Cloud9 qualified for their second LAN event yesterday evening after an action-replay of an encounter between the pair in the qualifiers for the Nanyang Championships.

A 3-0 beating of Digital Chaos was on the cards again for Cloud9, further cermenting their title as NA's second-best team behind Evil Geniuses.

The victory also completes the list of the eight teams for the upcoming MLG World Finals next month.


With world Monkey Business's 3-`1 triumph over CISR in the European qualifiers, the MLG World Finals' list of attendees looks solid, especially with LGD Gaming also part of the list of invites.

The event will see six of the top 8 from TI5 head to New Orleans, where they will be joined by two of the best upcoming squads in Monkey Business and Cloud 9.

The MLG World Finals is to be held from the 16th-18th October at the New Orleans Theater, and will mark MLG's 100th LAN event.

The prize pool for the tournament is $250,000, with a workshop bundle pending release. Stay tuned for information about the grid.




List of competing teams at MLG World Finals:


Team Secret (Invited)

MVP Phoenix (Invited)

LGD Gaming (Invited)

CDEC Gaming (Invited)

Virtus Pro (Invited)

Evil Geniuses (Invited)

Monkey Business (EU Qualifier winner)

Cloud9 ♥♥♥ (NA Qualifier winner)


(http://www.joindota.com/en/news/32169-c9-qualifies-for-mlg-world-finals-and-makes-it-official-they-are-nas-number-2)

I think the new hud and interface is a whole lot better than it was it 6.84.
Also good to see the new patch notes on certain Heroes and items.

The new chat and the option to find local players is certainly a breath of fresh air!

Dota has indeed been Reborn and it slowly is taking shape to be much better than I initially expected the Reborn client would be.

Now that we can find more local UK players efficently- I intend to invite them to our Steam group [RawTg] so we can accomodate all skill levels and hopefully always find a match with someone from our group at similar levels.

We have some excellent Dota players already in this group so far and have just reached over 100 members!

I am looking to promote some members of our group into Officers and Moderators to help with posting announcements and posting discussions about any game at all - but primarily Dota.

If you are addicted to this game as much as me and enjoy playing and are always looking to improve your game, then send me a message and I will promote you in our Steam Group.

Thanks for reading and of course being a part of this Steam Group - I hope to hear some feedback as to what you think of the new 6.85 patch and also recieve some peeps interested in becoming Mods or Officers.

Also we do have a Teamspeak avaliable for all peeps in this group who want to use it - just send me a message and I will give you the details if you haven't got TS yourselves...


See ya all in game!

For Dota pros, the stakes were either The International or nothing. This was the case, at least, for the past five years, where every tournament, every lan event, was in preparation for The International, whose prize pool and prestige eclipsed all other yearly achievements. Teams shuffled their rosters to prepare for TI, and post-TI, they shuffled again to prepare for next year’s event. Now, with Valve implementing a Major series—an additional three tournaments per year—teams will now have to maintain a more stable and consistent roster. This may be the last great shuffle the Dota scene will see.

Some of these teams have yet to play a game and most haven't played enough to establish whether or not they will be a contender this year. It won't be until the next LAN that we will develop a better idea of where the rankings lie.

Evil Geniuses

Arteezy
Sumail
Universe
Fear
ppd

Defending TI champions have routinely posted poor performances in their following years, with the exception of Na`Vi during the first two tournaments. Previous champions have rested on their laurels, such as Newbee, or failed to adapt to next patch’s meta. Evil Geniuses, however, may buck that trend. For the past three years they’ve consistently been at the top of the Dota scene—culminating into their TI championship this year. With the return of the prodigal son, Arteezy, EG will be the favorites for the near future. Though their prior internal issues led to Arteezy’s departure, his return indicates that those issues are long past. The only question remains is how well Fear will function as EG’s position 4 support.

Team Fire

Jeyo
747
Moo
whitebeard
Fluffnstuff

Team Fire may be the only NA team that has proven themselves so far, by qualifying for ESL One NY. On that road, they took down Complexity Gaming, Digital Chaos, and Root-Gaming, all in convincing fashion. Captained by veteran Fluffnstuff, they’ve been unafraid to go with unconventional picks, such as Slardar in the offlane. Through BTS Americas and ESL One, Team Fire is currently on a seven game winning streak. They may not have been the team fans have expected to come out at the top, but they’re certainly in the spotlight now.

Cloud 9


Ritsu
Brax
MSS
SVG
1437

Cloud 9 has adopted a completely new roster, captained by former Secret coach, 1437. They kicked off to a honeymoon start, winning their first nine tournament games through the Nanyang Championship and ESL One qualifiers. In the process they defeated Digital Chaos, a formidable new Western team, five times in a row in the Nanyang Championships, before getting eliminated by DC in ESL One NY’s qualifiers. In their recent performances, Ritsu has stood out as their star performer, especially on his Phantom Lancer. In a recent game against Cloud 9, he made a late game call to sell his Butterfly and Basher for MKB and Satanic. Both were correct decisions, but it’s rare to see carries make snap decisions in elimination games. They're still a young team, witch much room to grow before the next Major.

Digital Chaos

TC
Yawar
Bulba
Aui_2000
Biryu

Yawar and Biryu may be newcomers to the scene, but they’re counter balanced with their fellow veterans TC, Bulba, and TI winner Aui_2000. Yawar in the mid role has shown the same kind of flashes of brilliance that we’re now accustomed to with his brother, Sumail from EG. Yawar is also aggressive, mechanically gifted, but he still has room to refine his decision making through the mid game. Bulba is back in the offlane, a role that he seems far more comfortable in than his previous stint as support on Team Tinker. Digital Chaos, however, have had a tough start amidst their grand expectations. They've lost in the ESL One NY qualifiers and the Nanyang Championship. Still, their roster has potential, and we'll have to wait until the next LAN before we can say they've been underperforming.

Team Secret

EternaLEnVy
w33haa
MiSeRy
Puppey
PieLieDie

Arteezy, from Evil Geniuses, has said that any team with Puppey in it is a top two team. Though Team Secret finished placed 7th-8th at this year’s TI, they were considered the favorites to win TI for the large part of the year. Puppey is now the only remaining member of that team, but his leadership and drafting has offered stability and consistency in his past teams. It doesn’t seem far from the truth to say that any team with Puppey is a top tier contender. However, the rest of Team Secret is rounded out with top players. EternalEnvy, Misery, and PieLieDie were all at one time former teammates from Cloud 9. With the addition of w33haa, a skilled mid player who rose to popularity from Europe’s leaderboards, Team Secret has the potential to again be among the top Dota teams.

(monkey) Business

Miracle
Bigdaddy
MoonMeander
Cr1t-
Fly

(monkey) Business reunites former Fnatic, former Team Secret, members BigDaddy and Fly. Longtime fans of Bigdaddy will be happy to see that he has returned to the mid role of his Heroes of Newerth days. By this time he will have rotated through all the positions in Dota 2, save for carry. With the addition of Miracle, an 8k MMR pubstar with high potential, and Moonmeander, Complexity's standout offlane player, (monkey) Business has a strong cache of core players. Cr1t and Miracle may be new to the professional scene, but they're rounded out by players with The International experience.

Virtus.Pro

Illidan
G
DKphobos
Lil
Fng

Virtus.Pro did not change their roster, but they deserve credit for doing so. They went on a dream run at TI5 when they placed 5-6th place, winning 1.2 million dollars and becoming the most successful Russian Dota team since Na`Vi three years ago. G finally got to talk to Kaci in a post game interview and Virtus.Pro won crucial games against Secret and Complexity off the back of their signature carry hero, Silencer. It’s a sign of their team chemistry that they can recover from their loss and decide to stick together. Everyone made mistakes, but they’ve decided they can work on it. Virtus.Pro can only get better from here.

The road to the top is open for any of these teams, especially with a new patch looming on the horizon. There are teams that have had honeymoon starts and others that have underperformed, but it will be their ability to adapt and learn that determines where they'll stand in the future.

(Read more here - - http://www.dotabuff.com/blog/2015-09-17-winners-of-ti5s-western-shuffle)

Highest Overall Earnings

Player ID Player Name Total (Overall)

1. UNiVeRsE - - Saahil Arora $1,964,038.64

2. ppd - - Peter Dager $1,961,183.29

3. Aui_2000 - -Kurtis Ling $1,880,747.04

4. Fear - -Clinton Loomis $1,735,983.84

5. xiao8 - -Zhang, Ning $1,662,202.73

6. SumaiL- - Sumail Hassan $1,640,777.34

7. Hao - -Chen, Zhihao $1,562,946.23

8. Banana - - Jiao, Wang $1,211,250.16

9. SanSheng - -Wang, Zhaohui $1,205,274.33

10. Mu - -Zhang, Pan $1,193,811.11

11. Sylar- -Liu, Jiajun $914,630.31

12. Puppey - - Clement Ivanov $912,353.16

13. MMY! - - Lei, Zengrong $910,475.10

14. Super - - Xie, Junhao $897,034.43

15. Fenrir - - Lu, Chao $827,257.88

16. fy - - Xu, Linsen $827,257.88

17. iceiceice - -Koh, Daryl Pei Xiang $813,166.06

18. Yao - -Yao, Zhengzheng $741,610.71

19. s4 - - Gustav Magnusson $723,633.44

20. rOtK - -Bai, Fan $672,513.99

21. KuroKy - - Kuro Takhasomi $649,255.75

22. Arteezy - - Artour Babaev $629,478.21

23. Zai - -Ludwig Wåhlberg $625,489.84

24. Dendi - - Danil Ishutin $624,292.63

25. XBOCT - - Oleksandr Dashkevych $621,346.54


Original Source - http://www.esportsearnings.com/players

Update: As predicted, Valve deployed a patch ASAP. The bug is now fixed. Sorry, Dire. You're back to stacking your own Ancients now.

Original: Yesterday, Chris questioned whether Dota 2 Reborn was ready; suggesting that Valve's lane-pusher has gone back to beta. Maybe that explains this: a major balance-breaking bug that has been introduced into the latest version of the game. Dire's Ancients—the big, stompy mobs lurking near the Roshan pit—are auto-stacking without any intervention.

Stacking is supposed to be a trick that support characters who aren't me can do. They pull the Ancients out of their jungle camp just as their spawn timer ticks over. The game, thinking there are no Ancients in the camp, spawns new ones. The original Ancients return to their position, and now there are two stacks available for gold-hungry heroes.

Currently, Dire-side Ancients are spawning automatically—without the need for player intervention. A gif posted to the Dota 2 subreddit shows this in action. This, naturally, is a major issue for the game's balance. It's a huge advantage to the Dire; and specifically to the heroes that can easily eat a big stack of Ancients. Things can quickly get out of hand:

It's a big enough bug that joinDota League has announced that all its matches are suspended until things are fixed. Given the seriousness, that will likely happen soon. Until it does, definitely avoid playing ranked.



Read full article here -
http://www.pcgamer.com/dota-2-balance-breaking-bug-discovered/