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This comes from someone who is in touch with Managers and players from CHN scene.

>"​I'm not an insider, but I have quite a few friends in the scene, including team owners and managers.

The news I got: The reason for XG's sharp slump in form during the second half of the year is none other than the fact that their two best two players, Ame and XXS, both were really unhappy and pessimistic about the team and then started to slacking off. ​And the team owner is mostly to blame for this situation.

​It all started because the owner actually always looked down on Xm who has really good relationship with Ame, considering XM as "bad." Last year's TI runner-up finish boosted the owner's confidence to an all-time high, leading him to believe that this is the best chance for them to win TI. Therefore, at the beginning of the season, he blindly listened to some half-baked fan suggestions, kicked XM, and replaced him with NTS (arguably the better player before this year). At the same time, because XinQ had poor mentality, bad work ethic, and wanted unreasonably long break, they just brought in Fy.

How should I put it? The owner is someone who heavily superstitious about player "star power," believing that only so-called star players can achieve results. Ame was somewhat unhappy because his two buddies got kicked, but because he still high ambition to win TI, he played hard during the first half of the season. As a result, XG's performance in the first half was more than decent, and they successfully secured a direct invite to TI as what they were hoping for. However, Fy had been away from the professional scene for a while, and his performance was clearly not even close to the other position 4s. Xxs, as his offlane partner, felt extremely uncomfortable and unhappy (just think about it, any offlane player would probably break down if their partner was suddenly downgraded from XinQ to oldie Fy...). He had massive internal grievances, and likely expressed his displeasure through numerous explicit and implicit hints throughout the season. But the owner, acting as the boss, handled this issue poorly. Because he cares immensely about saving his own face, once his roster decisions were questioned, he openly and explicitly backed Fy, and even found excuses to criticize Xxs for "behaving like some superstar." Xxs is the type of person who just starts coasting and throwing the moment he gets unhappy (refer to his stint back when he played for IG and Team Aster).

The team atmosphere deteriorated rapidly after that, which was very obviously reflected in their subsequent results. And the final turning point was ESL Birmingtham (finished 3rd, really hot run from lower bracket). In their elimination match, Xiao8 went against the preps and stubbornly drafted Keeper of the Light for NTS, leading to their loss (was heavily criticized by everyone as the losing pick). Then, the owner without discussing with Xiao8, suddenly hired Maps as assisstant coach to seize drafting control, which made Xiao8 felt disrespected and felt like he was being pushed out. After that, the entire team's morale just completely collapsed, and Ame and Xxs was already completely checked out at that point after both can't convince Xiao8 to stay. Therefore, everyone can clearly see that starting from the draft at this TI, XG just went there without any chemistry and dreadful atmopshere, barely trying to win at all, all of them only wanted to go home early, and to put an end to this torment."

The series was about 3 hours and 33 minutes long (or 12,771 seconds to be exact). Assuming the data from this Noxville tweet is still current, that puts it at #4 all time.

Long-time fan, built this because I kept missing matches and then losing 20 minutes scrubbing through a multi-hour Twitch VOD trying to find where the actual game starts.

spectateesports.live - find a match, click once, land at the exact second it kicks off. No scrubbing, no accidental spoilers.

It's grown a lot based on what people kept asking for here and on Discord:

• Spoiler-free mode: hides scores and results site-wide until you're ready to see them
• Live match tracking: live score, a gold-lead graph, and draft info while the game is still going
• Follow your teams: push notification when they go live, calendar sync for their schedule

All free, no ads, no account needed. Built and maintained solo, in my spare time, on top of public APIs (OpenDota, PandaScore, Twitch, STRATZ).

For TI, live tracking is what I've been heads-down on the last few weeks, trying to make it something you'd actually keep open in a second tab during a game instead of just a replay tool.

Would genuinely appreciate bug reports and feature requests, that's basically how the last few months of this happened. Link: spectateesports.live

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Trying to sell my ticket for finals and grand finals Aug. 22-23. I have 4x
TI15 in Shanghai, China.
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TaiLung has denied the allegations and asked for transparency; LGD has confirmed the integrity investigation and PGL ban; the evidence has not been publicly disclosed. Until that changes, nobody should pretend rumors are facts.

Dota needs to protect its matches. But it also needs to protect the credibility of the process used to punish players. If the scene wants to be taken seriously, “trust us” cannot be the final answer. PGL should make public the information on WHY was he banned