DOTA News

LGD-Gaming has formally announced the player that will be replacing Liu ‘Sylar’ Jiajun on the team.  RisingStars’ rising carry player (pun intended), Zhang ‘xiaotuji’ Wang, will be joining LGD. At the same time Sylar will be joining RisingStars, successfully a player switch between the two teams. A very similar player swapped occurred recently with iG and TongFu when [Read more…]

Kaipi came back from a 2-0 deficit in Steelseries Euro Cup grand final the other day versus Team Life to take first place in the tournament. A ferocious fight broke out in the grand final of the Steelseries Euro Cup in which Kaipi defeated Team Life 3-2 to clinch first placing and $750 in cash prize. Both Kaipi and Team Life were seeded directly to the quarter-finals of the tournament [Read more…]

Sébastien ‘7ckngMad’ Debs published a new blog entry regarding his competitive future after the frustrating wild-card match defeat at the International 2013 Championship. According to his blog post, there will be a combination between the rest of fr Quantic Gaming and dk Brian ‘MaNia’ Strandby aswell as dk Mikkel ‘miGGel’ Berg. [Read more…]

The Electronic Sports Prime Dota 2 Cup will begin on September 27th with an open qualifier, and end on October 5th with six invited topteams fighting the two qualifier winners for a 2000 USD prizepool. Coverage for the competition will be provided by BeyondTheSummit.   The qualifier would take part on September 27th +28 th and is open for anyone participate. The signups are open on BinaryBeast. While the server rules and time settings are designed [Read more…]

After months of speculation, us Team Liquid has finally revealed the different modifications to their team. First off, us Michael ‘ixmike88 Ghannam steps down from competitive play but will carry on working for Team Liquid. Team Liquid also decided to trade their most agressive player us Steven ‘Korok’ Ashworth for us Peter ‘waytoosexy’ Nguyen of us Team Dignitas. [Read more…]

In a surprising action, my Orange’s remaining four players have all departed the Malaysian organization in spite of their great run at The International 2013. This makes Orange without a Dota team to call their own. The Malaysian quad will be moving to greener pastures under the tentatively named Team T \* as shown from the press release. Ever since the separation of my Yee Fung ‘Mushi’ Chai from Orange, fans have [Read more…]

The last team to be competing at the upcoming MLG Columbus has been released, it is non other than the newly rebuilded and currently most hyped team around, cn DK. This is quite the landmark in the competitive Dota 2 scene, considering teams from China have rarely taken a trip outside of Asia to participate in the past. DK will be the second team to do so after [Read more…]

It only required LGD. cn four games to get gold in GEST The Challenge as they mow through Mineski and Vici Gaming in an one-sided affair. Starting off the day with Mineski, LGD. cn had no issues eliminating the Pinoy pride, taking them down rapidly with Lifestealer in both games. LGD. cn also employed an offlane Elder Titan in game one, a strat that is definitely catching [Read more…]

Just below a month after the outcome of Season 3, Netolic Pro League has declared its 4th Season of play to take place on October 7th. Eight of the strongest teams in the west have already been invited to play for a prize pool of $15,000. dk Team Life are the returning champions of Season 3 and will make their way into a realm of tough competition. [Read more…]

The upcoming season of CEVO has unlocked its doors for registration. Newbie teams in North America and abroad are urged to register their teams for the Open Division competition which will be open until October 17th. The league will run side-by-side with an upper tier Main division for 8 weeks. CEVO, also known as Cyber Evolution, has been in existence since 2003. [Read more…]