With all the fuss over stream content being nicked or used without permission, Dota Watafak’s celebratory 1 million subscriber video is a reminder that user-submitted content can be just as entertaining. The hugely successful series which has over 224 million views highlights amusing mistakes and ridiculous scenarios. Think DotaCinema’s Fails of the Week on drugs to the sound of psychedelic music. Witness the WTF moments inside.
A new European heavyweight might be crowned later today as we witness probably Europe’s three most promising new rosters Monkey Freedom Fighters, Monkey Business and 5Jungs take part in the European Qualifiers for the MLG World Finals. The way the brackets have played out means that today’s matches are top drawer, with Navi taking on SingSing’s MFF, while former Team Secret team-mates NoTail and Kuroky’s new teams face each other.
Kuro “KuroKy” Salehi Takhasomi’s new mix, 5Jungz, walked away with their first victory. 5Jungz defeated Golden Boys, 2:0, in the Alienware Summer’s End Cup Grand Finals, leaving viewers with a positive impression for the future of the squad.
National Dota 2 Cup is a brand new tournament that will bring together sixteen National teams to fight for a share of the $10.000 starting prize pool in an online format starting next week, September 21st.
Fnatic’s new squad is dominating the SEA region again and at the centre of their success is Djardel ‘Dj’ Mampusti. Today we caught up with Dj and talked about his time at Rave, transition to Fnatic and Malaysia and his new role.
The fighter that he is, Sam bounced back for a fresh start with the newly formed Digital Chaos after a disastrous campaign with mousesports/Team Tinker last year. In this exclusive interview with Natus Vincere, Sam was kind enough to share his experience of the previous year with Team Tinker/mousesports and its fair share of problems, how he almost quit the game entirely, his time as a coach for EG, his opinion on Aui_2000’s ousting from EG and about his new team Digital Chaos with Aui and TCalongisde two new players.
ESL has once again made an improvement to the the ESL One New York experience. At the tournament scheduled at Madison Square Garden, October 3-4, premium ticket holders will now enjoy additional perks and bonuses, including exclusive signing sessions, behind the scenes tour and invitations to the after party.
Cloud 9 have qualified for the Nanyang Championship, after taking down Digital Chaos, 3:0, in the Americas qualifiers’ finals. The newly reformed squad has thus taken the one regional spot allocated for the $200,000 tournament and will be joining six invited teams and three other qualified ones at the main event scheduled to take place in Singapore, between October 26th and November 1st.
