BLINKDOTA SEASON 5
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We're signed up people, so let's play some Dota! The signups close on 31st August, so expect the season to be starting in the next 2 weeks or so I imagine. I'll check on some more details soon, including format, etc.
Okay did some looking straight away:
- Same as last time, Tuesdays or Thursdays for games, between 6 and 11pm, but I will be changing any extremely early/late games, so they'll probably always be half 7ish, seems to be the generally-agreed best time.
- Season begins 12TH SEPTEMBER.
- Full rules are here: https://battlefy.com/blinkesportsuk/bdl-season-5/596cdf82b120170333666623/info?infoTab=rules
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Tuesdays and Thursdays are perfect for me as they do not clash with the gym!
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Aye, if things need to be rescheduled to days outside that, then I'd arrange it pretty far in advance so you get chance to change any plans, but hopefully things will go smoothly
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On the topic of this - you can organise scrims through discord - should we do a couple in preparation? I have a couple of half-drafts and stuff I want to try out, some FOTM heroes we should get used to playing/playing against.
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FIRST GAME: currently Thursday at 10pm GMT! But trying to rearrange it to like 8 probably.
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GAME IS THURSDAY 8.30PM
BO1 vs some guys who play normal mode captains mode all the time.
https://www.dotabuff.com/players/90770753
This is their captain's dotabuff, stalk some fools
Can't see any lineups they run all the time at first glance, seem to play a load of random stuff. Captain has like 200 morph games
but yeah. Couple of Invoker players but every team has an Invoker player, so that's nothing new. -
Burying the lede, 400 games as offlane Morph, one of those I tried to make work for some time, but little surprise it can work, if played well
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Still think about 4-pos Morph now and then. It is such a ridiculous stun, it has to be possible to make use of somehow. Issue is to find any kind of drafting situation where a level 1-2 Morph can be at all helpful (some sort of drafting situation where it actually becomes doable to morph a bunch of agi at level 1, likely then with boots and lace or so, but it is hard to imagine).
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A counterpick not taking into account that it'll be a fully strength-morphed Morph tanking through the mines, or just as likely the Replicate and/or the Hybrid (guy goes Aghs, likely the correct thing for non-pos-1 Morph, farms quick enough to get it, and it felt pretty ridiculous when I tried it) walking over the mines
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Next game is Tuesday 8:30!
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Better this week, we actually played well except my awful laning stage. GJ
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7.30 TONIGHT!
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ggwp
- Bob had forgotten how to last hit, but thankfully remembered after a couple of minutes
- Good rotations by supports to save my ass
- We kind of forgot about Bob and he died alone few times down at bottom
- QoP first item boots of travel?
- Omniknight was farmed, but did nothing
- PL was very strong and we did not have the immediate tools to deal with it. However their team also failed at capitalizing his strength, and when we had items like bkb on Storm, radiance Necro and mkb on Luna it was over
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A nice classic lineup it sounds like, and Bob being unable to last-hit but recovering does still feel like a bit of a classic
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Something of a classic storm game for me at least. Notably, we took a nice fight right after i got bloodstone, so i was instantly up to 15+ charges
if qop didnt go bots first, id have had a much harder time i imagine.
As we noted last night as well they spent so much time trying to splitpush when they could have just run at us when PL had early diffu
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Too bad these games don't show up on dotabuff or anything. You can upload the replay manually to yasp, but last I did that I got less than half the information I usually get.
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Naah, you guys should be happy they don't, I would make a long-form inane commentary based on random statistics so quick if I had that kind of sources
I do miss amateur casting hour though, was good entertainment to both see the games in their entirety, and ridicule casters (trying their best) for missing the ~point~. Do shout if a game gets cast, basically down to being up against a team who has the next supposed odpixel on their friends list I believe, and it is nonetheless quite hype to follow
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Someone wanted to cast yesterday, but they asked while I assumed we were still moving it, so I said it wasn't on. Then it was, and it was too late :p
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G_G last night and special mention to kovah with the WD carry
Was a decent game overall think we played well - the Lina didn't respect our gap close at ALL by the way, just looking at the replay while I wake up and she took LSA damage for example, rather than cast range. And then didn't get the hurricane pike so she could stay further away. Very strange really.Bob truly farmed like a monster - 15 mins he has over 100cs and the morph only had 70 despite having a good start
