I didn't guess VP, LGD, Newbee. Wasted my picks on Rave, Alliance and TDK =(
I changed VP to Rave because of their poor performance in last year, and because i haven't followed them since then. Expected to see Rave
I didn't guess VP, LGD, Newbee. Wasted my picks on Rave, Alliance and TDK =(
I changed VP to Rave because of their poor performance in last year, and because i haven't followed them since then. Expected to see Rave
Originally Posted by Urban Dictionary
I had RAVE too though I didn't know who to pick for 10th and just trusted our lord and savior ppd.
I honestly dont know how people thought RAVE
its obvious only one SEA team would get an invite (some think even 1 is too much) and that was obviously going to be Team Malaysia
Seriously. Once in a blue moon you get a lane support, that despite not being a defined support hero, that has the idea what and how to do stuff on safelane to make a carry life easy and offlaner miserable. Damn last game. It really feels like playing 2 different games if you compare a bad and poor laner. ;/
As a person who usually played support, it is on the other so freaking annoying to play with a carry that doesn't even help to force the offlaner out of xp range, like if you are trading blows with smth like bara within xp range and you get 0 help, then you chew through all your tangoes (usually 2 because mid is a greedy fuck) instantly and still lose because the offlaner obviously has stout shield & boots already while you have nothing.
When im playing offlane, it is so funny on the other hand to see the same shit happening on the other side, Supports who abandon their carry to pull creeps 24/7 or Carries who just watch their support nearly die while he was trying to harass me.
Last edited by Kralljin; 2015-05-07 at 03:07 PM.
Hey Pizzashark
SKILL MODE ENGAGED
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I think anyone with common sense got 10/10.
US: EG was obvious
EUROPE: TS and c9 ez
RUssia: VP and Empire this one was ez too
China: IG LGD VG Newbee this was obvious as well, newbee is a the defending champions would've been stupid to not invite them
SEA: TM was obvious kinda.. at least for me. but I give u that that Rave had like 30% chance.
idk why people say NIP lol theres no spot for them.
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the funniest is for me, supports try hard the first 1-2 min to take u out of the exp range and then.. they just harras if u try to cs or so. I just get lvls while they steal exp from their carry, then leave to pull or gank or rune, and Im lvl 6 vs 4-5 carry and rekt him.
"We live in a world where a style of play that uses posession and passing to try and make spaces is made fun of.
While a style of play where a team sits back for 90 minutes and breaks away in 1v1 situations is respected."
- Ronald Koeman.
Last edited by EqualWin; 2015-05-07 at 04:02 PM.
"We live in a world where a style of play that uses posession and passing to try and make spaces is made fun of.
While a style of play where a team sits back for 90 minutes and breaks away in 1v1 situations is respected."
- Ronald Koeman.
MMo champ team to ti, lets make the dream boyz we already have our drafter pizzashark
"We live in a world where a style of play that uses posession and passing to try and make spaces is made fun of.
While a style of play where a team sits back for 90 minutes and breaks away in 1v1 situations is respected."
- Ronald Koeman.
Things like randomized attack damage, gold gain from creeps, roshan spawn timer, jungle spawns, and rune spawns all attribute to parts of what makes Dota exciting for me. You can't plan everything in advance, and if these things weren't random, you would spend less time making decisions, and more time just figuring out how many seconds you need to spend in one area to complete an item. Yes, losing a game because of a 45 minute DD-rune/your carry getting permabashed/your supports being two-shot by PA 20 minutes into the game/a shitty roshan spawn/whatever is incredibly frustrating.
I don't think optimizing for pure skill necessarily equals good game design. I appreciate it when playing CPMA in Quake Live, and also in Counter-Strike. Luck elements are absolutely not needed to make a game exciting, and it's difficult to balance around. RNG does poorly in strategy-based games, but in a game where you're forced to take a lot of split-second decisions like dota, i think rolling the dice on a small section of the game is completely fine. Skill still matters a whole lot more in Dota than RNG.
Where would you get this information before they locked predictions? Also, I definitely feel that NiP deserved an invite over VP. They definitely have had better results.
Last edited by Longview; 2015-05-07 at 04:48 PM.
Why do you guys keep alienating skill from RNG? Off course you can get by by just jumping in with closed eyes without thinking, but usually you have to plan your RNG ahead of what you do, like stacking attacks to increase odds to stun on Slardar, if you got 3-4 last hits (or 9 attacks at lower levels) without stun, you can try to charge in to cheat out free stun on enemy and so on.
Expecting RNG when analyzing situation can be tricky and requires, if not skill, but at least experience with the game, which, basically, the same.
You also have to keep in mind how rare these situations where game/teamfight/whatever is won due to pure RNG elements and not enemies playing dumb and overextending (yes, if you see PA running away with butterfly and passive maxed out with just enough health for one attack, you shouldn't blink forward and chase her missing 7 attacks and dying because of her regen, lifesteal, crits or teammates)
Last edited by Charge me Doctor; 2015-05-07 at 05:00 PM.
Originally Posted by Urban Dictionary
common sense jk
there wasn't any confirmed info 100% because volvo didnt say shit so my bad in that post, but if u follow dota only 1 team from usa deserve the invite, eu 2-russia 2. 4 china because icefraud, 1 from sea liek last year, also depends on whoever won last ti
last year it was 11 teams?
USA: 1
EU :3 (cuz alliance won ti3)
RU:2
SEA:1
China:4
I find it weird that volvo keep ignoring SA teams, maybe no one deserve an invite but at least a qualifiers.. for wild card or something.
"We live in a world where a style of play that uses posession and passing to try and make spaces is made fun of.
While a style of play where a team sits back for 90 minutes and breaks away in 1v1 situations is respected."
- Ronald Koeman.
RNG in games is good because it often makes you unable to predict the outcome of everything ahead of time, leaving room for players to react and adjust. These also demand "skill." Too much is obviously a bad thing, but often when people blame RNG it seems to me their bad judgement is what caused the outcome rather than RNG.
PA is much weaker in this version because Silver Edge turns her into a melee creep.
Manni | paragon.fi!
VP and Newbee were far from obvious lol
some got it right, some didnt
VP isnt massively better (if it all) then ones like NiP, HR, [A]
and Newbee may be the champion, but they a) sucked hard b) lost their best players
however, they are kind of sort the "4-th best China team", just because only VG, IG and LGD are actually top-level good in China these days, so that gives them extra cred
also it is not at all obvious that Russia/CIS must get 2 invites, where did you even get that from
I do think though that Team M was obvious because ~ex-Orange/Mushi - nuff said
VP Is better than NIP hr A, and they showed it by winning that mini lan (play it cool) vs alliance last week or so, NIP was awful in that tournament.
IF anything people it was between VP and NIP (but if u watched play it cool, it was obvious vp would get the invite)
newbee was obvious because they're the champions and they still have 3/5 players of that team.
Last edited by EqualWin; 2015-05-07 at 05:58 PM.
"We live in a world where a style of play that uses posession and passing to try and make spaces is made fun of.
While a style of play where a team sits back for 90 minutes and breaks away in 1v1 situations is respected."
- Ronald Koeman.
nip beat VP in four bo3s before VP beat them that one time
area51 cup 2-0 nip
jd mlg pro league 2-1 nip
esportal winter qualifiers 2-1 nip
the summit 3 2-0 nip
VP also lost against na`vi, power rangers, team tinker, flipsid3 tactics, and meepwnd - all in the last month. i think it's hardly fair to say VP was an "obvious invite".
the only teams that i think are missing from the invites are eHug (NA) and invasion (SEA), but they both will probably win the open qualifiers for their respective region so i don't think it's an issue really.