IllegallySane Wrote:Been way behind on my Doto e-sports.
Will be slowly watchig more over the course of this week.
The way things are you'll be way behind forever. I've been on vacations for quite a while now and I end up watching short clips with highlights or reading about almost every f'ucking game I'm interested in.
Just today, just right now there are 3 interesting games going on. It's getting out of hand despite general opinion of "more tournaments better for the scene". I don't mean that it should be like last year's chinese scene but holy f'ucking crap. Later on today it will be the fucking same, 2-3 different matches going on at the same f'ucking time. If things remain the same I'll end up loosing interest in every other team and focus on just my two favorites -_-
Words Wrote:The way things are you'll be way behind forever. I've been on vacations for quite a while now and I end up watching short clips with highlights or reading about almost every f'ucking game I'm interested in.
Just today, just right now there are 3 interesting games going on. It's getting out of hand despite general opinion of "more tournaments better for the scene". I don't mean that it should be like last year's chinese scene but holy f'ucking crap. Later on today it will be the pineappleing same, 2-3 different matches going on at the same f'ucking time. If things remain the same I'll end up loosing interest in every other team and focus on just my two favorites -_-
I've kind of ended up doing that anyways. Saves me the hassle of having to remain on top 24/7. Na'Vi and Alliance 5ever. I would occasionally glance over others like Speed Gaming and Liquid.
http://www.twitch.tv/esltv_dota
Finals definitely worth watching, VG are putting quite a show as well as Fnatic. I like both teams and I want them both to win
Also, game 1 and 3 of Alliance vs VG are insane, especially game 3. Game 3 was rather long so it might be better to just wait for highlights instead of VODs haha
Malthe Wrote:Starladder finals have been pretty good so far in terms of plays. The series have been a bit too one-sided for the most part though. (0-2, 0-2, 0-2)
Funn1k making some pretty awesome plays as timbersaw currently.
He was beyond awesome with Nyx when they lost to Sigma? or whoever.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmess..._id=443111
Speed gaming becomes Cloud 9. I don't know much about Cloud 9 but i hear they had a moderately successful LoL team?
This seems to be them venturing into the DotA2 scene, and i think picking up speed was a smart choice, that team definitely has potential and can beat the best.
Malthe Wrote:http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmess..._id=443111
Speed gaming becomes Cloud 9. I don't know much about Cloud 9 but i hear they had a moderately successful LoL team?
This seems to be them venturing into the DotA2 scene, and i think picking up speed was a smart choice, that team definitely has potential and can beat the best.
iirc they have LoL team in LCS so yeah, that sounds succesful to me whether they win a lot or not. They also have a lot of cool sponsors. I'm happy for them and hopefully they won't have issues similar to the ones last year. Just the name is incredibly better right now... but almost anything would've been better.
On a serious note, though, I was watching the GD show yesterday and Lumi said something that I feel too, there will be too many tournaments going on at around the same time in the next few months. It's insane! I have a lot of free time lately so I could watch it all, ALL OF IT, but what's the point anymore? Watching Na'vi play Alliance over and over and over again and again and again in every other tournament? I think it loses some of its magic, but maybe that's just me. I hope that they come up with clever and original stuff to keep me, and possibly others, interested... no amount of "production value" is enough when in the end the content is kinda similar but repetitive to no end.
I'm planning to watch the dreamleague and outside of that only watch finals or important games.
Oh and any game featuring Songsong and co.
That's basically how i stay interested. I feel that we've reached a point of oversaturation of tournaments, i'm happy about a lot of tournament for teams that aren't A or even B-tier but the A and B-tier tournaments are becoming too many so i kind of hope the mediocre ones disappear so only the great ones remain.
