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Cloud 9, because I want them to win a championship if they can.
Iceiceice prior to the ESL ONE New York Grand Finals on which team he'd prefer to face
ViCi Gaming takes ESL ONE New York for $52,000! [x]
Shaped up to be quite a semifinals.
VG vs. Secret starts the day at 11:00 EDT [x]
In spite of #TheAMDream, Alliance falls to EG in G1 of the ESL ONE New York quarterfinals
Team Secret vs. Na'Vi US -- October 9, 2014
Kuro calls the series
Down 27-8, Na'Vi nearly staged the comeback of the year.
Then Xboct ran in front of their bottom rax while it was under siege without activating BKB.
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VG advances to the semi-finals of ESL ONE New York! Na'Vi eliminated [x]
"He's probably going to be the pick of the tournament." - Merlini
Let's play some Dota
ESL ONE New York starts tomorrow at 11:00 AM EST! [x]
Catch the action on Twitch
Alliance announces H4nni to stand in for Chessie at ESL ONE New York [x]
The Fountain's September-October 2014 Tier List
With WCA 2014 in the books and ESL ONE New York just around the corner, now seems like the perfect time to release our inaugural Tier List. For Dota fans who want to follow the upcoming action, but haven't had the time to keep up with the Meta recently, this is your chance to catch up!
See our methodology here.
All data from Datdota
Sample: 701 games
The Fountain's Tier List Methodology
Introduction:
Basically as long as eSports has existed, competitors and observers alike have sought to build a systematic understanding of the competitive values of different variables, be they weapons, strategies, or, most frequently, characters.
In very few games is this endeavour more important than Dota 2, because Dota players do not specialize in one Hero to the exclusion of others (as is the case with characters in most fighting games, or races in Starcraft), but rather are expected to learn and play any Hero in the pool as the meta demands. This means that tiering of Heroes gives insight more valuable than whether and to what degree the game is imbalanced; it constitutes the crux of all strategic decisions in arguably the most important part of any match: The draft.
The Fountain's Tier Lists do not pretend to measure the objective value of Heroes (nor, I would hope, does any Tier List for any game). Such a value most likely does not exist and, even if it did, would almost certainly be impossible to quantify.
What we can measure, however, are the Hero preferences of pros for a given period of time, or, put more dramatically, which Heroes are the strongest during that period given the cumulative knowledge of the best players in the world.
> New Meta
Kuroky leads Team Secret to an impressive comeback against VP on Day 29 of Starladder EU
Anti Mage is back [x]
Fly of Team Secret has changed his tag to Simbaaa [x]
Former Dota Caster Commits Suicide
Kate "Damiya" von Roeder killed herself at approximately 2:00 PM PDT on October 1, 2014.
A software engineer who had worked as a technical analyst for Riot Games until September, 2013, as well as a one-time caster for BeyondTheSummit, von Roeder released her suicide note to the public yesterday, reporting that she had purchased a shotgun and was about to shoot herself with it.
Von Roeder, a trans woman, briefly discussed her struggles with the transition process in her note. "I shouldn't have done it. Not because I'm not trans, but because I didn't have a fraction of the personal strength to succeed at it, unlike some of the amazing trans people I've been privileged to know," she wrote. "But paragraph after paragraph of whining seemed like a poor way to go out; most of you have had to deal with enough of my bullshit."
"I've been an albatross around the neck of a lot of people I respect and enjoy. To those who tried to befriend me and whose friendships I abandoned and allowed to wither and die, I'm also sorry. I wish I knew how to be a friend, but I just wasn't wired that way," she closed. "For these sins and more, I'm sorry. I'm just not a good person."
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a 24-hour, toll-free, confidential suicide prevention hotline. Contact them at +1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Invited teams for The Summit 2 and qualifier dates [x]