2013年5月5日星期日

DSL groups confirmed, Starting May 10th

DOTA2 SUPER LEAGUE (DSL for short) will start on May 10th in Shanghai. Perfect World and Gamefy jointly host the event. 10 teams will compete in regular season, playoffs, semi finals, finals and relegation match for the prize pool of $135,000. The only non-Chinese team participating is DOTA2, DSLNeoES.Orange ( DOTA2, DSLLGD.Int excluded).

DOTA2, DSL


The first match will be the combat between DOTA2, DSLLGD.Cn and DOTA2, DSLViCi Gaming. Let’s expect its coming!

Teams

DOTA2, DSL

Rules
The tournament will feature a best-of-three round robin groupstage where the 10 teams will be split up into two groups. The top team of each group will get a direct seed into the semi-finals, while the 2nd and 3rd position teams will play each other in a miniature double elimination best-of-three bracket to determine the two teams who will join them. The semi-finals and finals will be played as best-of-five series without a double elimination bracket. Finally, the 4th and 5th placing teams will play best-of-one series in order to determine which teams will be considered for relegation for the following season.

Schedule

DOTA2, DSL

2013年5月2日星期四

13 TI3 invited teams announced

The highlighted International 2013 will be held in Seattle's Benaroya Hall from August 7th to August 11th with 16 top DOTA2 teams competing for the honor.

 
We have reported the news of invited DK and Na'Vi before, and today the last 2 invited teams are also announced - LGD.int and MUFC. Thus, the invitation roster of 13 teams has been confirmed while the remaining 3 teams will come from East Qualifier, West Qualifier and Wildcard event (the runners-up of the East and West qualifiers will be allowed to take part in the Wildcard event).

Let’s look forward to the coming of the visual feast!

13 invited team roster

2013年5月1日星期三

Empire invites twiSta and Mitch,bench Vigoss

It has been unsteady period in Team Empire since Na`Vi picked Gleb 'Funn1k' Lipatnikov, and then Goblak and Silent were kicked out due to bad performance. The team is in urgent need of regrouping. Recently Team Empire starts to pick up new members and recruits Visar 'twiSta' Zymberi and Damir 'Mitch' Skaricic. Hope their joining brings glories to the team.

 
Laning

With the departure of Vigoss and the future acquisition of a new hard laner, this will allow Scandal to reclaim his solo mid role where he formerly thrived. As twiSta and Mitch take up support roles, this also means that Vladislav 'blowyourbrain' Morozyuk will remain the primary carry player of the team, however he does have a capability to play some support heroes as well, meaning that there may be room for role switching on his part. The further flexibility of the lanes from this new Empire squad will be determined largely by who their final player will be, whether he is a more straight up offlane specialist or a veteran who has done it all, only time will tell.

Announcement by the club:
The following statement was made by team manager Sergei 'AnahRoniX' Bikovskiy:

We are glad to welcome new players in our roaster. Guys will continue hard training to prove their name of TOP team. Ivan depart`s from training in the basic roster for a while, but remains a part of our team. Cheer for us and waiting for updates!

Statement by Visar 'twiSta' Zymberi, the new member:
It's been a long time since I was involved with the competitive scene. But I am very happy and excited to announce that I have finally found the team and the players that I truly want to work with. I am very thankful that Empire as an organization but also the players have put so much trust and faith in me and I will make sure that we won't disappoint. I won't sit and tell you guys that WE WILL BE THE BEST EVER, cause that would be a lie, but I can tell you that WE WILL WORK THE HARDEST and have a very strict training regime to become the best. Once again I would like to thank my team mates for such an opportunity and Empire and it's sponsors. Keep supporting us!

Statement by Damir 'Mitch' Skaricic, the new member:
When I was contacted by Empire, I felt delighted to be offered a chance like this as this team consists of some of the best players not just in the Russia, but of the whole Dota 2 scene itself. Having players like Scandal and Blowyourbrain in team is something that every Dota 2 player would prefer. We are full of enthusiasm and looking forward to complete the roster and training with the new team after a long time out of the competitive scene.

Team Empire current roster

Visar 'twiSta' Zymberi (Captain)
Vladislav 'blowyourbrain' Morozyuk
Roman 'Scandal' Sadotenkov
Damir 'Mitch' Skaricic
To Be Announced
Ivan 'Vigoss' Shinkarev (6th player)

Sergei 'AnahRoniX' Bikovskiy (Manager)

2013年4月29日星期一

DOTA2 Update: Skywrath Mage, Bristleback and Slark Added in Captain’s Mode

Bug fixes are the tone of the DOTA2 patch log this week as well as Bristleback, Slark and Skywrath Mage arriving in the captains mode. There are also some changes of Abaddon, Tauren Chieftain and Tresdin. Below is the changelog:

DOTA2, Update
 
GAMEPLAY

- Enabled Drow and Tusk in Captain's Mode (Tournament Version).
- Enabled Bristleback, Slark and Skywrath Mage in Captain's Mode (Latest Version).
- Invoker: Fixed Cold Snap being purgable.
- Skywrath Mage: Fixed hitbox being too small.
- Slark: Fixed Shadow Dance giving Slark flying vision.
- Slark: Fixed Shadow Dance granting passive bonuses to Slark illusions.
- Slark: Fixed an issue causing Shadow Dance's passive modifier to not update in the UI, despite being active.
- Slark: Fixed Dark Pact continuing while Slark is dead.
- Slark: Essence Shift counters on both Slark and enemy heroes will show the total duration ( i.e. the time that the most recent stack will expire.)
- Slark: Fixed a number of incorrect spell interactions with Dark Pact.
- Slark: Fixed a number of horizontal movement ability interactions with Pounce.
- Troll Warlord: Fixed Berserker's Rage bonus damage not being applied as base damage.
- Tusk: Fixed Frozen Sigil not affecting magic immune units.

ECONOMY

- All Defense 2 War Dogs are now Vintage quality.
- Dota 2 Vintage quality items can now be traded on the Steam Community Marketplace.

WORKSHOP

- Added HUD Skins to the Workshop Importer.

2013年4月28日星期日

The International 3 Qualifiers Detailed

Apr 27 the first news from Valve about The International 2013 has finally arrived, with some details of the main event which will be hosted from August 7th - 11th, once again to be held at aBenaroya Hall in Seattle. The qualifiers will be as last year split into 2 regions, the West being hosted by The GD Studio and the East being hosted by Beyond the Summit. Livestreams and full coverage for this great event will be provided by gameguyz.

DOTA2, The International 2013, qualifiers
 
While there are many missing details such as the structure of the qualifiers, and the times of the matches the dates for the tournament have been released:

Western Qualifier: May 13th - 19th, 2013
Eastern Qualifier: May 20th - 26th, 2013

 
Recently iG becomes the first team invited to the tournament. We also now know that there will be a total of three slots available for qualifier teams, with both regions receiving one qualifier slot straight up, while the runners up of both regions will play for the third wildcard slot at the event, akin to how Mousesports and World Elite played for the final spot at the tournament last year, after MUFC had to back out due to complications during their travel to the event. This also means that there will be a total of 13 teams which will receive straight invites to the event.

Please click here to review more about The International 2012!

2013年4月25日星期四

iG,the First Team Invited to The International 2013

As champion of The International 2012, Invictus Gaming becomes the first team which is invited to The International 2013. All the members are happy about it. It fully proves the international influence of iG.

iG members showing off their invitations

 
iG's deserved invite should be no surprise as they have been dominant for over a year, especially with their recent domination and win in G-League season 2. As the winner of The International 2012, iG will return this year to defend their crown.

Invictus Gaming roster:

Fei Chi 'Ferrari_430' Luo
Yao 'Zhou' Chen
Cen 'YYF' Jiang
Hong Da 'Faith' Zeng
Hock Chuan 'ChuaN' Wong

Which team will be the next to be invited to The International 2013? Na’vi or some other team?

Please leave your comment below and let’s discuss together.

2013年4月24日星期三

ARS ART officially Joins Virtus Pro

Ten days ago Virtus.Pro announced that Sergey "ARS-ART / Smile" Revin is going to be a temporary stand-in, since Alexander "Santa" Koltan had been benched. Whereas today, on April Fools' Day, they state that Sergey has become a full-time player. Even though it can be regarded as a joke, our editorial staff tends to believe that this is a legit announcement. At least, it is not as absurd as el'Pride claiming to drop their male and female Dota 2 squads and sign Gambit Gaming's League of Legends team.

Why do we think it is true? First of all, Virtus.Pro managed to step their game up significantly over this short period of time. They were crowned as The Defense #3 champions, having defeated Fnatic.EU in the Grand Final this Saturday. Moreover, yesterday VP finished second at their own Russian Dota 2 League, having lost to Dignitas.

DOTA2, Virtus.Pro, ARS-ART
 
Secondly, all of us could see what Ilya "Illidan / Airman" Pevcaev meant, when he said that Sergey allows them to create more openings around the map. It can be exemplified by his blink-stun initiations on Nyx Assassin in the first game of The Defense #3 Grand Final. Additionally, it is worth highlighting his play on Jakiro in both Grand Finals - Sergey created a lot of space and time for his team with perfect stun positioning in team fights.
 
Last, but not least. There are no real openings for ARS-ART in other CIS powerhouses. Even though he had played in international rosters before, it seems like it is not worth refering to it - VP have proven to be a fearsome opponent, so there is no reason to leave "The Bears".

 
Virtus.Pro roster:
 
 Yaroslav 'NS' Kuznetsov
Sergey 'KSi' Kuzin
Oleg 'Crazy' Kolensichenko
 Ilya 'Airman / Illidan' Pevcaev
 Sergey 'ARS-ART / Smile' Revin