storm and slark are most fun for me. spirit breaker can be really fun too.

i miss the old spiritbreaker. can't figure out the new one, feel like he is way worse now.

mainly talking about his bash and his aura. obv the charge is much better.

MM seems to be a bit iffy. Played a 9/1 pudge and stomped the other team in 20 mins in a very high bracket game and ended up in high bracket the next game.

I was reading the dota 2 dev forum and apparently there are no invisible tiers which I thought existed as well. Everyone is graded according to a percentile.

I watched a rerun on beyondthesummit last night for LGD vs. DK g2 while I was trying to sleep.

man. i was on a 12 game winning streak just now, and had it broken despite going 16-4 as TA. thought we had that one in the bag, it's crazy how many times i can lose late game despite owning on her. pretty much every time that happens i blame the carry on our team for not getting bigger but as well i can look back and think of misplays i did when i thought the game was won already. :/

Just played a great AP game as a support windrunner. Somehow both our teams ended up playing very seriously and there was constant warding and dewarding. Most fun game I've ever played.

I played a pub before where both teams had double roaming supports and they kept running into each other in the jungles, and our lanes would have to come help. About a dozen kills 5 minutes in.

My team had a good edge though and game ended early.

Not surprised, both LGD.cn and LGD.int played well with LGD.int playing well in the final

just saw nth vs fnatic.eu game 3 from dreamhack

it's worth a watch.

G1 league going on now. Plenty of great teams are going to face each other. DK, lgd cn, lgd int, zenith, orange and ig are 6 of the top 8.

surprise butt sex.

I solo queued yesterday and ended up against mtw. I got pooped on.

the lgd.int vs lgd.cn bo3
http://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit/b/382951181

If you watch this from the game client there is a lot of audio popping and cutting in and out, at least for game 1.

Anyone has any idea what the LGD.int guys are paid? I can't imagine them willingly moving over to China for 1k a month.

where'd you get the 1k a month number?

I wouldn't be surprised to see them being paid less than 1k/month with currency exchange, and I think the 5 guys all seem really dedicated to train in China anyway

1k a month still really low. I guess if they have all their expenses paid it's not too bad eh? Plus they have a shot in a huge prize pool tourney (TI3).

You got to remember, they live in a place where you can live comfortably and feed a family with a salary of 1k a month. So for young adults, 1k/mo is pretty damn good.

Also, I'm really beginning to hate BTS. Lumi is the nut low and they both (Godz/LD or whoever is paired) try to give analysis and opinions. Its really frustrating to see time and time again, both talk about the same thing while aciton is going on. One really needs to focus on play by play stuff and what is going on in the game and the other needs to focus on opinions and why that stuff is going on. Nothing like missing action and they are both in deep conversation about why the ward on the dire side should've been 2 inches to the left.

I actually like Lumi a lot, like what he has to say and actually laugh at his jokes. I'm not a big fan of Godz, or LD, LD is OK but he often times makes things awkward with the things he says imo. It's pretty funny too, but not in the way that makes me want to watch.

Lumi says stupid **** all the time. Like yesterday he said trees ult was so good and was such a good pick etc, then 2 mins later, he is like "Oh what does tree actually do here, he isnt doing anything and his ult is completely useless"

He spits out random junk that make 0 sense. LD/Godz usually don't correct him but I remember Purge casted with him and he was correcting him every single time and he obv ddnt like it.

Just a random guess after scouting a few forums. I really doubt anyone would pay these guys 2k so 1k or less should be the amount. It is quite likely they are paid around 500-800 USD probably.

Yeah agreed about BTS. 2 analysts are too much for me too. Also, it sounds like Godz is permanently pinching his nose when he speaks.

I remember I saw transfer fees around 20k usd before. So I'm sure they go even higher than that now.

LD+Winter is soo good.

navi just lost rax vs NTH in game 3 of this bo3. wtf. can't believe they might lose this! then again, NTH has kotl/pl