MLG is celebrating its 100th events this fall in New Orleans with MLG World Finals. First team who received a direct invite at the Dota 2 competition is the TI5 Korean force MVP.Phoenix.
ESL One New York is already shaping up to be one of the best Dota 2 tournaments of this fall. The International 5 sensations CDEC and CIS stars Virtus.Pro have been confirmed as directly invited teams and will be making the trip to New York. Team Secret – ESL One Frankfurt reigning champions, were the first to receive an invitation, on August 28th.
A few days ago, a new studio concept was launched called moonduck.TV. It features some of the best known casters, talents and personalities in the DotA community, including many of the people everyone enjoyed at The International 5. 2P got the chance to speak to Andrew ‘Zyori’ Campbell about the the new project and its plans for the future.
Over the weekend, the South East Asian Championship’s LAN event took place in Jakarta, Indonesia. The winners were RRQ, taking home the $5,000 grand prize. Meanwhile, the third place finishers, TnC will be bidding farewell to two of their players.
Only a few days are left until the roster changes will be locked out by Valve and it appears that Vici Gaming and Burning are having problems coming to an agreement.
According to Newbee´s Zhang ‘Mu’ Pan Weibo, Chen ‘Hao’ Zhihao will be joining Newbee. This will be Hao´s second time with Newbee and the team is looking to repeat their former success.
After Cloud 9 decided to drop their entire squad, four out of their five players already found a new home. bOne7 is the last one to make an official announcement regarding his Dota 2 future.