Dota 2 Articles

Selangor Cyber Games announced, over $7000 up for grabs for Malaysian squads

<p>The Malaysian LAN tournament Selangor Cyber Games will take place from December 13th through 14th, opening with an open offline qualifier that leads to the tournament&#39;s finals. The two winners of the qualifier will join some of the strongest teams in the country in the battle for the ~$3000 first place prize.</p>

D2L: Evil Geniuses secures ticket to Las Vegas

<p>The Western Division of the D2L has finished its groupstage and sees North-American powerhouse Evil Geniuses secure the first spot, thus qualifying them for the LAN finals in Las Vegas. They will join the likes of CDEC and LV-Gaming, with only one spot left to be decided.</p>

DC Captains Draft Invitational: VP, Secret, Tinker and Na'Vi survive

<p>The battle for the final spot in the playoffs of XMG CD Invitational turned into a thriller, with the fate of EG, PR and Na&#39;Vi being decided in the final game of the groupstage. In the end, Na&#39;Vi took down PR with a 2-0 score to secure the fourth spot and the ticket to playoffs.</p>

Dota 2 Semi-Pro League in full force, feat. Newbee.Y and more

<p>The Chinese scene is currently seeing quite a few promising amateur teams compete with each other as the Dota 2 Semi-Pro League is in full force. The top 10 teams are playing for two spots in the Dota 2 Asia Invitational, details of which have yet to be announced.&nbsp;</p>

DreamLeague Phase 3: Tinker vs. VP to kick off playoffs

<p>After the demise of Alliance and MVP.Pheonix in DreamLeague phase two, the six remaining teams will battle it out in phase three at DreamHack from the 27th till 29th of this month.</p>

UPDATE: Meracle and First Departure unable to attend The Summit 2

<p>Recently there has been new and rumors about the possibility of First Departure pulling out of The Summit 2 due to some of the players on First Departure being unable to take time off to travel to take part in the lan finals held in LA. We talk to their manager to find out more.</p>

Edooley presents: This week in China #1

<p>GosuGamers&#39; Edooley has collected a few interesting stories from China over the week and we present to you the highlights that didn&#39;t make the news. This week, we have Hao&#39;s thoughts on the IeSF tournament, the story of &quot;One Hand God&quot;, the all girls Team Mulan and a trip to the bathhouse with Burning and co. In addition, Newbee has their very own branded cars.</p>

New format announced for The Summit 2

<p>The five day Beyond the Summit hosted tournament will feature a new best-of-five single elimination format in the playoff stages. But first, all six teams will play the other teams once.</p>

Synergy League LAN finals postponed until 2015, will take place in new venue

<p>The offline finals of Synergy League, originally scheduled to begin on November 28th, have been postponed. The organization explained that it was impossible to hold the event in November, due to teams cancelling their participation and the rising cost of the venue that would house the finals.&nbsp;</p>

Alex Garfield AMA - "Behind the scenes, the eSports industry is cutthroat and extremely political"

<p>GoodGame owner Alex Garfield has gone public and conducted an AMA on Reddit, talking about his agency, his reasoning for sponsoring multiple teams, players and more. He also confirms that Team Tinker is one of his teams and that Team Secret was also a prospect but negotiations fell through.&nbsp;</p>

DreamLeague Phase 2: MVP.Phoenix and Alliance out, C9 and EG secure first two spots

<p>The 2nd phase of the DreamLeague Season 2 has concluded and both Alliance as well as MVP.Phoenix have been eliminated from the tournament. Cloud 9 and Evil Geniuses are the top 2 teams who will dodge the first leg of the upcoming third phase.&nbsp;</p>

Merlini blog post about player attitude in games

<p>As a celebration for 50 000 followers on twitter, Ben &quot;Merlini&quot; Wu shares his personal experience about the different kinds of mindsets he has encountered while playing Dota. In his blog post, he also shared some tips on how to have a positive mindset.</p>