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25th March 2009, 01:30

PL: Series of unfortunate events

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Round 5 of Pick-League XI's division 1 has brought us anything but what we wanted.

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The community might not even know that Round 5 was ever played, or worse, was to be played. So here it is how it went:
Originally, six matches were intented to be played in this round, but since Sweden SK-Gaming dropped the DotA team weeks ago, it meant a default for their opponent in this round - Europe Xeo Divine.
The most anticipated match of the round was Germany diamondZ e.V. against
Internationa- Kingsurf International, which introduced the fashion in which this round would be played - without anyone but players of both involved teams knowing, the match was played, with Ks.Int racking the fifth straight victory and dmZ kneeling for the first time this season. The teams however, did not leave much of a trace behind. There is no replay to be seen and not even Ks.Int's assistant manager Germany Milo knows anything about. Not much after that, in fact a day or so, Denmark Ravens decided to quickly solve the matters with Poland PGS. Whether the victory was easy or hard we probably will not know, but whatever being the case, Polish clan remains winless in this season and Ravens have yet to lose. At this rate of losing, PGS's only victory will apparently be against SK - a default one.

A ray of hope

Then, luckily, we were blessed with a stream, replay, draft information and even a shoutcast (!) of the Romania IGG against Czech Republ- eSuba. Not much of a matchup you say, but it surely better than none. In fact, the shoutcast for this match is probably the best in this round, for a simple reason - it being the only one. All good things apparently last only a little while though, as BTB faced Internationa- djooks in a similar fashion as dmZ did Ks.Int, but at least they left a replay behind, even if the mode was -AP, rather than -CM.
Last and this time also the least, was France srs versus Germany wicked, where it even appeared that the game might be played, despite wicked dropping its DotA team recently. Any hopes about this had to die as a default win for srs was announced.

The summary of the round: four matches, two default wins, two three replays and one stream.

Ravens triumph again

The sixth round already started with a disaster, as again, the most expected match, Ravens versus diamondZ e.V. couldn't be watched, this time thanks to the stream problems. To make the matters worse, the game was reloaded, so no replay was left behind. That aside, the Danes won their sixth straight match, this time helped by ex-wicked's player and captain, Germany Moods. He has been spotted on IRC wearing the Ravens's tag and this match is probably one last unofficial confirmation that Moods is joining the Danish ranks permanently.
As is now customary, SK's absence grants another free win, this time to srs, which have climbed up all the way to the fifth spot on the standings, tying with diamondZ. We probably shouldn't expect much more from wicked either and another Ks.Int's victory is imminent in any case.
Despite the djooks's latest slumping, the gap between them and PGS is still too big, so sixth straight victory for the ex-MYM is inevitable as well.
Other matches will not be of the top calibre, but at least we can expect them to be some sort of close ones. Back to Basics will battle for important points against eSuba, while IGG will be hunting for its first win against Xeo Divine, which has so far shown a much better form.

Stay to myMYM.com as we bring you further updates as well as don't forget to check our Pick-League XI coverage!



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Editors Opinion
Tomaž Pollak -
Let all this not sound out as though I am angry at teams not being able to schedule the game in advance, so they could be streamed and community could watch. As far as I know, pla<x>yers cannot really live off playing DotA so their real-life obligations still have a priority over the DotA matches, however painful it is to miss a bunch of promising games.

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(12 months ago)  #1 fricker
 
First Blood.
(12 months ago)  #2 aWrnSS
aWrnSS
:(

What can we say more than that?
(12 months ago)  #3 4KFmatthe
matthe
Imo you should write the clan tag bolt only when you mention it first time in teh artcile. After that you can miss it :P

Nice read.

Not swearing on internet? It's against my religion.
(12 months ago)  #4 iiB~HoneY~
 
'' At this rate of losing, PGS's only victory will apparently be against SK - a default one. ''

hehe
(12 months ago)  #5 zdubius
 
Ks.int vs dmZ replay has been on gosugamers.net for several days now:
http://www.gosugamers.net/dota/replays/18014
You may look at prodota.ru or sgamer.com as well.
(12 months ago)  #12 [SLO]Heldarion
Heldarion
Great! I appreciate that, was too busy to check either site (I actually never check gg.net for replays) :)
<Xeqn> someone translated your warding guide to Chinese
(12 months ago)  #25 RAAMZES
 
You should :) They get really fast upload, sometimes its few minutes after game!!! :))
(12 months ago)  #6 ArcanaXIII
ArcanaXIII
nice recap :)
After GAME OVER, you can play again. Some things never end.
(12 months ago)  #7 stef-
stef-
dont blame the teams - blame the world crises
pro
(12 months ago)  #18 KanRa-
KanRa-
blame Obama?
- don't judge the book by its cover -
(12 months ago)  #20 stef-
stef-
you mean bush or
pro
(12 months ago)  #26 Champ-
Champ-
you mean Clinton
Only the dead have seen the end of war!
(11 months ago)  #30 stef-
stef-
you mean Reagan
pro
(11 months ago)  #31 KanRa-
KanRa-
can't read?
- don't judge the book by its cover -
(11 months ago)  #34 stef-
stef-
what?
pro
(11 months ago)  #35 KanRa-
KanRa-
I say Obama already.
- don't judge the book by its cover -
(11 months ago)  #36 stef-
stef-
what has obama with world crisis to do? 0 nothing
pro
(12 months ago)  #8 panties
 
can we get a synopsis as to how fail your reporting has been over the last few months?
(12 months ago)  #9 selam_jaya
selam_jaya
only 10 team rest. who next
(12 months ago)  #10 DFCRehcram
Rehcram
Me don't understand how Ravens could win with that line-up imo they were hard outpicked.. But gj !
(12 months ago)  #19 DKAngeLofGoD
AngeLofGoD
Yeah we hard outpicked Dmz not the other way around ;)
(12 months ago)  #23 DFCRehcram
Rehcram
But naix should fuck es up.. And I would say that their lanes was best ( tho i with good resons havn't seen the game)
(12 months ago)  #24 DKAngeLofGoD
AngeLofGoD
Not if the es is outsmarting the naix ;)
(11 months ago)  #33 DFCRehcram
Rehcram
Ok nice word ^^ Your es > naix so :)
(12 months ago)  #11 Fantasy_XIII
Fantasy_XIII
nice sumup!
I don't care about the ideal, it's a mere hypothesis.
(12 months ago)  #13 VpVenuss
Venuss
somebody knows why PL-XI must be played in B.net or El? i tough all matches should be played by ggc...
♥♥♥♥♥<I like only the People who are not superficial>♥♥♥♥♥
(12 months ago)  #14 [SLO]Heldarion
Heldarion
Divisions 4 and 5 have Bnet as a default platform, 1, 2 and 3 have ggc for default platform, as far as I know.
<Xeqn> someone translated your warding guide to Chinese
(12 months ago)  #15 VpVenuss
Venuss
:O rly? well i was asking cuz my friend's playing in Div 5l..but it's hard to arrange a schedule with some teams...btw what means "EL" its another platform, right? like ggc?
♥♥♥♥♥<I like only the People who are not superficial>♥♥♥♥♥
(12 months ago)  #16 [SLO]Heldarion
Heldarion
no freaking idea what EL is.
<Xeqn> someone translated your warding guide to Chinese
(12 months ago)  #28 VpVenuss
Venuss
ops srry a i got a big mistake.i meant LC :D .. what kind of platform is that? hmm like ggc? ... why some teams ask for playing by this ^^ im confused!!!
♥♥♥♥♥<I like only the People who are not superficial>♥♥♥♥♥
(12 months ago)  #21 stef-
stef-
EL? doesnt exist.
GGC/GARENA
BATTLENET
BATTLENET LISTCHECKER (LC)
i bet u mean lc
Last edited by stef- at 25.03.2009, 19:21

pro
(12 months ago)  #29 VpVenuss
Venuss
yeah..u're right..sorry i didnt remember what was the right abrev.. :D thx
♥♥♥♥♥<I like only the People who are not superficial>♥♥♥♥♥
(12 months ago)  #17 GFC-Zip999
Zip999
Now djooks gets no support anymore ( sponsorship) they loose every match :P
(12 months ago)  #22 stef-
stef-
better if you unzip your brain before writing comments.
#fail

pro
(12 months ago)  #27 VisarkA
VisarkA
wtf :///
(11 months ago)  #32 zenition
zenition
Good job guys - snatching the 6th straight win. How about going for 1st place instead of 2nd and 3rd, just for once? ;)

Moods, zomg the germans are invading :/ - gl dude. :)

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