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by duskwuff 2844 days ago
> The bots lack if fear in e.g. diving a tower before 5 minutes definitely paid off to a certain degree.

It paid off because the bots were familiar with the 5-courier format, and knew that they could ferry in consumables to recover quickly. This is not normal in DotA 2; the game was balanced around consumables being limited in the early game, and the human players OpenAI faced were not familiar with this new, unbalanced state of affairs.