Dota 2 Na’Vi Wins Starladder S8 + DK Wins G-League 2014

Top level events have ended in both Western and Eastern scenes. The International 3 Grand Finals match over again, the El Classico just like Barcelona vs Real Madrid, except this time ended with Na’Vi victory over Alliance.

Starladder has been improving constantly with each edition, so it’s no surprise that this 8th edition has been the biggest one up until now. For the first time in Starladder, ingame tickets purchased by fans have boosted the total prizepool of the tournament, which went up to $162.000 USD.
The 4 qualified teams played in Kiev, Ukraine, in which the home crowd roared after seeing their favorites Na’Vi coming back from the loser bracket to winning the whole thing.

This tournament was also marked by matchups all ending with 2-0 in favor of one team. Started with Alliance beating Fnatic 2-0, and Na’Vi losing to Sigma also 2-0.

Alliance then beaten Sigma 2-0 to go on to the Grand Finals. Na’Vi managed to then climb up the ranks from the bottom as they defeated Fnatic 2-0 and then got their revenge on Sigma with also 2-0 score.

Then came the Grand Finals was a best of 5 matchup where Alliance had a 1 game winner bracket advantage… which didn’t even mattered as Na’Vi had really shining performances and convincingly won all 3 games, including a 17-1 kill score count that made Alliance tap out with just 16 minutes played in the first game!

1st placed Na’Vi take $62.000, 2nd Alliance take $31,000, 3rd Sigma $18,000 and 4th Fnatic $12,000.


On the Eastern scene, team DK has won the G-League in Shanghai.

The G-League was being played since December with only the Grand Finals match left to be played between DK and Invictus Gaming. This was probably the last game that iG played with this squad as they are rumored to form a new Dream Team.
Even though it was a best of 5 series, DK managed to win without dropping a single game, leading to a 3-0 victory and the first place.
1st placed DK has won $33.000, 2nd iG $8,000 and both LGD and TongFu win $1,600
Both tournaments can be watched in English commentary, Winter + 1437 for G-League and LD + Merlini for Starladder, in the BeyondTheSummit Youtube Channel.

Source : http://segmentnext.com/2014/01/20/dota-2-navi-wins-starladder-s8-dk-wins-g-league-2014/

Dota in tagalog

Tagalog is now among the language you can activate and use to play dota.

tagalog language has been included for dota all-star 6.72b and all the coming version.


The map is now available in the following languages:

English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Russian
Brazilian Portuguese
Czech
Filipino
German
Hungarian
French
Greek
Korean
Spanish
Turkish

Dota 2 is coming: 2011

Valve is making Dota 2, we've played it, and it's already amazing even though it's not coming out until next year. And we haven't yet laid eyes on Dota 2's biggest innovation: a radical approach to integrating the game's community back into the gameplay itself.

What's a Dota?

Dota allstar map 6.69 released.

dota 6.69 was released yesterday and you can download it here.


Click here for the changelog.

The map also has a new loading screen by Kunkka.

Click here to Download Dota version 6.69

Dota 6.69 map status

 from icefrog blog

The update is nearing completion. It took a little longer than anticipated, but it should be ready soon. The primary focus of this patch is to provide overall balance and gameplay improvements, while the follow-up content for 6.70 is still being developed. Of course you can still expect the traditional .x9 quest to be included!

I plan to release this within a week or two to provide some time before the start of some big tournaments in the following months.

New Dota loading screen and dota 6.69 Map update

A new loading screen is in the works right now and most likely be included in dota 6.69 or 6.70 Map. according to icefrog blog, development of dota 6.69 is progressing nicely and will be release soon.

exert from icefrog blog

"There is a new loadscreen in the works right now. It will most likely be included in the next update.

6.69 development has also been progressing nicely. I'm not sure exactly when it will be finished just yet, but I'm aiming for something in the near future. I will post another update when it is closer.

If there's anything you'd like to see in the new loadscreen, or any suggestions for 6.69 or 6.70 in general, please let me know. It is always helpful when you guys email me your requests so that I can make sure the updates meet your expectations. "