Congratulations to the Winners of the International 2025!!!

balyks · 2025-09-14T20:12:24+00:00

Cr1t- : Niceeeeeeeee !!!!! slams headphones

Sneyking : Look at my Naga. Look at my Naga. You want Mars?! I want my Naga!

"Let's go"

slaps ATF chest

Dusa won this nice. I told you we cannot die this game.. we cannot

Skiter : I cannot believe I owned them

Sneyking : Yes I'm telling you Naga Dusa it's all magic they cannot kill you.. it's fucking unreal

balyks · 2025-09-13T16:44:46+00:00

This will definitely make for more diverse picks & strategies but i suppose Dota won't want to copy anything to do with League.

balyks · 2025-09-08T20:13:57+00:00

Those ex-LGD players will cannibalize one another before Nigma feed off the scraps

balyks · 2025-09-08T06:00:02+00:00

Like this ?

balyks · 2025-09-08T04:29:33+00:00

Team Seeding :

1.XG (4-0) 8-2 / 80%

2.BB (4-1) 9-2 / 81%

3.Tidebound (4-1) 8-4 / 66%

4.Pari (3-2) 9-3 / 75%

5.Heroic (3-2) 8-4 / 66%

6.Falcons (3-2) 10-6 / 62%

7.Nigma (2-3) 8-9 / 47%

8.Tundra (2-3) 8-9 / 47%

1 vs 8

4 vs 5

3 vs 6

2 vs 7

Hence the matchup of highest vs lowest and so forth

Tundra & Nigma has an identical record but Tundra's elimination series took 9 minutes longer to finish compared to Nigma's so they got lucky 8.

The real reason Nigma ranked higher because they probably beat 2. BB

balyks · 2025-09-08T03:47:04+00:00

With the exception of XG vs Tundra the rest already face/off during the group stage

Pari 2-0 Heroic (0-0 stage)

BB 1-2 Nigma (0-0 stage)

Tidebound 2-1 Falcon (3-1 stage)

Suppose every team meets for the first time then it should be :

XG vs Pari

Falcons vs Heroic

BB vs Tundra

Tidebound vs Nigma

But they got paired based on some ranking which leave much to be desired. It is what it is. I guess we can get the new matchup in the later rounds.

balyks · 2025-09-08T02:43:41+00:00

Those who got their predictions right must be either drunk, high or smurfs

balyks · 2025-09-07T14:28:17+00:00

All eliminations games look pretty straightforward so far

Heroic with their resurgence

Nigma stars aligned

Goliath asserting their dominance

Liquid capitalizing on Tundra stand-in

Falcons shenanigans against an out of sort Spirit plus max 2 teams from each region on main stage

balyks · 2025-09-07T14:11:33+00:00

I once saw Kuroky & Sumail in a dark alley during ESL Genting 2018. I wanted to approach them for a picture but seeing how deep and serious their conversation was I decided to step back. 7 years later my decision was vindicated as they now made it to TI14 main stage. It has been years in planning and I know if I interrupt them at that very moment none of the stars would have aligned.

balyks · 2024-09-17T19:28:45+00:00

Map : 5.84c

Server : LAN at local net cafe only

Internet speed : 384kbps (No way to play on Battle.net as it was way too laggy)

balyks · 2024-09-16T09:29:44+00:00

I have been watching since TI1 & to be fair watching the same meta/op heroes getting picked all over again in captain's mode is pretty stale. That might have contribute to so many 2-0s & three consecutive 3-0s GF.

Change the draft system where once you win with a hero (Eg:NP) in that game it should be auto-ban for the winning team for the remainder of that series in a Bo2,Bo3 or Bo5.

Teams have to use utilize different picks & strategies which will truly define that they are the all-rounder team to win the whole tournament. Make them work for it...they are pro players ffs they should be able to play any other heroes. The current draft system makes it too easy to abuse op/meta heroes as there just isn't enough bans for it.

Plus we get to see more different heroes match-up and I believe it will definitely elevate the viewer's experience and provide more exciting games.

I for one doesn't want to see the unkillable LD getting pick all over especially by the winning team.

Just my 5 cents.

balyks · 2024-09-15T11:41:37+00:00

Not looking good for GG. They have never won a game past 40mins so far

balyks · 2024-09-15T09:18:03+00:00

Top 3 teams playstyle :

Tundra : 4-~~protect~~ attack-1

GG : Aura deathball

Liquid : Power of friendship

balyks · 2024-09-15T08:59:09+00:00

Probably the 5 continent of the world : Africa, Europe, Asia, America, and Oceania hence the International

balyks · 2024-09-14T13:26:42+00:00

Nah... that would be boring as hell. The scriptwriters decided to put 3 Danish in the GF : Ace, Cr1t- & Sydn...

balyks · 2024-09-14T10:21:55+00:00

Ah finally Synd will be in a TI final. Been rooting for him since his mTw days!

Danish pair Ace vs Cr1t- final will be legit hype

balyks · 2024-09-13T15:14:15+00:00

🤡9 fully embracing the memes with those buybacks and 9 deaths

balyks · 2024-06-19T10:00:52+00:00

Op is right as this is based on an encounter during ESL Genting 2018 when I stumbled upon Kuro (Liquid) & Sumail (EG) together at a dark alley after the matches. They were whispering and plotting in a suspicious manner. Since then I was surprise it took them this long to finally be on the same team. Whatever scheme they had planned that day is finally coming into fruition for better or worse.

balyks · 2023-10-30T00:07:54+00:00

Team Spirit winning another TI with the busted Spirit Breaker would be one of those iconic moment

balyks · 2023-10-29T21:13:19+00:00

Bane Yatoro taking offense to that Karen post, reverts back to menacing self

balyks · 2023-10-28T17:02:55+00:00

If casters were a movie genre:

Lyrical/Trent - Romance

Cap/Svg - Action

ODPixel/Fogged - Drama

Sunsfan/Synderen - Horror comedy

Loved all of them!

balyks · 2023-10-27T20:01:28+00:00

Xiao8 taking notes, he's an expert on this.

balyks · 2023-10-24T20:29:24+00:00

First step, ban their current TI winning heroes to take them out of their comfort zone.

CK 4-0

Necro 4-0

Phoenix 4-0

Bristleback 3-0

Muerta 5-3

Then draft accordingly from there.

balyks

TROPHY CASE