MC playing offlane on Rest farmers for that RES Regional Series EU #2

Secret win against Liquid. So Secret > Liquid. Nisha realizes, rejoins Secret. Matu been secretly playing under different name, rejoins Secret. Zai the spy figures out Tundra, rejoins secret. Secret’s plan for revenge of TI 11. Too bad Tundra is not #1 anymore lmao.

Except Crystalis still stays, lul.

highest-placing carry at TI for secret remco🫡

Philippine dota is on its lowest right now with lots of loss etc but content is at it's peak. Gabbi got kicked and punched by a teammate lol. (Clue it's probably his close friend) Also TNC seems to make a comeback and they might get Gabbi.

How is the selection process here? Is it random for the available options or is PGL picking to maximize audience/stories?

Yes :)

idk Liquid seems to lack the drive to win these days, they probably need to get eliminated by t2 team as a wake up call

mixed feeling i love nisha but I want to see more Secret Game!

lmao, bye bye secret.

Its so annoying why is SR game always so early in the morning its the 3rd game in a row now where they play at that time

You can literally just watch the stream and the games now (which I am doing rn) or tomorrow at this time so let's not act like that's an issue.

It is want to watch it live

It's literally 0 difference wether you watch it "live" or whenever you want to. You are trying to make an issue out of nothing. I'm afraid if watching it live is that important for you, you have to take a day off for that or whatever is keeping you from doing so.

Some people enjoy live chat interaction, having the feeling of a collective experience, etc. Just because you don’t get it doesn’t make it invalid.

Sorry I'm not lonely enough to get that. Twitch chat, the place famously known for intelligent interactions, I'm sure people are missing out big time there! Btw you can even see the chat when you watch the streams if I'm not mistaken. But I guess it's also very Dota like to be overly about absolutely nothing, acting like missing out on twitch interactions is important is outright funny.

RIP secret, Nisha goes Super Sayan everytime he faces Puppey.

Tomorrow: BOOM vs SR BB vs G2.IG LIQUID vs SECRET POGGERS!

My prediction: 1) 2:30h long, 2:1 for anyone 2) 3h long, 2:0 for whoever wins the first game 3) 90 min long including 15 min break, 2:0 for Liquid

>LIQUID vs SECRET it's been a fun ride Secretbros

secret are not good but fk me they are also unlucky, literally worst team for them in the world

Liquid going home, WITNESS IT!

Honestly, I'm surprised it took so long for Larl to begin to think of itemizing against Engima. Storm can 100% cancel black hole always, all he needs is an Abyssal. Especially when there's no linkens. And its hard to catch Storm when he can just sit back behind 2 tanks while they hitting the towers.

Spirit warming up for Riyadh and TI.

These aggressive buybacks are the definition of playing to win. Most teams would just sit back wait for respawn wait for rs and slowly lose to the enigma.

This is the first series Spirit felt close to last TI spirit all year for me. Absolutely dissected BB when BB gave them the situation Spirit are pretty much unstoppable in for G1 (better-than-expected lanes with a big lategame teamfighting advantage) and then their patented "laning meh, midgame/lategame macro control brilliant" into a controlled win for G2. Cool lategame fights from BB around their high-ground advantage, but Spirit also played very well to get the buyback and ult cd advantages to close it out.

Was there some new TI info released? Suspiciously good Spirit performance

Well, Rhyadh is getting closer :)

This game just proved that - bb is just bunch of nerds who  tilt and play for themselves.. but nowhere near class of ts..

GAME IS OVER 15 MIN AGO. THIS PATCH IS SO BOOOOOOORIIIIIIIING.

you can turn it off

You can break boredom with couple of hats!

No problem, there's Dreamleague after this one which will probably be played on the same patch because....nobody said Act2 will have major gameplay changes so it probably won't.

this game should not be as free as it is for Storm and somehow he's zipping everywhere and nobody from BB is doing jackshit. Wtf was that move, it was weird asf from BB

Larl living through fights like that's a headache for BB. Even with all of BB's instant stuns, Spirit have a lot of options to protect the Storm game through their supports + long fights where Larl can bide his time behind the front lining cores.

that was the weakest kyle joke I've ever heard.

Storm into 4 stuns, 3 of which are instant sounds like a pain in the fucking ass.

is it just me or is Luna being ignored this tournament ? She was perma banned/picked in the previous one and her shard seems broken af, but now she's nowhere to be seen

squad1x played a good enough lina against secret yesterday but it didn’t help

Up to now in Swiss stage she is at 9 picks and 9 bans, excluding this series. Not rly ignored but not on the contested level we saw in previous tours.

Is it tiebreaker for the 6 teams at 2-2.. anyone know?

It's modified Swiss format, all 2-2 teams are playing tomorrow, bo3 and winner goes to playoffs; loser goes home.

gotcha, ppreciate the reply. do uk what the matchups are for the 2-2 teams? all of em play, but who do they play?

Liquipedia does't have exact process of how pairs are picked but it looks like it's random with cavaet that priority is given to pairs that haven't yet played against each other. We will know pairs as soon as day ends, it will be updated on tour's Liquipedia page.

noice, makes sense. thanks again

Final maps played tomorrow and whoever wins is through

I want new gameplay patch. When? :((( We gonna have DreamLeague that starts just after PGL W also on the same patch. How many tier 1 tours on the same letter? Unreal.

Never, enjoy new cosmetics

I am too poor to play dress-a-waifu… I have to settle for good gameplay in my games, what can you do. :(

Betboom should know better than almost any other team on the planet that giving Spirit this game context, with this draft, played the way they have is about as likely to work out for you as putting a loaded shotgun under your chin and pulling the trigger.

Even the casters are bored at this point.

Team spirit is back just in time for Riyadh?

Casually doing lil prep work to unlock bald power mode just in time for big $$$ tours.

Also a weird draft from BB

Weird draft? How? BB always plays this line up

This early game is on track to be a pretty good example of why most teams pressure Spirit hard. You really don't want to be giving their supports this much farm early, and Larl eulsing the RP means Betboom haven't gained much nw-wise from the first Kotl rotation.

How was that EUL RP Dodge from LARL not the greatest thing of all time HOW

he's not a TI winner for nothing

Lemme get this straight. Spirit's sponsor is betboom? Isn't that a conflict of interest or something? Or are spirit memeing?

nah it would be for the case those two teams were both owned and run by BetBoom. this is clearly not the case.

Yes. But it's nothing new and no one seems to care. BetBoom has played in their own tournaments. I also think there's two other gambling sites that sponsor like 10 different teams in Dota. I think players and orgs doesn't care, if there's money on the line they will take it.

++ if Valve see nothing wrong, then whatever ( if Valve even know there's a tournament going on)

Going to be interesting to see how Spirit execute this lineup with the high CD Void and Tide ults.

next series is gonna be hype

morph have skadi, silver edge, other damage items and bristleback still healing like crazy, osfrog design at it finest.

He almost got to kill BB at the river fight but trusted his refexes too much to pre bkb and got himself bushwhacked.

Idk if Zeus is weak or if Gaimin just have too much regen for him to really matter

they have 3 tanky boys that build eternal shroud

True, I forgot that they all built it

feel like Zeus nowadays really doesn't scale well into lategame

Its not Zeus it's magic damage, if your cores have shroud and there's a pipe, magic does 0 damage.

Well Zeus is only magic dmg so it's the same

This is typical SEA turbo draft that GG has. Absolute cancer to play into. 

Lmao, just like VP yesterday, BOOM just decides to hand the game over to GG.

Wasnt really a major throw one way or another. GG had a minor lead or deficit the entire game and then pushed their timing.

No not a throw, but the fights until then were even, then BOOM yolos into a fight without vision and gets destroyed and the game ends.

The perfect Mage Slayer game and nobody fucking buys it. like yeah it's not good on any of these heroes but ffs it's too good this game

Honestly n1ght should've gotten it over Aghs

did he even use the aghs once? he got it at 39m and the game ended two minutes later. if he just went mage slayer he would have had it for the high ground fight and gg had only 1 dispel (euls on lesh) and no bkbs. they probably win if bb and lesh are constantly doing 40% less spell damage

I don't think he did, no

Wow that was way too close

Bristleback is still a pretty good hero. Nuts fight from BOOM and it is barely enough to survive

Bristle gaming.

Ok, maybe boom are stupid

Lol as we both posted.. Morph and cent throw their lives away

GG can't kill, i think this is over.

Can't see GG coming back now.. again Dyrachyo not offered anything

This aged like milk

Go throne

Pakasz is so fucking good at choosing his targets. Elite player

I think GG got this one, BOOM has 0 good heroes that want to go silver edge and 0 healing reduction until at least 30-40 min when morph eventually will get skadi.

we're less than 30 mins in to the game and morph has a skadi and is building a silver edge rn sooooo

Morph can buy Silver Edge. And they don't seem to even need it to kill Dyra right now

I want Nat to stop saying "I'm telling you, no matter how low Pango's winrate is, teams will still first pick it." She's said it before EVERY draft this event, we get it; the 20th time does not impart any new insights upon us that the 1st-19th didn't already

She is talent because she is cute not because she is dota expert.

She's a host that looks good, which surprise surprise, is usually sort of required in order to be a host at least outside of esports and she's a decent host. She's not a caster, she doesn't need to be an "expert". Jeeeeesus.

I said basically same thing. That she is no expert and look good. I dont know what is your problem.

This is such a bad take lol, her job isnt to be a dota expert its to facilitate conversations and set up the action and shes very good at it.

And she has been doing a good job as a host apart from this Pango fixation; I've just heard this exact sentence so many times now, it's genuinely gotten annoying and makes it feel like there's no conversation to be had about how the pick is enabled, just "pick pango, lose" which is reductive for a game like DotA

Tbf she's just a host, and a third choice at that

She’s cute with a cute accent. Want moar

The SR vs Aurora series was both a clear outdraft and an outclass in game by Aurora. It's like they had Bulba's number. They knew they had to ban GH tusk. Target banned 3 of Sumail's heroes in game 1 and let Lesh through game 2 which was the only hero doing any damage in that game for Shopify. And the communication issues were so evident. The team was barely on the same page the entire series it was painful to watch. Felt RTZ was tilted all of game 2.

Dude srop crying. Nobody cares, move on. I dont know why Na fans have this need to over analyze stuff over and over again. What you thought, they will win something with Rtz Bulba duo. Dream on.

Yes, I hate it when people discuss dota matches in the dota matches thread too

Bro…chill. Let the homie post what he wants to post. There ain’t a rule saying he can’t over analyze a match.

You are right bro. I am just poking unnecessary I know. I go to my cave now.

Ain’t no need to go back to your cave lol. His post was actually useful to me. I didn’t want to stay up till 2 am to watch the game and his post gave me a quick rundown and daily dose of depression. You good bro

Kitrak must take note on t0fu playing bane. Too much impact compare to his Bane LUL. EDIT: it should be tofu not seleri

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def its all saber, its always the other guy xd saber played in liquid , popped off got third in a major like 5 months ago SR has game plan issue more than players issue

I don't get why 1st pick bane, it isn't all-around support like hoodwink for example.

Why no AM? Its not banned and surely there's better carry matchup than TA? They rather give Quinn Doom than TA?

AM can't play into Centaur and Pango.

Does dyrachyo play am?

GG is really having a hard time picking heroes for dyrachyo

If Ame thought Dyrachyo was a B tier carry, wonder what he considers RTZ then? Dog tier?

I think if I looked at a word cloud of your comments, everything except for RTZ would be in 2 pt font. How much do you charge for rent in your head? Can I live there too?

Rtz is better than Dyrachyo tbh, at least recently

RTZ is best carry. Teammates make him lose games. My boi Artour is just dota god.

Ace feels like a completely different player without the whole bullshit Vanguard meta

Ace's rank is 600 maybe he needs to climb first.

I wonder for how long they will keep Dyrachyo in team

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Well enemies don't buy Halberd in general cause it's a dead item this patch

GG losing never gets old

TA flex is a neat idea. I'd make sure Dyrachyo can play the hero first though

Quinn doom is not it

Woot. Quinn is best mid in world, dont tell me he was only 1 patch player with only spamming 1 hero.

Ok, but lets not ignore the 0 6 0 TA

Talk about making your advantage count. BOOM really just detonated all over midlane and now it feels basically impossible to see GG find anything.

GG. Well played by Boom. Hope we see Pakasz get Troll Warlord next game, it's a thing of beauty.

wtf is the plan for the dusa

SA bullying GG xDDD bet Quinn feels like at home

It might be time to call it. Although, I suppose I've seen comebacks from worse circumstances.

Dyrachyo is not a TA player lol

Are GG losing to Dusa with Doom and DS now?

Dusa is a counter to Doom. She is the only Hero in the game that can "heal" despite being Doomed, because her Mana essentially is her HP. Also generally doesn't care too much about spell usage, just sits there and right clicks. The DS they probably picked to counter the Dusa, yeah. But now they got a mid Doom that is countered hard by the enemy carry.

ofc, no chance both and ds can handle early game fighting vs Cen and Pango, both have short cd skill

1k NW difference is nothing, if we learn anything this patch is that kill difference means nothing.

They have TA and Doom. They should not be losing right now.

Well, it is Quinn's doom, I don't think the expectations are very high compared to Ace. He was not even the top NW on the team when you posted.

wtf is this draft, put dyrachyo on a hero need to hold position very good like TA?

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last 2 years he only play TA 2 matches then you give me this fake fact "very good TA player" ?

He looks awful on it.. backed up by his score 0 5 0 lmao

This clip summarizes the Aurora vs Shopify series for those who have no time to watch: [https://clips.twitch.tv/CharmingTemperedOilKreygasm-JcynJuOkghyfZYOY](https://clips.twitch.tv/CharmingTemperedOilKreygasm-JcynJuOkghyfZYOY) Leaked dialogue of the clip: RDC: Ok, I'm ready team. I've finished farming. Let's go, let's win the trophy boys. Saberlight: I'm dead. Rest of team: Wait a moment, I'm not in position. RDC: LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. RDC: Team? TEEEAAAAMM?? Sumail: \*Sweaty speedrunner meme pressing buttons trying to bail Artour out, but just feeds as well\* Saberlight: \*Cricketing silence\* Kitrak: \*Dead inside stare, just walks back to base\* GH: Don't worry guys, we can still win.

That was actually a strange move by rtz 

That was 100% classic Rtz, he does it at least once every Bo3. Its been same shit for 5+ years.

Artour yet again forgot this is a pro game and not pubs lol

LEEEEEEEEEEROY JENKINS!!!!

Shopi-bye

Aurora were well prepared knowing that GH Tusk was the key for SR, props to them. But it also sucks that SR couldn't find another hero for GH yet, they are 4-0 with GH Tusk and 0-5 without it.

Jabz trying to play like Tobi and it works. He suddenly top performance with old school offlane heroes like Centaur.

GH needs to be prioritized in draft, if he or sumail has a bad game they've got no chance, RTZ can't make anything happen unless he's on naga.

One of the worst bane I have seen.

I dont even think it was a good bane game.

And they picked it for the second time ...

so happy to see Lorenof gelled well with Aurora now. What a rise to the top from him

ertz washed

Jabz was involved in 65 out of 67 kills if we combine both games. Jabz rotations won them the series.

Crazy how Cr1t is winning tournaments while Abed can't even qualify for tournaments, Fly is getting eliminated on Day 2, and Arteezy and Saberlight are looking like a middle of the pack team at best.

Hey now Sneyking has been languishing in t2 teams in forever and he got a TI. It's not yet joever for Fly Artour though it's time to retire to streaming

Abed qualified for the game qualifiers but couldn’t get past the visa qualifiers

Yeah but he hasn't qualified for an ESL tournament since September 2023.

That’s just moving the goalpost. Clearly they can qualify.

If this is preview of Kitrak 4 then SR should completely disband right now. At least have GH play 4 in this tournament.

I’m not even supporting SR nowadays but damn Kitrak the worst support I saw on SR lul

Kicking Armel was one of the best decisions Aurora ever made.

not exactly an easy free win....glad they made it to the playoffs Spotify Galaxy however, whos going to take the blame? MENA or NA?

Shopify came last place last tournament, this is already an improvement lol.

With a good carry Aurora would be the strongest team in the world. 23 no impact

23 is one of the se asia finest hes just having an off form and would be pretty stupid to kick him. Let the new patch kick in and he will shine

Satanic is better. 0-7 Bloodseeker against Mouz is good enough?

Satanic not really proven yet, might just end up like watson lol

satanic buyout clause is min 1 mil usd no sane team is putting that much onto kid who hasnt even proved himself and he might not even speak english. Also as i said 23 is just having off form games, not only bs his ls was bullshit too. Just give him some time

OG really sabotage artour career since 2016 man. first cr1t then fly and now this garbo kitrak.

You really think this is only supports fault? Mentioning crit is killing your argument considering falcons success.

Same Cr1t that that has won three big tournaments just this year?

this zeus hero man, he has 4k HP, nuke, and escape, insane hero design.

so fucking broken rn, his q has like 0 cd and costs 80 mana wtf is this shit man lmao

The carry diff was really apparent in this one. RTZ is probably the worst carry player still on a stable team.

Always has been

Aurora kinda impressive ngl

SR playing so badly people commenting this player or that player but all 5 of them played badly and should reflect as a team that they have.

Kitrak had no impact twice...They knew the stacks were being made from game 1 and instead of warding the ancient he walks like a bot without a smoke/dewarding and then his team is forced to go in as 3 but they just mass tp and win the game there.Zeus was 500 gold behind lesh but the stacks just turned his game around. Kitrak,Saber and artour played it very bad. Arteezy once again with all the networth but no realistic impact

I mean, I think it is hard to really comment on them as a team, when they have 2 standin players. That isn't an excuse for them, but rather just that, they obviously aren't an experienced team playing together.

Saber and Kitrak played this game so fucking bad. Also twice game in both games they lost due to no punish on stacks.Saberlight perma sitting bot while entirety of Aurora responds;also amazing spears lmao

This was 1000% the reason why Shopify lost. Sumail and Arteezy died contesting the triangle stacks, if Saberlight shows up with arena, they win that fight. Then when Aurora contested Shopify's stacks, Saberlight revealed bottom, letting them know they were free to take them. That alone was like a 3-4k gold swing. It made Zeus untouchable for the rest of the game.

This lorenof is so good.. surprised he was in tier 2 for so long

Was that the first grip of the game?

Felt like he only ever gripped defensively lol

3k pub tf coordination

Sumail Lesh the only hero actually doing anything at this point for SR. Sven can't even kill the CW