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Gaming House Founded by Natus Vincere

Natus Vincere is a world renowned professional team which was formed in December, 2009. It develops fast and quickly becomes the world famous professional team.

Collectively, Na’Vi members gained a podium finish at 53 separate events, cumulative over $1.7 million prize money, and over 500,000 fans through Facebook, YouTube and Twitter during the last three years. In 2010, their Counter-Strike 1.6 team made history by sweeping three major tournaments in a single year – the Electronic Sports World Cup, World Cyber Games, and Intel Extreme Masters – while their DotA 2 team collected one of the largest prizes in eSports history after winning Valve’s first 'International' tournament back in 2011. They’ve since expanded to both StarCraft 2 and FIFA, and are single-handedly building an unshakable reputation for Ukrainian gamers worldwide.Below is the interview content about Natus Vincere’s forming gaming house by ESEA News:“Why do you think you have such a large fan base in the US?We would like to believe this is because of the outstanding skill level of our teams and players, as well as our record of tournament victories. Other than that, all of our players are really bright and versatile personalities, both in e-Sports and real life.Whereabouts in the US have you been looking? Are there any particular states or cities that have taken your interest?Right now we are thinking of the US West, somewhere like Los Angeles or San Francisco. We believe that this region is exceptionally healthy for progaming, as it has a good transport hub to attend all the events in the country and its climate is just so good! Our concept of a gaming house includes not only bedrooms and gaming zones for players, but also recreational areas such as a pool, gym, sun’n’surf volleyball and so on. We firmly believe that outdoor sports are a very important aspect of professional gaming and that’s why we would like to provide such opportunities for our players. Moreover, we will be able to produce decent video and live-streaming content from our US gaming house, showing the way of life of our players.When are you planning to move, and which of your players are likely to be staying in the house?Right now it is too early to discuss dates, but this is something we plan for 2013. Our initial idea was to bring one of our teams to the US for a certain period of time (approximately 3-4 months), then to bring another team for the same period, and so on. This will allow us to have a rotation of gaming squads between our European and US gaming houses, which would boost our presence and influence in both regions. Of course, we will have to adjust to the schedule of tournaments and leagues, so this plan may be subjected to certain changes.”

Famous DOTA 2 Player Vigoss Left

Russian famous DOTA 2 player Vigoss suddenly announced to leave el'Pride for some private reasons. His leave really made the team in panic. And now there is still no information about his return to DotA. In this period, Tumat from Aydash'Aidash will take his place in the following matches.

Current el'Pride Roster:

Andrew 'androidP' Pishikov
Leonard 'Massacre' Urih9
Alexander "Stalk' Melder
Eugen 'XaKoH" Kochetkov
Aydash 'Aidash' Tumat (temporary replacement)


eL' Pride is a relatively newly formed team that emerged in the past months. They have been putting up promising performances, participating in many tournaments, such as StarLadder Season 5.

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Kecik Imba: the Sixth Player of Orange

Malaysian powerhouse Neolution.Orange recruited Kecik Imba, who became the sixth player in Orange. The player was part of the Orange roster that took first place in the recently completed SEA League. Orange Esports.DotA announced the coming of Kecik Imba:



“We made the decision before SEA League final against Zenith and have been holding back the news till today - the Valentine's Day to make this announcement. We are pleased to welcome Orange Esports former HoN Player/Prodigy - Kecik Imba who will be turning 17 this March, to be Neolution Orange DotA Team 6th player. He will get more opportunities to play and growth with us! (Photo taken in Sep 2011 when he joined Orange Esports for the TGX 2011 HoN Tournament in Singapore)”

Neolution Orange roster

Joel 'XtiNcT' Chan (Captain)

Yee Fung 'Mushi' Chai
Kang Yang 'ky.xy' Lee
Wai Pern 'Net' Lim
Chong Xin 'Ohaiyo' Khoo
Fadil 'Kecik Imba' Bin Mohd Raziff

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Update list of DOTA2

- Added team matchmaking. Teams have a public rating based on their performance against other teams.

- Added language setting for matchmaking.

GAMEPLAY

- Alchemist: Fixed Unstable Concoction AOE and Self impact behavior when there is a Magic Immune target.

- Batrider: Fixed Sticky Napalm being applied to Magic Immune units.

- Batrider: Fixed Sticky Napalm being removed by Magic Immunity.

- Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture damage interval.

- Bloodseeker: Fixed being able to use potions during Rupture.

- Dark Seer: Fixed being able to cast Ion Shell on special units like Spirit Bear and Warlock's Golem

- Doom: Fixed Doom's interaction with MKB and Truestrike.

- Dragon Knight: Fixed Dragon Breath sometimes missing at very close range in Elder Dragon Form.

- Dragon Knight: Fixed Dragon Breath travel time being too slow.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Call Down first and second impact slow values being swapped

- Keeper of the Light: Fixed Recall going off if Keeper died during the delay.

- Lone Druid: Fixed Spirit Bear's Entangle working against Ancients and Creep Heroes like Familiars and Warlock's Golem.

- Medusa: Fixed Split Shot hitting Nightmared units.

- Medusa: Fixed Mana Shield not blocking damage from Death Ward, Plague Wards, Serpent Wards and Wildkin's Tornado.

- Morphling: Fixed Morph transformation stopping if Morphling gets purged or cycloned.

- Shadow Fiend: Fixed Shadow Fiend gaining souls while dead

- Shadow Fiend: Fixed Shadow Fiend gaining souls from killing illusions.

- Spectre: Fixed Spectral Dagger sometimes creating invisible paths of targets it hit.

- Troll Warlord: Added Pseudo Random support for his Bash.

- Troll Warlord: Fixed Whirling Axes interaction with Roshan.

- Visage: Fixed Cleave hitting Familiars.

- Warlock: Fixed Flaming Fists hitting ethereal units.

- Weaver: Fixed various buffs Time Lapse did not remove.

- Witch Doctor: Fixed Paralyzing Casks bouncing off of couriers.

- Courier: Fixed courier not responding to deliver orders after having received a hold or stop order.

- Courier: Reduced stash interaction ranges to fix the courier not filling a bottle when entering and exiting the fountain area in a short time.

- Courier: Fixed the Deliver Items breaking if you used speed burst on the way to the stash.

- Fixed direct unit target spells having 24 less effective range.

- Fixed Dark Pact and and Kraken Shell not removing Sticky Napalm, Shadow Strike, Venomous Gale, Poison Nova and Viper Strike.

- Fixed Day/Night cycle duration as well as initial state being a bit off.

- Fixed some ability Backswing timing issues (Kunkka, Clockwerk, Timbersaw, Meepo, Pudge, Spiritbreaker, Sand King, Riki, Nyx, Lion, Pugna, Shadow Demon, Batrider).

- Orb of Venom now has the same stacking behavior with Lifesteal that Eye of Skadi does.

- Fixed Veil of Discord not getting applied to Magic Immune units.

- Fixed Veil of Discord getting dispelled by Purge/BKB/Cyclone/etc.

- Fixed Bloodstone charges incrementing while you are dead.

- Dropped, non-sharable items can no longer be destroyed by teammates.

- Fixed dominated units continuing their previous channeling spell.

- Enabled Silencer in Captain's Mode for Latest Version (will be enabled in Tournament Version the following week).

UI

- Added Language option for Matchmaking. You will find players when matchmaking that have selected the same language(s).

- Fixed buff refreshes not showing the correct swipe.

- Made Keeper's two Spirit Form abilities always visible but just disabled until he uses Spirit Form.

- The dota:// URL handler now supports lobbyid=<lobbyid> and accountid=<accountid> for creating game spectating links.

- Fixed autocast ability border not hiding when moving from a friendly unit to querying an enemy.

- When using smart tab switching, fixed not being able to cycle to controllable units if your currently selected using is dead.

- Players that play on a league game will now have access to that league pass.

- Fixed being able to pick or random an already repicked hero.

- Added an error message when pressing the courier deliver button and there are no items to be delivered.

WEBAPI:

- Added Team query to WebAPI. Query is GetTeamInfoByTeamID, params are start_at_team_id and teams_requested.

LEAGUES:

- Players that participate in Leagues will now have access to watch all games for said league in the tournament tab.

BOTS

- Made Necrolyte bot more likely to use Death Pulse to heal himself.

- When considering purchasing an item and determining whether there's room in their inventory, bots will now consider whether the item will stack with an existing item.

- Bots will no longer sell a situational item in order to retrieve a situational item from their stash (fixes purchase thrashing).

- Witch Doctor will no longer use Maledict on non-hero units.

- Slightly lowered the maximum desire to attack a non-hero unit.