[ollerac]

> 1) The Humans, Pain Gaming, [...] are the weakest team at this event and are arguably there only because of a regional qualifier system...

I think it's totally disingenuous to call them the weakest team at the event. Two other teams performed worse in the group stage and one tied Pain's score, but still made it into the main event through sheer luck. Pain has won games against every single one of the strongest teams there.

If you follow pro Dota, you know a lot of these games hinge on how a team happens to be performing on a certain day. Just this past May, Pain played in one of the top Dota tournaments of the year with 9 other teams who also happen to be at The International with them now -- and Pain came in 3rd place, ahead of Fnatic, OG, and Mineski.

[a_humean]

And you just selectively quoted me to remove all of the qualifications and praise that I used to make it appear that I'm unduly harsh.

In that paragraph where you selectively quoted you removed the clause where I said: "...they are capable of taking games off some of the strongest teams due to their unpredictable and dynamic play", which is is no different to the point you are trying to make.

Fact is, they came last, they were lucky to attend given it was a surprise that their region was given a slot for the first time ever, but proved themselves to be a capable team from a region that is starting to get international exposure, and you are deliberately misrepresenting me.