The International Dota 2 tournament began this week, so I've been watching that. Been some good games and some hilarious games so far - Aurora vs Team Zero game 3 yesterday was an absolute clown show.
You can accuse Peter Molyneaux for a lot of things, but he did manage to come up with some interesting wacky shit interspersed with all the exaggerations and scams.
I said I was going to watch this game, but ended up glued to the absolute clown fiesta of game 3 of Aurora vs Team Zero in The International (Dota 2).
Looks like this was the game to watch, though? Dimarco's goal was incredible.
Stocks in "Trump will get away with everything forever" continues to soar! What's next, winning the presidency after calling Kamala the n-word with hard R in the debate? Stay tuned!
I have no idea how application/invites worked. Was probably organised on the official Discord, like the last tournament?^[1] There are some good, high ranked players among the teams like Lystic and Hydration - and of course MikaelS (current top MMR player by a lot) is leading one of the teams.
It's a shame the spectator tools apparently aren't great at the moment (as expected from a closed beta game), I would have liked some good Freecam overview footage instead of player perspective only.
I still pine for the halcyon days of last year's happy Alonso on the podium and fighting on equal terms with the top teams.
Does it have enough games yet?
Iceshrimp is also in a weird place right now, as it's currently also in maintenance mode while the ongoing iceshrimp.NET full rewrite is happening. Seeing the OP's comments about the Firefish codebase, that rewrite might be just what's needed - provided it's actually completed.
I can't believe it's this close and I hate that Harris is starting to slip in some states. My heart can't handle another Trump presidency.
This is a really neat bot, I hope c/football has enough traffic to create some good discussion in the match threads!