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With just a week to go before The International 5, Valve has released the full information on this year’s format, prize distribution and schedule.

“The best time of the year” as Valve’s CEO Gabe Newell would say, is soon approaching. The International, bigger than ever, is closing in at a fast pace with an enormous prize pool expected to be more than $15 million USD, setting an all time high for eSports. This has of course caused an expected amount of shuffling around in team rosters to prepare the strongest line-ups for the yearly tournament.

With The International 5 rapidly approaching, we take the time to review some of the best offlane payers attending the biggest DotA 2 event of the year.

Counting the few days left till the start of The International 5, we take a last look at the underdogs, going over their hero repertoires, the outline of their drafts and the way their choices fit the current meta.

With The International just around the corner, we’d like to announce an exclusive reward, the 2015 Collector’s Aegis of Champions.