Post by trog @ 02:37am 22/07/14 | 15 Comments
Today we play the Grand Finals to decide who will win the Aegis and be crowned Champions.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.
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.
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.
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Posted 06:37am 22/7/14
Posted 07:08am 22/7/14
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.
Posted 08:31am 22/7/14
Posted 12:17pm 22/7/14
Posted 01:34pm 22/7/14
Will be forever dreaming of an EG vs. DK final series. Would have been so much more intense.
Posted 02:01pm 22/7/14
It would have been a fairy tale ending for VG if they'd won it, seeing how Newbee dismantled them earlier.
Posted 04:57pm 22/7/14
Posted 05:47pm 22/7/14
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.
Posted 07:22pm 22/7/14
Posted 09:21pm 22/7/14
Been fun watching it, I should DL and give it a try.
Posted 02:19am 23/7/14
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.
I can't figure out if I think the 'gg' surrender feature in pro games would be good in pub games. Certainly some of the best games I've played have been where one of the teams has gg'ed early on only to come back later - early gg'ing is one of my pet hates. But so is jerks dragging out games for 20 minutes when they're dominating just because they want to buy rapiers or whatever.
Posted 04:20am 23/7/14
Im pretty bad at dota, hover between 3400 and 3800 depending on how much ive been playing, and I cannot think of many games where even a 20K gold difference has a huge impact on whether you can win team fights. The game is just not even comparable once you get to their level and trying to analyse virtually anything pros do doesnt work because they aren't really playing the same game as the rest of us.
Posted 04:51am 23/7/14
Posted 06:12am 23/7/14
One of the reasons that dota is so good is that icefrog hasn't ever really tried to prevent certain play-styles purely because people think its boring or whatever. It has meant that dota has had the most varied and interesting meta shifts but it can also result in a meta which allows a team like vg to draft super early game and either win or lose fast, preventing 60+ min epics which have the most entertaining team fights and hype.
so you take the good with the bad. maybe you dont like a certain playstyle but its better than the developer railroading everyone into playing the same style and being super bloody boring as a result... ie. LoL.
Posted 11:00am 24/7/14