Dota 2 the international 2014 grand finals funny

Dota 2 the international 2014 grand finals funny

Today we play the Grand Finals to decide who will win the Aegis and be crowned Champions.

It is ViCi Gaming vs Newbee.

At the end of Phase 2 (group stage) there could not have been two teams further apart. VG had dominated the entire set of round robin matches ending on top of the standings with a 12-3 record. Newbee on the other hand, squeaked in with a 7-8 record that forced a three way TieBreaker.

ViCi’s record gave them an instant trip to the Main Event. Newbee’s record gave them the longest road to the main event but that trip forged the team into something new. They no longer struggled, but dominated matches and now enter today from the Upper Bracket and VG comes from the Lower Bracket.

If you have Dota 2 you can watch the finals in-game (highly recommended) or you can watch all the games live on the Dota website. The pre-game is happening right now with some analysis and commentary.

The KeyArena – 17,000 capacity – is full of screaming Dota fans. It has been fascinating watching this competition and knowing the next few games are going to lead to one team taking home several million dollars is pretty incredible.

I was around the Seattle Center area on Friday and wondered why so many people were carrying Dota 2 swag bags. (Also it’s KeyArena, not Keystone Arena)

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The first two games were pretty good then it went downhill; Newbee just romped it in. Kind of a disappointing final after many of the epic games leading up to it.

Agreed, compared to the main event matches and last year’s grand finals, this final was very disappointing.

Not unlike other recent professional sporting events

Worst TI finals so far 😦

Will be forever dreaming of an EG vs. DK final series. Would have been so much more intense.

Watched the finals from my own noobish point of view (by way of the noob stream) and I get why they GG so early, but damn. it’s the grand finals of basically the Dota 2 world cup. You’d think they wouldn’t throw it in quite so easily.

It would have been a fairy tale ending for VG if they’d won it, seeing how Newbee dismantled them earlier.

boring final for sure but credit to newbee for somehow being the only team to bother trying to counter against vg’s early push strategies. some of the format changes this year were definitely for the better but there’s room for improvement next year. upper and lower bracket grand final play off series should be a best of fives like in the past. such critical matches can be pretty underwhelming when its a two game stomp. seen countless teams in the past come back to win best of fives and it is infinitely more thrilling.

The 4th game they had no chance of winning but the 2nd and 3rd game I was thinking the same. They still had a slim chance of winning so they really should have played it out. The last game was a stomp and VG’s picks were just bad matchups compared to newbie’s. ES and shadow shaman seemed to be key hero’s. Also I was blown away about how VG kept going for natures prophet despite already going down twice in a row with it.

Newbee outplayed VG. I think VG choked in the last game with those picks. Either way it was a great tourney full of upsets. Can’t wait for next years.

I like cloud 9, and some guy Bone7 I think, he wrecked !!

Been fun watching it, I should DL and give it a try.

Newbee outplayed VG. I think VG choked in the last game with those picks. Either way it was a great tourney full of upsets. Can’t wait for next years.

their picks were totally confusing, at least to a relative noob like me.

I agree that the early ggs were disappointing and weird, especially in the last game. Dota is a funny old game. We’ve come back from being down that far (admittedly not against pro teams); it only takes a couple of mistakes for the whole game to turn around. I certainly know the feeling of wanting to throw in the towel ASAP though.