{"id":1567,"date":"2016-06-23T15:17:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T07:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2016-06-23T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T07:17:56","slug":"bleedblue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/23\/bleedblue\/","title":{"rendered":"#BleedBlue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just some Dota 2 stuff.<\/p>\n<p>You know, like I&#8217;ve mentioned many times in my past entries, when Bruno introduced me to the world of Dota 2, it was during the Shanghai Major. I had no idea who&#8217;s who, what heroes who&#8217;s on, etc. \u00a0But somehow, one way or another, the team Evil Geniuses (EG) stood out for me. \u00a0Maybe it&#8217;s their logo, maybe it&#8217;s their play (or whatever kind of play I could made it out at that point), maybe it&#8217;s their player&#8230; I don&#8217;t know. \u00a0I just somehow&#8230; felt inclined to support them. \u00a0I like them. \u00a0And that&#8217;s weird. \u00a0Maybe I like PPD&#8217;s (their captain) cool composition. It can&#8217;t be Bruno&#8217;s influence for sure, because he doesn&#8217;t like PPD and he doesn&#8217;t like EG. (He thinks they are pretty good though.)<\/p>\n<p>And then, they lost to Team Liquid (I only noticed how cute Jerax and Matumbaman were during that game) and was placd third in the tournament. \u00a0Team Liquid also became a team that I liked \/ supported from then on. \u00a0But Team Liquid lost to Team Secret, so meh, that&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>I never liked Team Secret from the get-go. \u00a0I think I don&#8217;t like the players (didn&#8217;t like puppey, didn&#8217;t like EE). \u00a0But Bruno liked Team Secret, so well, meh. \u00a0Shan&#8217;t say too much bad stuff about them *cough*.<\/p>\n<p>And then, there&#8217;s the roster switch hoo-haa which messed up EG. \u00a0Too much stuff to write about here, and let&#8217;s just say I hated Secret even more because of this. EG (and Secret) became horrible, had bad gameplays, etc. \u00a0Team Liquid, however, did not change their roster and rose steadily to the top.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m also a fan of Team Liquid, and i&#8217;m very happy to see them finally win a LAN, I can&#8217;t help but feel sad for EG. EG has been the first Dota 2 team that I supported, and I will always be a fan of them, as long as PPD is the captain of the team. \u00a0Fear may retire after this TI, but I sure hope he&#8217;ll stay behind as a coach or something.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably the first time I felt such a connection for a team I support. \u00a0I used to support Manchester United, but when they fell off the top, I kinda stop supporting them (yes I&#8217;m a lousy &#8220;fan&#8221;). \u00a0But this time, even though EG fell out of favour, playing badly in tournaments and stuff, I just felt heartbroken, but somehow my support was unwavering. \u00a0I was still proudly wearing their flair in Reddit even though it&#8217;s grayed out (due to them being eliminated early during the Manila Major). \u00a0When they were eliminated, I still tweeted PPD to let him know that hey, you know, there are still fans out there who still believe in EG.<\/p>\n<p>As long as PPD is in EG, I\u00a0will always be bleeding blue. \u00a0#BleedBlue #InPJSaltWeBelieve<\/p>\n<p>=)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just some Dota 2 stuff. You know, like I&#8217;ve mentioned many times in my past entries, when Bruno introduced me to the world of Dota 2, it was during the Shanghai Major. I had no idea who&#8217;s who, what heroes who&#8217;s on, etc. \u00a0But somehow, one way or another, the team Evil Geniuses<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/23\/bleedblue\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5BeXn-ph","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}