Oh most definitely. In fact, when I started playing dota 2 the learning curve meant I lost interest after a while. The competitive scene dragged me back, however, and now I've started playing a lot as well.
Would love to get a casting gig at some point, but my schedule is a bit too hectic to pursue this full-time at the moment.
As for my team, I've been Na'Vi since the beginning, and through all the lean years recently. I don't even stay because of the name, I stay because of Dendi. Not much of a Secret fan (filthy backstabbers), but to each his own I guess :P
Say what you will but I feel like Puppey has always been into this more for the personal gain than for the love for the game (not saying it's wrong, just saying it makes me not want to support him).
- There was this JoinDota Talkshow a while back where he spoke about it, saying that he feels like organizations are not providing enough money to the teams.
- He also rejected the 2GD invitational offers for the GD Studio invitationals a few years back, saying the prize pool is not worthy of attention.
- He didn't bother coming to Dreamhack Bucharest in spring 2014, even though Na'vi had accepted the invitation, and Na`vi came with just Dendi, Xboct and Funn1k.
I bet Puppey pushed really hard to get Kuroky into Na'vi, where he clearly didn't fit in. Kuroky feels like his little pet, always following him. They had been together even from before the days of Dota 2 (in Nirvana.Int I think) - At the third international, in the final against Alliance, Na`vi lost a very important Rosh fight in one of the games. In an interview after that, Dendi said he didn't want to go in the rosh pit, but Kuroky kept shouting "Go go go" and they lost the fight (not saying it proves anything, but it's a sign of how a person with a different mindset can influence a team the wrong way).
Maybe I am wrong, but I've been following this closely and I have my own opinion that I'm pretty sure is the correct one.
Well ive been playing since 6.61 (~2010) and i was a navi fan and now i support secret. You can't just blame kuro on that rosh decision. Several times they had the opportunity to just finish rosh but dendi came out to try to force a fight (watch bulldogs analysis of that game). And as for that guy saying secret backstabbed, i mean if u have problems within your team you will obviously leave and try to make a better team.
Oh most definitely. In fact, when I started playing dota 2 the learning curve meant I lost interest after a while. The competitive scene dragged me back, however, and now I've started playing a lot as well.
Would love to get a casting gig at some point, but my schedule is a bit too hectic to pursue this full-time at the moment.
As for my team, I've been Na'Vi since the beginning, and through all the lean years recently. I don't even stay because of the name, I stay because of Dendi. Not much of a Secret fan (filthy backstabbers), but to each his own I guess :P
I feel the same about Secret.
Say what you will but I feel like Puppey has always been into this more for the personal gain than for the love for the game (not saying it's wrong, just saying it makes me not want to support him).
- There was this JoinDota Talkshow a while back where he spoke about it, saying that he feels like organizations are not providing enough money to the teams.
- He also rejected the 2GD invitational offers for the GD Studio invitationals a few years back, saying the prize pool is not worthy of attention.
- He didn't bother coming to Dreamhack Bucharest in spring 2014, even though Na'vi had accepted the invitation, and Na`vi came with just Dendi, Xboct and Funn1k.
I bet Puppey pushed really hard to get Kuroky into Na'vi, where he clearly didn't fit in. Kuroky feels like his little pet, always following him. They had been together even from before the days of Dota 2 (in Nirvana.Int I think) - At the third international, in the final against Alliance, Na`vi lost a very important Rosh fight in one of the games. In an interview after that, Dendi said he didn't want to go in the rosh pit, but Kuroky kept shouting "Go go go" and they lost the fight (not saying it proves anything, but it's a sign of how a person with a different mindset can influence a team the wrong way).
Maybe I am wrong, but I've been following this closely and I have my own opinion that I'm pretty sure is the correct one.
Well ive been playing since 6.61 (~2010) and i was a navi fan and now i support secret. You can't just blame kuro on that rosh decision. Several times they had the opportunity to just finish rosh but dendi came out to try to force a fight (watch bulldogs analysis of that game). And as for that guy saying secret backstabbed, i mean if u have problems within your team you will obviously leave and try to make a better team.
Ps: funn1k also didnt attend dreamhack '14