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Faceless Void guide - the most picked hero at TI qualifiers
Quite recently, the qualifying matches for the long-awaited and beloved The International 11 thundered. These qualifiers were remembered for colorful matches, interesting drafts, and, in some cases, even unexpected winners of the qualifiers themselves. After all the matches played in all regions, there are only two slots left for the dream tournament. Last Chance Qualifier is the last chance to catch the chance provided by the organizers of the largest competition in Dota 2.
Why won't the prize pool of this TI break the record?
The International is a Dota 2 tournament that millions of fans around the world are waiting for every year. For a whole year, esports fans have been looking forward to seeing the best Dota 2 teams on the planet compete. From the very beginning, this tournament has gained the largest prize pool among all esports tournaments that have ever been held. This trend has grown every year, from TI1 from the first million dollars to TI10 - a crazy $40 million for participants. The TI10 Anniversary was a unique competition, a unique path for their Team Spirit winners, and a unique amount of prize money.
Professional Dota 2 influencer exposed Russian players involved in the organization of fake matches
Russian Dota 2 newsmaker "Morf-designer" released a large-scale investigation into a mobster group on his YouTube channel that organizes fake matches in the professional Dota 2 scene. He infiltrated this group via his agent.
NaVi vs. Outsiders: post-analysis of semi-final of TI11 CIS quals
Navi vs. Outsiders (VP) is the usual derby between these teams in CIS region. And it's in the TI11 qualifiers that they'll face off against each other. Or rather, there was already a match, and Outsiders (VP) won. Unfortunately for Outsiders (VP), they were beaten by Team BetBoom. The Russian club beat NaVi with a score of 2-0. Therefore, they will play in the Last Chance stage at The International 2022.
343 was fired as manager of Nigma Galaxy SEA
Former professional player Adam Erwann Shah "343" bin Akhtar Hussein has announced in Twitter that he was fired as manager of Asian team World Nigma Galaxy SEA.
Xtreme Gaming – the strongest team in LCQ right now?
From the beginning, the recognition of MMORPG China region has been dominant among other regions. As history has shown, Dota 2 did not become exceptional, and Chinese vulnerabilities did not turn out to be stronger among all the others on time exceptions, one has only to remember the absolute hegemony of the probability of occurrence of signs in 2014 and 2016. Almost every year, fans of the Chinese region have one or two teams that almost never go into the skills of other teams from other regions: once they were Vici Gaming, Wings, Newbee, LGD, LGD Forever Young. Each such team had a chance to get the coveted The International Cup - some teams found it, and some, although they didn’t find it, were very close. PSG.LGD is a team that stands out for a very high level of play and makes fans fall in love with its unmistakable game at speeds, but so far, all of them are ahead in the last three years of performances in vain.
SUNSfan and syndereN about Valve's attitude, Dota 2 future and community
Professional eSports analysts Troels "syndereN" Nielsen and Shannon "SUNSfan" Scotten shared their impressions over Dota 2 future and patch 7.32 as part of the We Say Things podcast.
First appearances of Primal Beast in Competitive Dota
On August 23, Valve released a new patch - 7.32. In this patch, the Primal Beast hero has been added to Captains mode, which means he is now available for selection in the competitive scene. Since the patch was released during the Riyadh Masters 2022, some teams dared to try it in their matches. At that moment, Doters only chose Primal Beast for the third position, that is, he could not even be flexed on lanes. Due to the lack of experience with the hero, the teams did not want to risk relegation from the tournament, so his pick rate was meager. Only the Nigma Galaxy team, namely MinD_ContRol, took more often than others, which did not help his team go far in the tournament.
Who is the richest Dota 2 player?
Unimaginable hype of a wide audience in eSports sphere increased after the Millenium victory of CIS Team Spirit at The International 10 (2021) in Dota 2 discipline. T.Spirit earned $18.2 million; that’s how each roster member became a dollar millionaire with a snap of fingers. For real, it’s not the first team that wins a truly rich prize. Therefore, the members of the TS immediately set Top-5 richest e-sportsmen list.
Dota 2 best heroes to boost MMR
Dota 2 has unique, and at times unfair, methods of ranking eSportsmen. Matchmaking points aren’t just numbers in your account profile that increases or decreases with each game you win/lose. Many cyber athletes strive to increase their MMR and spam 2-3 meta heroes.
How to be the strongest pos-3 player: AMMAR VS SabeRLight playstyles
From time to time, we observe how Dota 2 masters exploit non-meta heroes at professional tournaments. Especially its true story about pos-3 role. Once somebody wins and everyone instantly starts apeing their playstyle, especially in low-ranking pubs. In most cases, the result of such games obviously expected. That’s the theme I’d like to discuss today. Let’s analyze the real «success recipe» of 2 virtuoso pos-3 players in Western Europe.
Fnatic Dota player house was robbed during his game on Bounty Hunter
His Twitter post does not say whether he called the cops. He recently said that he found out about this "news" while playing ranked mm as Bounty Hunter. The player did not name the amount of money that was stolen.
How OG.Ceb realized the powerness of Windranger in Pro Dota
WR can easily harass any opponent's character due to excellent range, and attack animation and useful disable (Shackleshot) allows the hero to stun an enemy hero in a matter of seconds. And team OG captain was one of the first in that tournament who realized non-obvious WR power. In this text, we will analyze Ceb's item\skill build on this hero and his typical playstyle. Reworked Aganim's Shard is one of the key reasons of Ceb's masterpiece WR game.
NS: "TI11 casters'll stream from Singapore, analysts from another location"
Professional CIS Dota 2 streamer and analyst Yaroslav "NS" Kuznetsov on his personal Telegram channel commented on the news that The International 2022 group stage (as well as last chance qualifiers) will be covered by PGL remotely.