[dota] RD's pick of the month

Despite being busy with my honours, I still can't bring myself to quit dota and just recently we're back to play together, although only on weekend. Nevertheless, there are a bunch of replays released on GG.net and replays.net, and although I didn't watch most of them, there are still a few which I find quite amazing and worth watching even for casual players. My pick for replays of the month (although we're only 1/3 into March):

Game 1: ToFu vs IcE.s


Events: Asian Elite Dota League (AEDL)
Maps/version: Dota-allstars 6.66b, version 1.24c/d
GameMode: -cm
Length: 76:46 Minutes

replay download: [gosugamers]/[replays.net]

recommendation: ********** (Epic)

comments: The game span over 76 minutes, but trust me, it is worth spending the time watching this. Absolutely incredible and epic games from both sides, awesome comeback, tons of actions and kills, and you really can't tell who's going to end until the very end. Both teams were equally farmed, every heroes have at least a Dagger and/or Lothars. Hats off to -n|cXh-| for his awesome Sven throughout the game, and Viper whom Urn and Orchid totally shut down Storm Spirit late in the game. I don't understand why GG or RN crews didn't RR or starred this replay.
p/s: The nick PemakanDunia is supposed to belong to one of the famous D-A troll, Flizzardo. I had my doubt that it really is him that play this viper, but anyway that was one amazing viper despite the slow start.

game 2: CH vs FTD



Events: Nvidia Games Festival (NGF)
Maps/version: Dota-allstars 6.66b, version 1.24b
GameMode: -cm
Length: 38:54 minutes

Replay download: [garena]/[MF]

recommendation: ******** (nice)

Comments: Not sure why but it seems like neither GG or RN has uploaded this replay, so I had to use replay parser for team lineup, which to me doesn't look that appealing. Anyway, this game is slightly less exciting than the first one posted above but is still worth watching. Good for some Kunkka and Enigma lesson on how to land their ultimate perfectly. Kunkka did miss about 2 Boats but the rest of his ultimates were rightly timed, so did Enigma's Blackhole. Morphling also showed some nice blocking with his replicate, especially his kill on Kunkka early in the game. The game itself wasn't boring to watch.