Dota 2 Articles

LightOfHeaven to be the final Russian caster at TI3

<p>Vitalii &#39;v1lat&#39; Volochai announced on his twitter that&nbsp;Dmitriy &#39;LighTofHeaveN&#39; Kupriyanov will join the russian casting team at Seattle for The International 3. These two, combined with&nbsp;Roman &#39;CaspeRRR&#39; Lepyohin will be providing the russian coverage for the event.&nbsp;</p>

Akke: 'They try to ban out a player, but we always have options'

<p>Akke interviewed after their stellar group stage performance yesterday. He mentions things like play style differences, Chinese teams, gaming houses, the strategy they used against DK, the showmatch and other topics.</p>

DD.Dota is last invite to Dreamhack Summer 2013

<p>The team with the least amount of logo fanfare now heads to Dreamhack Summer 2013 after being given the last invite position.</p>

Orange.Ohaiyo: "Alliance's tactics are quite unique and well executed"

<p>GosuGamers.net caught up with Ohaiyo from Neolution Orange during the G-1 LAN finals. He talked to Eric &#39;ReiNNNNN&#39; Khor about their performance in the tournament, and their opponents from the East and the West. The interview can be found in both text and video format.&nbsp;</p>

G-1 League Day Three Blog by ReiNNNN

<p>The groupstage of the G-1 League is now over and ReiNNNN has a lot of to talk about the events today. He also heard some rumours about the reason for iG&#39;s poor performance. Read on for juicy stories.</p>

G-1 Day 2: Groupstage over, Alliance moves on to the final

<p>The group is played and done. As a surprise to many, Invictus Gaming - champions of TI2 gets eliminated first. The other team to leave the competition is Team Liquid whereas Alliance wins the group 5-0 and are seeded straight into the Grand Final.</p>

Netolic Pro League #3 teams revealed

<p>After their initial annoucements over two weeks ago, Netolic has revealed the participants for the third season of the Netolic Pro League.The third season will se 10 teams in the eastern tournament while the western tournament will have the usual eight teams.</p>

G-1 League day two blog by ReiNNNN

<p>A lot of exciting games on the first day of G-1 League, but it wasn&#39;t all rainbow and candies for ReiNNNN. Brought back by popular demand, our Dota 2 crew brings you yet another blog from Shanghai, China.</p>

G-1 Day 1: : LGD dominant, Alliance and Orange victorious as well

<p>The first day of G-1 League Finals in Shanghai has concluded and Alliance, Orange and LGD all remain victorious with two wins out of two games. Big favorite iG has disappointed so far.</p>

Two new tutorial quests and tournament tickets in this week's patch

<p>The in-game tutorial has been updated&nbsp;with two new quests. It is unlikely to see them ported into the main client anytime soon as they are still buggy and unfinished, but it is a first step.&nbsp;In addition,&nbsp;obligatory bug fixes have been added and&nbsp;three tournaments will now have a ticket to purchase in the Dota 2 Shop, among them the Raidcall D2L ticket.</p>

TI3 East: Rising Stars' alchemy wins them Game 3

<p><span style="font-family:tahoma;">Group B of The International 3 Eastern qualifier has concluded and RisingStars goes out ahead. The Chinese team&nbsp;will join LGD, RattleSnake and ViCi Gaming in the qualifier playoffs, which will continue&nbsp;after the G-1 weekend.</span></p>

Draft Analysis of G-1 League West and East

<p>The finals of the G-1 League are starting tomorrow, and for the first time since The International 2, Eastern and Western teams clash on LAN. We had a look at the picks and bans of the respective qualifiers for the tournament to figure out the similarities and differences of the scenes.</p>