Compendium Progress -- 7.5M in 10/90 Days!

The International prize pool is already halfway to the 15 million dollar mark in just 10 days, with 90 days to go. They're still working on building the second set of Immortal items, but they’re not quite ready yet. The most important aspect of these Immortals is their quality level, so they're also planning on spending some extra time polishing them rather than releasing them quickly.
You’ll still see an update to the Compendium this week though. Included in that update you’ll...

February 18, 2015 - Valve

Year Beast Brawl:

-The active abilities can now be used independent of the Year Beast being alive.
-Added on-hover tooltips for the active abilities in the Year Beast panel.
-Added two new active abilities: Tower Flak Cannon, and Glyph
--Tower Flak Cannon - 250 Ability Points
For 10 seconds, friendly towers will attack all enemy units within 1000 range each time they attack.
60 second cooldown.

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Alliance says it's time for a couple of changes, and today they say goodbye to Gustav "S4" Magnusson and Jerry "EGM" Lundkvist. Will Alliance be the same? Will they become better? Who do they replace with? It should be interesting next tournament to see how they do!

"In February of 2013, just a few months removed from taking first place at DreamHack Winter, a team by the name of No TideHunter made a controversial roster change. The team's four Swedish players had...

Recently on the Dota 2 test client and as of October 21 on the main client, Dota 2 officially has been brought patch version 6.79. This patch also marks the first time Dota 2 is patched with such a large update than DotA, the last being 6.78. Now what does this patch do, well it changes a lot from heroes to items.

(change log of the first test client instance, and is quite long to read): http://store.steampowered.com/news/11667/ Real quick some personal thoughts on...

After being contacted by Epizootic and his team I personally decided to give them a good look over to see what they were about and what their goals were in the long run, after getting to talk to them for forty minutes we decided to go ahead and play a match of DOTA 2 together just for the giggles. Sixty minutes later come to find out not only are they a fun group of people they are also some pretty good players, They are definitely a team with a lot of potential. They have been a team now for on...

Officially stated not long ago the newest roster for the Chinese team, Team DK. The team now host some of the best Eastern players known as veterans or for their overall play and experience in the scene.

The new roster consists of old players and new players who left older teams.

• BurNing - Remaining Team DK member as of Ti3
• Mushi - Ex-player of Orange Esports
• iceiceice - Ex-player of Team Zenith
• Dai - Remaining Team DK member as of Ti3
• Lanm - Ex-Rattlesnake play

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Day 2 begins with a fresh perspective for the teams who were able to survive their matches from Day 1 while other teams who have yet to play will begin their struggle to fight for the Aegis of Champions and the prize pool of $2.9 million USD.

The day opened with the first Upper Bracket matches of: LGD.cn vs. The Alliance.

Match one:
Both teams overall drafts are well even against each other but more on who can execute it better than the other...

To continue our recap of the International 3 we now begin with day one of the main event.

Day one began with the Upper Bracket match of: Na'Vi vs. Orange Esports.

Match one:

Na'Vi played poor to their results and Orange as well played with comfortable heroes such as Alchemist to their advantage. Orange as well had a more flexible line-up compared to Na'Vi's line-up

Match two:
Na'Vi takes game two against Orange by havin...

In the last week the main event of the largest LAN event took place for Dota 2 known as the International 3. For some that may not know the International 3 is hosted by Valve and the top 13 teams from around the world and two qualifiers for the western and eastern scene of the game are played to see which teams are invited and what runner-ups are to play in the Wild Card match before the event. Each of these teams would be competing for the Aegis of Champions and for a prize pool of $2.9 million. ...

Invictus Gaming. Twelve more teams will be announced over the coming days. Just like in last year’s event, the winners of the East and West Qualifiers will each receive an invite. As you’ve probably noticed, that only adds to 15 teams. Right before The International begins, the Wild Card event will determine the final spot in a match between the runner-ups of each qualifier. The West Qualifier will be hosted by GDStudio from May 13th through the 19th and the East Qualifier by BeyondTheSu...