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  • As a result, they lost to a team with 2 analysts on supports (okay, Rodjer sometimes plays competitively, but Afononje has been out of the game for a long time). I think Navi wanted to fundamentally defeat Betboom and showed their best game there. It is worth praising Nefrit, he is the main key to Navi’s success, but he just has nothing to do with their youth team.



  • I have a feeling that Betboom can play this season better than the previous one, I mean the classic dynamics for such teams - the disappointment is that you didn’t reach the top and disband, but it seems to me that a mini-catharsis could happen to them in the match with the Talon. There is some depth in the moral aspect.


  • No, I agree with all the criticism of Midone, he even symbolically sat in the tavern when his team actually ended the games without him, after all, 17 deaths is a lot. The only thing I will say in defense is that he has a difficult game play, I mean, he could, as many modern players like, just play from k/d/a - after a couple of deaths - run away and farm on the map, and then after a lost map end up with a much more decent account and reputation, but here he very consciously took risks - farm, life, exchanges. In short, I understand Midone’s macro game, although he executed it with a large number of errors.






  • After all, the “sports” component in the eSports component of Dota is still some kind of joke. I understand that the comparison is inappropriate, but according to a strange logic it turns out that it is not profitable for you to show results all season. I don’t know, imagine City or Bayern are confidently in the lead for half the season, and then Uefa releases rules fixing their best strategies and teams that simply rested and did not shine all season take the lead. I don’t know, maybe my example is unsuccessful, but I can’t help but feel that there is something a little wrong with this system. All this “let’s rest for six months”, “let’s put together a squad, it doesn’t mean anything anyway”, etc. embarrassing, although I understand, guys have every right


  • Okay, let’s not “bury” Secret, I think if it were necessary to assemble the final roster, it would be different. In general, Puppey was famous for the fact that he could get strong players from teams of 2-3 levels, for example, Nisha and Yapzor appeared, and if you remember, he took Matu and Zai from teams that were clearly not tier 1 - he partially restarted their careers, the last strong case, when he pulled Reso and Zayac literally out of nowhere. What am I talking about? Secret is no longer the type of team (as it was in the early years) that could simply attract any stars and they would come. I think this roster will try itself, say, until the end of winter, and if everything is bad, they will begin to look for other players in a calm atmosphere (looking at free agents).




  • It would be great if they were spaced out in time, well, Riyadh would be played in January-February or spring, and Int, like now September - October. Because they are very close to each other. So we would have 2 semi-annual important tournaments and teams that were good in the first part of the season (before Valve fixed their meta, lol) could claim something serious. On the question itself - if the amounts grow, as the Saudis promise, I am sure that over time the tournament will be quoted close to or equivalent to Int







  • Yesterday everything went “naturally” - the stronger teams on paper won. Today I’m suggesting a possible “surprise”, first of all, in the battle of winners; for my taste, LGD has quite tangible trump cards in the game with Spirit. First of all, they play more modernly, that is, at the beginning this meta was unbearably long and everyone dragged out matches into 40-50 minute fights, but some teams (for example GG, LGD) seem to understand how to win faster and I think it will be armor-piercing and decisive weapon. Of course, it can still happen according to the old scenario - Spirits will delay, finish up the carry and win, but I believe (and see) that LGD understand what to do about this. Let’s see.