General DiscussionWhy was this a loss?

Its just one game bro.

Your ancient exploded because your team left simultaneously before the enemy team did. It shouldn't count, but this is the reason why it did.

because someone started abandoned after the horn

I know it's just one game, I just didn't know why it counted as a loss. Well done Andrewzy, you're a fucking champ.
Thanks Wink, all I wanted to know :)

??? any game with people that abandon/disconnect after the horn is counted in dotabuff.

I wasn't aware of that, just figured it was same rules as Dota 2 itself where it's not counted if it's before 5 minutes/before first blood. I've seen "no stats recorded" matches before so figured that might be what would normally happen. Clearly not :)

http://dotabuff.com/pages/faq

My match said "no stats will be recorded" but Dotabuff counted the match anyways, help!
Unfortunately we don't have a perfect process for determining whether or not a match "counts" or not. The Dota API does not supply enough information or a concrete process for making this determination. We have developed an in-house algorithm that has over 99% accuracy, but it cannot be sure in all situations.
If and when Valve adds support to the API that allows us to determine whether a match counted, and if each player received a win, loss or abandon, we will retroactively fix all matches and recalculate records. Please do not contact support regarding this issue, we are powerless to fix this.