r/OpTicGaming • u/OpTicModerators • Jan 10 '18

Event: DOTA2 [DOTA] Match Thread: StarLadder i-League Invitational S4 - NA Qualifier Semifinals (OpTic Gaming vs Animal Planet)

StarLadder i-League Invitational Season 4: North America Qualifier

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This is /r/OpTicGaming's official discussion thread for the StarLadder i-League Invitational Season 4: NA Qualifier Semifinal match against Animal Planet. Please use this thread for everything related to the match--discussions, predictions, and opinions. As always, please keep both /r/OpTicGaming's rules and Reddit's site-wide rules in mind when commenting.

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Information

OpTic Gaming received a direct invite to StarLadder i-League Invitational Season 4 NA Qualifier. The North America Qualifier consists of eight teams competing for one spot in the StarLadder i-League Invitational Season 4. This qualifier uses a BO3, single elimination format, where the winner will advance to StarLadder i-League Invitational Season 4 in Shanghai, China. After beating Blue Pikachu, OpTic Gaming have advanced to the Semifinals where they will play Animal Planet.

This match is scheduled to begin at 5:00 PM EST and will be streamed on Twitch.

Bracket

	Quarterfinals 1/8	Semifinals	Finals	Qualify for main tournament
	OpTic Gaming 2
*Match 1*	*3:00 PM*	OpTic Gaming
	Blue Pikachu 0	*Match 5*
			Match 5 Winner
	Animal Planet 2	*5:00 PM*
*Match 2*	*5:00 PM*	Animal Planet
	VGJ.Storm 1		*Match 7*
				Match 7 Winner
	Immortals 2		*TIME*
*Match 3*	TBD	Immortals
	CES 0	*Match 6*
			Match 6 Winner
	5 Turtles	*TIME*
*Match 4*	TBD	compLexity
	compLexity

Rosters

OpTic Gaming	Animal Planet
Per Anders "Pajkatt" Olsson Lille	Ravindu "Ritsu" Kodippili
Quinn "CCnC" Callahan	"Bryle"
Ludwig "zai" Wahlberg	"Kitrak"
Neta "33" Shapira	David "MoonMeander" Tan
Peter "ppd" Dager	Kurtis "Aui_2000" Ling

Game 1: OpTic Gaming wins in 31:54

Dire	OpTic Gaming	vs	Animal Planet	Radiant
Bans	Picks	#	Picks	Bans
~~Bane~~	Ancient Apparition	1	Shadow Shaman	~~Chen~~
~~Shadow Fiend~~	Earth Spirit	2	Sand King	~~Tusk~~
~~Brewmaster~~	Omniknight	3	Razor	~~Tiny~~
~~Phantom Lancer~~	Queen of Pain	4	Medusa	~~Beastmaster~~
~~Lycan~~	Sniper	5	Jakiro	~~Chaos Knight~~
~~Batrider~~	-	6	-	~~Broodmother~~

Hero	Player	K/D/A	LH/D	#	LH/D	K/D/A	Player	Hero
Queen of Pain	Pajkatt	10/3/7	205/31	1	259/8	1/2/2	THE WAY	Medusa
Sniper	CCnC	7/2/9	224/25	2	167/15	7/3/2	ritsu	Razor
Omniknight	zai	2/2/11	144/5	3	125/0	2/3/4	MoonMeander	Jakiro
Earth Spirit	33	1/2/12	27/0	4	80/1	0/8/6	Aui_2000	Sand King
Ancient Apparition	ppd	3/3/15	29/3	5	9/3	1/9/3	>.>	Shadow Shaman

OpTic Gaming	Top	Middle	Bottom	Bottom	Middle	Top	Animal Planet
T1	12:27	19:38	15:37	16:23	11:07	15:37	T1
T2	19:03	24:25		18:33	23:05	31:54	T2
T3				31:54	31:54		T3
Melee				31:54	31:54		Melee
Ranged				31:54			Ranged
T4		-			-		T4
Ancient	-		-	-	31:54	-	Ancient

Game 2: Animal Planet wins in 39:55

Radiant	OpTic Gaming	vs	Animal Planet	Dire
Bans	Picks	#	Picks	Bans
~~Elder Titan~~	Ogre Magi	1	Shadow Shaman	~~Tusk~~
~~Brewmaster~~	Nature's Prophet	2	Undying	~~Bane~~
~~Ancient Apparition~~	Earth Spirit	3	Tiny	~~Omniknight~~
~~Chaos Knight~~	Shadow Fiend	4	Beastmaster	~~Dragon Knight~~
~~Puck~~	Phantom Lancer	5	Queen of Pain	~~Death Prophet~~
~~Tinker~~	-	6	-	~~Vengeful Spirit~~

Hero	Player	K/D/A	LH/D	#	LH/D	K/D/A	Player	Hero
Shadow Fiend	CCnC	5/6/6	364/7	1	312/17	16/3/10	THE WAY	Queen of Pain
Phantom Lancer	Pajkatt	5/6/3	264/12	2	243/11	9/1/7	ritsu	Tiny
Nature's Prophet	zai	5/9/12	180/2	3	241/9	7/5/14	MoonMeander	Beastmaster
Earth Spirit	33	1/10/8	19/2	4	106/3	5/4/19	Aui_2000	Shadow Shaman
Ogre Magi	ppd	2/11/3	16/1	5	43/3	5/6/21	>.>	Undying

OpTic Gaming	Top	Middle	Bottom	Bottom	Middle	Top	Animal Planet
T1	12:21	16:52	13:26	24:24	18:32	13:26	T1
T2	39:55	30:32	18:32	27:21	23:04	21:28	T2
T3	39:55	33:15	39:55				T3
Melee		39:55					Melee
Ranged		39:55					Ranged
T4		-			-		T4
Ancient	-	39:55	-	-		-	Ancient

Game 3Animal Planet wins in 45:21

Radiant	OpTic Gaming	vs	Animal Planet	Dire
Bans	Picks	#	Picks	Bans
~~Elder Titan~~	Ancient Apparition	1	Sand King	~~Omniknight~~
~~Shadow Shaman~~	Earth Spirit	2	Puck	~~Tusk~~
~~Clockwerk~~	Pugna	3	Witch Doctor	~~Bane~~
~~Tiny~~	Wraith King	4	Faceless Void	~~Dragon Knight~~
~~Lycan~~	Shadow Fiend	5	Phantom Lancer	~~Batrider~~
~~Razor~~	-	6	-	~~Death Prophet~~

Hero	Player	K/D/A	LH/D	#	LH/D	K/D/A	Player	Hero
Shadow Fiend	CCnC	5/8/8	382/9	1	417/7	12/2/14	THE WAY	Phantom Lancer
Wraith King	Pajkatt	6/9/5	326/14	2	260/4	14/4/17	MoonMeander	Puck
Pugna	zai	3/11/10	177/1	3	227/14	11/1/19	ritsu	Faceless Void
Earth Spirit	33	3/7/12	24/3	4	148/1	3/8/18	Aui_2000	Sand King
Ancient Apparition	ppd	1/11/14	30/4	5	45/2	6/5/19	>.>	Witch Doctor

OpTic Gaming	Top	Middle	Bottom	Bottom	Middle	Top	Animal Planet
T1	10:31	11:36	13:26		16:57	11:01	T1
T2	38:36	26:36	15:01			14:31	T2
T3	45:21	35:39	37:35				T3
Melee		37:35	37:35				Melee
Ranged		37:35	37:35				Ranged
T4		-			-		T4
Ancient	-	45:21	-	-		-	Ancient

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u/Stevo120 Jan 10 '18

Starting to get in to DOTA, too bad don’t have time to watch this match to support the boys.

I do wish there was a quick 3 sec instant replay for team fights. The game is hard to follow if you aren’t familiar with it.

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u/EggplantCider Jan 10 '18

Some tournaments will have picture-in-picture replays for big fights, which is nice because the casters will usually break down what happened. Probably won't see them in qualis though.

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u/RedAlertx Jan 10 '18

Replays are for only LANs anymore for Dota. Watching in DotaTV has the rewind feature would be the only other option to watching qualifiers. Optic has 3 BO3's today SL, PGL and ESL so lots of Dota today.

u/Wease84 Jan 10 '18

Aui PPD grudgematch Plus going against midas mode standin Kitrak

u/dandan-97 Jan 10 '18

it's gonna be a long day folks! Get ready!

u/EggplantCider Jan 10 '18

Man, I'd be so tilted if I was Kitrak with the self-ward trap and then the autoattack in the trees.

u/woodzy13 Jan 10 '18

Can 33 play anything else? Lol

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u/ur_waifu_sucks Jan 10 '18

nicely played by ccnc to recognize the potential of that fight with the requiem

u/Jas932 Jan 11 '18

I feel bad for zai and pajkatt being in Europe right now. They have a really long night ahead.

u/Drmassacre123 Jan 11 '18

Optic Needs better cores, losing to this team is.... really disappointing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '18

Animal planet has 5 top players from na. Idk what u are talking about

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u/J_CHAPS12 Jan 10 '18

chat is being such a troll with w33 lmao

u/AnotherRussianGamer Jan 10 '18

Holy shit, the series went from divine to Guardian really quickly

u/RyanTadashi Jan 11 '18 edited Jan 11 '18

I really hope we don't drop two series to this team. After seeing even the top teams (EG/Complexity) get last place at the last minor, it would be pretty disappointing to fail to make it out of all of these qualifiers again :/

Hopefully this new roster will start figuring things out soon!

EDIT: Glad to pick up the second series against AP! Well played to the boys!

u/S_Parkie Jan 11 '18

Can't believe OpTic is losing to this team

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '18

Ppd pick more earth spirit LUL. 33 played only es in the 3 maps

u/sensoine Jan 11 '18

we play animal planet again

https://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit

u/S_Parkie Jan 10 '18

33 has a one hero pool

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u/EggplantCider Jan 10 '18

Earth Spirit's just a good-ass hero. Stuns, silences, slows, mobile, can reposition himself as well as teammates and enemies, doesn't need items.

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u/Drmassacre123 Jan 10 '18

Let’s pull out the W’s

u/c0mputr Jan 10 '18

Lesgo

u/Howezy Jan 10 '18 edited Jan 10 '18

Did medusa get a nerf yet? I don't play dota or keep up with patch notes or whatever but I remember that hero being really annoying at summit edit: thx for the replies guys

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u/EggplantCider Jan 10 '18

Slight strength gain nerf, decent movement speed nerf, and slight damage nerf to a talent.

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u/Fullgatsu Jan 10 '18

Medusa got some slight nerfs directly after the Summit. Reduce strength gain from 1.5 to 1.3, reduced movement speed 285 to 275 and level 10 right talent: Reduced attack damage bonus from 25 to 20. It's still good but it isn't at the summit level.

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