For those who might have missed the most important news from the past week in the competitive Dota 2 scene, here is a short recap.
The first details of the Boston Major are here!
In an announcement on their Dota 2 blog, Valve released the first snippets of information about the first of two majors in the 2016/2017 season. The main event of the Boston Major will be held at Wang Theatre, a 3600-seat venue in the heart of Boston. The group stages will take place on the 3rd and 4th of December to determine seeding for a unified playoff bracket. Sixteen teams will compete in fierce, single-elimination playoffs, marking a departure from Valve’s traditional use of double-elimination brackets. The matches will all be best-of-three up until the grand final, which will be best-of-five.
Northern Arena BEAT Invitational announce the last invites, TI6 Champions are going to Canada
The last three invites for the LAN finals of Northern Arena BEAT Invitational went to The International 6 Champions Wings Gaming and to TI6 participants Team Liquid and EHOME. They will be joining the already invited Evil Geniuses, Digital Chaos, Alliance, and compLexity Gaming. Friendship, Dedication, Love (FDL) are rounding up the eight participants list after they upset both NP and Infamous in the qualifiers to claim their ticket to Montreal.
Northern Arena BEAT Invitational participants list:
Wings Gaming
EHOME
Digital Chaos
Evil Geniuses
compLexity Gaming
Alliance
Team Liquid
FDL
Battle Cup Changes - from weekend warriors to Dota 2 Major champions
With the release of the Fall 2016 Battle Pass (more info on that here) a new season for Battle Cup was announced with one more bonus for the best players. They will be invited to an end-of-season Champions Cup and the Tier-8 winners of that will be eligible to form a team with other tier-8 winners to compete in one of four Spring Major Battle Cup Qualifiers. Win that with your formed team and you get a spot in the Spring Major Regional Qualifiers.
Newbee takes over Tongfu's Dota operations
Nearly two years after shifting their focus from tier one teams to bringing up new players in the Chinese Dota2 scene, TongFu has decided to pull-out of running a team, preferring to sponsor Newbee to run their team instead. In addition to this, the announcement made by the two organizations state that TongFu's Dota team will be based in Anhui, China, and that the team will still focus on their goal of providing competitive experience to new Chinese players.
Extract of statement by Newbee and Tongfu:
A bit over six months after Secret’s management was firstly called out by Evany Chang for delayed payments to their players, Jacky 'EternaLEnVy' Mao makes a rather long blog post in which he is disclosing the same issues and a bit more. “A Secret Story” by EternaLEnVy talks about the organization still owning him money, unpaid salaries for months, percentages cuts that were never discussed, unfulfilled streaming deals with Panda TV and ends with a hefty part entirely dedicated to a very dark face of Clement 'Puppey' Ivanov.
OG, EG, DC and Wings are going to The Summit 6, Secret withdraws
The sixth iteration of Beyond the Summit's annual tournament is set to be host from October to the finals in November. The tournament boasts a solid $100 000 USD prize pool, but more than that, it will be a valuable training ground before the Boston Major set to be held in December. In the wake of recent drama, invitees Team Secret have announced their withdrawal from the tournament. While Secret withdraws, the tournament still plays host to Wings Gaming, OG, Evil Geniuses, and Digital Chaos with the four other slots to come from qualifiers in China, SEA and NA.
Crushing performance from Imperial at the WESG Regional Finals brings them the first LAN victory
Imperial’s fresh game approach with unconventional drafts in a meta that stagnates for months, took their adversaries by surprise. Support Pudge, mid lane cores like Warlock and Silencer, plus an offlane Centaur were Imperial’s weapons last weekend in Kiev.
WESG Europe+CIS regional qualifiers final standings:
1st place: 
Imperial ~$30,000
2nd place: Horde ~$18,000
3rd place: Alliance ~$9,000
4th place: 
Team Ukraine ~ $6,000
5th place: 
Comanche ~$3,000
6th place: 
Team Romania ~$3,000
7th place: Fantastic Five ~$3,000
8th place: Ne Rus? ~$3,000
