ESNation TV - SK vs MYM (PDL)

this match was held almost a month ago, the final playday of MYM Prime Defending League. Featuring the top two team of the table at that time, MeetYourMakers (MYM) and SK.Gaming (SK).

match details:
-general match news@MyMYM
-matchticker@MyMYM
-full VOD download of ESNation TV

to be brief about the match;

match 1: MeetYourMakers vs Sk. Gaming

Bans: (MYM First) / / / / / / /
Picks: (MYM First) / / / / /

MYM, Sentinel
[leoric] MYM|slahser (Top)
[leviathan] MYM|MaNia- (Top)
[lion] MYM|Merlini (Middle)
[lich] MYM|PusHer (Bottom)
[terrorblade] MYM|H4nn1- (Bottom)

SK, Scourge
[qop] SK.Loda (Top)
[luna] SK.Minitito- (Middle)
[warlock] SK.Hailo (Middle)
[puck] SK.Akke (Bottom)
[beastmaster] SK.Tompa (Bottom)

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match 2: Sk. Gaming vs MeetYourMakers

Bans: (SK First) / / / / / / /
Picks: (SK First) / / / / /

SK, Sentinel
[lich] SK.Hailo (Top)
[beastmaster] SK.Tompa (Top)
[earthshaker] SK.Akke (Middle)
[morphling] SK.Loda (Middle)
[zeus] SK.Minitito- (Bottom)

MYM, Scourge
[qop] MYM|slahser (Top)
[warlock] MYM|PusHer (Top)
[luna] MYM|Fear (Middle)
[pitlord] MYM|MaNia- (Bottom)
[puck] MYM|Merlini (Bottom)

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I almost don't remember the detail of these matches, since it happened almost a month ago. But one thing I clearly remember is that Fear rapes in game 2, and his Beyond Godlike streak was ended partly thanks to ancient creeps :3

but that's probably not the talking point of this match, as winning or losing matters little to both team since they are already the top two team at the table, and whoever wins more does not change the seeding much for the playoff.
The best thing about this match is the fact that it was shoutcasted by MYM captain Maelk and another MYM crew Aurora live on ESNationTV. That match happened the morning when I had early class, so I had no choice but to sleep early and watch the replay later. Fortunately the shoutcast is available for download, but its friggin HUGE video at almost 1GB in size. Yeah, I'm willing to spend 1GB out of my 100GB monthly download quota for this video.

Worth it? For me yes, it really is worth it. I'm really amazed with this commentary by Maelk and Aurora, they really bring the fun out of watching DotA match live. Aurora, being an ex-cs woman player with only a fair bit of knowledge about dota, made a perfect combination with Maelk, arguably one of the best Dota strategist in the world. Every now and then, Maelk will explain every aspect of dota in relation to the game in general (love his early explanation about tidehunter and beastmaster), as well as explaining what happened in the game when something occured. He explains why bans and picks are important in league match. Why this or that hero are good or bad for competitive scene, why they are first picked than the other. And when it comes in the match itself, Maelk never missed most of the scene to comment. Yeah he did missed one or two deaths but he pretty much covered them up by analyzing what hero was killed by which hero, and made a good assumption on what really happened.

But there are a few weaknesses need to be addressed and improved should they decide to make another video shoutcast. First, this video is a freaking 4 hours long video, with no playback feature! So what does that mean? There's no way you can rewind it unless you view it from the beginning. This can be improved in the future by editing the video. It's not hard to cut the video into two parts, one part for each match (since this video covers both matches in a go). They can also remove the unnecessary advertisement, it really is a pain in the ass to wait for the ads to end (no seekplay, right).
Nevertheless overall the VOD shoutcast was really entertaining to watch for dota fan. A good material to introduce dota to the beginner, as well as non-player.