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[arallmuus]

Two teams already said ended their journey to this The International 2024.

• Talon Esports
• Team Zero

You can add Nouns onto your list there.

I honestly thought Nouns would be way better than this. They were terrible on the group stage but managed to win 2-0 against Team Spirit for the seeding decider which led me to think they were not even serious on the group stage.

They lost to GG on the upper bracket and yeah I still had my doubts that they will not lose on the lower bracket. I mean it was unexpected that they were able to win 2-0 against Team Spirit but today they are horrible against Betboom lol

What kind of surprised will we get for the lower bracket again huh Team Falcons to get knocked out? 

[bubilas]

It was absolutely horrible to watch Team Talon play. It was like a public page where everyone doesn't understand what their team is doing. It was like their Discord was broken or they were all fighting. And BB looked bad. It was very boring matches where players couldn't hit each other with abilities. I watched a streamer who simply said that all the matches were not at the level of the International. It is unclear how such weaklings turned out to be.

[summonerrk]

It was absolutely horrible to watch Team Talon play. It was like a public page where everyone doesn't understand what their team is doing. It was like their Discord was broken or they were all fighting. And BB looked bad. It was very boring matches where players couldn't hit each other with abilities. I watched a streamer who simply said that all the matches were not at the level of the International. It is unclear how such weaklings turned out to be.

Yes, these are not ideal Dota games, where all players show top skills and it is a pleasure to watch the game. Such games await us later. I did not expect high-level games today.

Of course, it is strange that Team Spirit lost so stupidly yesterday. But they will definitely not lose on September 10. These guys know how to analyze their game and will be able to gather their will into a fist, we have already seen this. And no matter how Yatoro changes his nickname, he will still show us his skill.

[bubilas]

It was absolutely horrible to watch Team Talon play. It was like a public page where everyone doesn't understand what their team is doing. It was like their Discord was broken or they were all fighting. And BB looked bad. It was very boring matches where players couldn't hit each other with abilities. I watched a streamer who simply said that all the matches were not at the level of the International. It is unclear how such weaklings turned out to be.

Yes, these are not ideal Dota games, where all players show top skills and it is a pleasure to watch the game. Such games await us later. I did not expect high-level games today.

Of course, it is strange that Team Spirit lost so stupidly yesterday. But they will definitely not lose on September 10. These guys know how to analyze their game and will be able to gather their will into a fist, we have already seen this. And no matter how Yatoro changes his nickname, he will still show us his skill.

I'm looking forward to their games. But the continuation of BB's games, in my opinion, can be easily predicted. This team always wins a couple of matches after which it loses. They absolutely do not know how to play against strong teams.
But Team Spirit were great in their first International, when they beat LGD. It was simply incredible. And I do not understand how they always remained calm and were not afraid of all the powerful teams. You need to be able to believe in yourself and your teammates. Well, let's wait for tomorrow.

[ralle14]

Of course, it is strange that Team Spirit lost so stupidly yesterday. But they will definitely not lose on September 10. These guys know how to analyze their game and will be able to gather their will into a fist, we have already seen this. And no matter how Yatoro changes his nickname, he will still show us his skill.

Team Spirit failed to adjust during their series against nouns, and we'll probably see a close elimination series against G2.IG after they took a map against Gaimin Gladiators. I still expect Team Spirit to win, but G2.IG have their rare moments of knocking out good teams, we saw them eliminate Team Liquid in the previous PGL Wallachia tournament.

I'm more confident in Heroic to win even though Team Spirit have better odds, they already scarred me after running it back with the same draft in the seeding match.

We already saw this matchup multiple times in the SA qualifiers and Heroic always come out on top. The handicap might be worth a shot around 2.31, but i'm playing it safe after I got destroyed by the upsets.

[passwordnow]

Two teams already said ended their journey to this The International 2024.

• Talon Esports
• Team Zero

You can add Nouns onto your list there.

I honestly thought Nouns would be way better than this. They were terrible on the group stage but managed to win 2-0 against Team Spirit for the seeding decider which led me to think they were not even serious on the group stage.

They lost to GG on the upper bracket and yeah I still had my doubts that they will not lose on the lower bracket. I mean it was unexpected that they were able to win 2-0 against Team Spirit but today they are horrible against Betboom lol

What kind of surprised will we get for the lower bracket again huh Team Falcons to get knocked out?  

Yeah, they're now part of the first teams that has been eliminated. So in total, they're all these teams that has been out of the The International 2024.

Eliminate on the first round which will have 2 more additional teams later.

• Talon Esports
• Team Zero

While these teams below were also eliminated but they're able to reach the lower bracket 2nd round; there will 2 additional teams to be eliminated from the round 2 matches.

• nouns
• 1w Team

[bubilas]

We are all waiting with bated breath for the start of the matches between Team Spirit and G2.iG. I think everyone is very interested in whether such a strong team as Spirit was able to gather their spirit and strength. After an absolutely stupid defeat to Team nouns. I think that they were able to and will beat G2.iG in the upcoming games.

 I also wanted to write about the place at the current International: why is Luna banned so little? She shows herself very well in the capable hands of carrys.

[Koadharber]

We are all waiting with bated breath for the start of the matches between Team Spirit and G2.iG. I think everyone is very interested in whether such a strong team as Spirit was able to gather their spirit and strength. After an absolutely stupid defeat to Team nouns. I think that they were able to and will beat G2.iG in the upcoming games.

 I also wanted to write about the place at the current International: why is Luna banned so little? She shows herself very well in the capable hands of carrys.

Luna does have that new meta now.. we have seen on how it did play out in vs between g2 ig  games which it could easy destroy out and hard hit with that khanda item.
This group stage is really that interesting as always.

On side note, I totally laugh out with that Amar c*ck x mark on kunkka..hahahaa

[summonerrk]

Of course, it is strange that Team Spirit lost so stupidly yesterday. But they will definitely not lose on September 10. These guys know how to analyze their game and will be able to gather their will into a fist, we have already seen this. And no matter how Yatoro changes his nickname, he will still show us his skill.

Team Spirit failed to adjust during their series against nouns, and we'll probably see a close elimination series against G2.IG after they took a map against Gaimin Gladiators. I still expect Team Spirit to win, but G2.IG have their rare moments of knocking out good teams, we saw them eliminate Team Liquid in the previous PGL Wallachia tournament.

I'm more confident in Heroic to win even though Team Spirit have better odds, they already scarred me after running it back with the same draft in the seeding match.

We already saw this matchup multiple times in the SA qualifiers and Heroic always come out on top. The handicap might be worth a shot around 2.31, but i'm playing it safe after I got destroyed by the upsets.

After your words, the upcoming match will be even more interesting for me to watch, because I did not watch the tournament you told me about. By the way, the current match is already delayed for half an hour, because BC is still playing against Heroic.

We are all waiting with bated breath for the start of the matches between Team Spirit and G2.iG. I think everyone is very interested in whether such a strong team as Spirit was able to gather their spirit and strength. After an absolutely stupid defeat to Team nouns. I think that they were able to and will beat G2.iG in the upcoming games.

 I also wanted to write about the place at the current International: why is Luna banned so little? She shows herself very well in the capable hands of carrys.

Yeah, this hero is really strong in the current meta. There are also a lot of weird things: it's so weird for me to watch guys play support Sniper, it's just unbelievable. Or for example Enigma through eidolons, which almost never makes Black Hole...

[rdbase]

Continuing on in the TI day 5 play-offs we have Team Spirit facing off against G2 X IG in this Best of 3.
Starting watching it from here:
ROAD TO TI 2024: PLAYOFFS - Day 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVN42YiXo4o

I like Team Spirit's chances to get another 2-0 at this stage in the tournament as they had in their last three out of the four series played so far. I am not too familiar with G2 X IG's gameplay yet. I do believe their members mostly comprise of Chinese players while Team Spirit of Russian belonging to those respective organizations.

[GreatArkansas]

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I like Team Spirit's chances to get another 2-0 at this stage in the tournament as they had in their last three out of the four series played so far. I am not too familiar with G2 X IG's gameplay yet. I do believe their members mostly comprise of Chinese players while Team Spirit of Russian belonging to those respective organizations.

I'm watching right now and already lost in Map 1 

Just a trivia, last The International 10 (2021), Team Spirit won against IG at the lower bracket also. So, it could be history repeating itself today for IG to be eliminated again by Team Spirit in the lower bracket in the international tournament.
And it made Team Spirit won the TI10

[Eternad]

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I like Team Spirit's chances to get another 2-0 at this stage in the tournament as they had in their last three out of the four series played so far. I am not too familiar with G2 X IG's gameplay yet. I do believe their members mostly comprise of Chinese players while Team Spirit of Russian belonging to those respective organizations.

I'm watching right now and already lost in Map 1 

Just a trivia, last The International 10 (2021), Team Spirit won against IG at the lower bracket also. So, it could be history repeating itself today for IG to be eliminated again by Team Spirit in the lower bracket in the international tournament.
And it made Team Spirit won the TI10

Team Spirit demolish again IG by sweeping them. Both game 1 and game 2 is an easy game for TS against current IG team. Old IG team is more ferocious compared to the current roster since Money and NTS are already not on their prime anymore.

I hope TS can continue their good lower bracket run since they will face another asian team specifically XG which is more stronger than IG.

On the other match, I think Falcons can beat BB easily.

[arallmuus]

I hope TS can continue their good lower bracket run since they will face another asian team specifically XG which is more stronger than IG.

On the other match, I think Falcons can beat BB easily.

Asian team huh

You are not wrong on using this term but its not right either. Its like you are lumping XG with Team Aurora or Talon lol. There is a reason why Valve divide it into SEA region and China region aside from the number of the player base. Its because China is a power house for most of the competitive esport scene and XG in particular is pretty much the best China region team right now

IG is not even close to XG still hoping Team Spirit would win though

[passwordnow]

I like Team Spirit's chances to get another 2-0 at this stage in the tournament as they had in their last three out of the four series played so far. I am not too familiar with G2 X IG's gameplay yet. I do believe their members mostly comprise of Chinese players while Team Spirit of Russian belonging to those respective organizations.

You're right about Team Spirit's nationality of its roster and the same goes for G2 x IG but with a combination of three Malaysian players but for sure they all speak Chinese as a language, maybe mandarin. Anyway, Team Spirit wont against G2 x IG for 2-0 and then they're able to face Xtreme Gaming as another chinese team but there's no more threepeat. XG won the series with a 2-1 and it is moving forward against Aurora Esports, I think this is already the main stage where the excitement starts with the audience.

[rdbase]

Oh wow, the defending champions Team Spirit has been eliminated by Xtreme Gaming with score 2-1!
Thank you for pointing that out @passwordnow it just didn't sink in yet for most to realize what it meant.

They finished in 9th-12th place, taking $50k home which is quite disappointing because they were the favorites to win it again this TI.

Here is the latest update to the bracket:

https://x.com/wykrhm/status/1833616490685186522

[bubilas]

Oh wow, the defending champions Team Spirit has been eliminated by Xtreme Gaming with score 2-1!
Thank you for pointing that out @passwordnow it just didn't sink in yet for most to realize what it meant.

They finished in 9th-12th place, taking $50k home which is quite disappointing because they were the favorites to win it again this TI.

Here is the latest update to the bracket:

https://x.com/wykrhm/status/1833616490685186522

And it was just not likely. Asians showed an incredibly strong game.
And to be honest, their meeting with Spirit should have ended 2:0. The Russian Dragons were just lucky that in the first map, the iG heroes split up when they retreated to their base. And they managed to catch them one by one and kill them.
Therefore, 2:1 is more of an accident. It's a shame that such great guys as TeamSpirit will go home because before that they really pleased us with how they crushed higher and higher in the game grid and became champions. It's a pity...

[summonerrk]

I still don't understand what happened to the Spirit team. They certainly showed their level, but there was a feeling that they were lucky. As was written above, Xtreme really should have won without losses.

In the last game, Spirit assembled a team with an incomprehensible synergy. Who even takes Terror Blade against Medusa? After all, then his ult makes no sense. What a stupid mistake, and this is the mistake of those who won the International 2 times!

So that now we are waiting for September 13. And with each day the games will be more and more serious.

[boltz]

After what I've witnessed in the last couple of days at Dota 2 TI , I can say the following :

Team Liquid has the best Dota 2 in-game knowledge right now and I still think they have godlike tier drafts in the next games so don't be surprised if we see them having completely new strategies.

BetBoom - that type of team who could beat anyone to 0 in a best day but that doesn't mean they cannot win TI. However , chances are very low.

C9 - C9 doing C9 things so far so nothing new. Maybe Wattson can prove the entire world why he was the best carry in the world ( P1 ) for such a long period.

Xtreme Gaming - My favorites to win it all after what I saw last night against Spirit.

[sompitonov]

I still don't understand what happened to the Spirit team. They certainly showed their level, but there was a feeling that they were lucky. As was written above, Xtreme really should have won without losses.

In the last game, Spirit assembled a team with an incomprehensible synergy. Who even takes Terror Blade against Medusa? After all, then his ult makes no sense. What a stupid mistake, and this is the mistake of those who won the International 2 times!

So that now we are waiting for September 13. And with each day the games will be more and more serious.

I also don't understand why they took TB, because he has no chance against Medusa, although of course we should consider a full 5x5 pick. But I'm almost sure that it was a forced last pick for them, because nothing better could be taken, the heroes were either banned or were not suitable at all to play against other heroes. At this level, almost every team has decided drafts. However, I am convinced that TS lost at the draft stage, because they are very strong in the game.

In addition, some are starting to talk about a possible disbandment of this roster, because after bad results this usually happens after TI. But I would like them to take their time and think it over.

[arallmuus]

I also don't understand why they took TB, because he has no chance against Medusa, although of course we should consider a full 5x5 pick. But I'm almost sure that it was a forced last pick for them, because nothing better could be taken, the heroes were either banned or were not suitable at all to play against other heroes. At this level, almost every team has decided drafts. However, I am convinced that TS lost at the draft stage, because they are very strong in the game.

XG simply had better drafts thats all. Its not uncommon that this happened, in fact in a high tension game like this it happened quite often. Nouns had better drafts compared to Team Spirits in the seeding decider which was why they lost 2-0. This was all Team Spirit's mistake to begin with, starting with trying to save up their legit drafts against Nouns which led them to play in lower bracket instead of upper bracket

In addition, some are starting to talk about a possible disbandment of this roster, because after bad results this usually happens after TI. But I would like them to take their time and think it over.

They'll most likely take up another pos2 and the 4 of them will stick together