About the finals, people are complaining because Vici didn't even put up a fight. First lost, fine, second lost they should have realized that Newbee was too good at dismantling their entire deathball strategy, it wouldn't work, time to try something else. What do they do instead? Judging by who won there's no need to explain further.
Newbee's draft wasn't deathball, trust me on this one, Newbee was geared toward COUNTERING Vici's deathball, and they just let it happen, both in draft and execution.
So what I'm trying to say is, people aren't complaining because its "boring cheap/overpowered strategy win" like last year's TI. This year the complaints are completely justified.
Traun said:
Those are not the type of teams that will throw a game. Once they're ahead, they're ahead, there is no throwing. Once someone has established a comfortable lead that's it - the game is already over and the next thirty minutes will be a slow and painful death.
I kinda wished iG got into the Top 3, but alas it was not meant to be.
Actually, even at the highest levels, teams do "throw", quite often in fact. Dota is a game of mistakes, they happen at every level, the team that capitalizes most on their opponent's will win the match.
This is especially true when a team has a lead on the enemy due to drafting an early/mid game based strat, if the enemy has late game and can hold for long enough, the comeback is almost guaranteed.
What happened here (TI finals) was that there wasn't even a chance for a comeback (or for Newbee to throw), because the game was already thrown by Vici in the draft. The pressure was on Vici to execute better than Newbee to have a chance at winning, they failed all 3 attempts.