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The International 2016 Main Event
[]The International 2016 Main Event[] has finally arrived, and the doors to KeyArea will open at 9:00 a.m. PDT on Monday morning to welcome attending fans to the crowning tournament of the competitive Dota 2 season.
OPENING CEREMONY AND UPPER BRACKET QUARTERFINALS The broadcast stream[] will go live with The International Opening Ceremony at 10:00 a.m. PDT, to be followed shortly thereafter by top-seeded OG's best-of-three Upper Bracket series against MVP Phoenix. Once that has concluded, surging DC will take on Wings in the other best-of-three UB Quarterfinals series of the day.
The losing teams will drop into the Lower Bracket to play again on Tuesday, while the winners will earn a day of rest before playing their Upper Bracket Semifinals matchups on Wednesday.
LOWER BRACKET BEST-OF-ONE ELIMINATION ROUND While all four of Monday's Upper Bracket teams have some breathing room, the Lower Bracket teams face much harsher prospects in the games that follow.
TNC vs VGR; Secret vs LGD; Fnatic vs E Na'Vi vs Liquid. Half of these teams—many of them fan favorites—will play only a single match on the Main Stage of The International 2016. Facing off in best-of-one matchups, the losing teams will see their tournament hopes snuffed out. They'll have to wait another year to try and capture the elusive dream of becoming world champions.
For now, they all have a chance. For one more day, at least, the dream still flourishes. Stay tuned[] after the conclusion of the Upper Bracket matches to see which Lower Bracket teams can keep their hopes alive.
Abandoning a international ranked season mmr game
What happens? What if you get an abandon and you come back and win the game? Do you get the mmr or not? How about if it's during calibration?
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Change Your Pa55word: Dota 2 Forums Hacked
All right folks, you know the drill. The forums of Dota 2
s official website have been hacked, compromising details from almost 2 million user accounts, including usernames, emails and passwords. A database of 1,923,972 records has been exposed, according to Leaked Source, a search engine that lets internet users see if their details have been leaked. So get those keyboards ready, it’s time for a password change! … [visit site to read more]
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The biggest upset in the history of pro Dota 2 shocks the International 2016
NEED TO KNOWGet up to speed on the players, metagame, and results going into the International with our extensive guide to the tournament and teams. You can find all of our ongoing coverage of the tournament on this page. The fastest place to find VODs for each game is on Reddit, but you can also find them in the game client. Check out the current bracket standings on the official site.
Header image via the official Dota 2 Twitter account. Spoilers begin beyond
IF YOU WATCH ONE MATCH
, below. This year
s International is the fourth that I
ve attended, and I
ve never seen an upset on the scale that we saw today. If there was any doubt that Dota 2 is the world
s most internationally competitive esport, they can be safely put to rest.IF YOU WATCH ONE MATCH…
watch TNC vs. OG.THE MATCHESUpper bracket: Alliance vs. EHOMEEHOME might be a wildcard team, but their form in the group stage made them the favourites here. The draft and early laning phase was a game of wits that arguably Alliance came out ahead in, however: the Swedish team has always had great macro-level decision making and this is demonstrated by a series of smart lane swaps that denied EHOME a bit of crucial early momentum. In fact, Alliance
s gold lead and control of the map in the early game looked convincing.
META BUSINESSWhile LGD
s Necrophos pick took the number of heroes played at the International up to an unprecedented 104, themes are starting to solidify as games go on. As a support, Shadow Demon is becoming representative of a playstyle in much the same way Io is: in his case, however, he represents slow safe sieging with beefy carry illusions
typically Terrorblade, Alchemist, Naga Siren or Morphling. On the opposite end of the meta, however, is the pickoff and momentum-centric playstyle adopted by
in particular
s here that Axe and Sand King are finding their place in the game. Given her ability to fit into the former strat and counter the other, expect to see more Naga Siren as the week goes on.
However, Alliance simply gave too much away too regularly without getting enough in return. While ceding a lane or two might have been okay in order to maintain a farm advantage, EHOME soon took the game into their own hands. EHOME.old ELeVen
s Sand King was the star, here, with peerless Burrowstrikes catching two or three Alliance heroes every time. This kind of beautiful combo execution counteracted s4
s Storm Spirit
s natural evasiveness and even AdmiralBulldog
s tough-as-nails Bristleback couldn
t survive against the weathering magical assault from heroes like Sand King and Mirana. After Alliance were wiped in a gigantic teamfight around the 34 minute mark, EHOME took the first game.Facing relegation to the lower bracket, Alliance drafted very comfortably in game two: Lone Druid, Skywrath, Batrider, Phantom Assassin. EHOME stuck to their guns
or, I should say, they stuck to their stuns. With Sven, Sand King, Mirana, Elder Titan and Shadow Demon, they built a combo machine with five interchangeable parts: get caught by any single EHOME hero and Alliance faced getting caught by all of them.Alliance managed to score first blood, but traded for it. They lost their courier early, too, but showed a bit of life with some solid rotations that racked up kills on the board. EHOME countered with their own successful rotations, and when an Alliance attempt at top lane failed at the end of the laning phase EHOME began to pick up momentum. AdmiralBulldog couldn
t put in the kind of performance he normally does on Lone Druid because of the pressure he faced from EHOME
s pickoff power. Exchange after exchange came out in EHOME
s favour as Alliance waited for the big items that might help
but they didn
t. Having held Alliance
s cores down for the early game, EHOME paved the wave for a very farmed Sven to clean up late. EHOME progress, Alliance will fight for their lives in the lower bracket.
PLAY OF THE DAYDC support Saksa played the Dota of his life today, but I wanted to highlight this teamfight in particular. When LGD
s Dragon Knight and Necrophos jump on Gyrocopter, Saksa
s clutch Glimmer Cape and Cold Embrace save soaks up some huge cooldowns: Necro
s ultimate, Dragon Knight
s stun, precious BKB seconds. Then he has the presence of mind to leave, wrapping around the trees to hit LGD on retreat with a perfect ultimate. The camera is following Timbersaw, here, but watch that ice dragon go.
Upper bracket: Evil Geniuses vs. NewbeeThese two former International champions pulled out what looked like two different years of International drafts in game one, with Newbee sticking to current-meta favourites and EG getting nostalgic for heroes like Storm Spirit and Winter Wyvern that did work for them last year.Newbee
s approach paid off early, with kpii in particular showing up on Slardar. An early fight scored four kills for the Chinese team, the kind of momentum boost that normally persists in the current meta. EG shook off convention however and struck back immediately, winning the counterattack cleanly.As levels and items
particularly Blink Daggers
started to come EGs way, the fights went worse and worse for Newbee. This was one of the most solid team-wide performances of the day, with great aggression from Suma1L
s Storm Spirit supported by Zai
s phenomenal Io. EG pushed close to their limits but never exceeded them, commanding the map but not
as other teams have done
getting too far ahead of themselves and feeding back the advantage. A really solid victory for the defending champions.Game two was much closer, although it didn
t start out that way. EG picked up a head of steam early with solid rotations and great aggression (and a few lucky bashes) by Universe
s offlane Faceless Void. But Newbee countered with on-point Sand King-Skywrath Mage combos that made life very difficult for Fear
s Morphling. This put Newbee in a position to farm well and control the map as both teams settled into a long, passive evasive period.TOP PERFORMANCEThis was a day of incredible individual performances, but the standout has to be EG offlaner Universe on Faceless Void in game two against Newbee. EG had to work hard for this one, but Universe
s perfect Chronosphere plays
every single time it was needed, or so it seemed
made their job so much easier. Masterful consistency.Runner up #1: EHOME.old ELeVeN
s Sand King, game one against Alliance.Runner up #2: EG.Zai
s Io, game one against Newbee.
Great teamplay at 23:00 by EG saw momentum swing back the other way thanks to some great Timbersaw play by Suma1L. Newbee countered, and then EG countered the counter, and then an explosive Epicenter by kpii at the 31 minute mark made the statement that Newbee would not be going quietly. This became. In some ways, a game of offlaners: Universe with perfect Chronospheres setting up massive Elder Titan ultimates, kpii with fantastic Sand King aggression forcing EG to react.EG gave up some of their advantage by pushing too hard to end the game, a lapse in discipline that they weren
t punished as hard for in the first game. This allowed Newbee a foothold and took the game ultra-late: when PPD
s Shadow Demon has Boots of Travel, you know the game
s gone long. This one came down to a fight in mid, as yet another phenomenal Chronosphere forced buybacks out of Newbee, but their willingness to rush back to the fight was their undoing. EG wiped them again to take the series 2-0.
Lower bracket: OG vs. TNC Pro Team
After their shock relegation to the lower bracket yesterday, OG faced a relatively forgiving start to their comeback run. TNC Pro Team had defied expectations in groups, but nobody expect much from this Filipino team and their American captain on the main stage.Nobody will underestimate TNC now.HOTTEST JUKEHell, this might be the juke of the year. After a great teamfight from Newbee puts EG on the back foot, EG.Zai is left isolated with almost no health. He abuses the line of sight barrier in the Roshan pit to throw Newbee.kpii off, dodges Burrowstrike, then TPs away in full view of his opponent.
Early aggression from OG.Fly
s Witch Doctor went awry when, having chased TNC.Eyyou deep into dire territory, he attempted to deny himself to neutral creeps
only to be sniped for first blood by a great anticipatory Astral Spirit. OG ceded a kill lead to TNC early, in fact, although they came back quickly and took the better part of most trades for the early part of the game. OG also seemed to have the better draft, with Drow
s aura boosting Medusa and Enchantress with Faceless Void and Witch Doctor for control.Yet TNC made what they had work. Axe and Lifestealer in combination proved to be too much for many of OG
s squishy ranged carries, and TNC solidly outplayed OG at the 14 minute mark with a wraparound smoke gank that put the two-time Major champions on the defensive.They responded by taking Rosh, dodging fights and splitting the map and it worked, for a time: but a smart Blink Dagger pick up on Lifestealer made him harder to kite and OG had no good answer for the power of Sam H
s Axe. And all this time Kuku
s midlane Phantom Lancer was becoming more and more of a problem, stymying OG pushes by forcing them back to their base to defend.A stunning teamfight for TNC at the 45 minute mark opened up Roshan and OG
s mid barracks fell shortly afterwards. Building their net worth advantage towards 20,000 gold, TNC held off from rushing in and steadily out-split-pushed OG. This first game wasn
t a lucky win by an underdog against a favoured side: it was a solid outplay by a team that needs to be considered their equal (or better.)OG revisited comfortable old favourites in the second draft, picking up Tiny and Io
once the terror of the meta
as well as Ember Spirit and Dark Seer, a fantastic combo in its own right. But TNC got Huskar and Dazzle through the draft thanks to OG
s respect for Sam H
s Axe in the first game, along with Drow Ranger, Faceless Void and Vengeful Spirit. This wasn
t just a good draft: it was a shopping list of the current top tier.
THE DAILY JIMMYThere weren
t any particularly notable cliff plays today, so instead let
s celebrate the mind of TNC captain Jimmy
Ho. Here, he runs laps around one of OG
s towers with a haste rune for no other reason than to imply that he
s just placed a deep ward in their offlane. He didn
but OG waste two sentry wards looking for it anyway. What a player.
TNC traded Dazzle for a first blood kill on Miracle
s mid Ember Spirit, a trade they
d take any day. OG struck back however with impressive aggression into TNC
s safelane while Miracle scored a solo kill in mid. By 18 minutes, OG looked like they might be able to pin TNC into their base: but the defense was robust, scoring a favourable kill trade for TNC and forcing OG to respect TNC
s defensive supports. Striking back into the map, TNC picked up a 2-0 teamfight win after Ember Spirit
s Searing Chains latched onto creeps rather than Drow Ranger, his target. TNC took Rosh, and Drow reached the top of the net worth chart.Yet TNC seemed to have missed their window: Huskar had not single-handedly won the midgame for them, and it was getting late. In Tiny and Ember Spirit, OG had lategame power in spades. What TNC had was patience and excellent wards, putting them in a good position to avoid mistakes and hold the line against OG. But it really would have only taken a single big mistake to lose this.Once again a Faceless Void
this time Sam H
became the hero his team needed, picking up a Shadow Blade to ensure Chronosphere setups on Miracle
s Ember Spirit. Kills on OG
s cores became the key to TNC
s road back into the game, although they faced (and lost barracks to) Tiny-Io split push when they got too aggressive. Even so, OG couldn
t end the game. OG had a 20k networth lead at the 58 minute mark but it didn
t matter.Tremendous reactive play by Sam H
s Void and Eyyou
s Vengeful Spirit negated n0tail and Miracle
s farm advantage, and Huskar and Drow Ranger just kept getting scarier. In a desperation move, Miracle picked up a Divine Rapier with the hope of ending the game: and to be fair, he could have. A decked-out Ember Spirit presents a serious threat to defending players, as a single good Sleight of Fist critical hit can take a support out of the game entirely. In that regard, Miracle got a little unlucky
t summon the crit magic like MVP.QO could against him on day one. But OG were also forced to fight around their Rapier at the foot of their own ancient, and another perfect Chronosphere ended their tournament run.In a shocking upset, OG
easily the favoured team coming into the International
were eliminated 2-0 by the team expected to come 16th. It was soundly the biggest upset in the history of the competitive scene. All eyes are on TNC to deliver possibly the biggest underdog success story in the history of Dota, too.BEST DOTA NONSENSEWhat
s on the stream? Back at me. I have it! It
s those analysts for that game you love. Look again! THE ANALYSTS ARE NOW MUPPETS.
Lower bracket: Digital Chaos vs. LGDAnother oft-underestimated team, DC, put on a strong showing here against formidable Chinese team LGD
the squad that ousted Team Secret. They let LGD get Batrider in the draft only to instantly counter with Nyx and Shadow Demon. Coupled with Kunkka and Invoker, this gave them huge roaming kill potential that they used to good effect. It wasn
t always smooth running, however: a few misjudgements and lucky escapes saw them just miss a number of kills that would have built them a much more substantial lead.This was a close-fought thing, but DC refused to give up the little bit of momentum they
d earned early on. Resolut1on
s carry Naga Siren was the essential pick for DC, here, providing them with a vital teamfight reset button, slow siege potential, and even map control with illusions and a Gem of True Sight stripping away LGD
s vital observer wards. Growing impatient with being slowly whittled down by Naga Siren illusions, xiao8
s Batrider led a charge out of the LGD base which managed to catch Misery
s Kunkka. DC punished them for their over extension, however, saving Kunkka with a defensive Shadow Demon Disruption and rallying to wipe LGD and take the first game.Both teams got creative in the second draft, with DC picking up Winter Wyvern and out-of-favour carry Gyrocopter and LGD countering with the tournament
s first Necrophos: a character that we might see again due to his ability to disable vital late-game buybacks.LGD handily won their lanes this time with xiao8 in particular putting on a clinic as Beastmaster. Even so, DC anticipated how important early pushing was going to be to LGD
s draft and Winter Wyvern and Gyrocopter in combination proved to be an effective counter, preventing the Chinese team from taking that early lead and turning it into objectives. LGD resorted to roaming as a full team, arguably for far too long
t get enough done to justify the time spent away from farming, and DC started to inch their way back into the game.Not without losing a whole lot, though. Glimpse from MMY!
s Disruptor proved the bane of Misery
s Bounty Hunter
s life, but over time it became clear that Bounty Hunter was the only one of DC
s heroes that LGD could easily kill. They were getting outmaneuvered if not played, and DC itemised well to ensure that Necrophos couldn
t do the one thing he was supposed to do: ult somebody important. As Glimmer Cape and Linken
s Spheres came out, DC started to turn around LGD
s advantage.Although I
ve included him in a sidebar, it
s worth reiterating how vital Saksa
s Winter Wyvern was to DC in this game. He played perfectly, making multiple clutch saves throughout the game even as
occasionally
s cores got a little too aggressive. It was also Saksa that closed out the game in DC
s favour, picking up a Refresher Orb and almost immediately using it to land a massive double Winter
s Curse on Agressif
s Necrophos. Dead without buyback after a long back-and-forth game, LGD knew they were beaten. The team lead by a guy who got kicked out of Secret had just beaten the team that beat Secret.
The International 2016: Dota 2 Semi-Finals Pre-cap
s International 2016 is almost halfway done, and good grief, what a digital sportstorm it
s been so far. Champions have been slain, underdogs have dominated, and panels have turned into hand puppets for completely unstated reasons. Here
s everything you need to know (besides a puppet explanation) ahead of today’s upper bracket semi-finals.Obviously HERE BE SPOILERS: … [visit site to read more]
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Lockless and Trove Immortals
Announcing the Lockless Luckvase and Trove Carafe for The International 2016, two Immortal treasures now available in the Dota 2 store.
The Lockless Luckvase contains items for Bounty Hunter, Lion, Silencer, Wraith King, and a chance for a Rare Krobeling courier.
The Trove Carafe includes items for Pudge, Nyx, Centaur, Dazzle, Drow, and a chance for a Rare Beetlejaws the Boxhound courier.
Each treasure may also grant a Very Rare Golden Trove Carafe, which includes golden variants of the Immortal items contained in the standard Trove Carafe.
If you want to support your favorite broadcast talent at The International, autographed versions of the Lockless Luckvase and Trove Carafe can also be purchased in the Dota 2 store. Just select the desired caster from the dropdown menu in the store to inscribe their autograph on the contents.
These treasures are available for all players to purchase, but there are also achievements for Battle Pass owners to earn. For both the Trove Carafe and Lockless Luckvase, open one treasure to receive two Battle Levels, or open five treasures to receive four Battle Levels.
ATTENDEE ITEM DROPS As a special bonus to fans attending The International, we will be dropping in-game items to audience members inside of KeyArena. At First Blood in each individual game, 500 exclusive Attendee Treasures will drop, each containing visually-unique versions of nine different items selected from this year’s Secret Shop Immortals, and inscribed with a first-blood tracking gem. To be eligible, you must have a badge linked to a Steam account and be in the arena when First Blood occurs. We look forward to seeing you at The International.
THE INTERNATIONAL MAIN EVENT The International 2016 Group Stage has now concluded after four days of spectacular Dota. EHOME, OG, DC, EG, Alliance, Newbee, Wings, and MVP Phoenix all advance to the Upper Bracket of the Main Event. Everyone else faces the daunting challenge of first-round best-of-one games in the Lower Bracket on Monday, August 8 at KeyArena. The broadcast begins at 10:00 a.m. PDT, and all the games can be watched live on The International website[].
The International 2016: I Watched A Dota 2 Game From In The Rosh Pit
For The International 2016 I watched a game of Dota 2 [official site] entirely from the Roshan pit in virtual reality. Dota 2’s VR hub is all about offering viewers new ways in which to spectate matches, new ways to present information, and new vantage points from which to observe professional players’ comings and goings. You can sit in a darkened area watching a massive VR screen if you want, but you can also teleport yourself into the actual map and shrink yourself to life-size proportions as you follow pro-players about.Well, I wanted to see what it was like to be Roshan, or at least Roshan’s lodger
never moving outside the pit that the huge monster inhabits on the map and entirely dependent on distant sounds to make sense of what’s actually going on. Oh, and also seeing what a team attempting to fight Roshan looks like close-up, when suddenly a violent house-party of spells and punching breaks out and Roshan has to
go away for a while to recover.Here’s what happened: … [visit site to read more]
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Group Assignments and Wild Cards
[]GROUP STAGE ASSIGNMENTS The International Group Stage assignments are set, and the teams are already hard at work studying up on their first opponents of the tournament. Head over to the event website to check out the initial matchups. Each team will face every other team in their group in a best-of-two. The top four teams of each group will advance to the Upper Bracket of the Main Event, and the bottom four from each will proceed to the Lower Bracket. Visit the Group Stage results[] to follow along as the series unfold.
WILD CARD ROUND Before Group Stage play can begin on Wednesday, however, there are two tournament spots still on the line. The Wild Card round[] will take place on Tuesday, August 2 to further narrow the field to the final 16 teams. The broadcast will begin at 9:00 a.m. PDT tomorrow with Escape taking on compLexity while Execration face off against EHOME. Each of the four Wild Card teams aims to be safely slotted into the Group Stage by end of play on Tuesday, but only two will make the cut. Who will be the first to face elimination? Tune in tomorrow from 9:00 a.m. PDT to find out.
SHORT FILM CONTEST Today we will also be releasing the top Dota 2 Short Film Content entries into the client for Battle Pass owners to vote on, to be revealed during the tournament's Main Event. Start watching and help vote to decide which short film auteurs will walk away from The International victors in their own right.
Dota 2 forums reportedly hacked, usernames and passwords exposed
Dota 2's official forums were reportedly hacked on July 10, with nearly 2 million records accessed. These include email addresses, usernames and passwords, and IP addresses, according to leak notification site Leaked Source.According to that site, passwords on the vBulletin forum "were stored using MD5 hashing and a salt".
MD5 hashing is widely considered an outdated and ineffective form of data protection, and according to Leaked Source, over 80% of the hacked passwords can be converted to their plaintext value.
Leaked Source lists the different email hosts that have been compromised, with Google a huge majority at 1,086,139. "A lot" of those are disposable email addresses, but the report doesn't specify how many. Whatever the case, if you use the forums, it's probably best to change your password, and to then check whether you're listed on the Leaked Source website.Valve has yet to comment, but we'll reach out. Cheers to ZDnet for the heads up.
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General Discussions
How big will the Mirana nerf be
at this point, I cant imagine it not getting one....most picked hero in TI, can completely turn a game on its own.
that double starfall is just to much
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'Trust of the Benefactor' treasure rewards
When do we get it?
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