Dota 2 Articles

Details announced for joinDOTA MLG Pro League Season 1

<p>Scheduled to begin on January 24th and featuring a base prize pool of &pound;75,000, the first season will begin with European, American and Asian group stages with the Championship finals due to take place on April 10th in Columbus, Ohio.&nbsp;</p>

Canada Cup #4 announced with a $7,000 prize pool ft. FireDota

<p>Returning with its fourth iteration, the Canada Cup #4 will once again feature top teams from the Americas fighting it out with each other. This time around, the teams will be battling for a $7,000 prize pool, a step up from previous season&#39;s $4,000.</p>

GosuGamers update: New "Streams" Page

<p>GosuGamers receives another UI update as we&#39;ve revamped the streams page so you can view more channels and filter them better. Feedback is appreciated as always!</p>

StarLadder XI Day 1: Empire, Na'Vi, ASUS.Polar and NIP advance

<p>The first day of StarLadder Season XI has concluded with Team Empire, Natus Vincere, ASUS.Polar and Ninjas In Pyjamas picking up first round victories. They push Fire, Hellraisers, MVP Phoenix and Power Rangers into the lower bracket and, beginning tomorrow morning, only two of those teams will survive elimination.</p>

DAC Asia Day 5: TongFu, CDEC, EHOME, Big God qualify; HGT and SpeedGaming for Wildcard

<p>The Asian qualifier for the DAC has concluded and four teams sit on top and directly qualify for the main event. TongFu came out of seemingly nowhere to snag the group win, followed by CDEC-Gaming and EHOME. The last of the top four is squad of retired players Big God, whereas HGT and Speed Gaming will enter the wildcard playoffs.</p>

Behind the scenes of EHOME

<p>The behind the scene details of EHOME&#39;s return have been released in a recent news article on 178.com; it contained information about how the EHOME Dota2 squad will be ran and information on the investor that bought the EHOME brand.</p>

The themes of StarLadder Season XI

<p>On January 15th the Cyberarena in Kiev, Ukraine opens its doors for the eleventh season of StarLadder. The tournament features eight well known teams from around the world competing for a prize pool that currently stands at $124,050. But what are some of the main storylines from the teams going into the finals?</p>

Area 51 Dota2 Cup ft. Meepwn'd and Virtus.Pro

<p>The Area 51 Cup by Alienware will feature eight teams from Europe in an online single elimination bracket battling it out for their stake in the $10,000 prize pool. The tournament will also feature the newly formed team, Meepwn&#39;d.</p>

6.83b launched with minor nerfs and respawn time changes

<p>An update to the 6.83 map has been released, bringing some nerfs to Juggernaut, Faceless Void, Slark, Brewmaster, Tidehunter and Vengeful Spirit. The respawn timer formula has also changed, increasing the respawn time of heroes during the earlier stages of the game.</p>

StarLadder XI - iG and CDEC both denied visas, replaced by PR and Na'Vi

<p>The two Chinese participants of StarLadder XI LAN finals will most likely be unable to travel to Kiev, as their CIS visa applications were denied once again. Na&#39;Vi and Power Rangers will replace the two teams in the event, and the SLTV organization will possibly look for a new venue in Europe to avoid similar situations in the future.</p>

DAC Asia Day 4: CDEC remain top, HGT enter top four

<p>Only two days remain in the DAC Asian qualifier as CDEC Gaming retain the top spot for the third day in a row. The Chinese team currently sits six points above EHOME and TongFu Wanzhou, while HGT finally entered the top four with a victory against LAI Gaming.</p>

'I felt left out' - NiP.Era talks about his year and Lajons

<p>We managed to grab one of NiP&#39;s first Dota 2 players, Adrian &#39;Era&#39; Kryeziu, for an interview to talk about his rough year with Fnatic and his new teams Lajons that eventually got picked up by Ninjas in Pyjamas.&nbsp;</p>