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Global Esports Cup.
Russian organizers of the Game Show this week surprised the entire DotA community when they unexpectedly announced the global DOTA 2 world tournament — Global Esports Cup.
The event promises to be one of the most interesting in the coming year and it is all the more pleasing that the Game Show come from Russia.
The Defense-tournaments are back.
The last tournament called the Defense was held almost two years ago. Since then, the organization JoinDota still could not find the strength to organize a new event. And here, finally, came the long-awaited news: the defense tournament is revived.
It is noteworthy that in 2011 it was the tournament from JoinDota that became the largest online in terms of prize money. Of course, times have changed since then, and now those $ 10,000 will seem ridiculous to many. However, it was the organizers of this company that set the trend that raised the level of payments in DOTA 2.
Team Secret — a new composition.
On the eve of the International 2015, many fans and even analysts believed that Team Secret has a very high chance of winning the DotA 2 world championship. No joke, the team was confident of progress in recent months. Four wins in the most prestigious tournaments between April and June 2015. Even the well-known portal GosuRankings puts the team in the first place in its ranking of the best teams in DotA.
However, the main tournament of the year Team Secret clearly failed-the results of the International 2015 disappointed not only the fans of the team, but also the players themselves. It became clear that the secret team will be rebuilt again to find a new” best ” composition.
Game Show Open Season 2.
The Game Show company, a well-known organizer of regional tournaments in Russia, has published the announcement of the second season of its eSports League. The total prize Fund will now be 500 000 rubles, of which the share of DOTA 2 will fall 150 000 rubles. The Game Show management believes that such a prize Fund is attractive enough for regional teams and will help raise the level of players across the country.
From the official announcement it becomes clear that the main purpose of the League is to give young talents from the regions the opportunity to play with famous teams. Read the full story.
Global Esports Cup: 3 seasons and $ 1 million.
Before we tell our readers about the new Global tournament Global Esports Cup, which is trying to organize the guys from the Game Show, a little digress from the topic. The thing is that recently appeared in the area of a billiard club. The case is not that new, but unjustly forgotten. There was a time when literally all the boys in the yard were fond of Billiards, but now it is much more difficult. This is despite the fact that the hobby has become much more accessible. Read the full story.
Gaming Paradise 2015.
In early September 2015, Slovenia will host the best DOTA 2 teams and will raffle $ 50,000 between them. The main feature of Gaming Paradise 2015 will be that it will be held in the resort city, in a hotel, in the format of “all inclusive”.
The BTS Series: 18 more DOTA 2 tournaments per year.
More recently, Beyond The Summit hosted a small local BTS Americas tournament . The prize Fund of this championship did not differ in a set of zeros and among the participants no one saw the grandees of the second DotA. However, the event itself was an undoubted success.
For example, the final between Root Gaming and Summer’s Rift was watched live by more than 100,000 people. And the total number of viewers during the event approached the mark of 3 million unique users.
The results of The International 5 — Artstyle leaving NaVi.
As always happens after major tournaments, DotA 2 teams begin to look for their mistakes, the culprits and the reasons for unsuccessful performances. We did it in the organization Natus Vincere, which keeps the strongest DotA team in Ukraine.
Participation at The International 2015 was for the NaVi team.dota2 iconic. For a long time the team was the leader of the second DotA in the world, won the most prestigious competitions and even won the largest tournament at that time. However, in the last time Affairs have team has been going not very. Every year the performance fell, key matches ended in failures. In 2015, the situation came to a logical conclusion — Natus Vincere did not receive a direct invite to The International 2015 and were forced to pass the qualifying games.
The news covered topics: Artstyle, NaVi.dota.
Why qualifiers for major tournaments should be held offline.
Just a few days ago, the largest, at the moment, eSports championship — The International 2015-came to an end . The best teams from all over the world played a huge prize pool, and the audience was able to enjoy the games of the best of the best.
At the same time, many noted that the organization of the tournament from Valve has grown by an order of magnitude — for both teams and spectators, this championship has become much more comfortable than the previous ones.
The International 2015-results.
Here is and licked to the end of another The International . The 16 best Dota 2 teams in The world fought for millions of dollars in prize money. As usual, Valve tournaments were not without surprises and unexpected twists of fate. The clear favourites were unprepared for the challenge of the young and daring. And the winner was again the team that no one expected to see in the first place.
The fifth annual Dota 2 world championship was held from August 3 to 8, 2015 in the United States. The venue was chosen “Key arena” (Seattle). The initial prize pool of $ 1.6 million was significantly increased by ticket sales and Compendium. As a result, a record $ 16.8 million was distributed between the teams. No one left without prize money. But here their number strongly differed between the first places and the last.