[gsich]

Courier is important. Otherwise you are forced to go back healing/getting items. Which will lose you XP and gold and ultimateley the game.

Yes there is Turbo, no it's not comparable to regular gameplay.

[Anderkent]

Regular dota players learn to play without the courier anyway, because someone always feeds it away or uses it to ferry themselves a magic stick.

So maybe playing without a courier at all would be more representative of the pub experience ;)

[gsich]

Must be 1k you are talking about.