Bottle Crow Reborn

A scattering of pro drama is dominated by our grand topic for the episode: is the Dota Pro Circuit actually a terrible system? Six and Nick are divided, and like most bad things in life, it all boils down to capitalism. Our best wishes to w33 on his new team, and a quick talk with “Sebby” about the fool’s errand that is chastising Reddit. Part of being a pro is shrugging off “advice” from amateurs, you just gotta get used to it. Then we dive into Jacky’s Chow, where Nick is going to tell you how to make a delicious Japanese-style grill pizza. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Highlander Music Pack in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! S

Nick is a very good friend of mine. He’s a reliable cohost. He’s agreeable, he puts in the work to make this show run, he’s always friendly and understanding. I really value him, and our relationship. And sometimes I want to kill him. This episode introduces a new segment that absolutely will NOT reoccur, “Meme of the Week.” We talk NoobFromUA’s copyright strikes, DAC and the victory of Mineski, Kyle the Super Commentator, and the trouble with best of ones. The offlane might be due for some changes, and Beyond the Summit is going Beyond Dota. Plus, on this week’s Jacky’s Chow, a full service guide on oils and fats! Dig in. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Highlander Music Pack in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments

7.12 is the least of our worries this week: we’re diving full into the surreal. Patch notes pair nicely with a dive into the baffling world of Emma Saying, and a short interview with Allen, a friend and non-Dota player. Jacky’s Chow is gonna teach what to do with a pound of ground beef, and explain some food safety while we’re at it! The Na’Vi CEO vows to fix things in boot camp. I guess we’ll see. Happy Birthday, Ohaiyo! Big thank you to Allen for joining us for a little interview! You can find them on Twitter at @allenibrahim. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Highlander Music Pack in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

Congrats to Virtus Pro for being the first team to clench their International 2018 invite! My sympathies to Most Dota Players for being unable to get tickets to said International, because they sold out in mere seconds! Dota Plus is changing the way we play, but perhaps catastrophic hardware failure is changing it even more. Reso needs a rez, five anchors unsecured, the newest Hero Concept. And, Jacky’s Chow this week tackles chicken: baked chicken breast and quick chicken piccata! The video with the flipped Dota map is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysnDDck8hio We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Highlander Music Pack in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com!

The old Bottle Crow RSS feed that we lost access to has been delisted. At last, Bottle Crow Reborn is again your ONLY Dota 2 podcast named after a technique that has since been patched out of the game. And we’re celebrating with a jam-packed episode! Dota Plus, Artifact, the future of VR (I know, but hear us out), our new cooking corner, and The Only Way To Get Banned. I wonder if we should call getting called out on our show “bottling crow.” Food for thought. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Highlander Music Pack in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

Do you like QUIZZES? Do you like DOTA? Well, we have two Dota quizzes for you this week! Play along with Nick as Six plays quizmaster! We’ve also got the latest from Iceberg eSports (rip rip rip rip), Jacky Mao’s Kitchen Nightmares, Patch Is Here Once Again, we’re salty about the Sunder cooldown. Plus, Valvebro isn’t back, stop it, that’s obviously OBVIOUSLY a fake. Like come on, you guys. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Highlander Music Pack in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

This week, Six and Nick are going all in on ESL. (Katoviiiice.) We take a deep dive into the history and structure of the esports behemoth, in an attempt to learn where its corporate clumsiness stems from. Then it’s on to observations about Artifact, applause for Envy, and a very happy birthday to Fear. And, uh… Car Talk? Listen, Nick was pretty sick. Be nice. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Highlander Music Pack in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

It’s a sad time for Dota fans. Not only is one of Dota’s favorite sons, Merlini, retiring from pro Dota, but LD is stepping back as welll… and then to add insult to injury, doofuses like Slacks and the Bottles Crow, Nick and Six, aren’t stopping while they’re ahead. We wish a warm farewell to Ben Wu, one of the greats, and look to the future… it sure as shit ain’t coming from casters like TeaTime, I can tell you that. Could it come from… gasp… the return of IceFraud and Surge?! …No. No no no. Don’t be crazy. I can’t stand those guys. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Highlander Music Pack in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or&n

This week’s news might spell the death of the patch note special? We can’t do those every two weeks, we seriously can’t. But if the average quality of our standard episodes goes up because of it, it’s well worth it. Inbetween talk of beef stew and microwave bacon, we find time to dish dirt on Navi and VP’s player swap, the Fate of Sonneiko, our biweekly patch future, the contents of 7.08, and more. More Windranger buffs! We’re gettin’ there, folks. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Highlander Music Pack in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

You know, I’m sure Icefrog MEANS well, but the consistency with which he makes our podcast episodes incorrect by the time they post is a tad frustrating. Then again, it’s also on me for being a bit slow this week. The ESL One Genting drama starts to calm down, but we still manage to get fired up. We tackle some big questions: how will they nerf Tinker? What changes need to happen to get Techies, Pangolier, and Dark Willow ready for Captain’s Mode? Where’s the Spring Cleaning Update? Where’s the Battle Pass? All of these questions got answered by now, because Icefrog is just obsessed with blowing up our spot. Thanks. Oh, since it didn’t make the podcast: Nick cut me off just as I was about to suggest a sandwich sauce utilizing Kool-Aid Ice technology. When I told him off air, he mourned his decision to shut down my bit. It was a good bit. …It was a bad bit, but it was gonna end well. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a re

Oh my goodness gracious god. We had no time for anything but drama this week, and even shaving off all the other things we wanted to talk about, it was STILL a long episode! Nick and Colin have things to say about all the drama around ESL One Genting, scheduling error forfeits, The Salt Lord, and how to pronounce Katowice. We even had to delay the episode to record a little drop-in because the drama just kept COMING! Man. Busy busy busy. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Highlander Music Pack in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

Grab a can of Energy Drink ™ because it’s time for Dota talk! Nick reports on his Captain’s Draft experience… but fails to drink the Promised Beverage, and Colin must take up that burden. New teams form, custom games are Even More Dead I Guess, and we aren’t the only Aghs show in town. AD2L begins, and with it, a new chapter in our amateur careers. …Is amateur career an oxymoron? Eh. Whatever. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Make sure to vote on the Highlander Music Pack in the Steam Workshop! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

The year is dead. We will not mourn it. No, friends, celebrate 2017. Celebrate its life, for all its joys and… hang on please. Hang on. I’m… getting reports 2017 was trash? Shit year? Ded gaem? Hmm. Well. Regardless, there were some interesting events in 2017’s Dota, from the pro scene to the patches, and the way we’ve evolved as players. Let’s talk about it. P.S.: We totally forgot Kaya and Spirit Vessel when we were shit talking the new items. I blame Nick, because he did that part of the notes. Those items are pretty good. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

May the Christmas Spirit fill you, and CONSUME YOU. There is no escape. Even here on Bottle Crow, Frostivus Fever has set in, and the only cure is a tired reference. Headlining tonight’s show: Sumail vs. Peter, match scheduled for one fall. Nick does the work Valve is unwilling to and actually reviews the Frostivus custom game contest entries. Morph is ded hero. EG is ded team. The offlane might be about to undergo a revolution. Here’s to hoping, right? Even though Sumail DID build Armlet on Windranger that one time. Don’t think I’ve forgotten, Sumail. Or forgiven. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! Thank you to Hotto Dogu… I guess… for that thing. The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.c

This week, we’re making up for the previous off episode with a content-packed banger of an episode. This is like the Hot Pocket of podcasts! Pizza Hot Pocket! Four Cheese. The pepperoni one is okay, I guess, but kinda too greasy, and the five cheese one is like… weirdly not great? You’d think if four cheese were good, five cheeses would be better, but no. Five cheese is a bad Hot Pocket variety. Now, four meat is pretty good, but that’s a bit much, don’t you think? No one podcast should have all that power. Lifetime bans, socialism, Arteezy, Colin vs. Nick (but not really, they misremembered), Frostivus… lots to talk about. Get in here. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or&nb

please. don’t make me come up with show notes. haven’t i done enough? editing this podcast for hours and hours, day after day, almost made me give up podcasting. but i did it. is it good? i don’t know. it’s probably terrible. i don’t care, i can’t care. it is done and it is gone and god willing i never have to hear it again. qop support. dc disbands. middle sister. idk. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

Fifty/Fifty: I forgot to give this episode a proper title, I am making a dumb reference to part of the episode. New MMR is here, and people upset because they’re egotistical jackasses! (There are also legit complaints, but most of it is just “y i no 9k”) Midas Mode is over, and it was FANTASTIC. We’ve got an update from the FiftEE/FiftEE front. And finally, our fears of Dota Majors abusing invites and qualifier spots have 100% come to pass, oh god. DotA Tiers for teams visualized: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/7fmwry/dota_tiers_for_teams_visualized/ We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

Hey hey hey hey, smoke deceit every day. As Midas Mode delights, in the background, war was beginning. Beyond the Summit or Moonduck: it’s time to choose a side. For one must live, and the other must- what? I’m in the middle of a… hmmm. Well, okay. I’m being told the situation is really not that dire, and I’m being melodramatic. Is that true? Only YOU can decide, dear listeners. 7.07c, everybody loves Jack Chen, why no ice-themed carries? Let’s talk about it. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!

English is hard, okay? Join Colin and Nick as we tackle drama, drama, hats, drama, and a certain malaise that has settled over our co-hosts in regards to the recent patch. We join the chorus of people expressing their disappointment with GranDGrant’s latest idiotic claim, we can’t pronounce words in treasure names, a mohawk is not an afro. Valve should do better. Take a shot if you’ve heard that one before. Sorry if we just killed you. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments. Email your questions to bottlecrowreborn@gmail.com or colin@bottlecrow.com! See again next week!  

During our Extra Life stream, we brought folks a special treat. This is the podcast archive of that present. Colin and Nick are joined by a special guest- Sam Wendel of We Like Dota, the internet’s casual Dota podcast! Colin is nearly ten hours into streaming and slightly out of it, Nick is sharp and ready for action, and Sam is a gracious guest. Join them as they talk 7.07, recent news, and how the stream’s gone so far! We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher! You can subscribe on those, and leave a review if you like! That would really help us out. Tell your Dota friends about us, help spread the word! If you want to offer a late donation to Extra Life and thus Children’s Miracle Network, you can go to http://bit.ly/2AiJCSO. A huge thank you to Sam Wendel for guesting on the show- you can find him on Twitter at @sam_wendel, and you can find We Like Dota at welikedota.com or @WeLikeDota on Twitter. The official Bottle Crow twitter is @BottleCrow if you have any questions or comments