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Dota 2’s world championship returns to Seattle this year
Dota 2’s biggest tournament will return to Seattle this year
For the first time since 2017, The International, Dota 2’s most prestigious tournament, will take place in Valve’s hometown. The tournament will kick off with a group stage that begins on October 14th before moving to Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena on October 27th, the studio announced on Saturday. The Climate Pledge Arena, previously known as KeyArena, is the same venue where Valve held The International between 2014 and 2017. It’s also the venue where Dota fans got to see one of the best plays in the tournament’s history.
In 2018, Valve moved The International to Vancouver’s Rogers Arena due to the start of multi-year renovations at KeyArena. In subsequent years, the event made stops in China, Romania and Singapore. Valve had also planned to bring the tournament to Sweden, but the pandemic forced the studio to cancel The International in 2020. On Saturday, Valve said The International 2023 would host the event’s largest audience to date. The studio promised to share more information about how fans can purchase tickets to The International 2023 closer to the date of the event.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/dota-2s-biggest-tournament-will-return-to-seattle-this-year-182415738.html?src=rss
Dota 2 The International 2023 is coming to Seattle
Dota 2 The International 2023 is headed for Seattle. The annual esports tournament for Valve’s MOBA is both the culminating moment in the Dota 2 year and also traditionally able to boast the biggest prize pools in all of competitive videogame tournaments. Now, its twelfth instalment is heading to Washington state as the TI 2023 date is marked down for October.
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Dota 2’s New Frontiers update makes it worth returning to, but it’s still overwhelming for new players
“Why am I so slow”, complains my partner, minutes into being cajoled into playing Dota 2 for the very first time. “Ah, you’ll need to buy boots,” I say, with the hard earned wisdom of someone who’s spent over 4,000 hours clicking on wizards. “I have boots,” she says, somewhat indignantly. “Those are slippers,” I reply. “What?” she asks, somewhat more indignantly. “They don’t give you move speed,” I respond. I see a flicker of anger in her eyes, as well as maybe, just maybe, a spark of interest.
A new Dota patch came out last week, and it’s a biggun. Is it a good time for lapsed players to jump back in? Yes! Is it a good time for entirely new players to dip their toes in, while experienced players are still befuddled by a map that’s 40% bigger, featuring dual Roshan pits, new minibosses and a host of other changes? Perhaps! It’s certainly a good opportunity to test your relationship.
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Dota 2 New Frontiers is basically a full sequel, and that’s awesome
Dota 2 is dead; long live Dota 2. Gameplay update 7.33, called Dota 2 New Frontiers, is a full sequel to the long-standing MOBA game in everything but name. With a new map, a fourth hero type, and vast gameplay balance changes made across all heroes and items, reading Valve’s latest set of Dota 2 patch notes might keep you busy through the whole weekend. Fortunately, we’ve pulled out the key takeaways right here.
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Dota 2’s ‘meta-defining’ New Frontiers update makes the map 40 percent bigger
Dota 2, one of the world’s most popular esports titles serving over 300,000 concurrent players on Steam as I write these words, has just dropped a massive update called New Frontiers that will likely change the free-to-play game forever. And the biggest difference by far is real estate: the game’s entire map is now 40 percent larger, letting you explore around the edges.
“The core objective of the game remains the same,” assures Valve — “your lanes aren’t further away from each other, and everything you need to win is still in the center of the map.”
But Valve goes on to describe “meta-defining new features,” new locations, new Tormentor mini-bosses, vision-granting…