Winners Bracket Semi Finals!

Losers Bracket – Round 3!

Poll: Team Liquid vs MVP Phoenix

Team Liquid Wins (23)

Your vote: Team Liquid vs MVP Phoenix

(Vote): Team Liquid Wins
(Vote): MVP Phoenix Wins

Poll: Team Secret vs Evil Geniuses

Team Secret Wins (17)

Your vote: Team Secret vs Evil Geniuses

(Vote): Team Secret Wins
(Vote): Evil Geniuses Wins

Poll: Alliance vs Complexity Gaming

Complexity Gaming Win (10)

Your vote: Alliance vs Complexity Gaming

(Vote): Alliance Win
(Vote): Complexity Gaming Win

Poll: OG vs Fnatic

Your vote: OG vs Fnatic

Also I would find it enjoyable if Secret beat EG again but EG is looking strong

Too early? It’s gona start at 23:00 here

Too early? It’s gona start at 23:00 here

i rehearse from 22 to 00 today lol 😀

I’m going
Liquid 2-1 MVP
EG 0-2 Secret (now thats a long shot with the penalty but I chose to believe a long time ago)
Alliance 2-1 coL
OG 2-0 Fnatic

oops double post

* Money. A lot of people have brought up the issue of money, saying that Chinese players get a larger amount of money playing public games with/for their fans, than they do practicing for professional tournaments. I’d believe this, but for the fact that Chinese players don’t actually play a lot of public games, and only a few of them get large audiences when they play. In fact, the Chinese players who do this best are players not on professional teams, such as YYF, so it doesn’t explain why players would choose to be on professional teams in the first place, unless what they were after is a break out, which would require them to actually have results. Further, were they after that, then they’d surely understand the value of being at the top of the MMR list: http://www. dota2.com/leaderboards/#china. Dota 2 shanghai major tournaments in pga Yet we don’t see them at the top of this list. Instead we see Koreans and people who don’t play on professional teams.

* They’re always slow at adapting to game changes. The last big change to the game was over three months ago. You cannot argue that the Chinese are so slow at adapting to the changes that they still don’t know how to play the game three months later. The top strategies and heroes changing among top professional teams does not equate to the game itself changing and it’s not though the years during which the Chinese were successful saw no changes to the top strategies and heroes. No, it’s just that in 2014, the Chinese teams were actually motivated because they weren’t full of players who’ve played the game for so long that they’ve lost all desire to play, and their management wasn’t as bad as it has become today. The details we don’t know, but I’m pretty sure that back then, they actually had standards for themselves, and that’s why they were able to win.

After that I would definitely be rooting for MVP and Liquid to make it to the finals.

On March 04 2016 05:09 Azarkon wrote:
Causes that, in my opinion, are not as important as people think:

* Money. A lot of people have brought up the issue of money, saying that Chinese players get a larger amount of money playing public games with/for their fans, than they do practicing for professional tournaments. I’d believe this, but for the fact that Chinese players don’t actually play a lot of public games, and only a few of them get large audiences when they play. In fact, the Chinese players who do this best are players not on professional teams, such as YYF, so it doesn’t explain why players would choose to be on professional teams in the first place, unless what they were after is a break out, which would require them to actually have results. Further, were they after that, then they’d surely understand the value of being at the top of the MMR list: http://www. dota2.com/leaderboards/#china. Dota 2 shanghai major tournaments in pga Yet we don’t see them at the top of this list. Instead we see Koreans and people who don’t play on professional teams.

* They’re always slow at adapting to game changes. The last big change to the game was over three months ago. You cannot argue that the Chinese are so slow at adapting to the changes that they still don’t know how to play the game three months later. The top strategies and heroes changing among top professional teams does not equate to the game itself changing and it’s not though the years during which the Chinese were successful saw no changes to the top strategies and heroes. No, it’s just that in 2014, the Chinese teams were actually motivated because they weren’t full of players who’ve played the game for so long that they’ve lost all desire to play, and their management wasn’t as bad as it has become today. The details we don’t know, but I’m pretty sure that back then, they actually had standards for themselves, and that’s why they were able to win.

or they’re too busy playing LoL and HOTS

seriously valve needs to whip PW into shape and step up their game, at this rate HOTS is going to over take dota2 in China in no time

valve is way too hands-off and it is stagnating dota2 as a whole. People in general wants new heroes being released periodically, hence why LoL is so popular. Riot releases 2-3 new champs in the time it takes Valve to port 1 old hero from dota1.

I don’t know if Icefrog is working on new heroes or not but if we’re stuck with these heroes, dota2 won’t grow, will stagnate, and die off.