DotA2 - Original Thread

I attended the opening of the Chicago DoTA 2 tournament. During the Merlini 1 vs 1 draw, I ended up being the first one picked to go against him in a mid game. I chickened out and gave my raffle ticket to a friend's friend to take my place because I knew I was going to get slaughtered. I also thought they were going to use our Steam names in these games, but it was just "Merlini's Victim".

Merlini mid game 1: Shadow Fiend mid, and he lasted about 6 minutes before Merlini got First Blood.
Merlini mid game 2:Next one was a Windrunner mid game. That guy nearly got Merlini, but Merlini's Shackleshot nailed him the victory.
Merlini mid game 3: Next mid game was with QoP. The other guy managed to bait in Merlini with the courier and won.
Merlini mid game 4: I missed most of it, but it was a Pudge mid, and Merlini got the Hook and Rot combo off before he suicides.

Merlini: 3 - 1

I also won a DoTA 2 mousepad in a raffle. Will upload picture later tonight. The thing is huge. I wanted a courier plushie, but no dice.



The matches that I saw usually ended in a stomp for either side. One game had the global ult strategy; one of the team fights 4/5 of the enemy team blew up to the Scepter AA/Zeus/Spectre combo alone. 2nd game I saw was where Magnus was ballin' out of control. Where he was 15, everything else was ~8-11. He also got a Refresher/Dagger/Arcane Boots build, which made fights extremely one sided. I didn't get to stick around to see the final match, but I'm sure a VoD will be up for it soon.