How an Out of Control Genius Hijacked Esports' Biggest Tournament
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- The International is the crown jewel of Valve’s esports empire. And every year, millions of people tune in to watch the best Dota 2 teams in the world fight over Gaben’s pocket change.
The ambitions are high - but the stakes are even higher.
And despite all of its prestige, all the attention it brings, and the level of responsibility it entails - Valve left a lot of it in the hands of this guy.
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Written by: Alina Sotula (@ASotula)
Hosted by: Dimitri Pascaluta (@DPascaluta)
Produced & Edited by: Miles Hackett (@miles_hackett)
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Shot by: Matt Massey (@mattjmassey)
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What's your favourite SirActionSlacks moment/skit?
Anytime Purge scolds him during a game HAHA
Square
The reveal of his item hotkeys during Purge stream going to Immortal rank!
probably the Dead Yang skit
His TI6 run! Well deserved 2nd place to my boi Slacks
*"How can you flame somebody that sounds like an idiot?"*
This man is too advanced for our current timeline
*Modern problems require Modern solutions*
He is essentially smurfing on a social level.
keep it at 420 likes
@@mustafam3285 Holy shit what an analogy ROFLMAO
First you don't judge someone by how they sound, then you flame them regardless.
One thing you could’ve mentioned is that Slacks didn’t even have a ticket to TI4 when he made content there. He was chased by Valve employees the whole time xD
He had a ticket, but only as spectator. He got chased because he tried to get backstage for the real "juicy" interviews.
Where can i find these videos
The absolute madlad
Man too memey to be banned
At one point I think he faked being RTZ's or someone else's bodyguard to get backstage hahaha
Slacks is literally the most hardworking person in eSports
No cap
Probably yes in 2020, but nobody was working harder than Adam Apicella. Guy ran major events for a game that had barely any support by the devs, for well over a decade.
@@matchress3832 icefrog: am i a joke to you?
@@Drew311Drew Slacks does much more behind scenes work, cap actually puts in the time to be very good at dota along with becoming the best caster period imo, different things. Both are treasures.
@@bigwig8657 no cap means "for real" .....
Slacks truly is a genius and his social intelligence is something amazing to behold. Crazy to think he went that long way from making parodies of characters screaming that he was going to heal and save people as Omniknight to host an event as big as TI and keep it entertaining for so long
Fighting over Gaben's pocket change is a very accurate and funny way to think about TI tbh
I thought so too! :)
It's official
Actually most of prize pool comes from player
Iirc valve only give 1 millions
Rest (like 20-30M comes from us as player)
@@MrRichiarditya
and 3x of that amount goes to Gaben's pocket too
@@dane17eduard correct
Slacks' power in the Dota2 community is only second to IceFrog himself. That's how INFLUENTIAL this man is.
is ther like a dota power list or somin ? kek
@@yoshimurahirihito Absolutely. Even multiple timelines.
Gamay Putin Influential*
@@inspectorvoid Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.
@@pr_ank_sisters🤣🤣🤣 corrected in caps
9:00 "Dota 2 is the Wakanda of esports. No one knows what's going on over there, but they do know it exists and has fantastic technologies."
And Dota2 is also the wakanda inside of wakanda, Dota players Don't know what's going on over there
"Meanwhile the guy has never shown himself in a CSGO Major..."
Oof, that's a deep cut
Isn't csgo major is usually done by third party companies like esl, faceit, etc
@@sebastianprimus3804 Nope, I believe that CSGO majors are hosted by valve themselves.
@@hellVAsta Nope they have organisers like ESL FACEIT starladder eleague. But valve sponsors or something
@@KS-xg6ew yup thats right
as a csgo main-er this really hurt, fuck man i just want dad to notice us
I met this guy in Manila Major, he is a good guy and really funny
Edited: I'm not THE kid!!! :P
Maybe you're the kid who kept grabbing his ass
hey man, don't hooty the booty
I was in Manila Major but unluckily did not meet him. But my friends told me they were surprised how big the guy is.
My friends saw him during the Manila Major and we were too shy to talk to him
The guy's pretty massive, for a lack of a better term
i met him in the Manila Major as well, we were buying food and he just passed by the food stall we were at, me and my buddies followed him and i yelled "Slacks!" he turned around said Hi and asked us if we wanted a picture with him, he even joked about wanting to have a bite of the Hotdog bun i just bought LMAO. dude was pretty tall too
this madman reached divine without knowing 99% of the games mechanic
He has a thing 99% people dont have in dota, his PMA
to be fair most of us don't know 99,99% of it either
He had few heroes with which he was good enough and his great communication compensated his flaws. Things about him i heard before.
He also had $ for an item hotkey. Not to mention - and 0.
He's WR God
Fun fact:
SirActionSlacks was actually the official sub for 2016 Digital Chaos team who ended up being runners up in TI6.
Yeah, the guy is a TI 2nd placer. 😂
No he wasn't. He was an unlisted sub for the all star match.
@@policeman1566 except he was. Look it up. USH and slacks were the official subs for 2016 Digital Chaos squad.
@@policeman1566 lol couldnt do a proper google search to confirm it pepega
@@policeman1566 he was sunsfan the owner of the team confirmed it
I was wrong.
Absolutely love this guy. I've met him at the Bucharest major, off camera (well still at the event tho) he is the same crazy, fun, friendly and modest guy. He signed my poster, asked what my favourite hero is, told him Invoker and he drew me a small Invoker and a sunstrike which was absolutely great.
He absolutely loves the game and the community and I certainly love him back. I should grab his ass next time :))
Plot twist Slacks is the real icefrog.
boyong autochess this is blasphemy
He doesn't speak chinese fluently.
I mean thats not a total 0% chance
Hah i knew it
no, he is icefrog's evil twin
Slacks is God's Gift to the Dota Community
Next to Icefrog himself
GabeN's gift
no, he's god's punishment to the dota community.
@@bobjohnson5557 The greatest punishment in the history of dota
Slacks is a national treasure. Literally PMA'd himself into 5k bracket. Never forget the omni-god
International treasure*
He is such a hardworking guy, imagine being told by the organizers of the biggest event in the game ´´You have to come up with something by tomorrow lol´´ and actually pull it off xd
"Dota 2 is the Wakanda of eSports" lmfao, never saw black panther but this dude's a genius
Explain pls lol
@@vitoyin5544 it means dota 2 is in their bubble and nobody outside knows what is happening in.
"Valve brought him back for TI 10 which will, without a doubt, be colossal"
If it doesn't get cancelled because coronavirus.
Dota players are the peak form of cancer. No measly coronavirus is gonna stop that.
@@pr_ank_sisters FACTS!
@@pr_ank_sisters tnx to us peenoise we are the major part of the most cancerous server, the SEA server.
Relax, it’s not in China
Gamay Putin spitting faxxxxxxxxxxxxxzz poggers
Slacks is the Comic Relief of Valve that we all loved
Thank you for featuring SirActionSlacks and giving him the credit he deserves the community loves him more than he could ever imagine..
slacks has worked more than hard enough to DESERVE this appreciation vid.
The most alpha response to sexual assault from a minor is equally aggressive sexual assault. Daddy yes
This is toxic and false. This is still pedophilic philosophy.
Lol you're sad
Training Grounds that’s not pedophilia, the dude’s playing around
@@buinhatanh9452 You don't joke about that. That is the line you don't cross. Not everything is up for grabs as long as you wrap it in a joke. Life is sacred. But as long as you hold to this toxic philosophy nothing is sacred. Wake up.
Training Grounds dude it ain’t that deep, Slacks got groped by the kid multiple times, the one time he did it jokingly back to the boy it’s considered pedophilic? Slacks was even trying to find the kid’s parent ffs.
Slacks is one good cuddly hugger. And Insanely warm personality and also never lets fans down, I had my pleasure meeting him in ESL Mumbai 2019
I dont know anything about most of these games or players but i love yalls videos man glad to be here
Dallas meyer as what he said dota esport scene is like wakanda in black panther, its so secretive but when youre part of it its amazing
@@SCRKT007 that sounds pretty cool tbh bro the way they talk about it seems cool i cant say ive ever played tho whats it like?
bro you should try playing dota,
@@skaterjoe1669 ill give it a shot for sure when i get a chance bro
@@slyndur4190best of luck bro
SirActionSlacks has the mind of Invoker and the body of Ogre Magi
The skit where he went to Japan was definitely the best.
Japanese Man:
"I caught an unexploded bomb"
Slacks:
"NANI?!?!"
My man wearing Artifact T-shirt. Respect
not day gaem btw Grappa
Sellout kappa
Is a good game...
pretty slick shirt imo, unlike the game itself lol
he still beleaves in that game
I believe in Slacks' genius the most the moment when he managed to turn Purge from the most monotonous guy there was to his undeniable "straight man", comedy-wise.
Praise be to that lovable idiot,
We love you Slacks.
"TI 10, which will, without a doubt, be colossal"
ಥ╭╮ಥ
Hopefully it still will be.
@@Tintelinus ;(
Kekw
I have a friend at valve who is also friends with slacks, one time I was at his house when slacks came over for work related reasons... we ended up playing Smash Bros together. He was super chill and kind.
Fun fact:
Even though Midas Mode started as a meme, it is still produced way better than the Shanghai Major.
And don't even try to search what's with the Shanghai shitshow. Please, save yourself.
Brooo don't remind me about Shanghai shitshow, It makes me miss James PepeHands
I've seen some shit in my days.
One could call me a connoisseur of shit.
So let me take a look...
_googles Shanghai Major_
Oh no no no no....
BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAA
2GD never forget
“Slacks, don’t become a caster. No one can live up to that commentary... He can, literally, with these videos, beat the shit out of every single caster out there. That’s so much more entertaining than every single broadcast this year.”
- Tobiwan, 2015
The man took this to heart and decided to run the show instead.
hes parts and content realyl made ti so wholesome and great to watch
Played a pub game with him once. I don't think hes playing a character, I think he's legitimately that insane
Nice upgrade in the production value, keep it up!
Jeez, and right now he's hosting a event in the fundraising to make a community tutorial for new dota players, man he's such a good guy
"I Wanna Stay in the Middle Lane" is god's gift to us mortals.
I mean I hack to my own system in order to help Yugi beat myself. Yea that still doesn’t make any sense
DUDUDUDUDUEL
He took Axtinghuishers hostage but he did also let them go.
Meet Jake at the Manila Masters (Backstage). While the man was very busy at the event, He was kind enough to take a photos with us and he even posed with my friends when we took the shot. Kudos slacks for giving a good entertainment to all Dota fans during TI and even other events as well.
I'm sad that you didn't include Slack's speech in one of TIs (I forgot which one). It showed all the emotions he had for the game and for the community and it made me cry. This is a fantastic video though! I absolutely love Slacks
The gift that keeps on giving
*patiently waiting for another one of his loregasm video*
I wish they included that in the video
0:23 did you also think that ur screen is dirty af
Great video!
Might as well do one for Kaci, she's revolutionizing Valve's approach to transparency and is a big reason why we got so much information on HLA before it's release.
I really hoped while watching this there would be included his emotional speech from TI6. It was one of the strongest moments of TIs. Anyway, thanks for great video as always.
Slacks is the dota personality that's grown on me the most, he went from being intolerable in fails of the week to having me in stitches at TI
Met him at Manila Major back in 2016. He's funny and entertaining. Wish more guys were like him
His "Spicy chicken wings" back in TI9 is hilarious and genius, surprisingly. Slacks is the guy you will never hate. This guy deserve community heart's.
I meet him once in KL major.Very friendly and treat his fans very good. He deserve it
slacks is such a gift to the community. I used to think he was unprofessional or cringey but now looking back at it, I wouldn't change him for anything. We love you Slacks!
One of my favorite vids of his is when he played Broodmother and kept screeching about mother's day towards his teammates
That shit broke me man 😂😂😂
I can't stand that guy's energy but there's something oddly charming about him
I still remember his Witch Doctor voice video from way back when, what a talented guy
You may like him, you may hate him, you may find him annoying but slacks will slowly grow on you and in due time, you'll love him. No other esports have what dota2 have, A SirActionSlacks
First vid I saw of him back in the day was support Luna. Classic. 4 years later people did start to play support luna
he is also making some lores of the dota 2 heroes which is really very cool
I love his loregasm videos, top notch content.
SirActionSlacks once snuck me into the VIP lounge during TI6
and this guy also make great youtube videos about dota2 lore such a legend
I'm mainly a League player, but as an old DotA player I still watch TI and I'm glad to learn about this guy's story.
I've never played DOTA and I love every single clip slacks' in
You can tell he *LOVES* the game and the scene. I admire people like this
Finally the guy who deserves some appreciation, got it. He is really good person and funny and positive which is what we need at times when our favourite team loses or we feel down cos of tones of other reasons besides dota.
SlacksGod is truly a jack of all trades. From Loregasms to hosting TI to amazing skits. Thank you Slacks!
You guys did a good job in only showing the normal half of Dimitri's body. Thanks.
Big missed opportunity not to include Slacks' emotional speech in TI6. The most heartfelt and endearing thing heard in TI came from the one known as the goofball. "This is a celebration of us." www.twitch.tv/videos/83400929?t=05h49m59s
And yet again, thanks for the great video
"DotA2 is the Wakanda of ESports"
He's not wrong!
I like that time when he was invited to a small Australian tournament and his reaction to it
I fvcking love his Loregasm on his channel. His headcannons are spot on.
8:57 Lmao, this is so hilariously true. Dota 2 basically is the Wakanda of esports. I've watched so much from this channel and from TI 8 and I *still* don't truly know what the hell is going on in the highlight clips until I find the right comment LOL.
I remember him visiting a Mineski shop. Really a fun guy.
Finally a score esports video without green screen lol
Got to meet him at Ti8 and he asked me what my favourite hero was before he signed my play mat, told him Slark and proceeded to get a duck with a dagger drawn next to his signature. Easily best signature of all the ones I’ve gotten.
I love Siractionslacks he defines unorthodox and we all love him for it.
"IIIIIIII WANNAAAAAA STAAAAAAAAAAAY IN THE MIDLEEEEE LINEEEEEIIIIIII, ON THE MIDDLE LINEEEIIIIIIIIIII
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
-SirActionSlacks 2017
Finally, this hardworking genius got the tribute he deserved!
I didn’t know he was so involved with TI10. I’ve been a bit disappointed in the lack of loregasms/content in general but that makes sense now.
at least i accomplished getting early into a vid in my life
Slacks is the lost son of Gaben, there's no other explanation
Because he is a man of focus, commitment and sheer fucking will
midas mode 2 was awesome can't wait for the next one
He was the pre match announcer at esl one mumbai and he is such a down to earth guy I wish I had 4 day pass (special pass that lets you sit near the stage) so just I could meet him but I was on second floor so recording was gonna start and I shouted out his name and said "Fails of the week" and he said " Fails of the year😎" and i realised this tournament was worth coming to😍 I wish I get to click a pic with him someday♥️
his lore videos are amazing
Dimitri and Dota is the best combination of this channel
He just genuinely a good person
I love slacks and have been watching his lore vids and dotacinema fails vids when i was playing dota 2. At that time he was new in fails of the week.
But i never knew he had creative power in the Ti. Holy shit.
He went from making "how to get out of the trench of Dota 2" with Omni knight then techies to hosting the international.
dont forget about fails and lores
his theory on a loregasm blows my mind and made me realize that dota 1 and dota 2 is 2 separate world
Love him. Much respect!!
4:40 my side has left the orbit
Slacks is one of the few who has direct connection with God.
Fight over Gaben’s pocket change!hahaha Nice one!
"wakanda of esport" so true wth
love him or LOVE HIM coz that man always puts a smile on my face
Slacks is what happends when you have all your points in charisma and social intelligence.
i really miss that office background
Man, I was expecting a mention of Loregasm. Still great vid.
I don't even play Dota 2 but he seems like a great guy