Come into my dominion!


Tonight you might want to sleep with your lights on because Shadow Demon has returned.

In today’s update you will find your usual collection of fixes and new features including parity with Dota’s 6.74 release and the ability to share unit control with your team mates.

Thanks to everyone that jumped on the Test Build and helped us test this update.

An Explaination of the 6.74 parity changes and a full changelog for Dota 1 6.74 can be found here

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Valve threw us a little curveball with last week's update, but its important enough to deserve a mention even without a new hero. From now on, Hero-less Updates will not get companion threads just for the patch notes, I'll list them all here.

The shadow grows…
http://blog.dota2.com/2012/03/the-shadow-grows/
March 9, 2012 - Dota Team
This week’s update is now available in the main Dota 2 client. You can find the changelog here.

We’re changing the way we release updates once more and will be updating the Test Build on Wednesdays. It will then be promoted to the Dota 2 release build the next day if no major issues are found.

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The long awaited Star League's Dota 2 Star Ladder is finally about to start.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0kApjYEWHM

Full Schedule and information can be found in Russian here

The league will end with 4 teams being invited to play in a best-of-three double elimination Grand Final which is scheduled to be played in person from the 26th to 29th of April in Kiev.
No streaming information yet, joinDOTA's Tobi-wan is trying to get the rights to stream and commentate the matches in English but nothing has been finalized yet.

16 teams are competing for $15,000 in cash

Prize Breakdown
1st - $6,000
2nd - $3,000
3rd - $2,500
4th - $2,000
5th - $500
6th - $400
7th - $350
8th - $250

Teams
PR
NEXT.KZ
Darer
Its Gosu
Quantic Gaming
E-Sahara
CLG.Dota2
Mouz esports
FnaticRC
Infused
DTS.Dota
Na`Vi
MTW
Western Wolves
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Announced a while back, the Russian TECHLABS Cup is coming up soon, and although this Dota 2 showmatch between Ukranian Na`Vi and Russian DTS (Formerly The Retry) is only a minor side event, $3,000 is still up for grabs. The event is taking place in a mall called Mega Khimkii in Moscow.

joinDOTA.com 's TobiWanKenobi will be providing the English commentary for this showmatch while V1lat will be providing the Russian commentary 0 comments

After a little bit of a break we're back here at Solomid with all your relevant Dota 2 News. Bane Elemental was pushed to the "Live" Dota 2 Beta client this week, I'm pretty happy with this patch as Bane was always one of my favorite Heroes in DotA

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Cyborgmatt has become slightly Infamous for dumping and analyzing new patches in the Dota 2 beta, here's what he's pulled from the Test client this week 1 comments

Longtime visitors to Solomid.net will no doubt know who CLG is, and even after parting ways with Absolute Legends, they're stepping out again, this time sponsoring one of the best (previously) unsponsored Dota 2 teams in the world. The all-Swedish team exPerience (xP) has continually performed very well in DotA 2 events recently beating teams like NEXT.kz and Dreamhack Winter champions mTw. The new roster for CLG.dota2 is:

Loda (Captain)
Akke
Miracle
Pajkatt
Pinoy


Roster page is here: http://clgaming.net/players/3 3 comments After EG played against Mineski with only Lacoste and Playmate and 3 stand-ins yesterday, instead of playing a 2nd match they forfeitted outright and many people were left wondering what happened, why EG didn't show up, why they forfeitted the 2nd game etc.. a little while later Maelk posted in the comments of the match info on GosuGamers (comment 53 & 62)

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Around the same time, management in The Premier League seemed fed up with EG, the FF for their 2nd game against Mineski was their 2nd and they expressed frustration with EG for being late "several times" They put up a poll on their facebook page asking for opinions on what sort of punishment they should give out. This was a pretty heavily skewed poll and the way everything was worded was basically a death sentence to begin with.

That evening, management at TPL had then heard about Maelk's aforementioned comments over on gosugamers.net and made their decision:
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At this point many fans who had been following this, without a lot of information or any "Official" statements for EG had mostly condemned them, with a picture being painted by TPL that they were bad mannered, uncooperative and difficult to work with, perhaps even purposefully aggravating TPL (and the fans who were watching the stream that morning).

Presumably, Maelk saw what had happened and realized that his previous comments weren't sufficient to explain what had really happened from their point of view, he posted this breakdown of the events over in a thread on TeamLiquid.net where a user wanted to discuss the recent drama, even linking Artstyle's blacklisting to these events with Evil Geniuses. (Before Maelk posts in the thread, Tobiwan of joinDOTA.com does provide some of his own comments regarding Artstyle and EG/TPL, and are worth a read.)

The thread here contains the full post but I'll put some snippets here.

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What follows that is a very detailed explanation of a lot background information about Maelk, EG, TPL management Laurent 'Ange' Blum, and accounts of several previous events from his perspective that completely shed a whole new light of what had previously been a very one-sided look. Maelk dissects much of TPL's release about the banning of Evil Geniuses, and describes events how he remembers them, much of which directly contradicts TPL's claims. At the end of the post Maelk finishes with a summary and light criticism as well as acknowledging that his point of view and subsequent speculation is no more objective than The Premier League's releases have been.

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We'll see where this turn of events will take us, Evil Geniuses has no desire to get back into The Premier League, but it remains to be seen how the public will treat all of this information, and decide who they want to believe. This post will continue to be updated, should more statements from either side arrive.

UPDATE: Maelk did an interview with joinDOTA.com: http://www.joindota.com/en/news/2476-maelk-all-we-really-want-to-do-is-play 0 comments
Late breaking update here as mTw has announced roster changes of their own with Matrim and kuronity leaving the team and Tulex and BENTZER filling their spots. since the winter Dreamhack where mTw dominated they have been struggling to come up with victories which prompted mTw management to push for roster changes. You can read the full article from mTw along with statements from team leader synderen and new members Tulex and BENTZER here


One piece of Non-tournament news, as EG, Evil Geniuses officially adds Maelk and Lacoste to the roster. Demon is officially now backup for the team and Pajkatt has left the team entirely to join xP

joinDOTA.com's The Defense:

The Defense's second group stage has come to a close and is now moving into the playoff stage, with 6 teams remaining going into a double elimination bracket with the top 4 teams starting in the winner's bracket and teams 5 and 6 starting in the lower bracket. The Teams remaining are (in order) DD(Fomerly SK) and aL and PANZER from group 1 and Na`Vi, EG, and Dignitas from group 2. you can check out the full bracket over on joinDOTA here

DotA2Replays.org's Brawl (DRB)

The DRB Qualifier #3 ended with mousesports defeating NEXT.kz to earn the third spot alongside aL and FIRE, and now Qualifier #4 is going live in just under an hour! A lot of great teams are still in the running including North American teams Its Gosu, What is Dusa Saying?, and co9.GDT! You can see the brackets and links to the live streams here

The Premier League with Twitch.tv and DotACommentaries

Breaking news with the Premier league now, after a poor preformance with 3 stand-ins this morning and forfeitting their 2nd match vs Mineski, the hosts of the Premier league have put up a poll on their facebook page asking whether or not EG should be punished. http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Premier-League/195514240536406 Maelk commented on Gosugamers that EG actually quit the league but had not apparently made this aware to tournament hosts and that is why Lacoste and Playmate played with 3 standins for the match this morning.

Infused Cup DotA 2 Tournament

After an amazing finish by team FIRE they have won the Infused DotA 2 Cup. You can find vods of the matches over on joinDOTA.com

cyberarena.tv's Star Ladder: Star League

Still nothing major out of the Star Ladder.

DotA 2 Europe Challenge

DD(Formerly SK) have won the Dota 2 Europe challenge and walk away with 1000Euros. Things have really been looking up for DD even after leaving SK. VoDs can be found on joinDOTA.com

Cyber eSports Gaming League

A new event has been announced, CEGL is promising bimonthly tournaments for $1000 in prizes and is open for registration now. A beta run of the league will be starting in 2 weeks, so it will be some time before we hear a lot coming out of this. Still another week till CeGL should be kicking off, we'll have more information when it becomes available. 1 comments http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/36471-SKs_DotA2_team_has_been_released



Big news today out of the European pro scene as SK drops their DotA 2 Squad.

"SK Gaming can officially announce that its DotA2 team has been released from the organisation. Circumstances arose which meant it was best for both parties to go their separate ways. SK Gaming thanks the DotA2 team for their efforts and wishes them well."

SK Gaming DotA2 housed the following:

Martin 'AngeL' Olsen
Sylvester 'Link' Hoelgaard
Brian 'MaNia' Strandby
Mikkel 'miGGel' Berg
Christoffer Borregaard 'Ryze' Winther
Alexander 'CalculuS' Rathcke (removed mid-January)

SK player manager Min-Sik 'reis' Ko's statement:

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This has come as a huge surprise as SK have been preforming very well in recent tournaments, we can only hope that the EX-SK Danes manage to find a sponsor that will fit them better as a team. 0 comments


http://blog.dota2.com/2012/01/my-bones-ache-for-vengeance/

"Clinkz the Bone Fletcher has risen from his grave and from the looks of him, he looks a bit upset.

We’ve been glued to our monitors watching the matches coming out of The Defense, make sure you stop by and check them out.

Next week we will change the way we ship new content to you every week. As mentioned in our previous update, old replays will stop working then, so don’t forget to save your favorite moments out to a video format."

Lastly, patch notes can be found here. 0 comments