The_Mask
Just like Yves, I chase tales.
Go and see NIGMA.Fucking OG getting eliminated.
And I was thinking about going to TI this year.
Go and see NIGMA.Fucking OG getting eliminated.
And I was thinking about going to TI this year.
And things will probably get worse since PGL is taking 100% control over TI and Valve is failing for a while to sustain good dota content and attract new blood. Also the competitive scene is lacking good names that can throw a show: where is the new dendi?This has got to be the worst TI yet.
* Half the main event wasn't in front of an audience (similar to the last few times).
* Most matches have been very one-sided.
* Liquid vs GG Grand Finals again.
* No in-game stats (when did they stop doing this?).
* No dark horse story.
* Gaimin playing like absolute shit in the Grand Finals (game 2 ongoing as I write this), looks like it's going to be a 3-0.
Pro Dota being a Europe-only affair has made these events increasingly boring.
I only know about Tobi. Who else has been canceled? I haven’t watched TI since 2016.For people complaining about a one sided final, only ti 2021,2018 and 2013 had something resembling a actual back and forth. My biggest problem is how the quality of the panel and commentators went down the drain because everybody decent was cancelled in the last 4 years.
Just gonna list the major changes regardless of quality:Who else has been canceled?
This is the only part that I hard disagree with. Seeing just White people on stage feels great.Pro Dota being a Europe-only affair has made these events increasingly boring.
But then you have Liquid, a "European" team full of Asians. The average Dota player has the balls to call Mickey and Insania Swedish with a straight face.This is the only part that I hard disagree with. Seeing just White people on stage feels great.Pro Dota being a Europe-only affair has made these events increasingly boring.
Well valve sort of did everything they could to kill TI. This TI had the lowest prize pool since 2013 (which didn't even have contributions from people buying stuff). They said no ads in player tags on official streams. 2 years in a row they make compendiums that no one wants to buy because there are no skins. In 2018 TI liquid placed 4th and they got more money than they did for winning this TI. I have no idea why orgs even bother having dota teams.And things will probably get worse since PGL is taking 100% control over TI and Valve is failing for a while to sustain good dota content and attract new blood
Yeah that was weird. How do you lose to almost identical picks (including firstpick NP) 3 times in a row.Gaimin playing like absolute shit in the Grand Finals
Tundra were one of the more enjoyable teams to watch this TI, as far as I was concerned. I would've loved to see some combination of Tundra, XG, Spirit, Falcons in the grand finals.There are like 3 teams worth watching, the rest are jobbers such as tundra filled with bad players like ramses and washed ups like topson, only making it to TI because everyone else sucks even harder.
I only know about Tobi.
What are you talking about here specifically? DotA? DotA 2? And even if you refer to the English-speaking scene only, when it comes to DotA, MadMortigan, synderen, Blitz etc were way more relevant. Tobi became relevant later and mostly so because the German organization "joinDOTA" picked him up. And that's basically a DotA 2 thing.I only know about Tobi.
I just want to respond to this little bit.
Tobi almost singlehandedly created the scene for this shitty game. This isn't an exaggeration. There would be no esports scene for this without Tobi.
They canceled him and threw him into the trash like he was nothing.
For the newbies here, I'm talking about TobiWan.
To put things in perspective, the prominent caster known as 'Cap' (aka 'The Capitalist'), who has been at the forefront of every TI for the past few years was invited to cast Dota and essentially created from nothing by Tobi. Yet he was also one of the first ones to gladly throw Tobi under the bus.
Scumbag scene.