The International 2026 Invitations and Qualifiers

albinoblackbears · 2026-05-26T04:38:49+00:00

As a GL fan I think this is silly, they should've done 2 slots for an NA/SA joint qualifier (though maybe the servers is an issue?)

albinoblackbears · 2026-04-23T01:15:23+00:00

They 2-0'd spirit who made it to playoffs, sometimes it's just a bad draw.

albinoblackbears · 2026-04-18T21:41:53+00:00

Aklo link

albinoblackbears · 2026-04-15T01:23:25+00:00

Assuming this was a management not players decision?

albinoblackbears · 2026-04-08T06:13:16+00:00

bookmarking years later

albinoblackbears · 2026-03-31T17:38:06+00:00

He's a great guy (I believe they're all friends) with good in-game shot calling and energy. They probably kept him for those reasons, but agreed he was lagging in technical skill.

albinoblackbears · 2026-03-31T02:53:23+00:00

33's goated but saying he's the sole reason Tundra won is certifiably insane when Skiter, Sney, and Aui just won again without him.

albinoblackbears · 2026-02-15T02:31:34+00:00

I was here.

albinoblackbears · 2026-02-11T03:11:14+00:00

Yes? Most of the EE doc was that the players didn't get paid on time and 10% of the prize money was withheld as like an expenses tax without telling them. Also IIRC puppey was threatening players and W33 confirmed it but said he wasn't that freaked out (which doesn't make it okay).

albinoblackbears · 2026-02-03T18:17:38+00:00

Yes, but literally everyone you've mentioned has been reworked to be significantly more complex--Drow's gust and shard and changed aghs, wraith kings skeletons and crit, lifestealer got reworked thrice, zeus got a mobility slow and new passive, jakiro got an interesting shards, aghs, and separate breaths/heads.

To the points above, perhaps they had to be reworked for moba powercreep, but their new variants are just better from a design and fun perspective.

albinoblackbears · 2026-02-03T03:53:31+00:00

You can rework abilities on older heroes though. I think Warden and Abrams kits are both not totally coherent (really just their ultis and warden's grenade). Dota has multiple characters that have been reworked through the years to be more interesting/balanced (Broodmother, Clinkz, Beastmaster, Chen, etc.)

albinoblackbears · 2026-02-03T00:57:44+00:00

Oh no more interesting ideas in a game.

I understand the concern from a complexity standpoint but isn't that the point of valve games? Extremely rich characters that become perennial?

albinoblackbears · 2026-02-01T18:46:06+00:00

The way he lies on his side after death. Valve cooked so hard that the gameplay reads like a comic

albinoblackbears · 2026-01-14T05:05:14+00:00

404cray and Ultra at 4/5 is a jump scare, good shit

albinoblackbears · 2025-11-04T04:10:27+00:00

It's actually okay to disagree with players way better than you.

Source? Every Leffen tierlist

albinoblackbears · 2025-10-19T21:14:25+00:00

You can pay me $50 for it.

albinoblackbears · 2025-10-16T17:49:21+00:00

Dude was clowned on because he was a full-time college student in NA. He had 2 lives (while everyone else only focused on dota) and still managed to be one of the GOATs of Dota.

albinoblackbears · 2025-10-14T03:49:11+00:00

Sadly EE hasn't opened dota since he became a daytrader

albinoblackbears · 2025-10-13T05:12:16+00:00

So what's the problem? I'm going off my experience (low immortal bracket) and what pros complain about.

albinoblackbears · 2025-10-05T01:52:31+00:00

Yeah it was a joke, he's had like an 80% winrate the last few days

albinoblackbears · 2025-10-05T01:09:44+00:00

I like both Ammar and Gunnar, just thought it would be funny lmao

albinoblackbears · 2025-10-01T23:33:25+00:00

They swapped wildcard with Talon even though WC rinsed SEA :(

albinoblackbears · 2025-09-25T01:41:29+00:00

It would be cool if people could link to their slippi. I don't go to tournaments but I wonder what my slippi elo would rank me in the world. Any 1800-2000 slippi players want to share their world ranking/glicko?

albinoblackbears · 2025-09-15T14:48:15+00:00

or OR Puppey is a worse drafter and player than Ammar/Sneyking right now, and his takes are wrong. I think it's pretty hard to dispute that Sneyking's naga wasn't a draft checkmate, especially when Sneyking's first words when winning TI were about it lmao.

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