joinDOTA presents: Weekly Top 5

posted by Jaywalker, 1 year ago

After listening to members of the community, we have learned that the public does not always have time to watch all the competitive games. With so many competitions going on, it is hard not to miss an epic game. With this in mind, we have been working on a solution.

Today, we present joinDOTA: Weekly Top 5.

Weekly Top 5 (WT5) aims to provide the audience the top five games of the week from all competitions. Whilst deciding how to select the best five games, we came to the conclusion that it is the casters themselves who should select the best games they have seen each week.

Being involved with countless games, they have seen it all. Their expertise and experience will give them the perfect qualifications to select the best games from their casts each week.

TobiWanKenobi, GoDz, Luminous

This week's casters at work will be

Tobi 'TobiWanKenobi' Dawson,

David 'Luminous' Zhang and

David 'GoDz' Parker. Each caster will pick one or two games that they feel are worthy of earning the honors of WT5 and give their comments on the game. There are plans to incorporate more casters, so stay tuned for future editions.

For this first edition, we gathered the best games from 7/5/2012 to 13/5/2012. Be sure to watch these epic matches!

NEXT.kz vs FnaticRC
Link to VOD
TobiWanKenobi

Every now and then we will have a match which comes down to a base race, but when it happens were the possibility is 50/50 of either team winning, that is what epic games are about.

Na'Vi vs DTS
Link to VOD
TobiWanKenobi

A game which Na'Vi never really found control of as DTS was really stepping up their plays all game. The end however, the timing, the choices and the momentum gave us a much more thrilling end than anyone was expecting.

Na'Vi vs mTw #1
Link to VOD
Luminous

Game 1 between Na'Vi and mTw paints a good picture of the fast pushing metagame in European Dota. The game is worth watching, however, is due to how even the teams were at the end of the push. Neither teams had a big lead in gold or kills, quite a rarity in today’s fast paced games. Some of the most intense and desperate high ground defenses occurred in this game, and you don’t want to miss out on this game.

Na'Vi vs mTw #2
Link to VOD
Luminous

Game 2 of Na'Vi and mTw features Dendi’s Pudge and Sockshka’s Shadow Fiend. A roller coaster ride for Na'Vi as they did well in the early game with Pudge’s hooks hitting but fell behind during the mid game with the same hooks missing. Another game of grueling defense full of buy backs and huge AOE ultimates.

LGD vs MUFC
Link to VOD
GoDz

I suppose this game would have been very different if there hadn't been mistakes. Hadn't been a few moments of "fortune", such as LGD's panda dc'ing mid-push. Maybe if LGD played with a bit more aggression, or MUFC had one less buyback, we would have seen a much more straight forward game. But the stars aligned, and everything was perfect to produce one of the most epic and exciting games I've had the privilege of commentating.

And that is the end of joinDOTA's first Weekly Top 5, we will return with more next Monday. Let us know your thoughts about this new segment below. Enjoy the games!

pariAh wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:15 CEST:

Wow, this is seriously a great step. Glad to see you guys working together and showing that what really matters is that all of you share the love for the community!
And ofc thanks for making it easier to keep track of the epicness :P

HSmokKe wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:15 CEST:

uhhmmm....

slerik wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:16 CEST:

THIS IS GREAT!!!

DkN- wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:18 CEST:

That's great! I'm going to check this WT5 every week. :D

Zods wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:20 CEST:

Awesomee!! I love this

myou214 wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:21 CEST:

wow this is awesome, with so many vods to watch its good we have this amazing casters to pick games for us. thanks!!!

Jaywalker wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:23 CEST:

Thanks guys, we worked on this for a week with the casters, we're glad you like it :) Do let us know your feedback on things we can improve too!

Hertock wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:30 CEST:

This is seriously really needed nowadays. I and many others just dont have the time to watch every VOD out there with so many tournaments going on.
A slight improvement would be that you could write to every game of which tournament it was - so that you dont have to click on the link to see that ;)
Much more important, atleast for me, would be that you make a new section on jD for these WT5 - because if you go on with them (which I hope), then it will soon become horrible to try to find one specific WT5 game which is 2 months ago. So please make a WT5 section or something, because looking through the news archive will be a bit to annoying

pbfamous wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:34 CEST:

yeh nice idea guys! will watch em all, particularly enjoying godz for GDM and all the asian teams upcoming.

#10

Mantis. wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:34 CEST:

#8 Noted. We'll try our best.
@ Jaywalker - awesome work.

#11

RMWoodsy wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:53 CEST:

This is awesome! Both to have a best of (been needed for a while) plus to see the DotA community coming together... Congrats jD, Godz and Lumi!

#12

Slaps wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:55 CEST:

:D awesome jD

#13

Denyoho wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:55 CEST:

this is the best addition to the site EVER!! thx guys!

#14

ultrapwnage wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:55 CEST:

This is awesome. You guys did well

#15

-MgZ_ wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:57 CEST:

Wow! The big three of shoutcasting!

#16

gatman900 wrote at 15.05.2012, 09:58 CEST:

pariAh schrieb:
Wow, this is seriously a great step. Glad to see you guys working together and showing that what really matters is that all of you share the love for the community!
And ofc thanks for making it easier to keep track of the epicness :P

so true! Luminous has worked hard for the dota community and deserves this. Glad to see join dota caring about dota community so much! BTW THE ONLY REASON I AM HERE IS BECAUSE I'M GETTING ERROR 37 :P

#17

Aceofspades wrote at 15.05.2012, 10:00 CEST:

VERY NICE :D

#18

LordBlaze32 wrote at 15.05.2012, 10:00 CEST:

Wow I really love this addition guys. Since I do not have too much time to spare like before, I would like to spend my free time watching worthwhile vods. Thank you to jD and all the casters <3

#19

Elegit wrote at 15.05.2012, 10:05 CEST:

imo for the next WT5, for each game you can add heroes pick for the team and who played what, also in which tournament they played. but yes, I agree that this is really awesome.
good job jD.

#20

MikeyN0 wrote at 15.05.2012, 10:15 CEST:

Much needed feature, thanks. Great to see Lumi here, and so many Aussies :D Tips: Maybe some better formatting, embedded videos.