The big stories of Dota 2 in 2017

2017 marked the release of Dota 2 version 7.00, with The International 7 once again beating the record for esports awards, which also shows that Dota 2 has had a busy year. Besides, there are also many events that keep fans and gamers excited.

Thanks to the Pro Circuit system, next year there will be more events and tournaments with higher prize money. In addition, next year, the invitations to TI will have clear transparency, now the teams who want to own the direct invitation tickets are forced to show their best at events as well as tournaments next year to get attendance points.

Before we move on to the new year, let’s take a look back at the big stories of Dota2 in 2017.

After the Boston Major event ended at the end of December 2016, Valve released a trailer looking back at the released and departed versions. It’s like a nostalgic video, showing the moments of The International in the past, even the Dota standby screen when it was a custom map of WarCraft III.

Most expect that IceFrog and the game balance team will share the changes as usual and reveal information about version 6.89 at the end of the trailer. However, when the version counter was about to stop at 6.89, it skipped and showed 7.00 – This is the first version without a decimal number since IceFrog took over development of Dota Allstars in 2005. .

At the time this also marked a new era of Dota2, leaving the past behind and moving towards something new. It took almost 7 years to get to 7.00 and it was a really great moment, you have to know that if you go from 6.89 to 7.00 in the normal way, it will take a lot longer.

Details of version 7.00 were released after the trailer was released, with more than thousands of users accessing the Dota 2 homepage. This version brought many major changes including: talent tree, shrine, map changed. Changes and tweaks, new UI, and above all all the heroes of traditional Dota have been included in Dota2.

Up to now, there have been 2 new heroes with new talents and new items. With IceFrog continuing to grow, there’s a lot more to come.

Fans were really surprised by the talent system of version 7.00. In addition to this mechanism being quite similar to Heroes of the Storm, now players can build heroes in their own way thanks to the talent system.

The first example is Ember Spirit following the Magic path, this popularity is due to the Octarine core and magic damage increase talent. Before the talent tree was released, almost Ember Spirit had only one way to build, which was physical damage.

Besides, heroes like Lone Druid and Queen of Pain are also gradually returning to the meta thanks to possessing incredibly strong talents. Up until now, we have seen heroes that have been out of the meta for a long time slowly returning to the arena thanks to the love IceFrog brings.

For the first time in the history of The International 7 tournament without the participation of the champion of last season. TI 6 champion Wings Gaming disappeared from the pro scene because the team disbanded after the Kiev Major. In addition, they had a dispute with the Chinese Esports Association (ACE), which resulted in all 5 members being banned from all Chinese tournaments for their breach of contract.

Their disbandment was one of the sadness of the world Dota2 community, they completely changed the gameplay of the game at that time. The Chinese team is famous for the most confusing ban picks and the almost limitless amount of heroes Wings Gaming uses. Their playstyle is to ignore the meta, instead winning with each other’s skill, flexibility and coordination.

Ever watched an anime where you face the final boss on the first 5 episodes and get absolutely demolished? #wingsgods

— Theeban Siva (@1437x) 11 November 2016

They are truly exceptional, not only are they successful with their gameplay but they are also one of the most watchable and interesting teams in the game. Their strength is in unpredictable picks, plus they possess the skill to make the most of their lineup.

Currently going their separate ways, Zhang “Faith_bian” Ruida and former captain Zhang “`y” Yiping are currently playing for EHOME. The team’s Carry player, Chu “Shadow” Zeyu, plays for Eclipse. Finally, Zhou “blink” Yang and Li “iceice” Peng are currently playing for Sun Gaming.

In the previous Major seasons of Dota 2, the tournament system gave us a lot of memorable moments. From OG’s four European titles to the final at the Boston Major, there have been major turning points and changes.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t solve the problems that professional Dota 2 has, especially the prize structure. People still target only the Major and The International, causing the other events to gradually separate and become unimportant. Because of that, Valve decided that they would host many events on their own, going back to their 2015 plan of leaving tournaments up to the organizations while still sponsoring these events by increasing prize value. Valve calls this system “Pro Circuit”.

However, tickets to The International will no longer be in-person. This time the teams have to attend the official Pro Circuit tournaments (including the Major and the Minor) for a chance to receive qualification points to participate in TI 8. This system will encourage the players to compete at their best in the tournament. Major tournaments to receive prizes, which will also bring the team members closer together instead of disbanding when it’s just difficult.

Up until now, Pro Circuit has produced many quality tournaments. The problem right now is probably that tier 1 teams like Liquid, Newbee, Virtus Pro, and Team Secret will spend all of their points from tier 2 and tier 3 swaps in the Minor. There will be a few tweaks next season, but for now, the community seems to be really interested in this newness.

Valve’s The International has once again broken the world record for the largest prize money in esports tournament in history. TI 7 owns a prize pool of up to $24,787,916 after starting at $1.6 million

Prizes are raised once again thanks to community contributions via the Battle Pass that launched in May. Fan one raised the prize pool to $23 million by purchasing a Battle Pass level, which will give users the rewards in the game as well as in real life.

The Liquid champions walked away with the $11 million prize pool with the Aegis of Champions in their hands. Followed by Newbee, although the prize they achieved is not equal to the European champion, $ 3.9 million is also a huge number. The rest are the top 8 teams leaving with a prize pool of at least $617,000.

Will TI 8 continue to break records for the 5th time in a row next year? One thing’s for sure, at least Dota 2 fans will be willing to shell out money for this event.

Kuro Salehi “KuroKy” Takhasomi has had an extremely long career with Dota from Dota Allstars to Dota 2. He is known as the best Support player ever, fans are starting to see him. The Dota 2 pro probably didn’t know that he started his career as a carry.

He even ranked first in that position, winning the 2018 GosuGamers Carry award. He received 52% of the vote, defeating Jonathan “Loda” Berg with 226 votes.

His Dota 2 career got off to a rather slow start. Although he was present from the time of The International for the first time, he and the official GosuGamer team were eliminated in the final top 4 of the rankings. Once again he suffered a similar situation while playing for Mousesports.

Until he was picked up by Natus Vincere and from there his career took a better direction. As part of Navi’s legendary 2013 squad, he won numerous tournaments at the time. Ironically, his team was defeated by Loda’s team and robbed the precious Dota 2 title, whom he defeated to claim the title of best carry in the world in 2008 – Considered one of the best carry games in the world. The best match in TI history.

KuroKy stayed with Navi for another year, but again failed to win Aegis at TI 4. The next year he played for Secret and still gave his best but Aegis once again turned him down. . This happened again at TI6 where he played for Liquid, but god bless him with a bigger blessing that was Amer “Miracle-” Al – Barqawi and Maroun “GH” Merhej when they both joined. join your team.

The results are really effective. With KuroKy’s leadership, the team has grown more mature day by day, Liquid has started attending important events before entering TI 7. TI 7 took place, they were predicted to be the winning team. And that’s what they did, rising to the bottom bracket after being knocked out by Invitus Gaming and taking the final win.

KuroKy couldn’t hold back his emotions during the victory ceremony and tears started to fall. The 25-year-old German has finally made it, proving to the world that if you persevere, it will pay off.

As for his teammates: Miracle- finally won the TI title after a year and a half of being considered the best player in the world. GH became the top Dota 2 player within a year of playing professionally.

Lasse “MATUMBAMAN” Urpalainen started with a joinDOTA post 3 years ago looking for a team to play against, he finally managed to get to the TI championship. Finally there is Ivan “MinD_Control” Ivanov, proving himself to be one of the best offlane players in Europe.

All is the story of Kuroky leading a team of unknown members (except Miracle-), uniting them into a whole and winning with determination and perseverance. This is a great end to 2017 for Liquid and its fans.

Source: dotesports