WCG2012 World Finals Spot on Dec 02. 2012

Dota2 WCG2012 World Finals is just around the corner. Let’s step into the spot and see preparations before the event. Here I show you a photo of these preparations , let's see it together!

Dota2: All the groups are ready for WCG 2012

Line-ups, match lists and tournament itinerary for this year's World Cyber Games have been released. China enjoys strong representation in WCG débutée Dota 2. The hosts are sending in Invictus Gaming and G-1 runner-ups DKas the likeliest winners of groups A and B respectively.

Malaysia and Asia champions and #7 in the GosuRankings Orange Esports hail in as the other heavy favorites to make the playoffs, placed in DK's group along with Uebelst, Shechki and LoF. On the other side of the ring, Elite Home Players, Minerski.kor, DevilMice and Garaj.Gaming will be the ones to join iG's group and challenge the hegemony of the TI 2012 champions. In case of mousesports, who qualified under the tag uebelst, the team will play with Leaf, not with Black.

Let's waite for this match together!

DreamHack Winter 2012 : NTH Gets the Championship

Dota2 DreamHack Winter 2012 is now ended. Loda who had left Zenith met his old friend Akke in the country and joined NTH. In the end, they defeated EG with the score 2:1 and got $14,000. Loda and Akke were so happy. Let’s share the moment they get the championship! We all congratulate them !!！

Dota 2: Summary of DreamHack Day 1

First day at Dota2 DreamHack Winter 2012 Corsair Vengeance Cup is over and here's a little summary of the day from Jönköping.The headline of the day was definitely XBOCT saying "We need to go to China before The International." He was kinda complaining about being stuck in Europe, fighting lower class teams in competitions while the Chinese teams get better and better fighting themselves.  Today, Na'Vi had two tough games against AL and 3DMAX in group A, but the games were probably a bit closer than necessary because of the picks from Na'Vi's side.  

This is a little summary and let's pay more attention to DreamHack Winter 2012 together!

Dota 2: DreamHack Winter Corsair Vengeance Cup Groups were announced

DreamHack admins have released the groups of DreamHack Corsair Vengeance Dota 2 Cup. 4 groups of 4, here they are. The four teams Na'Vi, EG, Empire and dignitas have been seeded to prevent them ending up in same groups. The two teams which will qualify from the BYOC (Bring-Your-Own-Computer) tournament, are already seeded into the two groups which will be played on the second day. The recent cancellations resulting in 4 Friends + Chrille, Out of Tangos (ex-DN Gaming) and Rigg3d replacing the teams Meet Your Makers, mTw and ClanPoland.

Which team or group do you support? 

MYM and Clan Polandwill not participate in DreamHack Winter

On Thursday, 22 December, the DreamHack Corsair Vengeance Dota 2 Cup starts with 14 predetermined teams and 2 BYOC slots. Last week, MYM already told the community they would get a new lineup, by now known as dd for which the decision about a continuation of the MYM time will be made on 1 December.
Now it's the two clans mTw and Clan Poland who cancel their trip. mTw has been invited to DreamHack Winter as the winner of DreamHack Summer. In June, they took down Na'Vi in the DreamArena Extreme in a 2-1 grand final. Clan Poland was already the standin for ScaryFaceZ, the Ukrainian team which qualified in one of the three online tournaments, but made clear very fast they would not be able to go.

Dota 2: LGD are number 1 in G-1

The G-1 playoff phase for Dota2 was held and completed this weekend. LGD goes undefeated and they win both their semi final vs iGand their final vs DK - without dropping a game. How exciting!
The G-1 League groupstage started off with LGD playing vs iG, the champions of the International #2. It was a one-sided story where iG basically destroyed LGD. But in the end, LGD came back - stronger than ever. They got their revenge for the opening of Group A when they crushed iG's dreams of winning G-1, using one of iG's signature heroes; Luna. LGD seem fond of her as she was played to perfection by Sylar again in both games of the final vs DK. 

Now, do you love this team than ever or? This team is nearly a legend...

UA.Shechki in WCG

Do you know the teamKIEV - UA.Shechki? It is a Ukrainian All-Star team formed solely to compete at this year's World Cyber Games. They won the national qualifier of their country and booked their tickets to the LAN finals held in Kunshan, China.

The Dota 2 tournament of WCG Ukraine featured eight local teams, which were split into two groups. Second and first place finisher of each division would later go head to head in two single knock-out rounds to determine the champion.

DotA2 Lovely Champion Pictures

DotA2 champion pictures.All look very pretty. Let’s appreciate these lovely champions. If you like, you can also collect any of them. Here I show you two pictures.

DotA 2: WCG 2012 Grand Final, do you Interested in it?

Now we know the list of groups of WCG 2012 Grand Final Dota2. Remember that Grand Final of WCG will be conducted in Kunshan, China from 29th of November – 2nd of December! Do you want to go to to have look. It will be certainly very lively there. Let's look forward to it!

Dota 2 Sexy Cosplay of Lady Players

Let’s appreciate the sexy Cosplay from Dota2 lady players Lina and Crystal Maiden.

Here I show you one of them, sexy,cool or?

Dota 2 Update - November 9th, 2012

New update of Dota 2. There are no new heroes, but Valve released new wards and modes!

Skills

 Dark Seer:

Fixed Wall of Replica illusion creation timing (affects instantly dying illusions mainly).

 Dragon Knight:

Fixed Elder Dragon Form not splashing on siege units..

 Enchantress:

Fixed being unable to be healed by Nature's Attendants if you are sleeping.

Fixed Impetus not being castable on Magic Immune enemies (still does no damage if immune on impact).

 Gyrocopter:

Homing Missile now starts 150 units in front him.

 Huskar:

Fixed Life Break not properly dispelling buffs on you when cast.

 Lich:

Fixed Chainfrost not working with Refresher.

 Phantom Lancer:

Fixed not reproducing his abilities (including stat bonuses) correctly on his Dopplewalked illusion.

Fixed Dopplewalked illusions never Juxtaposing.

 Shadow Shaman:

Fixed Mass Serpent Wards having no cast point.

 Silencer:

Fixed Illusions stealing intelligenc.

 Spiritbreaker:

Fixed case where he could interrupt his Charge by previously having given an attack order to his target.

 Templar Assassin:

Fixed Psionic Trap's nearby detonate ability not always working if the trap is too far.

 Undying:

Zombies now correctly disable Blink Dagger.

 Venomancer:

Fixed Poison Sting duration not increasing per level.

 Visage:

Fixed Familiars agroing neutrals when flying over them.

 Wisp:

Fixed his Spirits dying if he gets cycloned or purged.

Fixed Tether targeting magic immune allies.

 Witch Doctor:

Fixed Paralyzing Casks not bouncing between Magic Immune enemies (doesn't stun them, but doesn't cause the bouncing to end prematurely).

Fixed Death Ward not bouncing on magic immune enemies.

Fixed heroes being able to get stuck on each other in rare cases.

Fixed neutrals seeing and killing other sentry wards (as well as other non-attacking ward-type units).

Fixed Arcane Boots and Mekansm being unable to affected allied invulnerable units.

Fixed Orb of Venom doing lethal damage.

Fixed Neutral Gnoll's poison attack doing lethal damage.

Fixed Vladmir's Offering applying the aura when they owning unit is dead.

Gameplay

• Fixed stacking on each other heroes.

• Now neutral creeps don`t attack Sentry Ward, Observer Ward, Healing

Ward, Nether Ward.

• Arcane Boots and Mekansm can be used for invulnerable units.

• Now poison of Orb of Venom doesn`t deal fatal damage.

• Poison of Neutral Gnolls doesn`t deal fatal damage anymore.

• Aura of Vladimir’s Offering doesn`t affect allied units anymore, if owner is dead.

UI

• Movement speed on the HUD is now written as a total rather than two seperate numbers.

• Fixed Disabled Tranquil Boots movement speed.

• Updated Tranquil boots disabled icon.

• If you miss the queue for Diretide and accept a requeue, you will be put back in the Diretide queue..

• Adding chat bubble visualization of your current mic volume.

• Voice Threshold and Mute Cobroadcasters settings should now persist when the game is restarted.

AUDIO

• Added voice auto-gain. All voices are now brought up to a normal level. Turning off microphone boost in Windows settings is recommended..

• Reduced the delay on voice transmission.

iG are on the Top!

Transfer from Dota to Dota 2 and diverse is really stressful experience for every team! "What`s the difference?" – you can say. Nevertheless they are two different games, which are supposed to be played in different ways. More over it seems that being at the top of their career, the team will never decay! Taking into account that the members of the team were together for more than one year, one can surely say that they`ve done a lot for such a short period!

Let`s take a look at their achievements.

They got into the list of Sendi Mutiara Multimedia tournament`s participants in December 2011, but the team wasn`t considered as the potential winner. Though,  iG managed to demonstrate their superiority over main opponent,  Nirvana.cn! For the victory at the tournament  iG got18.000$ and the right to be named as the best team of DotA arena!

After heavily loaded season,  iG faced with  DK! At the final games which were hold according to the rules of bo5 system, teams won matches one by one. The first match iG won, the 2nd -  DK, the 3rd -  iG, the 4th -  DK, and in the last match  iG defeated opponent, and won the main tournament prize 31.500$.

At group stage they performed excellent game! 13 win and only 1 lose! Then they played with  Na'Vi, who kicked  iG out of W table right into L table. Then iG began to smash the teams one by one and at the final game of L table they faced with   LGD, whom they defeated with the score 2-1. In the result, the final game of TI2 became the rematch in which  iG played-up  Na'Vi and won 1.000.000$ and got the "Aegis of the Immortals" as a trophy!!!

At the semi-final they played-up  Dt^Club with the score 2-0. They smashed-up LGD with the score 2-0 at the final leaving them no chance for the victory. Won 31,670$ as a reward and sword in addition to the shield from TI2. Are the iG`s players really so strong? Did the Seattle really become the turning point of the professional Dota 2 arena? It is not obvious yet.

Whimsyshire is not Designed for Farming

Previously in Diablo 3, many players would like to farm in Whimsyshire. As time goes by, Whimsyshire is not that popular any more. Recently, a player asked on the community if there were still players farming Whimsyshire. Community manager Lylirra said Whimsyshire was a place of fun. She will go there. But it’s not a farm spot.

Lylirra

Whimsyshire is actually one of my favorite places to farm whenever I'm looking to gear up another character, or help out a friend do something similar. It's nice change of pace (and scenery) and, hey, I get to punch bears in the face. So there's that.

As for super serious farming? Nah, not really. It's definitely not my preferred spot, but it wasn't really designed to be that. It's a fun addition to the game, for sure, but not necessarily a core part of it. :)

Interview with Vladimir PGG Anosov

After break-up of a new team TR,  Vladimir “ PGG ” Anosov actively begun to learn stream craft and literally in a week became one the most popular streamer in CIS with a stable audience more than 2000 viewers. From the interview with Navi-Gaming, you will know a lot of backstage details of The International 2, about modern European Dota and plans for the future.

Hello Vova! It`s already passed two month after The International 2, two teams M5 and TR broke-up,  now you don`t play with any of them. So, here is the question – What is your occupation now?

Hello. I decided to take a rest from Dota and now I`m ready for new deeds. I didn`t get invitation from already existing teams, that`s why I gather “New team” in the rear. .)

 What happened with TR and why didn`t you get high-sky success at the Starladder 3 and the others tournaments?

Everything was great with TR, we gathered the team of the friends who more or less understand how to play this game, but everything went wrong. TR didn’t play others tournament.

Who can you describe current relations with Vigoss, Admir, Silent and BloodAngle after breaking up of the original M5?

We are still friends with some of them, but after The International 2 I made the conclusions of others teammates and stopped to communicate with them at all. Totally every man for himself, we don`t play with each other at the same team any more.

In common what can you tell about Moscow 5 as an organization? Did you follow the games of a new team and was it surprise for you that they also broke-up?

I wouldn`t like answer the first part of a question. As for breaking-up: that was expectable they played with the mixed teams. After TI2 only Na`Vi continued to play with the same line-up and it wasn`t surprising that the well-coordinated team defeated mixed groups. For the best players of M5 the breaking-up is the great advantage but for the worth of them it is the disadvantage. :)

So why did you leave professional Dota 2 after breaking-up of the TR? Please tell us what has happened in your life? May be you found a job and became highly-paid psychologist or HR manager.

The ТR didn`t break-up :). Simply I think that it`s not worth to lose more games not playing with a good team. Almost nothing has changed I just moved to the St. Petersburg to closer with my girlfriend.

At one of your streams you mentioned that would like to play with Danish teams (MiGGel and Angel), and finally you changed your mind. Was it true? If it was true, so why wouldn`t you play with them? Whom would you prefer to play within one team?

Yeah, that is true but after lasting negotiations we left this question unsolved. Present day neither I nor they play. :) If to talk about new teammates – soon you will know about them!

At finale days of The International 2 some of our YouTube channel’s viewers could enjoy your talent as a reviewer. Didn`t you think to continue yours carrier in Dota 2 as a reviewer?

I don`t give up like this :). Vilata & co already suggested me to cooperate with them but I answered that I`m player. Moreover I don`t even think of it till I completely fail as a player ;)

Being player and participant of The International 2 what can you tell about it? Was it simply fortune that Na`Vi took the silver and became the only non-Asian team in Top 8 of the tournament?

TI2 was the best tournament that I`ve ever participated at. Na`Vi got the drive, won the Chinese teams and were so amazing that even opponents became the fans of them)) I`m sure that is not simple fortune.

As far as I remember you was really good at chess, played at the tournament of Moscow and regional arena. What attracted you in chess and did you find any similarities of chess to Dota? For example, at the phase of pick, bans etc.

You are wrong) I wasn`t so good at chess. Of course, there are some similarities, but knight in Dota is more mobile than chess` one.

Have you ever played poker? If yes, so did you succeeded in it?

I did, but I didn`t get real success. :)

Why Russian Dota players still didn`t kick ass of Chinese one? :)

That is all because of players` condition.

Do you a have plan to change this tendency? ;)

Somebody should to do this. Why not me? It`s the matter of time, let it be our secret.

What are you ready to give up for the win at The International 3?

I`m ready to waste one more summer playing Dota and may be spring and autumn! ;)

Dota 2: Jakiro most played hero since 6.75

One month has passed since the somewhat drastic changes of the 6.75 DotA map have been implemented into Dota 2. Time to take a look on the impact of the patch on the picks and bans and their outcome.

169 matches have been analyzed by Dota Academy since 5 October, the day after the inclusion of 6.75 changes to Dota 2. From these 169 matches between 5 October and 5 November, 86 are assigned to the Western European region, 47 to the SEA region, 48 to the CIS region, 32 to China, 35 to America and 40 to other parts of the world. The sum of this certainly higher than 169, but matches were assigned to multiple regions if the teams played intercontinentally. Thanks to Dota Academy for providing the raw statistics for everyone.

Nature's Prophet has disappeared from the top banned heroes alongside Lycanthrope. While Lycanthrope might be a bit over-nerfed, Nature's Prophet was sort of the we additional ban while we had six bans in the first banning phase. Now he is not frightening enough to be banned in the first four and often doesn't fit anyway anymore after the first picking phase.

Where are Venomancer, Invoker and Morphling gone? Okay, Invoker and Morphling both have been nerfed with the 6.75 patch, so that was to be expected. Venomancer's downfall might have something to do with Jakiro's story of success. From zero to hero he goes with a single patch, suddenly becoming the most picked hero while not being over-buffed to let him become a must-ban-hero.

ROOT AVerMedia Dota 2 cup

The Avermedia Dota 2 Cup will be a short tournament, to be played out over the course of the weekend of Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th of Novemeber, featuring eight teams, one of which is of course is ROOT's own team.

The tournament format will be single-elimination, with all the matches being best-of-three encounters. The winner's will recieve $1500 for their efforts, with a cool $500 still going to the runner's up.

Established Dota 2 teams dominate GEST Dota 2 group stage

Zenith, MUFC, Orange and Natural 9 top their groups in GEST Dota 2 edition. Playoffs begin next Saturday.

The group phase matches of the South-East Asian Dota 2 tournament GEST is over. In six rounds, the 16 teams battled it out today, followed by GoDz, LD and Myzzrym as the casters on three videostreams.

Zenith, MUFC, Orange and Natural 9, four teams already established in Dota 2 have won their groups. The DotA-experienced participants in series of GEST have struggled in the competition. Of these four teams, Natural 9 and Orange lost a map in the group phase, while MUFC and Zenith went through it undefeated.

All four will continue to the playoff stage together with the runner-ups of each group, which are namely Mineski, First Departure, Duskbin and Armaggeddon. This way, Singapore is the most frequently represented country in the playoffs, Malaysia and Philippines sending two teams, Australia one team.

The playoffs will be played soon at a date still to be announced. The winning team gains $1,000, the runner-up $500. Both finalists will play against LGD and another Chinese team for more prizemoney afterwards.

Diablo 3 Issues of Authenticator E37 and AH

Since November 1st, many Diablo 3 players encountered Error_73, Service Outage and cannot log in. Blizzard made statement on this issue.

However, before Lylirra finished her report, she said there seems to be some problems with the Auction House.

CLG Dota 2 Disbands

Nine months after picking up their Dota 2 team, the e-sports organization Counter Logic Gaming have announced on their website the official disbandment of the squad.

There have been many rumors about the instability of the team following their run at The International 2012, which culminated with their withdrawal from The Premier League earlier this month.

This event was soon followed by the departure of the former captain of the team,  Per Anders 'Pajkatt' Olsson Lille, and his teammate  Rasmus 'MiSeRy' Filipsen, to complete the roster of the newly formed   LGD.international.

Recently, it has also been confirmed that  Joakim 'Akke' Akterhall will join his former teammate,  Jonathan 'Loda' Berg, to fill in the two remaining slots for  No Tidehunter.