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NiP, on the other hand, struggled against a strong Brazilian team but managed to win. NiP has a good roster but I feel like they need some time if this roster is to remain stable.
Yep, definitely not in the same tier as FaZe right now, I expect an easy 2-0 for FaZe. Putting my money on Viality and FaZe for today's matches.

I expected Vitality to win their match against OG but I did not expect them to win so easily. They breeze through Anubis just giving OG 5 rounds. On the second map, Vertigo, OG showed some resistance and played better, but Vitality still got the win. They are way too strong against OG right now.

Next match is NIP vs Faze. Faze is favored to win but @ 1.27, I do not think it is worth it to bet on.
Vitality recently made a roster change and jackz came instead of dupreeh.This change may have been made for the sake of the team's agreement.The fact that Jackz adapted immediately shows this.It must be said that they are a really strong team now.I take this crushing win against OG as normal.OG could not settle the team for some reason.They mixed, but I think there are disagreements between the team.They are all talented players, but with different countries, maybe they have problems with the agreement.They may need a little more time. I think Faze will beat NiP.I think NiP is a rebuilt team after all.A few players have changed and there will be an adaptation process.So I can say that faze is the heavy favorite and I don't think it will be a difficult match for faze.
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NiP, on the other hand, struggled against a strong Brazilian team but managed to win. NiP has a good roster but I feel like they need some time if this roster is to remain stable.
Yep, definitely not in the same tier as FaZe right now, I expect an easy 2-0 for FaZe. Putting my money on Viality and FaZe for today's matches.

I expected Vitality to win their match against OG but I did not expect them to win so easily. They breeze through Anubis just giving OG 5 rounds. On the second map, Vertigo, OG showed some resistance and played better, but Vitality still got the win. They are way too strong against OG right now.

Next match is NIP vs Faze. Faze is favored to win but @ 1.27, I do not think it is worth it to bet on.
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Team Rooster is one of the weakest members of this group. I doubt they can even win. We saw in the fight against Pain that they are weak. Pain is a strong team and had to beat such an opponent anyway. The next match is OG-Vitality. OG is also a strong team but vitality has changed players and jackz seems to have gotten used to his new team quickly. I expect Vitality to win.
Jackz is a very experienced player he will strengthen the Vitality team. The impact was felt immediately in the OG match. They only have five rounds into OG's first chosen anubis map, as if they hadn't worked at all. Vitality played like deathmatch on this map, they were just running, each player's aim is really strong. When I looked at the breakout leaderboard, Zywoo was KD 20-4. The Vitality team did not have much difficulty in the Vertigo map either. They won the series 2-0 and Zywoo was the biggest factor so comfortable matches. He did a total of 44 kills on both maps and only died 16 times.
Zywoo is really an amazing player.S1mple and Zywoo have already been in a race for a few years.Jackz is an experienced player who has played in top teams, so we can say that he adapted quickly.OG didn't show much presence on the anubis map he chose.Vitality was the better team and they knew how to win. The player who stood out in the OG team was Degster with his awpers, but his performance was naturally not enough.Zywoo played a big role in winning the match with a nice stat.
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Team Rooster is one of the weakest members of this group. I doubt they can even win. We saw in the fight against Pain that they are weak. Pain is a strong team and had to beat such an opponent anyway. The next match is OG-Vitality. OG is also a strong team but vitality has changed players and jackz seems to have gotten used to his new team quickly. I expect Vitality to win.
Jackz is a very experienced player he will strengthen the Vitality team. The impact was felt immediately in the OG match. They only have five rounds into OG's first chosen anubis map, as if they hadn't worked at all. Vitality played like deathmatch on this map, they were just running, each player's aim is really strong. When I looked at the breakout leaderboard, Zywoo was KD 20-4. The Vitality team did not have much difficulty in the Vertigo map either. They won the series 2-0 and Zywoo was the biggest factor so comfortable matches. He did a total of 44 kills on both maps and only died 16 times.
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NiP, on the other hand, struggled against a strong Brazilian team but managed to win. NiP has a good roster but I feel like they need some time if this roster is to remain stable.
Yep, definitely not in the same tier as FaZe right now, I expect an easy 2-0 for FaZe. Putting my money on Viality and FaZe for today's matches.

Team Rooster is one of the weakest members of this group. I doubt they can even win. We saw in the fight against Pain that they are weak. Pain is a strong team and had to beat such an opponent anyway. The next match is OG-Vitality. OG is also a strong team but vitality has changed players and jackz seems to have gotten used to his new team quickly. I expect Vitality to win.
Both Rooster and Grayhound seem weaker than their Brazilian counterpart. If this continues we'll get an Australian derby between Rooster and Grayhound in the first Last Chance match on Saturday. Especially as 00Nation looked quite decent against OG yesterday so they should be able to beat Grayhound in LB match tonight.
If Grayhound and Rooster meet, Grayhound will be the winners. Rooster is the weakest link in the group and I don't think they can win a match. It's a great achievement for them to get this far. On the other hand, I think we will watch Vitality-Faze as the upper bracket final match in the group.It's hard to know the winner but I think Vitality is one step ahead this time.I wonder if it will be as I expect.
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NiP, on the other hand, struggled against a strong Brazilian team but managed to win. NiP has a good roster but I feel like they need some time if this roster is to remain stable.
Yep, definitely not in the same tier as FaZe right now, I expect an easy 2-0 for FaZe. Putting my money on Viality and FaZe for today's matches.

Team Rooster is one of the weakest members of this group. I doubt they can even win. We saw in the fight against Pain that they are weak. Pain is a strong team and had to beat such an opponent anyway. The next match is OG-Vitality. OG is also a strong team but vitality has changed players and jackz seems to have gotten used to his new team quickly. I expect Vitality to win.
Both Rooster and Grayhound seem weaker than their Brazilian counterpart. If this continues we'll get an Australian derby between Rooster and Grayhound in the first Last Chance match on Saturday. Especially as 00Nation looked quite decent against OG yesterday so they should be able to beat Grayhound in LB match tonight.
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Team Rooster is one of the weakest members of this group. I doubt they can even win. We saw in the fight against Pain that they are weak. Pain is a strong team and had to beat such an opponent anyway. The next match is OG-Vitality. OG is also a strong team but vitality has changed players and jackz seems to have gotten used to his new team quickly. I expect Vitality to win.
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Alright, just after the Lima major and those that have been too curious and were aware of the cheating that Team Knights did during the qualifiers, there's now an action that's been made by Valve and Perfect World. And they're not the only players from that team has been banned, there are too many of them. There goes the lifetime ban for players and those that have the duration of 1 year and 2 years ban.
Refer to this list for those players: Knights and EHOME Players Amongst 46 Banned From Dota 2 Pro Circuit
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For OG, yeah, this is the best thing that they can do. Thankfully no one was really kicked out from the team. Chu has already showcased his support skills to the world on several tournaments, and he has performed according to what the rest of the squad wants. Misha's analysis and knowledge on drafts and metas can be used on the coaching position by providing great insights on the team pre-match. Hopefully with this switch they achieve great tournament placings and earn as much points as they can to qualify for TI invite.

I believe OG just needs experience in order to win. They are a young team. Though they have played a lot of tournaments, it is not yet enough for the team. Their time will come since they are a good team. We have seen them win a few tournaments last season, so they are very capable.

Misha becoming the Coach is also a good move. There are times when he gets a problem getting a visa so that affects the team. Now that he is a coach, even if he gets a visa problem, the players are not that much affected.



A year and some months for bzm, yuragi, taiga, with DM and Chu just newly integrated into the team. I guess those first 3 who replaced the team can dictate the pace of the games that they want to play, and DM/chu can adjust accordingly. Taiga is a good shot caller, and yuragi is flexible and reliable in the safelane. Some more tournaments with a lot of scrims can help this team to get better placements. Chu's 4 position is really good, and gives a lot of opening to bzm and Yuragi to farm and take the space that they need. Hopefully they figure out what they need to do in order to be as successful as other newly-formed teams (ehem, new EG).
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What could be the next heroes that will be always be picked in the next tournaments? With what GG did for Witch Doctor, I guess that it will be part of the new meta that it will be considered as another strong offlane hero, maybe.
Yup, Witch Doctor is still strong since he received a slight buff on his W and maybe we'd see more meme hammer combo as it's now viable to more heroes after the casting time reduction.

For now, it's hard to say who could be the go-to hero in the competitive scene as we're only a few days into the patch and I barely play pubs but my guess would be Juggernaut, OD, Clinkz, and maybe SK as some of them received one or two good buffs that could push them higher in the priority list.
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Time for team's to reshuffling as the new update for Dota 2 patch 7.32e has been released as promised.

https://www.dota2.com/patches/7.32e

There's also another hero named "Muerta": Dota 2’s new hero Muerta is now available, bigger 7.33 patch release date revealed.

And there will be a new update by next month. That was a quick release and will be followed up by another patch.
Just because of that LINA hero spam on Lima Majors then this current patch did really make out some overhaul or simply nerf out this hero which cd and atk speed had been decreases out which is really that
sad specially for those die hard users of this hero and its true that this current hero Muerta is really that on carry type which its been labeled on that category which is something that would be
spam out on normal or ranked matchmaking or being on an autopick  Cheesy
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For OG, yeah, this is the best thing that they can do. Thankfully no one was really kicked out from the team. Chu has already showcased his support skills to the world on several tournaments, and he has performed according to what the rest of the squad wants. Misha's analysis and knowledge on drafts and metas can be used on the coaching position by providing great insights on the team pre-match. Hopefully with this switch they achieve great tournament placings and earn as much points as they can to qualify for TI invite.

I believe OG just needs experience in order to win. They are a young team. Though they have played a lot of tournaments, it is not yet enough for the team. Their time will come since they are a good team. We have seen them win a few tournaments last season, so they are very capable.

Misha becoming the Coach is also a good move. There are times when he gets a problem getting a visa so that affects the team. Now that he is a coach, even if he gets a visa problem, the players are not that much affected.

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Armel would be a good potential pick up for Team Secret as I remember seeing his LFT tweet including the other players from Fnatic.

There's also OG announcing their role swap between Chuvash and Misha, so now Chuvash will be taking the support role together with Taiga while Misha moves to the coaching position.

If Armel is willing to relocate, then he's a possible pick for Team Secret. However, Secret will most probably prioritize players from EU already since those players are already used to the meta that Secret is using plus the communication barrier wouldn't be that much. In terms of raw skill and talent though, Armel is up there for the midlaners, and there was a time that he went toe-to-toe against the big names on midlane and still came out on top.

For OG, yeah, this is the best thing that they can do. Thankfully no one was really kicked out from the team. Chu has already showcased his support skills to the world on several tournaments, and he has performed according to what the rest of the squad wants. Misha's analysis and knowledge on drafts and metas can be used on the coaching position by providing great insights on the team pre-match. Hopefully with this switch they achieve great tournament placings and earn as much points as they can to qualify for TI invite.
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Vitality and OG were the winners in the remaining matches. We can say that the first 4 matches went exactly as I expected and there were no surprises. Vitality won overwhelmingly against grayhound. Obviously, this win is very normal since they are already one of the heavy favorites of the group. OG had a bit of a hard time beating their opponent. It is quite normal to have difficulty, 00Nation has talented and experienced players who have achieved success in big tournaments before and have good rankings.  One of them is already coldzera.
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Time for team's to reshuffling as the new update for Dota 2 patch 7.32e has been released as promised.
Most of the players were expecting a major patch including me but at least we won't get to see Lina, Riki, DP, and the other meta heroes in the next tour.  Grin
That's what we get. For the game to have some balance, those heroes that have been mostly used to tournaments, they'll get nerfed.

What could be the next heroes that will be always be picked in the next tournaments? With what GG did for Witch Doctor, I guess that it will be part of the new meta that it will be considered as another strong offlane hero, maybe.

A lot of changes made for those most picked heroes with this last patch.
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The first two matches are pain-NiP and Faze-Rooster. We can say that Faze's opponent is easier than NiP. Faze will have a comfortable win. NiP, on the other hand, will have a hard time, but I think they will win. Pain is a strong team, but I don't think they have the power to beat NiP. I think OG and Vitality will be the winners of the other matches to be played later.
Spot on. I haven't watched any paiN match before, but they put up a good fight against NiP in their map picks. NiP ended up winning the map but that was closer than what the odds suggested. It's a different story for Rooster though, they seem to get steamrolled by FaZe right now Cheesy

I don't think there will be any upsets for the four opening matches, but the lower bracket and upper bracket finals should be more interesting to watch.
Thank you very much. I usually know more or less what CS:GO teams are going to do, but sometimes there are surprises. There is not much we can do against them. Simple and individual mistakes can sometimes lead to losing the match. That's exactly what happened. Faze didn't have much difficulty against his opponent. NiP, on the other hand, struggled against a strong Brazilian team but managed to win. NiP has a good roster but I feel like they need some time if this roster is to remain stable.
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The first two matches are pain-NiP and Faze-Rooster. We can say that Faze's opponent is easier than NiP. Faze will have a comfortable win. NiP, on the other hand, will have a hard time, but I think they will win. Pain is a strong team, but I don't think they have the power to beat NiP. I think OG and Vitality will be the winners of the other matches to be played later.
Spot on. I haven't watched any paiN match before, but they put up a good fight against NiP in their map picks. NiP ended up winning the map but that was closer than what the odds suggested. It's a different story for Rooster though, they seem to get steamrolled by FaZe right now Cheesy

I don't think there will be any upsets for the four opening matches, but the lower bracket and upper bracket finals should be more interesting to watch.
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What if the midlaner is going to be Armel? He's free and I don't know any other midlaners that are quite available as of the moment and I'm sure Puppey is willing to explore that.
Armel would be a good potential pick up for Team Secret as I remember seeing his LFT tweet including the other players from Fnatic.

There's also OG announcing their role swap between Chuvash and Misha, so now Chuvash will be taking the support role together with Taiga while Misha moves to the coaching position.

https://twitter.com/OGesports/status/1632788479666008065
Armel is flexible and I think really suits the play style of Team Secret but still, it would be hard to ignore the comparison between him and Nisha. But then, everyone has to move on. And for OG, it's good that Misha swapped position with Chuvash since it's notable that with the tournaments that has passed, it's always that Chu was there and he's not able to participate due to some personal reasons, IIRC, it was related to health concerns but either way, both are good players and that's why OG won't just let them go.
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Time for team's to reshuffling as the new update for Dota 2 patch 7.32e has been released as promised.
Most of the players were expecting a major patch including me but at least we won't get to see Lina, Riki, DP, and the other meta heroes in the next tour.  Grin

What if the midlaner is going to be Armel? He's free and I don't know any other midlaners that are quite available as of the moment and I'm sure Puppey is willing to explore that.
Armel would be a good potential pick up for Team Secret as I remember seeing his LFT tweet including the other players from Fnatic.

There's also OG announcing their role swap between Chuvash and Misha, so now Chuvash will be taking the support role together with Taiga while Misha moves to the coaching position.

https://twitter.com/OGesports/status/1632788479666008065
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Time for team's to reshuffling as the new update for Dota 2 patch 7.32e has been released as promised.

https://www.dota2.com/patches/7.32e

There's also another hero named "Muerta": Dota 2’s new hero Muerta is now available, bigger 7.33 patch release date revealed.

And there will be a new update by next month. That was a quick release and will be followed up by another patch.
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