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Nemesis 1941

    I won't be holding my breath, to be quite honest. It seems like both the spectators and Valve are starting to care less and less about the actual International. The predictions and bingo cards in the group stage both having bugs that needed to be corrected by Valve later on are telling me that they are not really caring much about it, and the prize pool that keeps getting lower and lower each year are also telling of a community that is sorely disappointed in Valve's commitment to the event.

    I want to feel like the International is an epic annual experience, but now it just feels like any regular Dota tournament that's to be brushed aside, and the compendium is just another random event that got stuffed into Crownfall.

    VezirOdSemberije

      Your No1 fan is here in time, as always

      lordkelvin

        This seems spot on. No funky heroes, or risky hero combos. No Pudge, and very little Ember or Muerta or Earth spirit. :( It's like small ball basketball, folks. Works, but not very exciting.

        Metsis

          I would agree that the games were pretty stagnant with Lina, Mirana, DK, Luna, Kunkka, Ench, Omni, SD etc. Picks, but things started shifting in the last day of the "road to TI". And the teams have here 2 days to come up with new ideas, so I think the last 3 days will see some things move around and maybe some new strats come about to counter the existing meta. I certainly hope so... But we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

          There haven't been very many "pocket strats" yet... Hopefully some teams start pulling these out and shaking things up. Or just that their pocket stuff hasn't been good against the strats in use in the tournament.

          And yes, I would like to have the old Battlepass back. With metric tons of stuff in there and not this wishy washy thing we have. Basically Crownfall is a better event for us fans than the Compendium and this should never be so... The Compendium is very shallow and pointless and boring if we are being honest. Sure I'll level that thing up, but there is no "ohh, I can't wait to get to this level" thing in there to entice us fans into spending our money on it too much... I have one Aegis and just might spring for another this time around since some of that cash goes into the pockets of the players in the tournament, but you couldn't even have one nice set in there to dangle it as bait for your paying customers???

          3/5 gameplay 5/5 attitude

            Where is the broodmother guy?

            void

              ACE?

              aikyu3 SuBi ♪

                lol a moment of silence for broodmother guy :')

                n3dry

                  not a single word about the winners team liquid?

                  Big Ice Bear

                    @n3dry this was posted a week ago mate.