TI3

Opinions, comments?

Wildcard Match
Rattlesnake 3|1 Quantic

I'm happy Rattlesnake won. Sure, we won't see as many treants banned and those weird Quantic picks, which is always fun, but rattlesnake is pretty fun to watch.

Solo championship


Dendi 2|1 FATA


Mushi 2|1 Xiao8
The OD game was pretty slow, at times I thought Mushi had it, apparently he didn't.

s4 1|2 iceiceice
Kind of disappointed, as everyone was going on about how S4 was the best solo ever and he probably had more solo games on him that the rest of the players combined. It's always fun to see a game with Axe, and two Axes make it better, but that's about it.
Edit: I missed the live beginning of the third game, but those of you who watched it must already know: DAT COAL!

Ferrari 1|1 Mu
The TA game started incredibly slow, but as towers started going down and entire creep waves being killed in two hits, it really picked up.

Round 2
Dendi 0|2 Mushi
Mushi dominated Dendi as puck. nuff said.

All Star Match
Beautiful

DK vs iG -- longest tournament game in Dota 2 history, DK Burning had most farm in Dota 2 tournament history

Base race of Alliance vs LGD.cn -- fucking on the edge of my seat, holy shit, best game of TI3 so far

GAMEchief wrote:

All Star Match
Beautiful

DK vs iG -- longest tournament game in Dota 2 history, DK Burning had most farm in Dota 2 tournament history

Base race of Alliance vs LGD.cn -- fucking on the edge of my seat, holy shit, best game of TI3 so far

Couldn't see the All-star game(it was at 4 AM over here). Apparently the video was taken down from twitch so I have no idea where to watch it.
DK-iG 96 mother fucking minutes. And that comeback. I guess ChuaN is hardcore after all.
LGD was two Alchemist hits(with chemical rage on, that was less than a second) away from winning that match, simply amazing.
Kind of sad about MUFC, going home without a single win.

DK-iG was 98:58.

Thing about that base race is if Alchemist didn't kill the Visage first (who didn't have a stun to stop him), they would have won.

As for the All-Star match, it's on the Dota 2 YouTube channel. The replay is also available if you have the match ID. I've downloaded it, although I don't have the match ID offhand. I can upload it to LG if anyone needs it, or get the match ID later when I have the client open, if you want to download the replay instead of just watch a VOD.

I heard liquid had a big win last night.

Love seeing those boys do well.

Just got internet back, so I'm watching.

Yep, they dominated. The upcoming [a]/DK versus Liquid game should be amazing. Although I don't think Liquid has a chance against either of them, I am hoping to be impressed.[/a]

brb, putting on my liquid shirt so I can rep while i watch alone at my desk ~.~

I'm cheering for Navi to take it all though, they seem so good.

I want Alliance or Liquid to win. Alliance for being huge underdogs having played so unbelievably well during this tournament (plus s4 is my favorite player). Liquid for being the only team #USA and their Korok being my favorite carry ever since his TI2 Morphling plays -- and his carrying in TI3 has been no disappointment either!

Fun note in this Alliance vs DK Game 3, the aegis popped on Phantom Lancer 3 seconds before it would have been reclaimed. Talk about cutting it close!

NaVi v. Orange

I don't even know whose going to win... 11-12 right now.

[edit]
alliance is looking nice in the winners bracket.

I think navi could take alliance, but orange is really aggressive.[/edit]

Alliance takes the Aegis of Champions in the 5th game. Io went 5-0, and I'm guessing we're going to see him a lot on pubs for the next few weeks/months.

Io has a 100% winrate. We will definitely see the shit out of him.

ALSO THAT GRAND FINAL OH GOD

I had a bodily orgasm to how amazing it was.

Hysterical laughter of entertainment.