Tough to watch Astralis getting beat this way, although you can't deny that Heroic's rotation and aim is all on point. Good to see that cadian is now being recognized by a lot of people from his playmaking and IGL abilities too. Lots of good clutches on that match against Astralis that deserves the highlight reel. IMO Astralis just needs to recollect and review where they went wrong. They are still a top 10 team deserving of that ranking, though there are some tournaments that really isn't just for you as other teams prepared more and grinded more to get to the level where they're at just for the tournament.
I would say, Astralis made Heroic look good.
Astralis is no longer the same juggernaut that they uses to be in their prime. Baitf is destroying the current roster with all his baiting and farlig with all his awp shot miss.
-blamef and -farlig is the only solution here.
I am really disappointed with the new ence. They are back to being Tier 2. Seems like spinx and hades were a crucial part of their success. Without them Ence is miserable.
Anyways, hopefully group D won't be a clusterfck like Group C
Watching blameF and Farlig is like watching a clown fiesta honestly. Lots of missed shots when the enemy is barely moving. Well, cadian, a known awper, is missing shots too, but not in the way farlig is doing. Imagine losing to a 1 ak 2 tec 9s and some flashes against an armed to the teeth CT on Nuke? Only Astralis can pull that off
Lots of eco buys from Heroic looked and seemed good because Astralis cannot hold site properly.
Making pudge as a mid laner then it would be considerable but making it as a carry pos then i dont really see for it to be much effective unless if your offlaner did really build semi-carry items plus having that
farmed mid laner which might that able to carry you out because everything would really be depending on how your team mates would really help out their carry as much as possible.
Adjustments would be made but its true that Pudge will act out as a tank specially on mid-late game scenario and if opponents carries are fully farmed then Pudge would easily be fucked up.
Im rooting on T1 to get the spot on TI11 but unexpectedly Talon is really strong and same goes with Polaris.
IMO, there's no difference whether it's on mid or placed as a pos 1. What they've been doing is that they'll pick pudge on the pos 1 and then will have the mid as their main carry. It's been like in Dota 1 days that the tri-lane or safe lane works like that as what they intend to do in pudge.
Dota 2 is a game of strategy and defense so as long as what they're up to works, they'll do it again and that's why they've been using it because somehow it has worked before.
Pudge is only placed on the top lane on this meta because of his flesh heap and rot buff. He's still essentially the "offlaner" because his item builds will always lead to a more utility role later down the line. They just pick a farming mid like Ember or a farming offlane like Razor/DK and that will slowly transition to carry. They placed Pudge on the safelane because of how insanely strong 4 supports and offlaners are on the new patch, and Pudge can tank those in the early game due to his 3rd and still get some farm due to his high base damage and hook which he can use to 1 shot ranged creeps or large neutral camps.
however they did break the heroic momentum bringing the chances back to even and live odds for heroic go to 3x almost (eco rounds, lots of death crowd overreacts noobs 
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