Gamescom top fails
#4 - Maelk PotM: Not the greatest potm ever seen...
#3 - Hex0r roaming shaker: Really not a good show of how to roaming gank with shaker, almost every early stun leaves the opponents on the wrong side of the fissure xD
#2 - Picking an aoe-lacking set of gankers against a heavy push lineup: Razer.cgc seriosuly failing their picks against MCiTY for 3rd place play-off, could have quite easily picked shaker to fit their lineup and made things a bit different.
#1 - Biggest fail of the tournament was Nerubian Assassin, 3 games, 3 losses. One of the heroes that gets the most hate about being imba and needing nerfs being shown up and showing that picking him definately doesnt go anywhere near guaranteeing a win :o
Most impressive tournament happenings
#3 - Razer.cgc being happy to not ban undying, and allow opponents to first pick him. Worked out well for them with first few games, but backfired against MCiTY, shame... quite a ballsy thing to do I reckon, undying is such a strong hero.
#2 - Fnatic's dazzle + Slardar strategy. Definately worked well for them, slardar normally being thought of as more of a counter-invis pick than a proper carry in his own right, and dazzle quite often being overlooked for warlock as a babysitter. Fnatic made the strategy work well for them :D
#1 - Freezer! Seriously great play by freezer for fnatic, particularly as he was a stand-in, not having played much dota with the team. His zeus got an ultrakill/godlike at minute 12 against xeo.int (link), and his lina made a complete mess of ravens (link), good job freezer :D
Shoutcast commentary
This is really awesome, some shoutcasting of 4 of the gamescom matches, really worth watching particularly if you want to get some extra information about why the competitive players are doing what they're doing. Shoutcasted by Australians, so perhaps slightly biased towards MCiTY, but still great to watch. Their analysis and commentary is really good and makes it even more interesting than simply watching replays. Give these guys some support :p
http://www.gosugamers.net/dota/news/10390-shoutcasts-from-gamescom
23 August 2009
[Competitive] GamesCom
So, for the past few days 7 of the top dota teams have been battling it out for a share of the $15,000 prize pot from the GamesCom tournament. Teams involved were: Ravens, dmZ, Fnatic, UCP, MCiTY, Razer.CGC and Xeo Divine, a breakdown of the prize awards is below (dont read if you dont want to know who wins already).
Group Stage
The competition started off with 2 groups playing round-robin. The top 2 teams from each group would go on to the semi finals.
Group A consisted of: Razer, MCiTY, UCP, dmz
Group B consisted of: Fnatic, Ravens, xeo divine
Some highly rated replays from the group stage are:
dmz vs Razer (Download)
VS 
Ravens vs Fnatic (Download)
VS 
MCiTY vs Razer (Download)
VS 
Full details of all group matches can be found at the tournament site: http://web.dota-allstars.com/tournament
Semi-finals
So now we get down to the semi-finals, all the teams who made it this far into the tournament were going to get some of the prize pot, however I'm sure they were all still gunning for that #1 position :D
Semi final #1: MCiTY vs Ravens (Download)
Ravens start out picking a "standard" looking ganky lineup, but finish it off with Obsydian Destroyer after MCiTY pick Bristleback. Interesting lineups from both teams:
VS 
Semi final #2: Fnatic vs Razer (Download)
Fnatic going with their trusted morphling pick, along with a rather unconventional Slardar pick. Razer going with something similar to games they've won in the past, with a tinker alongside a very gank oriented team. Interesting side-note, neither team bans nor picks NA or Undying:
VS 
The Grand Final
So the final came down to Ravens vs Fnatic. This one was a best of 3 match, so 2 wins required to win the final, after previously beating fnatic in the groupstages Ravens must have been feeling quietly confident about coming away with the win here, but we all know Fnatic are a great side too, so it was set to be a great final.
*Spoilers alert* :P
Game #1 fnatic vs ravens (Download)
VS 
Fnatic using an almost identical lineup to that which they beat razer.cgc in the semi's with, only a change of morphling to potm. Adds perhaps slightly more gank potential for a minor late-game power reduction... altogether almost a straight-swap like-for-like, so pretty much sticking to what previously worked. Ravens lineup also looks rather familiar, gankers mixed with carry capacity. We've seen Maelk play viper alot recently, Miggel is well known for his clockwerk, and Angel plays admiral very often too; they pick up the un-banned nerubian for mr. gank himself - Mania.
Game is pretty even all the way through, ravens doing slightly better in ganking, with fnatic making up for it with better teamfighting and pushing power. In the end fnatic come out on top after completely demolishing the ravens lineup in a teamfight and beginning to go for rax.
Game #2 ravens vs fnatic (Download)
VS 
Ravens gone for a rather "standard" looking lineup again, primarily gank oriented with some carry potential and decent teamfight power. Fnatic have gone a bit out of the box again with their picks, again oriented towards ganking but with SF to carry and decent looking teamfight synergy. Nerub and undying both ignored again, how things change. You could say that fnatics less mainstream picks may have helped them to the victory, but in fairness they simply outplayed ravens in every way - their ganking was better, they had more farm, they played the teamfights better. Although they weren't really the team I sort of wanted to win the whole competition, they thoroughly deserved it playing like that.
The fact that lina and clock had better farm than potm, and admiral was unable to get a bkb in 40mins of play should pretty much sum up this game. Fnatic were just better all round.
Again, all the games can be found at http://web.dota-allstars.com/tournament
Prize Awards:
1. $7000 Fnatic
2. $4000 Ravens
3. $3000 MCiTY
4. $1000 Razer
2. $4000 Ravens
3. $3000 MCiTY
4. $1000 Razer
Group Stage
The competition started off with 2 groups playing round-robin. The top 2 teams from each group would go on to the semi finals.
Group A consisted of: Razer, MCiTY, UCP, dmz
Group B consisted of: Fnatic, Ravens, xeo divine
Group A Final Standings
Group B Final Standings
Some highly rated replays from the group stage are:
dmz vs Razer (Download)
VS Ravens vs Fnatic (Download)
VS MCiTY vs Razer (Download)
VS Full details of all group matches can be found at the tournament site: http://web.dota-allstars.com/tournament
Semi-finals
So now we get down to the semi-finals, all the teams who made it this far into the tournament were going to get some of the prize pot, however I'm sure they were all still gunning for that #1 position :D
Semi final #1: MCiTY vs Ravens (Download)
Ravens start out picking a "standard" looking ganky lineup, but finish it off with Obsydian Destroyer after MCiTY pick Bristleback. Interesting lineups from both teams:
VS Semi final #2: Fnatic vs Razer (Download)
Fnatic going with their trusted morphling pick, along with a rather unconventional Slardar pick. Razer going with something similar to games they've won in the past, with a tinker alongside a very gank oriented team. Interesting side-note, neither team bans nor picks NA or Undying:
VS The Grand Final
So the final came down to Ravens vs Fnatic. This one was a best of 3 match, so 2 wins required to win the final, after previously beating fnatic in the groupstages Ravens must have been feeling quietly confident about coming away with the win here, but we all know Fnatic are a great side too, so it was set to be a great final.
*Spoilers alert* :P
Game #1 fnatic vs ravens (Download)
VS Fnatic using an almost identical lineup to that which they beat razer.cgc in the semi's with, only a change of morphling to potm. Adds perhaps slightly more gank potential for a minor late-game power reduction... altogether almost a straight-swap like-for-like, so pretty much sticking to what previously worked. Ravens lineup also looks rather familiar, gankers mixed with carry capacity. We've seen Maelk play viper alot recently, Miggel is well known for his clockwerk, and Angel plays admiral very often too; they pick up the un-banned nerubian for mr. gank himself - Mania.
Game is pretty even all the way through, ravens doing slightly better in ganking, with fnatic making up for it with better teamfighting and pushing power. In the end fnatic come out on top after completely demolishing the ravens lineup in a teamfight and beginning to go for rax.
Game #2 ravens vs fnatic (Download)
VS Ravens gone for a rather "standard" looking lineup again, primarily gank oriented with some carry potential and decent teamfight power. Fnatic have gone a bit out of the box again with their picks, again oriented towards ganking but with SF to carry and decent looking teamfight synergy. Nerub and undying both ignored again, how things change. You could say that fnatics less mainstream picks may have helped them to the victory, but in fairness they simply outplayed ravens in every way - their ganking was better, they had more farm, they played the teamfights better. Although they weren't really the team I sort of wanted to win the whole competition, they thoroughly deserved it playing like that.
The fact that lina and clock had better farm than potm, and admiral was unable to get a bkb in 40mins of play should pretty much sum up this game. Fnatic were just better all round.
Again, all the games can be found at http://web.dota-allstars.com/tournament
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