Busy Sunday

Hi fans and hi haters q:-)

It has been a busy day with dota non-stop. Started the day of with two games vs mcity which was sort of a dissappoinment, at least the first game, then we had two games against kFt which was like a walk in the park (not saying they are bad, i have seen their replays they play well, but these specific games we played were a bit easy both of them) and at the end we finished off with DTS.

Games vs mcity

1st game: http://www.gosugamers.net/dota/replays/30781

We felt confident while getting ready for the first game and we were satisfied with our picks. I have seen some people wondering why we picked brood even though they had shaker and reason is that brood can be used in different ways.

1 You can use brood for push with broodlings and getting fast towers etc.
2 You can use brood as babysitter (seen by ddt)
3 You can use brood for farm/carry

We used him as a farmer/carry and put him on the long lane which is common because of his webs. Brood gives you a lot more to work with since the long lane is basically the "hardest" and bm is one of the heroes who can survive on his own without getting pulled back/out of xp range like many other heroes would. We had the tripple planned out so that is why we picked brood and ofc lakost likes to play against creeps, so it all falls into pieces :D

Game started off really nice and went smooth with decent cs on carrys for both parts but we had a slight advantage with towers and kills when two of their players all of a sudden desynced due to wrong patch. It is not very professional but who knows maybe they were in a café or they had reinstalled or something, but since we did not have a fresh save we had to continue. And yea kinda hard to play 3vs5 so it was disappointing, without the trouble it could have been an even better match cuz it was good until desync.


2nd game: http://www.dota-league.com/?section=replays&id=271426&action=get

After winning first we were more confident even though there was desync, cuz we played a good game, not flawless but good. Our picks in second game were satisfactory and worked quite well. We picked suitable heroes and adapted to their laning. Coming in to the match we had few ideas on how they would lane, (venge am, wr solo, puck shaker) or (venge am, puck, wr shaker) and ofc the tripple which we adapted to. This game we came hard and it was shown on the scoreboard. At 25 min mark approximately we had all of their outter towers both 1st and 2nd with the score being 26-7 in our favour while they had taken our 3 1st outter towers . We had total control and played our game without letting them play theirs. Then maelk dropped and we decided to play on cuz we once again had no fresh save and we felt confident with the advantage. The game was delayed a bit due to the drop but we managed to keep the control and did not let them bounce back and 20 min laters we won.

The games against kFt can be found on gosugamers.net aswell but as i mentioned before it was like a walk in the park and i dont feel like insight on those games is necessary.

Game vs dts http://www.gosugamers.net/dota/replays/30813

Last but not least the game vs dts. This was my favourite game of the day. Dts are on bootcamp and lan is the best possible way of playing an optimal game with great sync within the teamplay and that clearly gave them an advantage. Nevertheless we had been playing few games already and our moral was boosted and we were ready for it. The picking stage was quite surprising since they let us have chen which hasnt been available for months at least. The only pick we were uncertain with was the viper pick, we ran out of time and he was one of the heroes we had in mind but i think if we had extra time we would have picked something else last.

Early game dts owned us hard they showed the true strength of being on lan with great teamplay and timing and kept dominating us. They were leading big with both towers and kills until we got a dagger on panda and were able to start winning fights with a great initiate who could blink in and setup for us to followup (killing ward, euling other heroes while stunning the target etc) and a strong support behind us backing us up, lion disabling and paralyzing everyone in sight (good example with him against cm sven where he does some magic) while chen with tornados/stunners/netters was ready to disable and help lion plus meka ulti to keep us alive together with pipe viper. I think the fact that we never thought the game was over and kept fighting made us win, we did what we were supposed to. They controlled early so we had to step carefully and regain strength to be able to fight them which we did and in the end we turned it and won. Was a great ending for me and props to dts for owning us so hard, they are definetly a strong contender among top teams.

Until next time, keep it real!

peace out q:-)