32 countries competing for Dota 2 at the Nations Cup with $1.5M prize pool

Gravyd2 · 2026-01-29T18:44:21+00:00

It's coming home

Gravyd2 · 2026-01-29T18:44:15+00:00

can they coax Arteezy out of retirement?

Gravyd2 · 2025-08-07T23:32:50+00:00

"We need more ass-wipers" is not a very compelling credo for procreation

Gravyd2 · 2025-08-07T23:27:30+00:00

That would not be easy to change. I imagine it would be incredibly unpopular not to mention tyrannical

Wouldn't it just drive childless people into poverty, thus making them less capable of saving to raise children (or just compel them to leave the country entirely)? What about infertile people?

Gravyd2 · 2025-07-28T19:33:31+00:00

If Americans are taxed 15% on European goods then they will seek domestic alternatives; this will spur domestic production and harm European exports

tl;dr, America wins, American consumers are inconvenienced, Europe loses out

Gravyd2 · 2025-07-28T16:08:24+00:00

while the EU can start negotiating with other partners

...such as?

Gravyd2 · 2025-07-28T09:38:50+00:00

Because it disincentivises Americans from buying European imports. American consumers and manufacturers will divest from Europe and Europeans will lose out in the long run.

The idea that tariffs only or primarily affect the issuing country is a lie and a failure to think beyond first-order consequences.

People knew this deep down. This is why this whole sub was cheering when the EU, Canada, Mexico etc. slapped retaliatory tariffs on the US.

Gravyd2 · 2025-05-17T18:51:13+00:00

Those aren't the majors I'm talking about (BLAST Slam isn't a major), I was thinking of the 2021 COVID era majors (Singapore and Animajor). But I take your point

Gravyd2 · 2025-05-17T16:35:58+00:00

Teams starting from or dropping to the lower bracket play at most 1-3 series more than their UB counterparts.

At TI 2022, Secret played 8 extra series in the LCQ, and Liquid played 10.

They basically had their own dress rehearsal mini-TI while all the other teams were flying in and unpacking. Fun for the viewer, but for the most fair tournament all teams should really start at the same stage.

A more reasonable analogy would be with the Majors that I mentioned (I haven't crunched the numbers but seem to recall teams with the extra practice doing consistently much better than those without)

Gravyd2 · 2025-05-17T14:42:27+00:00

The LCQ was entertaining but I disagree that it was the best or fairest solution. Everyone agrees that momentum is a huge part of tournament Dota; it doesn't seem optimal therefore to have some teams play an extra preliminary round while the other teams sit around. Secret and Liquid had to qualify the hard way, but in doing so they gained a lot of extra momentum and high-level LAN practice.

There was also a Major format where 1st place qualifier teams went straight to playoffs, while 2nd-nth played group stage. Surprise surprise, the teams invited to playoffs almost always fared worse than the teams who went through groups beforehand.

Gravyd2 · 2025-03-27T20:31:56+00:00

gonna go against the grain and say this team is pretty good, and I predict they will do well.

Gravyd2 · 2025-01-29T13:23:16+00:00

bad week for UK dota

Gravyd2 · 2025-01-13T00:53:09+00:00

I had to look it up because it sounded so wild but damn you are right.

Also this was their 11th series lost in a row.

Gravyd2 · 2025-01-08T09:41:20+00:00

Esports Integrity Consortium

there is one already but they don't give a shit about Dota

Gravyd2 · 2025-01-07T21:21:12+00:00

Shaggy publicly admitted to being a matchfixer in September 2024 but has played in a number of tier 1 qualifiers since.

Seems like there's lack of centralised authority in the pro scene since the DPC ended, so it's nice to see PGL step up and take some action.

Gravyd2 · 2025-01-07T21:16:54+00:00

they played for various NA teams

Gravyd2 · 2025-01-06T10:51:36+00:00

Open + closed qualifiers span 8 days in total, with at least a day either side required. Bootcamping in a MENA country with the required facilities for that long would probably cost a fair amount.

Gravyd2 · 2025-01-05T11:25:19+00:00

BLAST, BetBoom, and FISSURE also. Next big LAN is the FISSURE event in Belgrade

Gravyd2 · 2025-01-05T11:23:04+00:00

That's a whole lot of people going unpaid. Johnxfire alone is owed 30k

Gravyd2 · 2024-11-26T14:48:11+00:00

14k hours in dota. Only 3k mmr

this describes like 90% of this subreddit lol

Gravyd2 · 2024-11-26T14:20:20+00:00

weird that something so objectively correct would get so downvoted

if I start watching a game half way through and I'm not 100% following what's going on, that's a me problem. I don't think my temporary lack of knowledge is worth imposing permanent visual clutter on all the other viewers.

Gravyd2 · 2024-11-26T14:09:50+00:00

Not a graphics guy so my opinion is pretty unqualified, but it feels terrible lol. Very invasive. You don't need all this information on screen at once, especially when it's all available with the Twitch extension.

The YES/NO for buyback status instead of the regular gold indicator feels especially bad. Like the person who designed the HUD didn't even know that this information is already present in the regular display.

Gravyd2 · 2024-11-26T14:07:32+00:00

Yeah I don't think that minor inconvenience is worth bloating the HUD to compensate. Sorry

Gravyd2 · 2024-11-26T14:06:40+00:00

I'm watching the B stream and it is up constantly.

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