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The Dota 2 WePlay AniMajor will be the final pit stop for the world’s top teams vying for a slot in this year’s The International. Since only the top 12 teams of the world’s best in Dota 2 will receive a direct invite for TI10, it’s very important for the teams competing in the Major to perform […]

Back-to-back Dota 2 The International champions OG will be missing the second Major of DPC 2020-2021. They now have to face Brame and Tundra Esports to retain their spot in West Europe’s Upper Division for the next Season. Otherwise, it’s the Lower Division for them. OG loses to Team Liquid, will play tiebreakers vs. Brame, Tundra Esports […]

The Dota 2 Major will return to Kiev, Ukraine, more than four years since its last hosting. This time, WePlay Esports will serve as the host for the Dota 2 ‘Animajor.’ Dota 2 Major Season 2 Dates: June 2-13, 2021 WePlay’s Dota 2 Minor during DPC 2021 proved to be one of the most successful. Their fantastic usage of memes and high […]

Fans of nine more teams will get to show their love and appreciation for their favorites in Dota 2. Nine teams have joined the new Supporters Clubs feature of Dota 2, created to allow fans to support their teams on the road to The International 10. These teams are: OG NoPing Esports Fnatic Na’Vi 4Zoomers Infamous Gaming […]

The European side of the Dota Pro Circuit was shaken by the news that one team made use of a rule change that allowed coaches to talk to players during games. The integrity of the organizers are now called into question. The DPC is a competition that pits teams in every region against each other. […]

News on the Dota 2 website confirms that The International 10 will be coming this 2021. Valve has announced the date and venue for The International 10. The International Championships is considered to be the biggest competitive stage for Dota 2. It is an annual competition that features a series of tournaments, called the Dota […]

The Dota 2 Pro Circuit is in full swing, with the Road to the International back. Fans now have a new way to support their teams with the brand-new Supporters Clubs. Valve introduces the Supporters Clubs as way for fans to support Dota 2 pro teams for The International 10 Dota 2 fans now have a new way to support their […]

OG’s Anathan “ana” Pham has returned. OG’s second season will become more interesting. The road to The International is starting to feel more real now with ana back. OG REVEALS THEIR REPLACEMENT FOR MIDONE: THE DOTA GOD ANA Two-time The International champion Anathan “ana” Pham will be joining OG as their carry for DPC 2021 […]

Imagine if Omniknight and Thor had a child. That’s how Valora, the Dawnbreaker, looks like. Indeed, all of our guesses turned out to be wrong, but we’re not complaining. With her glorious golden sun hair and massive hammer, she seems capable of taking on many foes at once. And that’s exactly how she plays as, […]

Dota 2 Patch 7.29 arrived today, with a whole slew of changes. Hoodwink is finally in Captain’s Mode, the map has been drastically changed, and a new hero debuts. However, there’s still no Spectre Arcana. What are the most important changes in this patch? We take a quick look at Dota 2 Patch 7.29’s biggest […]

Last month, Valve announced that a new hero will debut in Patch 7.29. However, Valve hasn’t given us any hints on who the new hero will be. We’re still in the dark on who this new hero will be, so naturally, fans have been speculating hard on its identity. While we have a lot of […]

Natus Vincere quickly established itself as a pillar of competitive Dota 2 when it won the first The International back in 2011. The organization carefully cultivated an air of prestige in the scene despite never winning a TI again. Recently, Na`Vi received flak from the community for replacing Viktor “GeneRaL” Nigrini in its Dota 2 […]

Evil Geniuses beats Invictus Gaming 3-2 in the Grand Finals of the Singapore Major. This gives Abed, Arteezy, Evil Geniuses, and the entire NA region their first Dota 2 Major Championship ever. INVICTUS GAMING BEATS PSG.LGD TO MEET EG IN THE GRAND FINALS Invictus Gaming and PSG.LGD share a lot of similarities. They come from the […]

The Singapore Major is on its final day tomorrow, with the top three teams set to fight for the championship. Evil Geniuses, PSG.LGD, and Invictus Gaming will be battling for the title of the Major. The winner will earn enough DPC points to qualify directly to The International, which makes tomorrow a really big deal. […]

The Singapore Major is not yet over. Yet, we already have a series that many Dota 2 fans will remember for a long time. The series between Neon Esports and Team Secret may have been the most nail-biting game in the tournament so far. With the “Final Boss” facing the biggest remaining underdog in the […]

The Singapore Major is in full swing, going into Day 3 of the Playoffs. Later, the “Final Boss” of the Major will be fighting for survival. Meanwhile, Evil Geniuses once again secures third place in a Dota 2 Major. Finally, both the highest-scoring team and the lowest-scoring team from the group stage fight for survival […]

NA, SEA, China, and Europe all lost one representative each today, after Day 2 of the Playoffs of the Singapore Major. OB ESPORTS NEON SENDS FNATIC BACK HOME TO SEA (2-1) The first match of the day involved a battle between kin. Two Southeast Asian brethren faced each other, with the losing team going home. […]

Team Nigma stands as one of the greatest teams in competitive Dota 2. The team comprises of world-championship players from various countries. The organization just announced that it finally found a home in Abu Dhabi. The move comes as part of Nigma’s new partnership with twofour54, an organization run by the government of Abu Dhabi. […]

The Singapore Major’s Playoffs Day 1 saw four intense Bo3 series between the Playoff Seeded teams and the Group Stage Top 3. If you missed the results from previous days, read first our coverage of the Wild Cards and the Group Stage. THE BATTLE OF THE PLAYOFF SEEDS: EVIL GENIUSES DOMINATE FNATIC (2-0) NA’s finest […]

The Singapore Major’s Group Stage didn’t remove a lot of teams from the tournament. However, the matches have still been hotly-contested between the eight teams in this stage. One more team got eliminated, and the upper and lower brackets of the playoffs have been locked in. Here’s what went down during the final Group Stage […]

The Wild Cards of the Dota 2 Singapore Major has concluded. We’re now on the first day of Group Stage. For those who missed it, here’s what went down last weekend, and what happened to the three teams who have just lost their spots in the Major. THE STORY SO FAR IN THE SINGAPORE MAJOR […]

There are now 11 players who won’t be able to play in The Singapore Major due to COVID-19 and other health issues. The latest among these players consist of all five players of Beastcoast. ALL FIVE PLAYERS OF BEASTCOAST OUT OF THE SINGAPORE MAJOR Beastcoast announced that they have no choice but to pull out […]

Valve is finally taking a step against one of the biggest issues in the Dota 2 community: smurfing. DOTA 2 SMURFS BEWARE: VALVE IS BRINGING OUT THE BANHAMMER Dota 2‘s latest update brought about a new wave of improvements for the decade-old game. Finally, Valve has taken steps to ease the onboarding process of new players […]

A lot of new content and updates coincided with the release of DOTA: Dragon’s Blood on Netflix. These range from a full-fledged tutorial mode to an entirely new system to ease in new and returning players alike. But the biggest news to come out of today’s big update is the new Dota 2 hero that will be coming […]

Dota 2 suffered from a vastly outdated tutorial mode for several years. It got so bad that a group of well-meaning players spearheaded by famous Dota personality SirActionSlacks started a fundraiser for a revamped tutorial. The community tutorial team offered regular updates and seemed to be well on track to a full release but it […]

The Singapore Major marks the return of competitive LANs in Dota 2. However, it’s still not a complete return to normal. For example, the Singapore Major will still not have a live audience in-stadium. Meanwhile, players and sometimes entire teams don’t always get to play in tournaments they qualified for or invited in. Most of the […]

Jesse “JerAx” Vainikka teased his fans with an announcement that he’ll “be back around Dota.” However, his announcement just fell short of what his fans actually wanted him to say. JERAX TEASES FANS, SAYS HE’S RETURNING TO DOTA 2 JerAx is one of the living legends of Dota 2. He won two The International titles in […]

OG announced the departure of MidOne from their team, late Monday evening. THE VERSATILE CORE PLAYER, MIDONE LEAVES OG Yeik “MidOne” Nai Zheng joined OG at the start of 2020, part of the fresh set of faces that played for the organization at a time of rebuilding. Back then, OG came off a historic back-to-back […]

Third-party organizers continue to support the grassroots Dota 2 communities around the world. The Oceanic Esports League does its part by organizing a high-level competition like the OEDL Fall Invitational. OCEANIC ESPORTS LEAGUE ANNOUNCES OEDL FALL INVITATIONAL The Oceanic Esports League aims to bridge the Oceania and Southeast Asia (SEA) regions. Hence, they announced the […]

Dota 2 reigns as the king of modern-day MOBAs since it launched on the Steam platform. Its annual tournament, The International, consistently breaks prize pool records every year. This is why it’s extremely surprising that such an iconic esports title makes do with a thoroughly underwhelming and disappointing tutorial mode. Valve consistently breaks barriers and […]

The ONE Esports Singapore Major 2021 ushers in the return of local area network (LAN) events in Dota 2. With 18 international teams competing, the Singapore Major will also be one of the biggest tournaments in recent memory. $500,000 worth of cash and DPC points will be distributed to the top 8 teams, which will pave their […]

Recently, Dota professional Nuengnara “23savage” Teeramahanon ran into a season-ending complication with his team, Vici Gaming. He eventually found a proper home with Indonesia’s  BOOM Esports filling in as stand-in. Unfortunately, 23savage has no permanent professional team but it seems he hasn’t neglected sharpening his Dota 2 skills. The young Carry proudly announced his personal […]

Esports team burjui may have just jeopardized their whole Dota 2 careers. DreamLeague disqualified the team from the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) Europe Lower Division after the team forged COVID-19 test results to compete. COVID-19 TEST RESULTS FORGED TO ALLOW ILLEGAL SUB DreamLeague, through an official announcement issued last week, explained the disqualification of burjui […]

With an animated Netflix series coming up called DOTA: Dragon’s Blood, it’s time for us to take the lore more seriously. Let’s face it, the lore has mostly been just an afterthought for us players. But with DOTA expanding its universe, we should keep up with the times. Even Valve thinks so, too. In recent version […]

Singaporean Dota 2 caster and streamer Ashley Rita Wong Kai Lin received jail time due to credit card fraud. The esports caster allegedly used her friends’ bank card details to make unauthorized transactions. The transactions in question amount to around $2,000 within three months in 2016. Wong apparently memorized the card numbers before carrying out […]

Netflix announced DOTA: Dragon’s Blood out of nowhere, and it got Dota 2 fans all over the world losing their minds. But social media may be a very noisy but uninformative place. That’s why we gathered everything you need to know about Netflix’s DOTA: Dragon’s Blood in just one place. This includes release dates, trailers, […]

DOTA: Dragon’s Blood will bring Dota 2 to the big screen as an animated series. In partnership with Valve, Netflix will bring this animated series on their platform on March 25, 2021. DOTA 2 ANIME DRAGON’S BLOOD RELEASES THIS MARCH Dota 2 has always been a marvel when it comes to its animated sequences and […]

Nuengnara “23savage” Teeramahanon made a name for himself in Southeast Asian Dota 2 with multiple wins on Fnatic. The Thai Carry helped establish FNC’s dominance in 2020. Additionally, he broke out as a prominent Carry player within two years of his debut. Now, 23savage takes his skills to Indonesia as he fights for the BOOM […]

The Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) returns once again after a year-long hiatus with the Singapore Major 2021. THE SINGAPORE MAJOR 2021 MARKS THE RETURN OF THE DPC PGL will be hosting The Singapore Major 2021, the first Local Area Network (LAN) tournament of the DPC season. The tournament marks the return of LAN tournaments to […]