Dota 2 Articles

Empire victorious at Techlabs Cup 2014, takes home $10,000

<p>Empire won the most recent installment of Techlabs cup after defeating NEXT.kz with 2-0 scores as they matched-up in both the upper bracket finals and the championship. They are taking home $10,000 for this win.</p>

EG dominates Team Liquid to win MLG T.K.O American Division

<p>The M.L.G. T.K.O. American Division Championship has finished, with Evil Geniuses taking down their rivals Team Liquid in a best of five series for the grand prize of $14,000. It took three games for Fear&#39;s boys to take down Team Liquid, with a score of 3-1.</p>

DK and IG to have substitutes for their WPC Matches tomorrow

<p>Due to visa application issues to Kiev for Starseries Season 9, DK and IG will both implement substitutes for their respective matches against Titan tomorrow in the WPC-ACE League.</p>

New Middle-Eastern servers coming soon

<p>The Valve representative Milton just announced the launch of the first Middle-Eastern datacenter located in Dubai. The Middle-Eastern servers will become accessible in about two weeks, allowing the Middle-Eastern players to play DotA2 with acceptable latency.</p>

Workshop contributors have the chance to reach the Secret Shop

<p>Through their official DotA2 blog, Valve announced a new T-shirt and poster design competition for workshop artists. The best entries will be available for purchase in Valve&#39;s own Secret Shop, at The International.</p>

Gfinity eSports LAN event delayed to August

<p>The G3 LAN event is an eSports event that was originally scheduled to take place during May in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. Citing scheduling conflicts and attendance issues, the date has been moved to Saturday August 2nd and Sunday August 3rd.&nbsp;</p>

TechLabs Cup to be held tomorrow

<p>TechLabs returns for their first LAN finals of 2014, with $20,000 up for grabs. The LAN finals will be played in Moscow over the course of the day, from 8:15 CET to ~20:00 CET.</p>

ESPL Season One Finale Premieres

<p>The ESPL Season One Finale will make its premiere on the 5th of April. Running over a short period of two days, the tournament will feature eight teams, and a $7,000 prize pool, which will increase as viewers purchase DotaTV tickets.</p>

UPDATED : DK.LaNm's Kiev visit in trouble?

<p>Earlier this week, Zhiceng &#39;LaNm&#39; Zhang lost his wallet containing important official documents required for his trip to Star Series playoffs. Today, LaNm released an update on the situation, claiming that he may actually manage to get his papers back in time.</p>

Ars-Art: DOTA is my life, my favorite hobby and work

<p>Sergey &#39;<a href="http://wiki.gosugamers.net/dota2/ARSART">Ars-Art</a>&#39; Revin has been a household name in the history of competitive DotA. A veteran from the Russian scene, his vast and successful experience includes numerous wins in famous teams such as The Retry, Moscow Five and Natus Vincere. After his departure from the Ukrainian team and with NS stepping up to claim the captain&#39;s mantle at Virtus.Pro, the man also known as Smile slotted seamlessly into the VP squad.</p>

TI4 tickets to be sold in a few hours, additional FAQ released

<p>With The International 2014 tickets going on sale tomorrow, Valve has released a set of Frequently Asked Questions to help ease the ticketing situation.</p>

RoX.KiS might have closed the Starladder gate for Alliance

<p>What many considered to be unlikely happened today; RoX.KiS beat both Natus Vincere and Cloud9, thus surpassing Alliance in the StarLadder rankings and possibly preventing the Swedes from participating at the playoffs. Read about the possible outcomes here.</p>