The Weekly CourierVisa issues, Loda takes a break, Siltbreaker
Happy Friday!
Summit 7 plagued by Visa issues
BeyondTheSummit were forced to replace two teams on short notice for their Summit 7 event. Two qualifier teams, namely CDEC and Clutch Gamers, have failed to acquire their visas and have thus been replaced. LGD-Gaming will take CDEC’s place, while Digital Chaos will play in Clutch Gamers’ stead.
The original announcement can be found here (CDEC) and here (Clutch Gamers) .Loda to take competitive break
Today, Swedish veteran Jonathan 'Loda' Berg has announced that he will take a break from competitive Dota 2 until after The International 2017. Alliance split from Twitch earlier this year and that split has left Alliance as a player owned organization. In the next few months, Loda intends on focusing on the organization as an owner, rather as a player. Replacing him will be former Ninjas in Pyjamas player Era, who also used to play with Limmp, Handsken and Jonassonfan in NiP.
The original announcement can be found here.Ninjas in Pyjamas drop roster
Esports organization Ninjas in Pyjamas have decided to terminate their relationship with their roster and will withdraw from Dota 2 for now. The Swedish organization had acquired the former Escape Gaming roster in January, but the team around captain Era has failed to qualify for any LAN event since. For Ninjas in Pyjamas, this is the second failed venture in the Dota 2 scene and considering their struggles in CS:GO and their new investment in League of Legends, it seems unlikely that they will return to Dota anytime soon.
LFY causes upset & place 1st at Epicenter's Group A
This week, Epicenter's group stage took place over the course of 5 days. LFY went into the event as an underdog, but quickly drew attention to themselves when they beat Kiev Major champions 2-0 on the opening day. LFY remain undefeated at Epicenter and secured a top 4 finish by placing 1st in their group. Meanwhile, OG has been eliminated from the event, another early exit for the Major champions, following the short run at the Manila Masters. Group B finished rather unsurprisingly, as EG, recent Manila Masters champions, took first place, followed by Virtus.pro and iG.
All Epicenter matches can be found here.Siltbreaker: Act I is live
On Thursday, Valve released the long awaited Siltbreaker Co-Op campaign. In groups of four, players can choose from a hero pool of 14 heroes, with which they will have to achieve a variety of objectives. See the announcement here
Tournament Overview
- Epicenter Season 2 will conclude this weekend. Evil Geniuses will face off against Team Secret, while LFY will take on Team Liquid. The tournament will also feature a showmatch between casters.
- The Summit 7will begin next week on Wednesday, 14th June.
- Galaxy Battles will also begin on 14th June. As Galaxy Battles will take place in Shenzen, China, games are unlikely to clash with The Summit.
Thanks for catching up with us. We hope you enjoy your weekend.
First boyz...where s my potato?
Second ???
chicken my doood.
Siltbreaker so far has been a real tough nut to crack for a couple reasons:
1. Everything that hits you takes away half your life (or comes in groups of 30000)
2. The fixed camera perspective causes misclicks as the targets move according to their movements AND your character's movements
That being said, the mode is fun with a group and learning the little nuances like dodging hellbear claps makes each run a little easier.
RIP Loder UncleNox
6th hahaha
at evening i start to really hate this mode , volwes swapns faster then u can really kill them ,
I really like these little Dota news posts that have been coming out. Keep it up!
Poor Loda got Trump'd.
11st kappa
Noice!!!!
Aside from this patch breaking my dota forwhatever reason play button disappears and when its finaly back game keeps crashing, thanks siltbreaker for lit breaking my game,. Ill just hafta wait
I think it's important to point out how imbalanced Artifacts can be... I just saw Moo from Complexity complete a record breaking run (2nd best of all time according to dotabuff) with only Vlad's and Phase boots and 4 Artifacts playing Abbadon... Now it's obvious the hero is quite popular for obvious reasons but the winrate really depends on your luck with the Artifacts...
last patch they nerfed OG
i cry when even games are only for bp users :(
best dota decision Lulda has taken in the last 3 years
after bulldog and s4 left i didn't know if alliance would be a team as they were all those years , then EGM got kicked "He is the problem " and now Load the iconic alliance face is taking and break and quits from being a player ... For me this is the too much