Full list of 2019-2020 Dota 2 majors through The International 2020


Barring some sort of controversy, the Dota Pro Circuit major calendar is officially filled. The calendar is comprised of five events that will take place between November 2019 and June 2020. The Dota Pro Circuit is used to determine the 12 invitees to The International 2020. The first Dota Pro Circuit Major tournament, MDL Chengdu, happened in November 2019, giving fans their first taste of teams like Evil Geniuses, Alliance, and Fnatic after heavy roster shakeups. However, top teams such as OG, Team Secret, and PSG.LGD took a longer break and gave the tournament a pass. Dota 2 enthusiasts started the new decade with a Dota Pro Circuit minor, the WePlay! Bukovel Minor. Eight teams are brawling for a coveted slot in the DreamLeague Leipzig Major. The tournament will be the first...

Valve has just released Dota 2’s New Bloom Festival Event to celebrate the lunar new year


New hero sets, consumables, Chat Wheel items, and an “indescribably rare” courier are up for grabs during Dota 2’s Lunar New Year event. By Nigel Zalamea Valve is giving Dota 2 players plenty to celebrate for the Lunar New Year with the release of the New Bloom Festival. Along with the event comes the new Treasure of Unbound Majesty. Available for purchase at just US$2.49, it features cosmetic item sets for Drow Ranger, Visage, Undying, Storm Spirit, Dazzle, Kunkka, Arc Warden, Dark Willow, and Rubick. The new treasure can also unlock a rare Puck set, a very rare Legion Commander set, or an extremely rare Templar Assassin set. https://twitter.com/wykrhm/status/1220555692802625536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1220555692802625536&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oneesports.gg%2Fdota2%2Fvalve-ushers-in-the-lunar-new-year-with-dota-2s-new-bloom-festival-event%2F Throughout the event, each victory in a matchmade game earns 200 New...

Only five teams remain at DreamLeague Season 13: Leipzig Major


Invictus Gaming pass the beastcoast sanity check at the Leipzig Major Second Major in the Pro Circuit season brings another top eight finish for beastcoast, who despite playing with a stand-in at DreamLeague Season 13, they stayed true to their playstyle and forced their adversaries to an intricate and at times impossible to read game plan. Their road at the Leipzig Major was brought to an end by Invictus Gaming in the third round of the lower bracket with a clean 2-0 victory from the Chinese team, who managed to outdraft beascoast in both games of the series. Io slipped through the first round of bans in game one, and iG first picked it to develop later on a line-up...

MAD Lions wins against North to secure the top seed in Group B


MAD Lions won their second Danish showdown of the day, this time against North, to secure a semi-final slot at DreamHack Open Leipzig. After taking down Heroic earlier in the day, the ex-Tricked side staked their claim as Denmark's No.2 team as they beat the new North lineup, led by Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen, to join BIG in the tournament semi-finals. The first pistol round saw MAD Lions crumble in a post-plant situation, letting North take initial momentum. After finding their first success once rifles were in hand, the Ts persisted past a setback, accruing five consecutive rounds while maintaining a healthy economy off the back of solid survival rates. MSL's solid AWPing facilitated North's resurgence towards the end of the first half, which eventually concluded 8-7 in favour of MAD Lions. The roles...

BIG best Renegades to secure Semi-Final slot in Leipzig


BIG have booked a spot in the semi-finals of DreamHack Open Leipzig after defeating Renegades 16-8 in Group A's winners' match. After outperforming Virtus.pro and Cloud9 earlier in the day, BIG and Renegades faced off for the top spot in Group A and a day's rest heading into the playoffs. Liam "malta" Schembri and Jordan "Hatz" Bajic cracked open the map with USP-S triple and duo kills, respectively, ensuring an advantage kicking off their CT side start to the map. A productive pistol buy from BIG immediately afterward produced sufficient momentum for the German side to assume the reins until the middle portion of the half. It was at this point that the Australians were able to recuperate from a difficult start, closing out four consecutive rounds, and after blows were exchanged, the teams swapped sides at an even...

ESL trims down Pro League to 24 teams; Reveals preliminary invite lists and format


ESL has announced that Pro League will be trimmed down to 24 teams and revealed a preliminary list of teams invited to participate in the 11th season as well as its format. The news partially confirms Thursday's report released by DBLTAP, which first revealed that the next season of ESL Pro League would feature 24 teams — trimmed down to half from a total of 48 teams who participated in Season 10 across Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region — and presented a list of 24 teams who had a spot in the upcoming season. The reported list also included Cloud9 and MIBR, who by all accounts are among the teams believed to participate in the North American league currently known as "B...

NA`VI CLOSE IN ON PERFECTO – REPORT


Natus Vincere are on the brink of completing the signing of Ilya "Perfecto" Zalutskiy from Syman, according to a report from 1pv.fr. Talks between the two organizations are already an advanced stage, with Perfecto expected to join Na`Vi in the coming days for a fee in the region of $200,000. Natus Vincere turned to the 20-year-old after being left frustrated in their pursuit of Evgeny "FL1T" Lebedev as forZe made it clear that they would not let the player leave for less than his release clause. Perfecto has been on Syman's books since October 2018, when he was recruited together with Artem "iDISBALANCE" Egorov. He played a key role in the team's qualification for their first-ever Major, the StarLadder Major...

DreamHack Open Leipzig 2020 schedule, standings and streams


DreamHack Open Leipzig 2020 will take place from January 24 to January 26, 2020 at the Leipziger Messe. Eight CS:GO teams will compete for a share of $100,000 and the winner will qualify to the DreamHack Masters Jönköping from June 9 to June 14, 2020. DreamHack Open Leipzig 2020 group stage The DreamHack Open Leipzig 2020 group stage will feature two double-GSL groups of four teams each where opening and winners' matches are best-of-one and elimination and decider match are best-of-three. The top two teams will qualify to the playoff stage. Group A BIG Cloud9 Renegades Virtus.pro Group B Heroic MAD Lions North Sprout Schedule Friday, January 24, 2020 Group A 11am CET: Virtus.pro vs BIG 2pm CET: Cloud9 vs Renegades Group...

CS:GO: IEM KATOWICE PARTICIPANTS ARE FINALIZED


After the prolonged hard battles of the qualifier tournaments, we now know all of the participants of IEM Katowice World Championship 2020. Alongside the 3 teams that qualified for IEM Katowice through recent S-tier events and 7 invites. A few more spots were finalized in the regional qualifier events. MAD Lions, who stomped ENCE in the final match of the qualifier is the biggest surprise. Our European qualifier was the toughest, with six top-30 teams participating. Though FaZe and G2 were the biggest favorites, it was not that easy for them to qualify through the upper bracket. Both qualifier matches were pretty close. But the sensation is ENCE, who unexpectedly lost their lower bracket final to MAD Lions without a...

DOTA 2: TREASURE OF UNBOUND MAJESTY RELEASED


The new Treasure of Unbound Majesty just dropped, and it's filled with some awesome sets. It’s that time of the year again - the New Bloom treasure is here. The Treasure of the Unbound Majesty costs only $2.49 and you can get sets for the following heroes: Drow Ranger Undying Storm Spirit Dazzle Visage Arc Warden Kunkka Dark Willow Rubick In addition to the sets mentioned above, you can also get three rare sets. The first one is for Puck, the second for Legion Commander, and the extremely rare one - for Templar Assassin. Apart from purchasing, you can also get this set from the New Bloom reward line. What’s more, there is even stuff like special celebrations, giftable spins,...

DreamHack Open Leipzig: Fresh faces gunning for glory in 2020


Starving for some CS:GO? You and me both. Luckily there's about to be some great content for us to chew on with DreamHack Leipzig coming around the corner. The three-day event starts on Friday, featuring seven of the HLTV top 30 teams in the world in an eight team field. All of these rosters feature new faces, new branding, or both. So let's look ahead at the matchups and take a stab at how each team will fare in 2020. Heroic Heroic are, by all meanings of the word, one of the most solid teams at this tournament. Their players: solid. Their tactics: solid. They have the best track record against top-tier competition for sure but, in my opinion, they’re...

RIOT SQUAD PART WAYS WITH FNS


Riot Squad have announced the release of in-game leader Pujan "FNS" Mehta. FNS spent just over six months as the captain of Riot Squad, initially joining the roster alongside Jonathan "Jonji" Carey in August 2019. The team found quick success as they earned a spot at the MSI MGA Finals, while simultaneously solidifying themselves as a top-three team in the North American division of ESEA MDL Season 32. A pair of narrow 14-16 losses to ex-Epsilon and ViCi at Riot Squad's MSI MGA Finals appearance left the team battling through a plethora of online qualifiers and events, most notably the online component of ECS Season 8 and ESEA MDL. While Riot Squad failed to find success in any of their ECS Season 8 week appearances, a flawless run through the playoff bracket of ESEA MDL S32 gave...

2020 NBA All-Star Game starters announced: LeBron James, Giannis named captains


Christmas Day in the NBA is not just a day for the league to take over the sports calendar and showcase its best teams and players in a number of prime-time games. It's also the start of voting for the All-Star Game, and now, nearly a month later, the polls are closed, votes have been tallied and we know the 10 starters for the 2020 NBA All-Star Game. Just as a reminder, fan voting accounts for only 50 percent of the final voting tally. Coaches and players also send in votes of their own, and those account for 25 percent each. Also, because the league doesn't do the traditional Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference format anymore, the teams are picked by captains....

StarLadder and ImbaTV bring the third Minor of the season to Kyiv


Cybersport Arena from Kyiv, Ukraine will be the home for the third Major of the 2019-20 Dota Pro Circuit season. StarLadder and ImbaTV join ventures once again to host from March 5th to 8th eight teams fighting for a share of the $300,000 prize pool, 660 DPC points and a ticket to the ESL One Los Angeles 2020. While the regional qualifiers slots allocation for Major and Minor is yet to be announced, the competition or this third set of DPC tournaments will start on the 9th of February, but the battle for the Minor slots will be held February 14-15 between the third and fourth teams placed in the Major qualifiers group stage. SL-Imba TV Minor LAN format: According...

BLAST Premier Spring Final to be hosted in Moscow


BLAST has revealed that Moscow will stage to the $750,000 BLAST Premier Spring Final. Host to BLAST Pro Series Moscow in 2019, the Russian capital will once more welcome fans from across the globe from June 19-21, this time with a tournament featuring a $750,000 prize pool, three times that of last year's event. A total of eight participants will be present at the Spring Final, taking place at an as-yet-undisclosed venue. Six contestants will be determined during the regular season of the league, kicking off later this month, while the last two teams will come from the Showdown stage, featuring the bottom sides from the Spring Series and teams coming out of open qualifiers. BLAST will return to Moscow...

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