maylaysia's still up there with nirvana.my scythe and aeon-mufc iirc

Yeah I still play, however like people have said the NA scene has died for the time being. Not that it matters for me, since I'm currently playing on really bad FL internet until January or so.

also fuck Ks.Int .. most embarrassing match of my life LOL

Didn't you guys win that match? Might be talking about a different one...I can't recall the version, but it was before the recent item changes and Krob/Necro were actually strong mid/late game carries. I wanna say around .51 or .52 era, but not sure. Ks.Int reformed or something? Most of them are in this NWO team it seems, though after watching some recent replays it seems like they're leagues below DTS and some of the top Asian teams...not that I was a fan of them back in the day either.

tsumugi

bowezed

grunthor

slev

all really really good players on jsp from what i know

GRUNT PMING U FOR 1V1S ITS BEEN TOO LONG

and slev of course if we can find some mutual hosting through a bot, ggc didn't work out too well :/

This post was edited by ApostleOfGod on Nov 4 2010 10:52am

Define good...

Good enough to stomp? Not very hard to do this...

Good enough to know how to scrim? In my case, only with people I know.

I'm not even that good lol

afaik mikey and grunthor are significantly better than I am

understand mechanics

picks

different phases of the game

consistent experience on high level gaming

but from what i see through playing a long time, and i remember chatting with grunt about this a year ago, the biggest contributing factor is POSITIONING

ill just quote a friend since i don't have much credibility - this comes from AzN.Ezzy about positioning - "positioning is 70% of the game"

a good player knows how to position himself - example is when ur facing a trilane, you're never caught off guard and you always keep your range

facing a cm wd kunkka trilane, as likely as it sounds, will probably rake up kills in many scenarios (ignoring strategic picks such as putting es in that trilane)

sometimes you will see a hero get away with like 10 hp after eating a tango in the middle of a gank by those heroes, that's not luck that's skill and positioning

players i listed above (including the humble tsumugi) have a good general understanding of that concept from what i saw - maybe not all at the same level, but there ya go

e/ i forgot about phox i dunno if hes still alive but iirc he should be pretty good still

This post was edited by ApostleOfGod on Nov 4 2010 01:06pm

ya i win 90% of my -apem games

I'm at the point where I can make you scream "Uncle!" in frustration in a serious scrim.

Dota only fun when you have a team