Still the highest in mEme sports, kek
Riyadh is the big money tournament now
But its not about the money, shartour has plenty not only from his mediocre placements in all tourneys during the heaes, but also that sweet eg/shopify salary plus the merch. If he wanted money he can literally just stream again for a month and make bank, hes the only dotard that can randomly start streaming out of nowhere and instantly get 20-30k viewers
But he will forever seethe for being the biggest jobber and a meme in the scene for a whole decade now
I dunno, DOTA has an all-star line-up of absolute legends so it is defacto the best scene. I don't know if Puppey has always been #1 but he is certainly remained top 10 for ages now.
Maybe when he gets a pro-match paused so he can grab a snack, i'll respect him more.
Good. I dknt care if im feeding some autistic 16 y/o russian zigger zoomer my money for thst insane prize pool. Let the arabs spend their money on that, i just want cool hats and MAYBE BRING BACK AGHANINS LABYRINTH Black folk AAAA
Wait, I stopped watching Dota 2 back when he sharted with Secret. Are you telling me that my boy Artour haven't won a single Major since then? This can't be true right?
I'll never play dota again but I had some great frickin' times with my mates back in they day and ti is usually a fun to watch
despite how big it is/was dota still seems super niche and that no one outside the playerbase gives two shits about it unlike say melee or speedrunning or whatever but I guess it'd be because dota isn't actually big in the anglosphere
>looking at the team rosters of this TI >can't recognize most of the players >not even puppey is there
I wonder what old pros end up doing with their lives after they get washed up. Does EE still play?
>I wonder what old pros end up doing with their lives after they get washed up
Whatever they want. The pros that consistently placed highly in their careers are rich as frick now.
#metoo hit every scene, Demon was also cancelled around the same time. Buy Tobi did always have a greasy vibe to him. Remember that drow cosplay pic. Not that I'm excusing #metoo bullshit but the only people that get cancelled for this shit usually are morons who don't use their brains.
Didn't know Zyori trooned out but he was also always a degenerate with the dreadlocks and ball sniffing and shit. I actually recall now he wore some woman's blouse in one thing I saw him now that you mention it. What a talentless shit to begin with though
Dendi had his peak and passed it, just the way she goes. Puppey still going strong though
I haven't played since 2019 but watching sing and the boys commentate is kinda comfy. I don't really understand what's going on in the game, it changed so much.
Yeah Sing is the only thing that connects me Dota, outside of TI. I still enjoy watching it every year, and combining the two is great. Wish he'd watch solo more, not really interested in his buddies insights: Stebe is boring, Waga is cringe, also did Rime transition?
Better than last years, the meta is way more fun than the cancer wraith pact/aura spam and its not produced by moronic romanian gypsies in some sea monkey shithole
good ti. alot of unexpected losses and wins like tundra going out so early. I'm rooting for LGD this time they've been to so many TIs now its their turn
I dont play Dota2 anymore but I still do enjoy watching it every now and then. I will even download the game just to watch it in-client.
its strange how it feels like nothing much has changed draftwise. its still just pick a illusion hero carry (Terrorblade I get, dudes always been a beast and Naga Siren is staple sure but cant we mix it up?) and use their illusions for tempo/safe farming and sieging and then everyone else just derps around. just to illustrate how little I play these are the things that confuse me
>CK actually being good(since when?) >PA/Anti-Mangina/Drow/Slark/Medusa and other just normal right clickers non-existent from what I've seen >nobody picking Enigma or Void despite having IIRC the best most powerful ults in the game for turning >Bristleback is good????? uhhh where is Timbersaw? isnt he supposed to be the offlaner of choice?
I've thought about redownloading the game and giving it a try then I remember that I cant stand the 60 minute games, the knowledge pool is deeper than ever to the point that the game is alien to me and that they still dont have a MID-WARS map so I just say frick it and stick to LoL.
Horrible opinion, neither naga or tb are good now. In general illusion heroes havent been really relevant in years since they got dumpstered and hopefully it says this way
none of that was an opinion moron. its literally observation. every time I watch a match its some combination of
>Willow Ahgs off-carry and le SPROINK!^_^ when thats not available >Spirit Breaker >Bristle >Earth Spirit >Phantom Lancer/Chaos Knight or TerrorBlade >sometimes Centaur Warunner >the same old awful meme supports like KoTL,Ancient Apparition and Shadow Demon whos one job is to endlessly feed trying to deward and get ganked all day
Tb and naga are shit, aside for some cheese picks
PA is absolutely busted right now, she gets picked a lot
CK is also broken yeah
Void is also in picked a lot, no idea what were you watching
Bristle has literally always been good
AM is the most garbage carry in the game and its been for quite a while
Pretty sure hes one of the few heroes with 0 picks/bans this TI so far
CK with armlet and echo sabre fricking slaps. I’ve never seen a pos 1 getting online that quick. 15-20 mins in and he’s already roaming around taking fights like no problem.
It’s not about illusion heroes, it’s about how quick they can get online and clap the shit out of people. There’s outliers like PL or Naga late but at that point, if you don’t close game at 30-40 mins, it’s your damn fault.
Prizepool and lack of True Sight aside I like it.
As for the teams:
pleasantly surprised by Talon, VP and Nouns
disappointed by SR, 9Pandas and Thundra
I have no idea how the pros arent seething at valve for this, the format seems so tiring to actually play and you have to spend a whole month in fricking seattle
NA is the deadest region by far.
This game is dominated by the Chinese and Europeans because they're poor and gravitate to free to play games.
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Not at all. NA is doing about as well as it always has (which is poorly), China is the real dead region. Used to be half the teams at TI would be Chinese, now there's only 2 and all the players are fricking ancient by pro dota standards. Next year we'll be lucky to have one Chinese team, the playtime laws completely killed the scene in China.
Honestly, after they got rid of o the original casting gang, Bruno/James, assassinated goated casters -Tobi/LD etc and replaced them with souless working for pennies corporate spooks, it all went to shit. >That event where CAP hands the mic to James at some behind the scenes event while all the producers are asleep and James brings more soul to the event in 3 minutes or so more than was achieved in the years of his absence in the entire scene
cliffy B, tim shafer, randy pitchford, itagaki, inafune, Kamiya, molyneux
all of these guys were held up by immensely passionate teams in their hayday and later proved that the work was a sum of its parts and not good just because of one guy. I will honorable mention Koji Igarashi, because its clear he can direct the frick out of a studio and Bloodstained is truly impressive in spite of its graphical limitations, he has the sauce and knows exactly how to make a good game, not necessarily on his own, but he has the true creative sauce
Artour is the greatest carry of all time he just gets shit teams ok Abed aka aBAD is too heavy to carry next time there will be a team built around RTZ and he will win ok
>the year Kuro finally did it >the year of punished n0tail getting justice >even the year random slavs came out of nowhere and murdered the dominant chinese team
Damn good times. This is the first year where I didn't even realise TI had started. Maybe it's time to let go.
Gaymen were the best team in the world whole year, but they are getting the TI curse and choking hard at the tournament(literally every ti the team thst dominates whole yesr chokes)
Im rooting for LGD cos they finally deserve a TI after a decade of close choking
Spirit seem to be the best and most probable to win it right now tho, their second TI
Arteezy is actually so bad he ruined the game by sharting too much.
Him getting cliffed, sprouted and kited so much made reddit mad and the devs powercreeped the frick out of every core with free gap closers, free jumps and gap closer items
n-next year for sure artourbros......
it literally doesn't matter anymore, the prize pool is shit anyway
Still the highest in mEme sports, kek
Riyadh is the big money tournament now
But its not about the money, shartour has plenty not only from his mediocre placements in all tourneys during the heaes, but also that sweet eg/shopify salary plus the merch. If he wanted money he can literally just stream again for a month and make bank, hes the only dotard that can randomly start streaming out of nowhere and instantly get 20-30k viewers
But he will forever seethe for being the biggest jobber and a meme in the scene for a whole decade now
Does any esports scene have anyone as based as Puppey
We talking about EL PRESIDENTE bapa?
no
I dunno, DOTA has an all-star line-up of absolute legends so it is defacto the best scene. I don't know if Puppey has always been #1 but he is certainly remained top 10 for ages now.
Maybe when he gets a pro-match paused so he can grab a snack, i'll respect him more.
This is the first TI in 11 years he hasn't qualified in. It's an all around bad experience.
>no Puppey
>no Kuroky
>no iceiceice
>no s4
This is truly the end
He peaked in MLG Columbus.
Nah he peaked at TI4 where they got third but got cheesed out by VG who also deathballed a few other teams. EG vs Newbee would have salvaged TI4
Amerimutt cope
>Got cheesed out
>artour buys midas on alchemist in a game they are already losing
speed gaming bros...
ee sama bros...
bone7chan bros...
singu bros...
aui seventy billion bros...
i want to go back...
AUI is still in the pro scene.
not in this TI THOUGH
well, he was there until recently
It ended? Who wonned?
Finals in 3 days
it was titerally a honypot TI LMFAO who cares LMFAOOOOO
is this some american reality tv star or what
Ye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baa8_qEYDAg
Imagine making a career out of looking pro without being pro
Almost laudable on its own
Fake TI this one didn't count anyway Artour WILL win the Riyadh Masters 2
>not one single T1 win in 7 years
Why was he ever considered good? No matter the team, he sharts his way out every single time.
Why didnt he just wash his face?
what is this about?
?si=x7cdakG_0FiqdxwQ
thanks for reminding me this exists
She better be at the main event. Slacks alone is unbearable.
Does the Spy Kids 3 movie: Game Over, count?
Elijah Woods was a big jobber in that
I was gonna say GamerBee because he can never win in America
>you gotta get a cleanup crew in there, it fricking stinks
God I fricking hate Arteezy I'm so glad he's never won a TI and never will
Calm down, EE
an entire decade of telling you homosexuals that rtz is fricking dogshit
>check prize pool
>1mil
lol why is valve so fricking greedy they probably made millions with cs:go 2
Its 3 mills
But they didnt release any hats with the compendium so literally no one buy it
Its baffling, its like they hate money
They said that hats will come after TI. It's just to maximize profits and show pro players that people pay for hats and not just to see them play.
Good. I dknt care if im feeding some autistic 16 y/o russian zigger zoomer my money for thst insane prize pool. Let the arabs spend their money on that, i just want cool hats and MAYBE BRING BACK AGHANINS LABYRINTH Black folk AAAA
Agreed. Aghanim’s Labyrinth needs to be in Dota 100%. That mode is pure fun.
Brah people have been paying for compendium for FOMO shit since the 3-4th TI. Pros know that shit too.
To be frank only baby minds think people buy compendium to contribute to pros.
Wait, I stopped watching Dota 2 back when he sharted with Secret. Are you telling me that my boy Artour haven't won a single Major since then? This can't be true right?
He LITERALLY never won a valve event
I'll never play dota again but I had some great frickin' times with my mates back in they day and ti is usually a fun to watch
despite how big it is/was dota still seems super niche and that no one outside the playerbase gives two shits about it unlike say melee or speedrunning or whatever but I guess it'd be because dota isn't actually big in the anglosphere
Why are you blogging?
few beers deep
Amerimutts getting dumpstered and fricking off from the game is the best thing that ever happened
>poster says "mates" so he's probably british
>anon still thinks about Americans
Heh
Bongs are just discount mutts
What is this stance called?
IT'S OVER
It was always joever for him
someone need to make shartour's compilation gif
Back to the turnip farm
Punished Artour, a man denied his main stage shart.
The Shart Squeezer
>Konnichiwa bro
I haven't played dota in over 5 years but I will always support my boy shartour. Simple as
SHARTURO, FORMA DE SHITTER
Dota peaked here tbqhwyf
for me it was ti3
whatever happened to nikobaby
Apparently building some gamer house in his country and starting an org, hes going the notail road
he's a big streamer
4u
>el traidor (judio)
my sides
is there a similar one for ti8?
Its actually Puppey
dota is the only esports scene with soul
I want to see him win but hes needed to lose for the last 5 years to keep the traitor Fly down
>name: artour b
>farm name: all i do is
>favourite thing: farm
In all account, skiter played badly this year.
>this year
He always was bad. Shitter was carried by his offliner and the fricking wraith pact.
>looking at the team rosters of this TI
>can't recognize most of the players
>not even puppey is there
I wonder what old pros end up doing with their lives after they get washed up. Does EE still play?
>I wonder what old pros end up doing with their lives after they get washed up
Whatever they want. The pros that consistently placed highly in their careers are rich as frick now.
EE is losing all his money in daytrading
Those who dont quit dota become coaches, managers or casters.
>haven't kept up with Dota for years
>start looking people up
>Dendi is forgotten
>Tobi is a rapist
>Zyori is a troony
What happened
#metoo hit every scene, Demon was also cancelled around the same time. Buy Tobi did always have a greasy vibe to him. Remember that drow cosplay pic. Not that I'm excusing #metoo bullshit but the only people that get cancelled for this shit usually are morons who don't use their brains.
Didn't know Zyori trooned out but he was also always a degenerate with the dreadlocks and ball sniffing and shit. I actually recall now he wore some woman's blouse in one thing I saw him now that you mention it. What a talentless shit to begin with though
Dendi had his peak and passed it, just the way she goes. Puppey still going strong though
Also just for transparency, I am a ball sniffer who has had dreadlocks on three separate occasions in my life
I was more confused by the item bloat and addition of neutral items.
Tobi was always gigacringe little weirdo
Only /d2g/ pretends to miss him
The only caster I actually miss is Ayesee, the fat moron had the best voice and kino casting
Dota dead game LUL
>literally one of the most alive games in the world
I wish so all those homosexual and talentless casters have to get a job
Thoughts on the TI so far, dotards?
Would be kino if chinks or liquid win
Would be dogshit if the spirit ziggers win it again or fricking >quinn
I haven't played since 2019 but watching sing and the boys commentate is kinda comfy. I don't really understand what's going on in the game, it changed so much.
Yeah Sing is the only thing that connects me Dota, outside of TI. I still enjoy watching it every year, and combining the two is great. Wish he'd watch solo more, not really interested in his buddies insights: Stebe is boring, Waga is cringe, also did Rime transition?
Better than last years, the meta is way more fun than the cancer wraith pact/aura spam and its not produced by moronic romanian gypsies in some sea monkey shithole
good ti. alot of unexpected losses and wins like tundra going out so early. I'm rooting for LGD this time they've been to so many TIs now its their turn
>alot of unexpected losses
I can think of one that was expected
This, but Azure instead
My boy Lanm deserves his TI even if as a coach
I dont play Dota2 anymore but I still do enjoy watching it every now and then. I will even download the game just to watch it in-client.
its strange how it feels like nothing much has changed draftwise. its still just pick a illusion hero carry (Terrorblade I get, dudes always been a beast and Naga Siren is staple sure but cant we mix it up?) and use their illusions for tempo/safe farming and sieging and then everyone else just derps around. just to illustrate how little I play these are the things that confuse me
>CK actually being good(since when?)
>PA/Anti-Mangina/Drow/Slark/Medusa and other just normal right clickers non-existent from what I've seen
>nobody picking Enigma or Void despite having IIRC the best most powerful ults in the game for turning
>Bristleback is good????? uhhh where is Timbersaw? isnt he supposed to be the offlaner of choice?
I've thought about redownloading the game and giving it a try then I remember that I cant stand the 60 minute games, the knowledge pool is deeper than ever to the point that the game is alien to me and that they still dont have a MID-WARS map so I just say frick it and stick to LoL.
Horrible opinion, neither naga or tb are good now. In general illusion heroes havent been really relevant in years since they got dumpstered and hopefully it says this way
Every game I've seen this TI with naga or tb they've been absolutely beasting, so I'm really not sure what you're on.
>Horrible opinion
none of that was an opinion moron. its literally observation. every time I watch a match its some combination of
>Willow Ahgs off-carry and le SPROINK!^_^ when thats not available
>Spirit Breaker
>Bristle
>Earth Spirit
>Phantom Lancer/Chaos Knight or TerrorBlade
>sometimes Centaur Warunner
>the same old awful meme supports like KoTL,Ancient Apparition and Shadow Demon whos one job is to endlessly feed trying to deward and get ganked all day
im not all that suprised
Horrible observation
okay. bye. enjoy the thread
Alri la, thanks
Tb and naga are shit, aside for some cheese picks
PA is absolutely busted right now, she gets picked a lot
CK is also broken yeah
Void is also in picked a lot, no idea what were you watching
Bristle has literally always been good
AM is the most garbage carry in the game and its been for quite a while
Pretty sure hes one of the few heroes with 0 picks/bans this TI so far
>PA is absolutely busted right now, she gets picked a lot
PA was broken last patch, she's dogshit now that they nerfed her aghs.
CK with armlet and echo sabre fricking slaps. I’ve never seen a pos 1 getting online that quick. 15-20 mins in and he’s already roaming around taking fights like no problem.
It’s not about illusion heroes, it’s about how quick they can get online and clap the shit out of people. There’s outliers like PL or Naga late but at that point, if you don’t close game at 30-40 mins, it’s your damn fault.
Prizepool and lack of True Sight aside I like it.
As for the teams:
pleasantly surprised by Talon, VP and Nouns
disappointed by SR, 9Pandas and Thundra
Are we not getting anymore true sight? Nani
no there will be true sight? I don't think Valve ever said anything like that.
But then again they never said anything about true sight being a thing in the first place.
Spirit games are good as always, that’s about it. Supposedly it’s a bigger arena coming weekend
Kino TI, great games and key arena is iconic for dota
Absolutely fricking moronic format, whole week of groups, than week of rest, then brackets, then another week of rest and finals.
Yeah I miss when it was all done in a week with people sitting outside key arena watching games on the lawn
I have no idea how the pros arent seething at valve for this, the format seems so tiring to actually play and you have to spend a whole month in fricking seattle
First entertaining TI since TI5 since we finally have an NA team to root for.
how do they stack up to the chinks? is DotA 2 back in the states, seems like it fell off a while?
Nouns went up against a Chinese team in round 1 and they got demolished so not good
Dota had to leave the US stadium because the one they always used was doing renovations, plus it let them get out to other countries
I more meant the playerbase, is Dota2 still almost exclusively slavs and asiatics?
It has alot of Northern Europeans because no shit they still play DotA, they love it and helped the scene grow for EU.
NA is the deadest region by far.
This game is dominated by the Chinese and Europeans because they're poor and gravitate to free to play games.
Not at all. NA is doing about as well as it always has (which is poorly), China is the real dead region. Used to be half the teams at TI would be Chinese, now there's only 2 and all the players are fricking ancient by pro dota standards. Next year we'll be lucky to have one Chinese team, the playtime laws completely killed the scene in China.
Slavs and peruvians. Chinese dota is pretty much dead after the playtime laws, SEA is only boosted by chinese xpats
Honestly, after they got rid of o the original casting gang, Bruno/James, assassinated goated casters -Tobi/LD etc and replaced them with souless working for pennies corporate spooks, it all went to shit.
>That event where CAP hands the mic to James at some behind the scenes event while all the producers are asleep and James brings more soul to the event in 3 minutes or so more than was achieved in the years of his absence in the entire scene
Bros I want Azure Ray to win so bad.
Fy-god, Somnus and chalice need a TI win. I’ll be cheering for them. Idc if they are chinks, I just want them to have a TI under their belts
i literally didn't even know there was a ti going until this thread
this would never had happened with mason 1
>mason 1
There are several of them?
Blue lightning got taken out, sadly.
Mason would have played a shit off-meta carry, over-extended every fight and then somehow blamed everyone but himself. He's entertaining though.
Mason is a cringy fat moron amerimutt whos a twitch prostitute and needs to frick off
MAKE YOUR PREDICTIONS DOTARDS
ONE MORE WEEKEND AND IT'S ALL OVER
Liquid beats Spirit, AR beats LGD
Liquid beats AR
LGD vs AR in lower bracket finals
>Liquid beats Spirit
that would be huge
they were the biggest jobbers all year
cliffy B, tim shafer, randy pitchford, itagaki, inafune, Kamiya, molyneux
all of these guys were held up by immensely passionate teams in their hayday and later proved that the work was a sum of its parts and not good just because of one guy. I will honorable mention Koji Igarashi, because its clear he can direct the frick out of a studio and Bloodstained is truly impressive in spite of its graphical limitations, he has the sauce and knows exactly how to make a good game, not necessarily on his own, but he has the true creative sauce
IT'S ALWAYS EZ
WITH SHARTEEZY
Has secret won the TI yet?
have not been keeping up this year
Second place last year
Do you guys call him sharteezy cause he's a jobber or did he actually shart himself at some point?
Shartour Babaev indeed has sharted himself infront of millions of people plenty of times
professional video game players and incontinence / digestion issues
name a more iconic duo
For some reason his sharting only comes when he's playing well
No, it's just a play on his name because it starts with "r" and he shids and fards himself in tourneys.
Its all Bulba's fault btw
my wife NatTea
Ephey moggs
where did she come from? I've never seen her before
Liquid is gonna win this TI
Hahahhahahahahaha yuropoor delusions
Please tell me who you think is gonna win lmao
Spirit or one of the chink teams
Are you moronic? Spirit is the most probable team to win it
What the frick happened??
Already answered 10 times in the thread, mong
Valve realized that they can release the battlepass after TI and take 100% of the cut.
What are Ganker's thoughts on this amazing specimen of masculinity and virility?
All amerimutts are trash
can throne
i still have that ruptured lycan webm from years ago on my laptop
i dont follow dota anymore, but no way anyone thought babaevsky could win, right?
Artour is the greatest carry of all time he just gets shit teams ok Abed aka aBAD is too heavy to carry next time there will be a team built around RTZ and he will win ok
>the year Kuro finally did it
>the year of punished n0tail getting justice
>even the year random slavs came out of nowhere and murdered the dominant chinese team
Damn good times. This is the first year where I didn't even realise TI had started. Maybe it's time to let go.
But seriously, are the holograms real?!?
You are missing, its the best TI since like 7
>the best player in the history of dota is already out
It's not a real TI ok
Quinn is still in tho?
Miracle wasnt even in the TI, moron
Bro, EE quit some time ago and became a cryptotard.
Ganker is for LoLchads only, dotards out!
Kek, delusional newbie
Dotards run here and /vg/
Only game to get a sticky every year
TURNIP
Who do I root for? Russians? Are gaymen gladiators good?
the chinks
Liquid shit
Gaymen were the best team in the world whole year, but they are getting the TI curse and choking hard at the tournament(literally every ti the team thst dominates whole yesr chokes)
Im rooting for LGD cos they finally deserve a TI after a decade of close choking
Spirit seem to be the best and most probable to win it right now tho, their second TI
>tundra dead after winning last year
What happened
Wraith pact was removed from the game
they tried to play anything other than the one strat they were good at and got mulched
Bet
BOOOOOM
Agent Z will win for maximum salt.
Liquid
>be the greatest mid player in the world
>start playing carry for some reason
>achieve no results
what were they thinking?
>be the greatest mid player in the world
spiderman
I hope Zai wins the TI
its his turn
he's already out
The year fy and Lanm finally win a TI...right?
fy ti soul…
no
impossible, AR is shit
>arteezy is ba-
Arteezy is actually so bad he ruined the game by sharting too much.
Him getting cliffed, sprouted and kited so much made reddit mad and the devs powercreeped the frick out of every core with free gap closers, free jumps and gap closer items