[DLM Preliminaries] How to pick a nicknames

Dota League Masters is an offline dota event held by Dota-League, running over three days in Hannover, Germany from Friday, February 6th until Sunday the 8th. It is basically a knockout round involving 8 teams, of which 7 of them are well known teams invited to the tournament, while the last spot is awarded to the winner of preliminary round, featuring local teams. The invited teams include Meetyourmakers (MYM), SK Gaming (SK), Kingsurf.International (KS.Int), DiamonZ.eV (DmZ), Wicked eSports (Wicked), eSuba and Mom Equals Toilet (MET).

links:
- Dota League Masters official website
- DLM brackets

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Ok, first of all, team I support in this tournament is of course, KS.Int. Second being MYM. It's sad that vigoss is unable to attend the event because of VISA problem (rofl visa again?) but he is replaced by teammate, and another ex-Virtus.Pro member Jolie.

back to the purpose of this entry.

the preliminaries round were held yesterday. the bracket:


All of them are local germany teams afaic. tbh I am not really interested in watching the replay, but considering the winner of this bracket will meet KS. Int (tough luck lads) in the real bracket, then I guess watching at least the final prelim match won't hurt.

DLM Preliminary final: Celebrity Allstars vs Get in the VAN, I have candy

Bans: (CA First) kotl | dk | broodmother | NA | Admiral | earthshaker | SA | Spectre
Picks: (CA First) CM | naix warlock | Zeus PotM | Tidehunter puck | SF Juggernaut | morphling

Celebrity Allstars, Sentinel

[Zeus] Pudge_Spencer (Top)
[PotM] CA|Wolfi (Top)
[SF] Drow_Barrymore (Middle)
[CM] Gorgon_Shumway (Bottom)
[Jugg] Puck_Norris (Bottom)

Get in the VAN, I have candy, Scourge

[naix] VAN#dippiiduu (Top)
[warlock] VAN#Belike (Top)
[morpling] VAN#gno_Ou- (Middle)
[puck] VAN#Fussel (Bottom)
[tide] VAN#Try (Bottom)

replay download [here]
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I almost cracked myself seeing this two team. The scourge team pedo-like name made me laugh, but sentinel nicknames are even more epic, integrating celebrities name with dota heroes. I lol @ puck_norris and drow_barrymore. And word has it that they have another 2 ex-teammates nicknamed Riki_Martin and Edward Nortrom :))

as for the replay itself: hm...not too interesting in my book. The early game somehow irritate me, especially top lane. Warlock laned with Naix, which is a clear indicator that he is supposed to babysit Naix. But I rarely see him use Shadow Word on naix when he is half hp, which force naix to back off a little to prevent further harassment from Zeus and Mirana. And then the rest is clear - Naix failed to farm his item. Not even a treads. Then, At some points at top Mirana seems afraid to take risk - eg casting a blind arrow to a very low hp Naix, or when he and naix was trapped at bush top tower - he could have easily kill Naix with Starfall.
CA dominate throughout the game, and booked the final place in Dota League Masters.

but as seen in the bracket, they will face KS.Int in the first round. Really hard to see them winning tbh. Fortunately there is still loser bracket, so there is still chances to advance even if they lost a match.

can't wait for the start of bracket match, especially SK vs MYM :)