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That's the saddest part of being a SIF player.

Not really only split-pushing, but it was the most easily noticed reason. Yeah, I hope they make some changes to the heroes, but don't make them trash. I used to play Juggernaut a lot even before 6.82 and the only reason pros weren't using him was because he wasn't overpowered and people didn't knew how to itemize him properly, madness has been my main item on him since around 6.80 and I always cry when I see someone aghs rushing for no reason. What heroes do you guys think that deserve a buff or a nerf?

EGM is underperforming. He's a support who don't want to play support but doesn't do well as a core, his frustration also makes him not do well as a support, so he's on a hard tilt. Hopefully they'll come back someday, Loda is a legend and he's still a top carry, they should be able to find some talented players.

I really love Loda and Akke, but if they really want to make a team with swedish players only, then they're not going out of tier 3 anytime soon. I think that with DAC coming, they didn't wanted to shuffle players since it was a huge tournament, the prizepool was good and it was their chance to see how well they would do against the west. Chinese teams also don't really start practicing that hard until TI, there are some exceptions like VG but most of them are known for not scrimming that hard at this point. PPD wins many of their games with his draft, so no wonder Sumail does well when EG tends to build their lineup around the mid lane. He's good, but it's too early to say if he'll keep it up.

He said he was retiring after TI3, then he played until TI4, now he's coming back, I guess that guy is never leaving for real unless he starts underperforming hard. He'll be definitely good enough, just look at him during DAC. Sumail is a great storm, that's for sure, even Ferrari said that he is legit, or more accurately: "He reminds me of myself when I was young." It might look like his ego is huge but well, he's 430, probably the best player in the world at whatever he plays. Also, most of the games where Sumail played Storm he had Universe on a hero that could scout the map globally, Beastmaster, Clock or Zeus where in all but one match pairing with him. That means he could safely jump at enemies knowing where the rest of his team was. As always, Universe is underrated, poor guy.

Black is an amazing farmer, that's for sure. He has been improving as a carry since he's now actually doing something with the farm other than farming even more, but there's still probably a lot he's lacking to meet the chinese standart. I mean, look at Sylar, Burning or Zhou on his prime. Those guys are beasts and that's the performance the chinese expect from their 1 position players. Iceiceice tends to say that there ain't many communication issues and Black always confirms that he can pretty much understand everything in-game, so I don't know if that affects them that much. Well, now that DAC is over, rumors about the eastern reshuffle are starting to get more solid. Burning confirmed on his stream that he'll be playing for IG (Burning + 430 HYPE); xiao8 is being approached by LGD but nothing is confirmed yet; Lanm is not coming back; Rotk is likely joining CDEC. And while not about the east, Demon apparently confirmed that Merlini has a team now. Well, guess the following weeks will have tons of shitty drama and salty fans for both regions.

6 is probably the best one, but I voted for 7 because ecchi.

I'm so happy for Aui, he broke the 2nd place curse! Seeing Fear being successful is always a bliss as well, but I can't help but dislike PPD. He's an amazing drafter, but the amount of salt in him is awful. On a side note, FY said in an interview that Black is probably going to stay since they made it to the finals and he performed really well during the tournament, but that was before the grand finals. @edit https://twitter.com/FearDotA/status/564747410225000448 https://twitter.com/Aui_2000/status/564735090207760384

Black works really hard to meet everyone's expectations, I really hope VG keeps him regardless of the result. Well, Zai himself said that he wasn't expecting first place since the team was totally new, it's quite a big transition regarding their playstyle, the shift from playmaking to farming offlaners, a new carry and how they have to shift S4 to safelane farm with a tempo controller hero usually. EG is kinda new as well since their lineup is different, but their playstyle is still the same since Sumail fills RTZ's role and Aui fills Zai's with their similar playstyles.

Secret was amazing early on and got 15-0, but BO1 means basically nothing as any team can take a game like that. If C9 didn't mentally fucked up so hard during game 2, they would probably have lost. There's this really interesting thread on reddit that explains all the problems that happened during those last minutes of game 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/2v5jsk/dac_secret_vs_c9_game_2_who_on_secret_made_the/ Now, about the Secret vs EG, I'll just say that I could feel the salt in every finger of death. I think I'm rooting for VG since I really love Black and Iceiceice, but I also wanna root for EG because of Fear and Aui. =/

Bone 3+2+2, fEEd and the overall tilting. Yeah, just the usual tournament for a Clown9 fan, that rollercoaster of emotions.

I always get really close to FCing Cutie Panther but I always choke at some random point. =/

FTFY

It says I'm a dandere... Not sure if I could call this accurate.

I have no idea, I'd say tsundere is the closest one.

I think iamnoob just broke the thread page. Btw, are these really iamnoob and Eclipsed? Or those guy just had really similar names?

I didn't thought this game would look so fabulous. The rainbow unicorn won me, 10/10 I'll play it.

10+1 is the scout where you use 50 gems for 11 cards instead of 10, it's like a bonus for getting a pack of cards rather than a solo one. I don't know what the 12/13. Since you don't care that much about Rin, you can just scout with them, but I personally recommend you to save gems for an event you're interested in or for 10+1 draws.

Time to get your hype ready, boys! 13/06/2015 <3

I will definitely watch this chapter's episode when it airs, what a beautiful flashback. I love how Oda is giving the Donquixotes some backstory and doing it rather quickly, but still in a good pace. I did a temporary change to the thread title and changed the cover, because Lucy Anne.

I got her! Had to make my first rush in my entire SIF life (not like I've been playing it for that long, but whatever ) but it was damn worth it. Travelling back to Brazil made it impossible to be effective with my LP, if I hadn't spammed lovecas in the last 3 hours, I wouldn't have been even close to tier 2, damn it was tiring. I'd say I spent around 25 at the very least, but that's what I get for wasting so much LP. This was my first time aiming for any specific tier, it's really satisfying to get there and probably worth it (rofl). I even idolized her despite my cool team desperately needing those points because I wanted to reward myself, but I'll probably look at it in a few days and shed those tears of regret. Thank you <3 You're out of control, dude. Every time I see your single draws you get some super rare, they're called super rare for a reason, you know?

I'll make a decent post later about how much I got rekt trying to do well on this event, but anyway, the current cutoff is 26.56k and I'm ranked with 28.28k, once it updates I'll go to 29.36k. Someone please tell me that I'm safe or I might kill myself.

ayy lmao

I heard that the cutoffs will be around 28k for tier 2, is that info legit or am I going to need like, 30k+?