MLG have announced the groups for the MLG World Finals – the upcoming LAN scheduled to take place at the Ernest N. Morial Center in New Orleans, LA, between October 16-18. Six invited teams – MVP.Phoenix, Team Secret, CDEC Gaming, LGD Gaming, Evil Geniuses, Virtus.Pro – and two qualified ones from the European and North-American regions – (monkey) Business and Cloud 9 – will compete for a +$250,000 prize pool and the championship title.
Moritz «Moose» Zimmerman, the brains behind the mini-documentary «Dota - We the Community» back in February released a new mini-doc earlier today entitled «Growing Giant», which focuses on how Valve grew The International to be the juggernaut it is today.
All the teams that are getting a direct invite to the Frankfurt Major will be revealed during the night. Every other 10 minutes Valve will announce a new team.
In an attempt to further legitimize tournaments and better serve the players, eSports teams have compiled a list of requirements that must be met in order for their teams to compete.
Ahead of the imminent Frankfurt Major Open Qualifiers, No Logic Gaming undergoes a major shakeup in their roster. Mohammed ‘hook-master’ Al-Sheik and Nikolay ‘Nikobaby’ Nikolov leave the team, and have been replaced by Steve ‘’‘Xcalibur’‘’ Ye and Dmitrii ‘Ditya-Ra’ Minenkov.
With the first major tournament since the new patch having come to a close, we delve into the statistical side of things. Here we take a look at the drafting patterns that developed over the course of the event, examining the most picked and banned heroes, those most sought after, and finally those which proved to be the most successful throughout.
This month the tier list is focused only on 6.85 drafts. Not many games have already been played but it still interesting to give a look at the first changes with the new patch.
