User blog comment:Darkworld77/Surrendering/@comment-4990650-20120802041132/@comment-5174430-20120803110919

You can't really predict defeat in the first 5 minutes, no match was won because of first blood. At 10 minutes you can predict accurately 60% of the time, those are shit odds.

At 15 minutes likeliness is you can see how it is going, and at 20 minutes it can be a cerrtainty, almost.

once played a 40 minute match, enemy were fed from 5 to 35, determination kept us in, we were about to lose at 39 minutes, next 50 seconds we rolled over them with not a single person going below 80% health and 50% mana, even while we were tanking turret shots. Nothing is concrete. We should have surrended but for saying fuck that shit, we were rewarded. So if you ever call for a surrender because you gave first blood, you deserve to lose.