Game Theory

YES. It's finally the time after 7 years of gaming, mechsiao is going to condense his gaming experience of dota into a valuable piece of information =D

The Trends

1. Sentinels always wins & Scourge always loses

Well. This is a very common bnet trend whereby the scourge/bottom team always loses without fail in 99.999999% public games. This could simply be explained by the common reason that the sentinels are mostly friends of the host, while the scourge are consisted of just pub players.

Well, the flaw is that the above is false. What mechsiao has observed is that this has to do with the lag of the players joining the game. The people who have the faster coms will get the sentinels (pro players with zai coms) slots, while those slower players (esp. indians and malays and the rest) will get the bottom slots. So well dota is actually quite a multiracial game and you know which race always prevail. Yes. You are absolutely right.

2. The highest percentage of Banlisted (banned from dota) players come from the Malaysian population

Well. This is again very significant. This trend reduces our interaction with the malaysian population, which is indeed a pity. Everybody should indeed be given a chance to pit themselves again other pro players in a game of dota. However, this is again not always true.

Mechsiao has observed that majority of the laggers, plug-pullers, vulgarity spammers come from a single population. Yes. You are right. It's the malays. It's totally not a prejudice or stereotype because stereotyping is to generalise something based on a smaller group of the larger population and claim that it's true. However, in this case, 100/100 malays that mechsiao have met in dota have met the requirement of lagging or game quitting at least once per game. And also, they have totally no skills. An in depth research carried out aiming to determine the displacement of the movements of malaysian dota players have proved that they often move in an eliptical path returning to the original spot (displacement=0) before casting a spell. This could well be explained by their faulty stolen mouse or a screwed up joystick. It's not quite surprising if you see 2 malay dota players having the same ip and both are noobs. It is proposed that they are indeed sharing the same mouse plugging in and out simultaneously.

(to be continued)