How to :Recognise you Tilting

Tilting from the saying "on tilt" :on tilt : In a reckless manner, especially playing poker recklessly after experiencing bad or good luck.


this saying originated from the medieval sport of jousting, where if some one was on the verge of losing they would be "on tilt" meaning leaning over in the saddle. This then leant itself to the world of poker where if a player played a bad hand and let it effect them their decisions from then on would be bad and thus they were "on tilt" or "tilting".

Now we lead the term towards the world of E-sports and more importantly... DotA2

when one tilts in dota they are letting one bad game affect them for the rest of their time online. When someone allows this to happen a lot of their decisions made afterwards are bad, horrible or downright ****. The problem is... how do we know we are tilting? How does one tell another player that they are tilting? How do you Recognise tilting?

speaking from experience .... ill tell yo…
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New Blog Series!!!

SO EXCITE!

"in the words of the great and wise Wulfstan WHY THE **** WOULD YOU DO THAT?

so prologue incoming!

recently and for the past maybe 5 months i have been doing my part for the dota community.

Coaching!!!

good god why would you be coaching you scrublet !

OI ill have you know im decent enough to help those beneath me ....WAAAAY BENEATH ME MUWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH


*AHEM*



anyway.


so i have been doing coaching for as of yet a roster of 4. i coach 3 newbies and 1 team. As of yet the funny thing is that it hasnt just changed them it has also changed me!

WHAT?

yes MEEEEE. now let me explain with songggggg ... er no jokes i wont do that, what i will do is explain some things.

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The three things noobs do, that experienced noobs dont

1. Check the map

in my recent experiences of coaching i have noticed this simple and telling thing. They never check the map. ever. ok maybe sometimes to like FURIOUSLY SPAM THE PING BUTTON WHAT THE **** ARE YOU DOING THAT F…
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Once upon a time...

there was a bloke called .... smuggels

and he was introduced to a fantastic game called "Defence of the ancients 2" by a friend of his. Now he used to play DotA1 a lot back in his more juvenile days so he though HEY i remember this game and was ready for fun times to be had. (*CARRY LESHRAC FTW*)

now after many many hours and a lot of games it was safe to say he had no idea how to play but he persevered and was addicted in no time.

then with a new update big shiny letters RANKED gameplay was introduced being level 16 or so and having a couple of hundred games under his belt ole smuggels thought he was the **** and went i could totally do this.

sadly he was not the **** NOR was he in particular any good. thus he got a 1.1 or 1.4 something MMR ... *fuzzy on actual number*

thinking this was the best thing ever he was quickly disabused from the notion by reddit and fellow dota players.

thus he didnt touch the RANKED section for some time BUT it was always there i…
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So i know its been a while since my last Blog and i know some of you have asked if im going to do another.. well yes and no.

I will try to write them "semi" regularly but i only write them when i feel i have something that can affect those who read them. for example my previous posts have had an effect on some people here at the beloved dotoforo, and i have received pm's thanking me for writing them so i think that to frivolously write a disjointed and unfocused blog just to gain reps and or comments is not what these should be...

i want them to help people and in doing so ive helped myself as well. Thus with that being said i have had a profound experience recently with Doto and considering it ive decided to write about it for all of my fellow dotoforians ...

But first, some backstory.

about 3-5 months ago i transitioned, with some help from a coach and a lot of watching and reading, into a what i think is a better player. i was being placed in higher skill tiers and i was making …
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Hello fellow Dotafire members.

in a Lull of writing while my Manu (manuscript) gets edited and feeling like "eh i cbf starting on book 3" i thought, in my current mental state of boredom, i should maybe start a blog series on my thoughts concerning our beloved game.

Mostly this series will be about certain situations and how they relate to real life. I expect there will be some existential musing on the theory of all and maybe some raging at scrubs or just personal thoughts relating to my everyday life. In fact this series will be me just talking about everything and anything while relating it all to Dota. If that seems like something you guys would love to read then throw down some comments and thoughts and DISCUSSION SHALL ARISE, like a Aegis holding Enigma.

I recently have been playing Juggernaut a fair bit and it was after a match where i dominated sometimes and fed in others i thought to watch the game back and see where i went wrong or where i went right? or left?

It was dur…
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