LGD vs DK game 1 was the best match of TI4

SingSing meepo best part of TI4

That was the worst final. First international I have watched since I started playing dota and it was so anticlimatic... Can't connect with any of the players on Newbee, even after winning they were all so emotionless...

At least rtz antics can be pretty entertaining. These guys can't even show some emotion after winning 5M.

please this is just china, did you not see how they flipped the fuck out in the booths after they won? china has a tendency to value public image over a lot of stuff. so what if they don't look excited? guarantee you that they're cheering their asses off inside

Just an interesting find:

http://s8.postimg.org/uc0g3rurp/ti4rigged.jpg

The guy posted that around 2AM this morning before the finals.

believing d2g...

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:^)

weow memerino xhaha!

Super early five man push?

that's not an exploit but I get what you mean

Leave it to China to find the gayest way to play the game. When focus moved away from ricing carries, they transitioned into 25 minute deathball pushes.

wow haha yeah nobody learned how to counter that haha!

haha! c9 never beat vici's deathball pushes by splitfarming and heavy lane winning/perfect ganking! haha not even once! haha.

haha

http://i.imgur.com/5GundM7.png

looks pretty international to me

but gosh darn, five million bucks is nuts. wonder how much they actually get to keep.

The Western scene is very busy with a lot of tournaments, but tbh the previous tournaments have been pretty close but I think they are becoming more and more saturated meaning western teams just play instead of actually practice.

Newbee had a good advantage of not coming to the western tournaments and just focusing on improving, Alliance had a similar thing last year where they only really put effort in to G1 League.

The meta is just heavily focused on 5 man tower pushes, VG exploited this a lot vs. EG where they just focus the tower, ignore the heroes, get the XP and gold and GG push.

Newbee didn't even have super push lineups at all. Krob was banned every single game and Mu played standard mid heroes like brew and puck. I don't know where the whole "cheesy gay early deathball" shit comes from when it was just vici fucking up really hard and not learning from their mistakes

from what i understand, they keep it all and valve pays the taxes on it

So just because a strat is beatable, it can't be gay?

i dont think you understand:
there are no non-lame-as-fuck strats in dota2

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i think he's wondering how much the sponsor takes. it's gotta be a sizable chunk.

Did you see them in the booths? They were ecstatic

http://blog.dota2.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/0721_133149_quentin_postgame_203941.jpg

http://i.gyazo.com/c6b25584820a83936fc1c522e62d119d.gif

i remember reading something a month or so ago that like certain tournament organizers were having a hard time paying chinese teams because its difficult getting money into china for a variety of reasons. wonder if valve will have the same problem. i think it was something in regards to like DK not getting paid for some tournament but i cant remember which one

That's not how most sponsors work, the fact that Na'vi EVER took money from their players is kind of a joke. EG doesnt take anything, iG did the opposite in TI2, their owner matched their winnings. (they won the 1 mil, and were given another mil on top of that)

Sponsors profit from players in many ways, if the only way you can profit is taking their winnings then you're doing it wrong.

Oh, and valve makes sure the money goes directly to the players.

if they hadn't done lvl 1 rosh(fucking ego move by envy calling that) they would have won lanes i think and had a good shot at winning that 3rd game

A lot teams take a small percentage of prize winnings (10-15%). The players sign a contract with the organization (the org owns their rights) and Valve has to honor that agreement. The prize winnings generally go through the organization and then get distributed to the players sans whatever cut the organization takes per the contract.

I thought Valve pay the players though, which is why Artsyle was removed from Navi because he kept his share instead of giving a percentage to the org. That was a long time ago so it could have changed.

To my knowledge they did this every year.

Valve also pays the taxes on it. So when they say 25% go to the prize pool its really more like 50% since I think 50% of prize money in WA is taxed, aka you if win 2 million, you only keep 1 million after taxes.

Orgs probably have agreements with their players but to my knowledge Valve gives each player a separate check for themselves. What happens after that is beyond me.

Lol I didn't say it was undeserved. Relax.