Watch the 5th day of the Dota 2 International 5 Main Event here
There's only one more day until the Dota 2 International Grand Finals. Be sure to watch the 5th day of the Main Event along with us here at Shacknews.
Get ready! The Dota 2 International Main Event has reached its final stage before tomorrow's Grand Finals. The first place team will take home $6,470,659. The brackets are almost done, but here they are, for anyone that missed them, courtesy of the official Dota 2 International website.
Dota 2 lovers are welcome to join us here at Shacknews and watch the full stream below.
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For those that are not well-versed in all the intricacies of Dota 2, the always-helpful Newcomer's Stream is also making its return this year, just in time for the Main Event. That stream can be found here.
This is also one of the most anticipated events of the year for the Shacknews community. Watch along with us and don't forget to join the conversation with the rest of Chatty. (Don't be afraid. The community won't bite.)
Also, if you're looking to take your Dota 2 International excitement on the road, remember that many bars across the country are broadcasting today's matches. A full list of those locations can be found on the Dota 2 International website.
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replyOzzie Mejia posted a new article, Watch the 5th day of the Dota 2 International 5 Main Event here
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And the tusk kicks were clutch!
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I'm in traffic getting there :(
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He gets banned first every game.
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CDEC vs EG Game 1 starting
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Love the SK pick
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Also Waga just said "Peel"
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Aui never disappoints with those snipes
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It didn't help he never built BKB too. Which I dont understand lol
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He also needed to get his ult off. CDEC had ways of stopping it. Merlini and Syn constantly said he needed it because of this. CDEC were able to shut him down almost every time.
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71% Main Event
http://www.dotabuff.com/esports/events/41/heroes-
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I don't think it's possible to evaluate the hero solely on winrate when you're looking at such a small sample size. You have to look at the team behind the hero, and how the hero performs in terms of GPM and K:D.
There's a reason teams have favored SF at this tournament. They spent the last six months dominating with it.-
SF has a high GPM, but that's the problem with it. The hero takes up too much flash farm late in the game andkeeps another core from coming online. SF dominatest he mid game, so the kill numbers can be misleading. If you get kills mid game, but lose the game, whats the point?
SF has a high GPM, 565, but a combined K+A of ~15.
Compare that to a lina which has a 440 GPM and K+A of 15.
Or Tusk which has a 289 gpm and a K+A of 14. Which is extremely good value.
Last six months don't matter, only the meta in the TI5 which is much different than it was the last tournament. -
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Another SF game, another loss.
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We'll have to fix that.
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It is hard to get into at first, but as a FPS player who generally doesn't like MP RTS games, I would say that transition does happen eventually.
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Game 2 starting
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Need an EG win that takes about 45 minutes so I can see the third game.
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Treant :D
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Wow gg
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That was a game mode for a while, but they never truly did it in DOTA2.
It is one of those things that doesn't quite matter but can be kinda neat if you get into the lore. The voicing sometimes ties into these relationships.
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Welp. I will be amazed if this EG draft can win against a Bounty, Lina team.
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I hope junktown keeps spamming this sick meme like he does his pro Dota 2 analysis
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Can you really take clinkz late game? He seems like one of those heroes that peaks with deso (usually you choose lifesteal as your late game carry orb) and maybe you get bkb after that, but then you want to end it.
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That got a huge belly laugh from me.
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Yeah those team fights almost went lgd but vg just played them so damn well.
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LGD vs VG game 2
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No he just likes having the courier follow him.
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Watching the EG vs CDEC game at KeyArena was really pretty awesome. CDEC really just fucking demolished EG in the draft which was completely unexpected for me. I was rooting for CDEC (just love the complete unknown team just demolishing the tournament), but was pretty ambivalent about their chances.
The mind games in the first draft were just out of this world, one of the things I was expecting EG to dominate in was the draft but it was a complete turnaround on them. CDEC played EG like a fucking fiddle in the first draft. It was really impressive for a Chinese team, which in general are regarded as having more static/unresponsive drafting. They basically let EG draft sumail into a corner and then denied his best option (TA).
And then it happened AGAIN IN GAME TWO. It was like a complete fucking reversal of their first match up earlier in the tournament and really telling for how good CDEC is if you give them something to run on.-
Also the crowd was really going wild in that game, both for CDEC plays and EG plays.
My favorite part was after EG's first loss, when walking out of the stadium they intentionally straddled the far left wall in order to stay away from all the people wanting to high-five them lol, really illustrated their mindset I think at the end of that.
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