That's all she wrote. The International 3 is over and done with!
This makes me a little sad.. but on the other hand, wow.. what an amazing Grand Finals, best one I've ever seen(I know, it's the only one I've seen but still).
The Alliance and Na'Vi did not disappoint, the two best teams in the world, at this point in time!
I shouldn't spoil it for you, but I'm going to, so deal with it! If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it then come back and read this post.
So anyway, this tournament helped me find a DotA 2 caster that I really enjoyed listening to, Aaron Chambers, otherwise known as Ayesee - check him out, if you're interested in hearing his awesome voice - In my humble opinion, he should most definitely been casting the finals. It would have made it 10 times better for me.
After I did some research on the guy and looking through his Twitter feed.. I was disgusted by the abuse directed at this man purely because they didn't like his 'radio' voice, for casting a video game. Personally, as you might have guessed I love his voice.. but completely apart from the fact that I think his voice suits commentary.. if you don't like the guy casting, mute him or turn it off. I think it's pretty harsh to hate so much on a guy cause you don't like the way his voice sounds.
But anyway! The guys who cast the games, did a superb job and I don't want to take anything from them because they rocked it out(LDdota and LuminousInverse).
Now though, on to the most important thing..
Called it!
Look, I'll show you!
Boom! This was before the Alliance and Na'Vi played in the Upper Bracket finals. I'm so super proud of myself, I'm thinking maybe a little too proud of myself. It was a guess, though one might say an educated one.
Enough about that now. On to The International 3's grand finals set of games.. just wow, the best DotA I've ever seen played. I really wish I could play as well as any of those guys. The first two games were quick and took them to 1 match a piece.. when I say quick, I mean they were over between 16-20 minutes.. they were so very quick! Most, if not all of the Alliance's games in the tournament prior to this were 45 minutes+.
The third game saw a return of the 45 minute games with the Alliance dominant for the most part, yet falling short in some team fights and the fourth game saw Na'Vi take the first blood and I bet they could actually taste that prize money.. perhaps that's what affected them and that's why at 8 minutes the Alliance team wiped Na'Vi and from then on it snowballed into the Alliance equalling the series 2-2 in a 36 minute battering.
The fifth and final match, well.. I might actually have to re-watch that a few more times and maybe even have a go at commentating it and slapping that on YouTube for y'all to laugh at.
You should just take a moment to congratulate Valve on producing an amazing and successful tournament that by all accounts had over 1 million peak concurrent viewers. That figure is made up from Twitch.tv, Gamefy in China and people who watched via Valves own devices such as the Game Client.
..and then let's congratulate the winners of The International 3: The Alliance.. though to be fair, they have 1.4 million congratulations in the shape of dollah dollah bills yo.
That's me done! Time to have a kip.
Ciao for now!
This makes me a little sad.. but on the other hand, wow.. what an amazing Grand Finals, best one I've ever seen(I know, it's the only one I've seen but still).
The Alliance and Na'Vi did not disappoint, the two best teams in the world, at this point in time!
I shouldn't spoil it for you, but I'm going to, so deal with it! If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it then come back and read this post.
So anyway, this tournament helped me find a DotA 2 caster that I really enjoyed listening to, Aaron Chambers, otherwise known as Ayesee - check him out, if you're interested in hearing his awesome voice - In my humble opinion, he should most definitely been casting the finals. It would have made it 10 times better for me.
After I did some research on the guy and looking through his Twitter feed.. I was disgusted by the abuse directed at this man purely because they didn't like his 'radio' voice, for casting a video game. Personally, as you might have guessed I love his voice.. but completely apart from the fact that I think his voice suits commentary.. if you don't like the guy casting, mute him or turn it off. I think it's pretty harsh to hate so much on a guy cause you don't like the way his voice sounds.
But anyway! The guys who cast the games, did a superb job and I don't want to take anything from them because they rocked it out(LDdota and LuminousInverse).
Now though, on to the most important thing..
Called it!
Look, I'll show you!
Boom! This was before the Alliance and Na'Vi played in the Upper Bracket finals. I'm so super proud of myself, I'm thinking maybe a little too proud of myself. It was a guess, though one might say an educated one.
Enough about that now. On to The International 3's grand finals set of games.. just wow, the best DotA I've ever seen played. I really wish I could play as well as any of those guys. The first two games were quick and took them to 1 match a piece.. when I say quick, I mean they were over between 16-20 minutes.. they were so very quick! Most, if not all of the Alliance's games in the tournament prior to this were 45 minutes+.
The third game saw a return of the 45 minute games with the Alliance dominant for the most part, yet falling short in some team fights and the fourth game saw Na'Vi take the first blood and I bet they could actually taste that prize money.. perhaps that's what affected them and that's why at 8 minutes the Alliance team wiped Na'Vi and from then on it snowballed into the Alliance equalling the series 2-2 in a 36 minute battering.
The fifth and final match, well.. I might actually have to re-watch that a few more times and maybe even have a go at commentating it and slapping that on YouTube for y'all to laugh at.
You should just take a moment to congratulate Valve on producing an amazing and successful tournament that by all accounts had over 1 million peak concurrent viewers. That figure is made up from Twitch.tv, Gamefy in China and people who watched via Valves own devices such as the Game Client.
..and then let's congratulate the winners of The International 3: The Alliance.. though to be fair, they have 1.4 million congratulations in the shape of dollah dollah bills yo.
That's me done! Time to have a kip.
Ciao for now!
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