If in general you weren’t in the mood for dialogue, then you shouldn’t have thrown anything into the media - sQreen about NS

Analyst and former professional player Khaled 'sQreen' El-Khabbash in his personal telegram channel published the reasoning for his assessment of the skills of BETBOOM Streamers Battle Dota 14 participants after criticism from Yaroslav 'NS' Kuznetsov.

[Published with the original spelling and punctuation preserved]

Khaled 'sQreen' El-Habbash

Since he is not able to adequately talk on stream, but continues his drunken rant publicly in text format, then I will also answer him in text form, especially since he finally sent off the list of players, for which, as it seems to him, there are questions, he attached a picture with the players.

First, let me explain: the arguments of NOT PLAYING DOTA are complete *** [nonsense] if we are talking about a former player. Any of them will come in, if desired, play for a couple of days, and will already feel more than confident, especially if he has been watching Tier 1 Dota tournaments all this time and has not fallen out of the meta.

Another important point: every player nominated by me, he not only received a score of 0-100 based on his skill, he also received a score based on the players (of which there are 170+) who are in the table. That is, initially I took everyone and put them with an error of 5, then I divided them into subcategories with a certain range and only then I started betting with an accuracy of units, taking into account the position and skill of the closest players to each other.

Let's go from the very beginning of the list:

9 Pasha - everyone gave 68, I gave 7 more - 75 For me, Pasha is a strong, experienced offlaner, in general there are few of them in the tournament, I also played against him in the Fonbet Media League in the fall and I can say that if he wants, he can still play at a high level, especially in this type of tournament and has proven this more than once: in the last two Fonbet Media Leagues (2 and 3) he took 2 top2 times and played more than worthy, including number against me. We open the table - despite my score of 75, the player still has only 69. At the same time, 633, Alagon - turned out to be at the level of Pasha with 69 points, and Afoninje - above him. I hope no one will argue that all these 3 players play much worse than Pasha and due to the fact that others gave him too little, he ended up on the same level next to them, although he represents much more impact. And if he had 75, he would already be on the same level with Blindzone, undershock, and groom - there is already a difference, yes, although even so I consider him better than them.

Next we go - arteezybastark. Everyone put it as high as 83, I put it at 70. It’s very easy to explain - he’s just a high mmr puber, and in pubs he always jerked off several heroes, i.e. for competitive Dota he never posed any danger. If you look at it within the framework of a streamer battle, again the main thing is to come from other players in the table so that it looks like a normal general system, and not just evaluate the player.

83 is a score higher than the following players: Foolish (82), WoE (82), Shishak (81), Solo (81), Petushara (80), Limitless (82) I listed for you current or former players who played at tier 1-2 levels, does anyone really have thoughts that a clumsy puber who upped MMR on one hero somehow competes with such experienced and skilled players when it comes to CM mod and team play? And if you look at the players who have 70 - this is afoninge, mrxsmurf, zxccursed, yond - it already begins to look like the truth, doesn’t it?

Let's move on: Knicks fans know bowbowbow's head very well, so I often received questions about him. I answer: I have known Bosko since the first Dota, and I also played with him for a long time in the second, the last time somewhere in 2014-2015. I can say that he was always a good skillful player. Obviously, a lot of time has passed and everything could have changed a hundred times, so I watched his games for Nix at streamer battles - he played all the games more than decently, with excellent CD + he knows how to communicate and play macro. I gave him 70 - along with the following players: 633 (69), arteezybastark (70), blindzone (70), elmo (70), Fishman (71), Fng (71) I am sure that he plays no worse than them. If you look at the players at a rate of about 55, as everyone else rated him, then quiet horror begins: it turns out that IGORYAN RXNEXUS plays better than Bosko and has 56, NS with 56 is also better and has more skill than him, a grassman with dreadlocks has 58, but Bosko has 55 like Amor and lesn4ok. Mackintosh, chechiga and kudes 60 each, 4ce - 61 - the list can be continued for a very long time. For me, this is an obvious absurdity and once again confirmation of the correctness of my assessment, although it ultimately raised his PTS to 63, but this is no longer the absurd 55 that were in that pool of players.

Dahaku gave 80 - with other estimates at 85-87. I met with Dahak quite recently - in April I played Fonbet Media League, he had Iltv and Rabel on the cores, which have very high ratings for this BSB. He also had a mackintosh and a chechiga, which have 60 points each. At the same time, everyone - Dahak took 4th place, there was no sign of stable or strong play from him. And in general, in the history of streamer tournaments, Dahak did not show any outstanding results - in the last 2 tournaments he finished top 5-6 and did not earn a single buck. It is important to understand that Dahak is a specific player who often plays passive farm Dota, and streamer tournaments are more about skill differential from the very beginning, rather than farming, so I would not say that he is one of the best players for this tournament format as a whole. At the same time, despite the fact that I gave it 80, everyone rated it highly, so it still received 85 points, which my rating did not particularly affect. If you look at the table, we have 87 points from Alberca, who shows good performance on the pro stage and just came from ewc, which, in my opinion, is definitely better than him. But again, because of the difference of 2 points, there is no point in dividing the results here; we are discussing precisely those cases where my assessment really influenced the overall picture.

Kiyataka - 80, with other ratings 86-88 Many also wrote to me about him, with real bewilderment: how so, what 80, this is Kiyataka. But let's just take the dry facts: 1. A person has been sitting in afk for 2 years now, playing public with a rank of 300 (he was recently invited to post for PR) 2. He was always unstable: he could either win or lose a game in solo 3. Players above 80+ are all either current pro tier 1-2, or former ones, I just rated him at the lower limit, because the player is about himself I haven’t declared for a long time and haven’t shown myself anywhere. That is, as for me, there is a severe overrate from others, and Kiatake, who by the way was not included in any of the roster (why, he’s an imbecile for his rating?), would have to show himself from a new leaf, especially on the streamer tour. If we take it again from the table, as he was ultimately rated at 89, then this is significantly higher than Ramses (85), who, in my opinion, is a more powerful and versatile player, higher than Alberca (87), who is an active tier 1 player and won the last BSB, and also on the same level with Smiley Knight (89), who is still listed in the competitive scene and has played for Avulus for a long time, and also drags solo It’s not clear what kind of tourist he is with his stable play on carry. If they put him at 80, he would be at the level of all the basic high mmr midaks: old god, lens, rostik, to the level of which he is more likely to fit the current form now than to compete with the current players who play on the pro stage. Miposhka - 78, while rating others at 84-85 Here I don’t understand at all the reason for the overestimation of the rating for a player in the 5th position, who has already left the pro scene for a year, in general, as a top five, it’s trivial that he cannot be listed at level 1 with tier 1 cores like Ramses, who from the core position will make more impact, well, the main thing: I played the last media league against Yarik, and stood right on the line in position 4 against him (lane was he + coma against me and petushary, we won one game in a salad against their line, the other stood 50-50, this despite the fact that me and petushary have significantly less PTS than both of them), we won against them 2-0 without any problems at all in the tournament [...] and in the quarter-final, so I am 100% sure that people are simply inclined to overestimate this player within the framework of STREAMERS BATTLE, where at the top five you can realize yourself cool only with suitable cores, but how to find suitable cows if you yourself at the top five are rated at 84 points.

In addition, Khaled 'sQreen' El-Khabbash explained why he gave Alexander 'Nix' Levin's skills an overestimate compared to the others:

Khaled 'sQreen' El-Habbash

Previously, Yaroslav 'NS' Kuznetsov published assessments of the skills of BETBOOM Streamers Battle Dota 14 participants from Khaled 'sQreen' El-Habbash.