The International 2019 - Dota2

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Anyone else watching? I’m cheering for Liquid and I wish they weren’t playing like garbage. I have a feeling a Chinese team will win this year.
 
Nope. Nobody plays MOBAs anymore.
The only tournament scene left that's any worth is for fighting games. The last time I saw E-sports related products was the game "Puyo Puyo Champions" when that released on Steam. I have that game in my library, but mostly due to me wanting a "Puyo Puyo" game and there being no Denuvo in the game's code, unlike "Puyo Puyo Tetris" which has more "Tetris" elements than "Puyo Puyo" and is protected with Denuvo, even to this day.
 
CumDumpster dijo:
Nope. Nobody plays MOBAs anymore.
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15 million people watched the grand finals last year which grew by 5 million viewers from the year prior. The prize pool is 33 million this year. If people aren’t playing it they’re sure spending money on it and watching it.
 
I was about to make this thread! I am also rooting for Liquid, and EG, both are playing like dogshit. I will most likely cheer for Secret, as I refuse to root for a Chink team.

I think either LGD or Secret have it this year. Although, if OG can pull a back to back, that would be insane!

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Fuck having TI in China. The crowd is god awful, the main coverage isn't in English for the first time ever, and the talent are all trying to suck China's dick..shit's horrible.

A strictly SEA/Western grand final and one vacant stadium would salvage some of the experience, though.
 
Results

Upper Bracket:
LGD vs Virtus Pro
LGD

Vici Gaming vs TNC
Vici Gaming

Lower Bracket:
Alliance vs RNG
RNG

Fnatic vs Team Liquid
Team Liquid

KEEN vs Infamous
Infamous

Na'Vi vs Mineski
Mineski
 
Opiophile dijo:
I was about to make this thread! I am also rooting for Liquid, and EG, both are playing like dogshit. I will most likely cheer for Secret, as I refuse to root for a Chink team.

I think either LGD or Secret have it this year. Although, if OG can pull a back to back, that would be insane!

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If OG pulls through I would be Ok with that! Jerax is one of my favourites and they did a killer job last year, I wouldn't be too upset if Secret won either. I'm happy that NaVi made it this year too. I am also not rooting for any Chinese teams. Part of me wonders if a Chinese team will win because the Chinese govt wants that. I am sure every cringy video that Slacks and Kacie do will only show the "good" sides of China.

LegoTugboat dijo:
I'm eagerly waiting for the Artifact part of the International.
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Do you have any idea how they will be implementing Artifact? I have actually never played it

gobbogobb dijo:
Do the Chinese teams still dominate like they did in the all-stars days?
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It's much more spread out these days, Europe has grown to be pretty great at the dotes, but Chinese teams still consistently place top, they were 2nd last year

Fek dijo:
Fuck having TI in China. The crowd is god awful, the main coverage isn't in English for the first time ever, and the talent are all trying to suck China's dick..shit's horrible.

A strictly SEA/Western grand final and one vacant stadium would salvage some of the experience, though.
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I agree, I hope they bring it back to Seattle or Vancouver. The audio from the Chinese casters can be heard so easily and its annoying af. You can tell there's been quite a few technical issues too and during the opening ceremonies they fucked up where the teams were coming out from and where they were supposed to stand ahah
 
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Apoth42 dijo:
The drama around it is funny.

So many people getting banned for HK stuff and Tienanmen jokes.
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Ooo I wasn't much aware of this, do you have any fun links or photos of the drama?

I heard there was some crazy stuff that went down with some scalpers though; controversy with companies that sold the tickets partnering with scalpers and artificially inflating prices etc This shit happens everywhere though.
 
Pineapple Fox dijo:
I heard there was some crazy stuff that went down with some scalpers though; controversy with companies that sold the tickets partnering with scalpers and artificially inflating prices etc This shit happens everywhere though.
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Scalpers are everywhere, sure..but I don't think I've ever seen the crowd this vacant during ti. I think this likely also has to do with the supposed assigned seating? Probably hard to make the arena look good when everyone's sprinkled out across the whole place.

Either way, yet another 1 pos IO going on right now. /DotA 2
 
I noticed how empty it’s been too and thought it was weird, I didn’t hear about the assigned seating. It’s so empty and I assume it’s sold out.

Whew that Io and Bristle game was brutal
 
Pineapple Fox dijo:
Dendi is just such a nice boy!
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