The DotA 2 International is the best thing you can ever watch. No movie can compete with that.

I had a brain orgasm watching Shiro 1 v 9 against team falcons in Road to TI day 3. 

I saw the entirety of TI, not just that. The games are extremely good and worth watching even in the road to TI, not just the grand finals. 

The thing is, many of you guys say they like to watch DotA, but they no longer play the game. 

I HATE watching DotA. I ONLY enjoy playing the game. 

Because when I watch most of you guys, even rank top 50 EU ranked pubs, I get brain damage. 

They ARE better than most people below them in MMR, substantially. 

So you can think to yourself, imagine there’s worse than that. 

Why would ANYONE enjoy watching this, but not enjoy PLAYING the game. 

I’m gonna enjoy, watching you die, Mr. Anderson. ~ Agent Smith 

That I cannot understand. 

Until I watched TI. 

You have to understand that DotA, just like ANY sport, is boring to watch, and only fun to play. 

So for all who watch streamers for hours on end every day, I don’t know what to say. 

I’m speechless. 

Despite all this, TI games were so good, they look like Avengers movies. Extremely exciting and fun to watch, just like a lightsaber duel with count Dooku. 

It’s unreal. 

I’d rather watch TI fights than movies from now on if you ask me. 

There’s no need to watch movies when TI exists. 

And that is NOT because DotA is fun to watch. It’s because TI professional players ARE EXTREMELY GOOD AT THE GAME AND FIGHTING, AND EXTREMELY FUN AND EXCITING TO WATCH IT’S ALMOST CRIMINAL. 

It is the players that make it worth watching. 

And you guys say current pro players aren’t good as the ones who owned and dominated in the past. 

They are not the same. THEY ARE SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER. FAR BETTER THAN PLAYERS IN THE PAST EVER WERE. 

I have seen the OG TIs. And the Yatoro TIs. 

They were.. fine, compared to today’s TI. 

I have never found myself rewinding the same single fight like fifteen times in a row just to understand what happened. Just to follow what’s going on. Because of how exciting the fight was. 

Never happened, until Quinn retired. Until last TI. 

For those of you thinking the hay day of the international is long gone. A thing of the past. You don’t know what you’re talking about. 

The international is not dead. It’s just getting started. 

Everything before last year doesn’t count. 

The best TI of all time was TI 2025. I’m sorry if you guys didn’t notice that, because it was too fast for you to notice what’s going on or how unbelievable every single move in every single fight was. 

To all TI kids competing in TI hard like their lives depend on it, you have my respect. 

You have my respect, Mr. Stark. ~ Thanos 

You must join me, Shiro, and together we can rule the international as safe laner and mid. 

I’ll never join you! 

If you only knew the power, of the dark side..