pongo

http://www.dota2.com/international/format

This is completely unfair to people that are traveling great distances and at great cost to see their favorite teams and players play, only to find out that they will never even make it to the Arena.

There was nothing wrong with the previous format. I realize the round-robin 16 team format might have been done to prevent any imbalance in the group stage, but this is not a good solution. If the change was made in the interest of time, it is still not a good solution. The BO1s of the lower bracket had plenty of upsets, but at least people got to see their favorite teams on stage.

Thanks reddit for destroying yet another community.

Here are the ways you can think of # of bullets per shot:

If you fire 2 bullets per shot you are effectively cutting your ammunition pool by 50%. Or, to put it another way, you are cutting the effective damage for your ammunition pool by 50%. Oh, and since your magazine will empty faster you are doubling your reload time. And, you are halving the number of bullets in your ammunition pool that will apply elemental effects. And that is for only 2x bullets. Now do the math for 3x and 4x bullets. It's an incredible nerf with a base nerf of 50% on any gun the effect is applied to.

I remember an interview where one of the designers said they implemented this mechanic to make the game easier

An-cap here thinking long-term with the system as-is. I'm in college. And I like hyphens: -bam-bam-!

There really doesn't seem to be a big reason to stick around, aside from paying off debts. Any minority political position is negated (like libertarian or even small stuff like being anti-war) and even small victories seem to be hard-at-hand. So, it seems to me the best strategy is to put yourself into the position to make the most money and then bail to someplace else where, even in a statist society, it is less statist than the US.

Have any US ancaps in this subreddit actually done it? [no fbi]

Nope, Ron Paul