30 sec cd on ult is pretty strong.

 

It's 40 anyway with aghs, the blink CD reduction is bigger I think.

Either way they have literally no way of ganking the AM now so he can freely rat their t3s by himself whereas if that Octarine was a hex then he's just food with Clinkz scouting and qop jumping in.

The octarine means they're going super all in on being able to break high ground in <5-10 mins or losing and against naga/sk/lina/wyvern that's really hard to do.

IDK, if he goes hex they could just go late game and be much stronger in around 15mins I think, it would cut off 2/3s of the map that AM can farm currently, and I don't even think octarine adds all that much for him anyway.

Then again I'm just a little pub scrub

 

Huh, looks like it's a confirmed DDOS attack that's causing the internet issues. According to Complexity, at least.

This will be tricky.

Edit: Ah. More folks/reporters confirming DDOS. Welp.

 

They were pretty much all in on high ground anyways. The problem with hex is that it doesn't increase your damage whereas octarine does. I think the real problem with Col were the pauses ruining their momentum.

 

The Octarine was pretty clearly a terrible idea. Col didn't need to be all in on 25 minute highground if they played a little smarter. They had the tools to deal with an AM for a little while as long as they stayed ahead. Getting wiped and losing a rax trying to force top combined with poor item choices ended that though. Once Fear got ahead it was over.

 

Secret playing badly...never seen such a bad performance before. I feel s4 is kind of choking at the moment.

That WW...

 

Holy fucking shit EHOME. I left for 10 mins when they were a mile and a half behind, and suddenly they are winning and cty is putting on a storm clinic.

 

SF AM firstpick...now I am really worried for Secret...

 

My money is on a Kuroky AM, rtz SF, zai on support.

 

I think Secret will drop to the LB. They seem really off somehow. No plays from zai or s4. And the supports are too greedy, forgetting to ward/deward. I hope rtz will carry hard now.

Called it...fucking hell.

 

Ehome does it! Pretty exciting. I loved the Nightstalker pick.

 

I'm just disgusted right now. That was so bad. Fuck, I don't want EG or a chinese team (again) to take it.

 

Why so much hate for chinese teams? EHOME and CDEC are playing great dota. Xiao8 and rotk are both top notch captains. There's a reason they are both tearing it up for a 2nd year in a row.

 

this MVP v Empire game lol.

losing this has to taste so dirty for MVP if they do.

 

Fucking MVP! Top8 guaranteed for the Koreans. Huge plays by QO and kpii the whole series.

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Fy once again playing like the best player in the world. Completely carried the game on rubick.

 

DS/ES combo completely rocked that last VG/c9 game.

 

I didn't expect C9 to go far this TI. They've had internal issues for quite some time, and I expect a big reshuffle after TI.

Still disappointed to see them go out so early though.

 

COL made a good showing towards the end.

 

Yeah, Col were definitely the biggest surprise for me this TI. MVP being a close second.

 

MVP can still make a run you know and make the biggest surprise list. Secret 1 game from elimination!