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Giving a surrender option is essentially redesigning the game to reduce match time though.

What problems are those?

All problems solved by a surrender option is solved better by other systems is my argument. Anyway. Here is Merlini and Fnatic.h4nni in a bath tub.

It was like that in HoN. Needed 5 votes. Then they did some clowny shit with only needing 4 votes after 40minutes. It was awful always, and a source of flaming and griefing. People (me) would vote yes just to not have to play with quitters. It is shit. You get battlepoints anyway so why do you give a shit. I rarely have games where we get badly stomped anyway. Good matchmaking over surrender function!

You can only do it once, or was it twice.

It is the ultimate hero for ruining a public matchmaking game for everyone involved. It was born for it, bred for it, trained for it.

Fucking techies. I hate techies so much. I hate playing with techies, I hate playing against techies, I hate watching techies.

If you watch in game you can chat in the idle thumbs guild chat.

Least played has huge queues. It is just AP with some heroes removed. I always have it on, but have never gotten a game for it. Meh.

Single Draft is good, Random Draft is good, All Random is good. Least played is not good, captains draft is not good, captains mode is not good. All pick is meh.

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Some things will just click with you and you can apply it immediately like you said. Some things take a bit longer such as: using creep aggro to secure last hits and denies. (Creep and tower aggro is really weird in dota*). Look at a pro steam, notice how they position their creeps in the lane. Then there is the whole meta level of what to buy given the state of the current game, how to pick a good team of heroes, how to play your role on a team of heroes properly, how to organize your lanes, when to gank who, etc. I don't know a game that is as tactically and strategically deep as dota. *This is how creep aggro works: Creeps within a 500 unit range of your hero will attack you if you right-click an enemy hero (the enemy hero can be anywhere on the map, you do not need to deal damage). If you A-click a hero 501 units away from a creep, an aggro check will be triggered and that creep will not attack you. The aggrocheck has a 2 second cooldown. This knowledge gives you the power to re-position a difficult creep position, harass without taking damage/moving creeps, get "impossible" denies/last hits by moving the enemy creep out of range of your creep. This knowledge is however not easily applicable as it depends on other skills to pull of well.

Embrace the chaos of Ability Draft. Revel in the anarchy.

Some of them are complete scams though, which is what he said. The Razer mechanical keyboards are very expensive, yet still made of plastic. Same deal with many of the "gamer" mechanical keyboards.

Having no numpad allows me to position my keyboard further to the right (closer to my mouse), and I have a more ergonomic work and gaming environment. Maybe that is just me though. A colleague of mine has the happy hacker keyboard and it is very nice.

I have a Filco Majestouch tenkeyless with Cherry Mx Brown. I love it. Dat dota2 custom key. I have a steelseires with red switches, I really dont like that one. I always use my filco now.

Some The International 4 news from Gabes reddit AMA: TI4 to be probably hosted at Key Arena in Seattle which can hold 17k nerds. Also Kaci is coming back for TI4. Woo. I can't wait. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1zkfmv/wearea_video game_developer_aua/

Who has EGM? He is playing a farming doom in this game currently. Considering he is a support whoever has him on their team is going to be getting some serious points. s4 is however playing a support while his fantasy role is core, so I guess that is bad for whoever has him in their team. Edit: Screenshot of our draft.

Never heard of that bug before.

Awesome. Consider it saved! Then the league is full. 5 thumbers and one friend of Socker.

2230 norwegian time ye. You don't show up in my list of people to invite, do you have the ticket Hermie?

I've invited you all, I think. You need to go to Community then Create/Join league to join. Matches are starting tomorrow it seems, so I will schedule the Live Draft for today/tonight. Drafting begins in 11 hours 20 minutes from now! Still room for more. First come first serve basis. There is an FAQ here if someone is wondering whats what. http://blog.dota2.com/2014/02/introducing-fantasy-dota/

Add me on steam! I am njoos there. I will add you to the league then. The ticket isnt fully implemented yet, but it is going to work as a compendium. Whatever that means. If you are unsure you may as well wait a bit. I like Dreamleague so I bought it.

Guys. Anyone want to join my Asus ROG Dreamleague Season 1 fantasy league? There is room for 5 more dudes. I have no idea how it works but I think you need to own the Asus Rog DreamLeague season 1 ticket to participate.

No offense was meant.