Honestly, I held in a lot of negativity this mini and I am writing this review to let go of it. Obviously this team had positives and it wasn’t all dark but I won’t mention them for the sake of satisfying myself and hopefully everyone reading this.
It all started going south that cloudy Sunday night when I got noticed about me being in a stack with 4 brits. I couldn’t get a proper night's sleep since then thinking about the next gameday.
sgtAvarage
So this man already started the mini by not showing in two games which is fair enough you are on vacation in Greece(During corona btw, prob has rona now and spreading it around in the UK) but if you are going to dodge half of the mini maybe just dodge it entirely. I wish the problems ended there however it kept on going with his internet issues, one of the last series we had on the second game this man was literally roleplaying a tree as treant due to internet issues. (Connection issues were also an overall issue with all brits, we probably ended up wasting around an hour of pauses overall during the mini.)
Holy Harry
Harry failed to manage the dogs and all games were pure chaos. Honestly, I tried my best to be negative on this one but I can’t Harry is probably the reason why I managed to last till the end. He tried his best to keep things under control but it wasn’t possible. Could’ve probably ignored random calls during drafts and focus on his own plans rather than letting people have an open chat during them. Having these ideas thrown around constantly made things worse and we ran out of time almost every game.
Roran
This season made me realize how washed up I was because of my dota break/quitting ranked gameplay completely. Made a lot of shit plays/calls during games which were bad enough by themselves but they became worse due to various reasons I will get to later. Xela said it was a mistake to draft me the first day already which I agree with him now.
Xela
Xela is a fire starter. He points out things during games and keeps on arguing about them. Also when he is doing good his ego gets hard and he starts flashing it around to the entire team. There was a specific game I am salty about where he was playing carry lifestealer. He kept on getting in people in team fights with full hp/mana and staying there instead of manfighting and killing people(which he could he was overfarmed). I am calling it out publicly so people can tell him he is wrong but I doubt that will change his mind as you can see our team is called arrogant twats. There were also times where he was tilted and muted himself completely ignoring the people on discord. I mean come on dude just move on control yourself a bit.
Kuroame
The main problem of this team was Kuro and Xela. Fuck gameplay, fuck draft, fuck everything these two fucks just kept on arguing about builds/calls/drafts whatever the fuck they can argue about and they didn’t stop. Holy shit let it go team fight happened 5 mins ago you fucks why are u still talking about this? Why is it so hard to stop talking about a misplay or something bad someone did during a game? Why do you have to justify your play when someone calls it out? Is it that hard to say ok and move on? One specific occasion I will mention to give you an idea about how bad it was. There was a misplay I did, I don’t even remember what I did and I said ok and sorry even, however Kuro was ranting about it for a while. After multiple calls from the team to stop it and move on he again went back at it. That is the first time I’ve seen Harry raise his voice.
Obviously, beyond this there were some issues with his builds like second item aghs storm is the one I can remember. Also, another big issue was not following calls/trusting teammates.
Final words
I expected a lot more from this team and I was sure we were going to the finals until we got dicked by the team we 2–0'ed before. That just shows our gameplay together got worse over time and perhaps their got a bit better. We could’ve gone a lot further but we didn’t play together a single day other than official games. I am sure if we wanted to we could have but it is mini after all what can you do.
My experience with this stack if I sum it up, I would usually get a headache by the end of the game 2 draft due to constant buggering and arguments. It didn’t matter if we were winning or losing.
I wasn’t going to write a team review but I had a lot of negativity left inside of me so I am letting go of my saltiness with this and I am feeling better already while writing these words. I hope this can help some of the players self reflect a little bit to help them become better players overall, if not at least make them bearable to play with. Also maybe it will help some captains about their main season drafts .*wink* *wink*
If you made it to the end I hope you enjoyed it, if you are salty maybe write a team review about me and we can argue about it.
R
