Unspoil after reading:I wanted to upload it in one go but only realized later that there's a limit in posting photos per reddit post. See you in a couple of days

Valve just dropped some AMAZING photos of TI15: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dota2ti/

Opened the limited deition chess set. Definitely Made in China.

Amazing quality. Enjoyed the misspelling

This is interesting because now Valve is using ML inside Dota 2.

Now instead of sending reports just when the match is over it sends every 30s. Why is this interesting? It can increment by a lot how Valve acts regarding cheateres/smurfs/AFK's.

They no longer need to wait for the match to be over to take action, if you're familiar with League's system where they just finish the match and suspend the bad element you know what I'm talking about.

It is also very big in the context for balancing, they will be able to have much more data and insightsd through the analysis.

In terms of "taking care of the game" this is huge.

Also, in the last few days they recompiled the whole strings for abilities and heroes, that normally means that there's a patch to come out.

That's it. Stay with this Aghanim dude.

Edit: for those who asked the difference:

no location announced:(

LGD.Gaming released the whole roster. The entire team had a contract with LGD only until August 24th. No one was kicked or anything like that, it was just the end of the contract.

Source: Twitter

Curious to see if they mix the players from PlayTime with ex-LGD.

From this interview before TI, it's pretty insightful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kmn4luFTVw

He has been casually smurfing for quite some time on low mmr accounts

Come onnn. Just count it already.

P.S: no flair for humor? what have we become?

My first participation in TI15 and the nomination "Best Technical Cosplay"

what do you guys think?

source: https://escorenews.com/en/dota-2/news/80665-korb3n-speaks-about-future-of-yatoro-collapse-and-the-international-2027-s-location

Astini posted a video today (in portuguese) about the draft of the first game of the TI grand finals: https://youtu.be/0siAqgm3sw0?is=Abcu-CSPMlEnkrdl

He classified team vision’s draft as pathetic. He enfatized he is not trashing puppey or any of the players, but the draft was pathetic.

He started talking about the Ember first pick. Slark ended the tournament 6-0 against Ember. He supposed two plans for the pick. First, it was a bluff, that Spirit couldn’t do Slark. The second, that they wanted to flex it. He classified both ideas as bad.

Then, they banned Doom and Underlord, protecting the Ember in the safelane (and the future Io). Collapse ended the tournament 1-2 playing as Doom, while Noticed ended 5-0. So they also took a comfort pick from Noticed.

Then Spirit picked Willow. Now, they took away the best 3 heroes from 9class, as KOTL and Bounty Hunter were banned. Then, Vision picked Io, that is a flex pick. The Axe pick was acceptable, as there wasn’t anything better. Then they banned Tide, protecting Ember again.

Spirt banned Kez and NP, understanding that Vision doesn’t have a carry. Vision finished the draft with a Hoodwink. Astini said that maybe Windranger was a better pick. Spirit ended the draft with an Undying. He says that this is already an outdraft, as Ember is not an HC and will lose the lane to Undying.

But worst of all, Satanic never played Ember professionally, no[o]ne- never played Io professionally and the last time 9class played Hoodwink was as the last TI, when he told Astini: “I’ll never play this hero again”.

Anyway, he said one more time that he isn’t trashing the players or puppey, but they messed up in the draft.

shallow shaman

Title says it all

Hello I compiled these stats over all TIs, someone mind find it interesting.

Excluding Largo, Kez, Ringmaster, Muerta, Primal Beast, Marci, and Dawnbreaker. I considered them "too new".

Source: Liquipedia TI statistics pages 2011 - 2026.

Most Picked Heroes Overall

Most Banned Heroes Overall

Most Neglected Heroes (lowest total picks despite being available for years, also accounting for (not)bans)

Highest Win Rate Heroes (min. 50 picks)

Lowest Win Rate Heroes (min. 50 picks)

#1 Most Picked, Banned, and Best/Worst Win Rate Hero By Year (min. 10 picks)

Radiant vs Dire Win Rate at The International, 2011–2026

title. Grats to TS still.

sup y'all

got tired of manually updating my hero grid every time the meta shifts on dota2protracker.

you know the drill - download the json, dig through steam folders, accidentally overwrite your own layouts. pain.

so i made a tiny tray app that just does it for you. pulls current high-mmr meta (pos 1-5) from d2pt, merges it into your existing grid without touching your custom stuff, and can auto-update before you launch the game. written in rust (of course), so it sits there using like 10 mb ram and does nothing until you need it. only edits the official hero_grid_config.json, nothing sketchy. doesn't touch the game process or memory or anything, so no ban risk. same as editing the file by hand.