aren’t even dota. I play mid or carry and have to buy pretty much every ward. Most games are 5 cores, with every melee hero without fail taking a quelling blade to lane.

After the landing stage, teams don’t group. All 10 heroes farm lanes and jungle. I haven’t seen a smoke yet in 20 games. Most games go until 40-50 minutes where whoever wins the one team fight takes all objectives (because buyback isn’t a mechanic at this bracket).

If anyone here is in this bracket, just pick a hero that can put pressure on towers and has solo kill threat. Pretty much have to play like your entire team is bots.

Yup, troll warlord is god tier, in said mmr bracket.

I keep reading this kind of stuff (Reddit mostly obv) and I kinda wanted to share my experience on the topic as a super oldie that started playing DOTA2 like 10 weeks ago.

I rushed the 100 or so games you need to access ranked, playing mostly turbo not caring too much about my initial calibration, simply because I figured I'd get better games in ranked (which turned out to be true) and would learn faster there.

Calibrated at ~450 MMR. Currently at ~800 after a month of playing a lot of ranked daily. EUE EUW servers.

It's honestly not THAT bad. I'd say ~75% of the games there are wards and sentries, at least one support, and sometimes even real vision "war" with constant dewarding/rewarding from the supports around the most obvious points. I've seen things such as someone picking Void and asking for warding in opponent's jungle to gank their Spectre when Chrono is up. I've seen use of smoke, too. Often (more than half of the games) players buy Dust vs stealth heroes and/or Shadow blade. In almost every games (!) people will actually save for buybacks in 50+ minutes games.

Decent plays happen. Now of course you'll get your mid LAST PICKING Sniper versus Riki and Slark, or (happened to me last night as I was playing WK) a ****ing Kotl that will pretty much instantly delete opponent's creeps wave, making you lose CS AND pushing your wave so much, but all in all, what I've experienced is not close at all from what people have been saying about the **** tier brackets.

It's just that the quality of games is rather uneven, and you can easily tell who's going to climb (or is a smurf, those games ruining ****s) and who is an hopeless ****tard.

Also, "Role Queue" is a true godsent at low level.