Hey guys, I was a former CSL player for University of Michigan and recently got here working as a research professional. Eager to find some dotes friends!

As I predicted Puppey's kunkka was a disaster. (At MDL)

IMO the problem with the last Secret wasn't due to "star" egos, but rather long term internal issues. EE said in an interview that they just sort of stopped trusting each other's ideas. He said the reason that they won the Shanghai Major was that 1437 came in to coach them, which greatly contributed to their understanding of the game (this allowed them to do ♥♥♥♥ like win 80% of safelane matches, etc...). At Ti, however, there did seem to be some heavy tilting/miscommunication; that might have been due to ego problems.

Nice writeup, I agree with a lot of it. However what Im most interested in seeing is how a team comprised of players from regions with different social norms/standard will work together. In the past, secret has always been a team of all stars and as a result their egos often got in the way of winning games. I am interested to see what will happen with this team.

not sure if any of you guys follow the pro scene, but i wrote an article on the new team secret
https://medium.com/@marknie1998/evaluation-of-team-secrets-lineup-fall-2016-b354a925a09c

I just play w.e. man. I primarily play support/offlane, and I am a nyx/dark seer enthusiast.

Also do you guys have any favorite heroes? Mine in each role are probably
Carry:AM/Naix/TB
Mid:TA
Offlane: Nyx/Timber/Sand King(good against melees)
Support:Shadow Demon/Progre Magi/Dazzle

Lost my passion for dotes recently so I've been playing other games lately

I believe the USW server is in Chicago so you'll probably get better ping there

Im 4.9k solo on this account and my other account is high 3k i think

Haven't really been on campus yet, does anyone know whether US East or West has better ping?

I'm 3.5 solo/party

Waddup!! What are people's approximate party mmr's? I'm 3k party

sup

Whats good fam