Highly likely I'll be around tonignt around 10 or later for some games, folk gonna be around?

Tonight was Game of Thrones catchup time so I can't make it.

I'll be grabbing a sly game tomorrow morning at 0800 before I'm forced to do manual labor in the garden.

Me and Bollo had some good games last night, tried to not be so carry heavy but people usually go full carry vs bots.

Should be around this afternoon/evening.

We'd be glad to have you on board Shabs!

I've downloaded all the qualifier replays and will watch some highlights later.

I'd say it's to get better but the pace is so fast I can't always comprehend what's going down. It's mainly to level my smeevil.

We may get a full stack soon!

I ended up downloading all the qualifier replays from some site in rar form. Jus cut and paste the replays into the Dota replay folder and Robert's your mother's brother.

The biggest faff is the fact there's a folder structure in the rar that separates the games out so I've cut them all out in batches so I know what I'm watching.

If you want I could post all the ID's so you can get them in client?

Yeah, I've been using bot games to try and get a feel for laning properly but there're some stupid shit done by those bots.

First ban - Witch Doctor.

Anyone about tomorrow daytime? Got the day off so I can watch Evo all night, but now have to be up earlyish to let a dude in to kill a wasps nest that's been built in our bedroom wall (the horror). So I will most likely spend most of my day on Dota.

Haha, something like that. 

You can hear the fuckers in their chewing on the wood and if you put your ear to closer the wall you can hear all the wings abuzz. 

See you on tomorrow at some point then!

GG's Temps and Bollo. Sorry if I was a bit quiet, the entire time was spent trying desperately not to die/suck/feed. Tidehunter is here to stay for sure and I do enjoy Ursa too (will check out some Jungling guides and all round etiquette and practice that on my own next time), but as above, I do really want to give everyone a look in. Which is a good problem to have I guess. 

More soon!

Eurogamer has stuck a review up now it's a final release.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-16-dota-2-review

They make a good point too, now is probably a decent time to get into it.

Real talk: I am chomping at the bit to get on Pubs and give it a go. Heroes to date that I have played -

Enchantress
Drow
Sniper
Chaos Knight
Sand King
Invoker
Crystal Maiden
Luna
Lina
Queen of Pain
Tidehunter
Necrolyte
Lich
Leshrac
Slark
Faceless Void
Witch Doctor
Undying
GyroCopter
Clockwerk
Weaver
Bloodseeker
Timbersaw
Shadow Demon
Bane
Tiny
Enigma

So that's around a quarter of the full roster. I really feel like i'm getting to the stage where I comprehend it enough to get on and give with pubs at low level. To those who are still quite low on game counts, I implore you to keep trying new heroes. You get a feel for what they can do much better than the bots will show you, and sticking to just one hero and build means you won't learn various items and such.

Need to get my gank on.

I keep seeing you on but you always appear to be in a game when I'm not, and not in when I am. We should probably co-ordinate and give it a go, Bollo is fairly reliable and i've watched some of your stuff and you seem to cope fairly well, your team mates' uselessness not withstanding

It doesn't look much harder than bot matches in some respects. I doubt a low level human player can hit Razor's Plasma Field with the pin point precision the AI can. I can pencil in some time on... wednesday.

I'm good for Wed at 2230 again. I've got the headset sorted, I think. It's connected at least but says drivers not available. I'll have a look at the Sony site for Bluetooth headsets.

I've been trying out a hero in med bots to start and then progressing to pubs but I tried sniper the other day and got burned by Viper.