A lot happens during a week in Dota 2, and not everything makes headlines. Here's what you might have missed during the last week.
Nothing is ever stagnant or dull when it comes to the Dota 2 scene. Amidst the DPC league play, tournaments, Majors, patches, and roster swaps, more happens that don't always make the headlines.
This is a bit of what happened in the last week that might have gotten missed.
- Anatoliy "Lefitan" Krupnov kicked from Hydra, who had allegedly been accused of betting on Hydra games and cheating, has been removed from the roster after it was confirmed he indeed was. Lefitan had the highest average deaths per game (8.94) during Tour 2 of the 2023 DPC EEU Upper Division.
- Alliance’s new SA team, Alliance.LATAM has been dropped after the second tour of the DPC season. They came in 3rd place in the Winter Tour Division I but then took a disappointing 6th place in the Spring Tour Division I.
- Tundra has been playing DreamLeague - ESL Pro Tour with a stand-in for Martin "Saksa" Sazdov, who had decided to take a break until the Berlin Major. Tundra is currently one of eight teams still left competing in Group Stage 2 of the event. Only four teams will advance to the playoffs starting April 22nd.
- The 'big one' Dota 2 patch drop date has been leaked. It is supposed to hit on April 20th —midway through DPC Division II league play, two days before the playoffs of DreamLeague - ESL Pro Tour, and less than a week before Berlin Major. The biggest catch of this news is that the information was only officially released to Berlin Major teams.
- Note: There is no official word from Valve on the patch date.
Berlin Major
Eighteen of the world's best teams will compete for the lion's share of the $500,000 prize pool and 2700 DPC points between April 26-May 7th.
The event will begin on April 26, but fans will be able to watch live at Velodrom Arena from May 5-7th.
The Velodrom, one of Berlin's largest concert venues, is an indoor track cycling arena with a capacity for 12,000 people.
- Read Dota 2 Berlin Major information announced
GosuGamers is excited to give one lucky fan a chance to see the top Dota 2 teams of the world compete in Berlin soon.
So head over to the GosuGamers Twitter account. Follow, like, retweet, and reply for your chance!
The contest closes on 20/4/2023, 2359hrs GMT+8 (5:59 pm CEST). T&Cs applicable. More information on T&Cs HERE
