Dota 2 tournament to be live-streamed
The million-dollar Dota 2 tournament to be held at Gamescom this year will be live-streamed online, making for our first look at the game in action.
Valve has released some pretty (and familiar) bits of concept art for Dota 2, but we haven't yet seen the game in action. That should be addressed in the upcoming million-dollar tournament to be held at Gamescom 2011, which will not only show plenty of the game, but will be live-streamed to the world.
The announcement came from the game's official site, which also confirmed that it would be broadcast in multiple languages: English, Chinese, German, and Russian. The tournament will span all five days of the German trade show from August 17-21, but exact times haven't been disclosed.
The name "Dota" is a reference to Defense of the Ancients, a popular mod for Warcraft 3. Dota 2 isn't a direct sequel to that mod, but Valve is clearly banking on the name a bit. Valve's trademark of the Dota name has led one developer to file its own trademark for the mod title.
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The million-dollar Dota 2 tournament to be held at Gamescom this year will be live-streamed online, making for our first look at the game in action.-
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fucking stupid unbalanced S2 heroes. they're pay 2 win now btw. pay $5 get early access to new heroes while they're OP (monkey king) watch this and tell me this isn't fucking retardedly OP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjkyAjyxZSQ
the "bug" is in the video comment which really has nothing to do with how much single target damage he's doing, which is the main issue.
and of course they're gonna nerf him a bit after he officially comes out.
S2: "MORE RANGED AGI HEROES LETS DO IT TEAM YEAH"
also no competitive scene. there's like 3 teams that compete in all the major tournaments that always place in the top 3. apparently a lot of comp players don't get paid for winning tournaments, either, which is shady as fuck. the same heroes are used in every tourney, too. the only "innovative" team has said they get all their strats from dota anyways.
and breakycpk is annoying as fuck. can't wait to have an actual good caster for a game i like to watch.-
also: map editor that's been promised and on their website at least until recently since early beta,
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I agree with everything except the breakycpk thing. Also, Monkey King is nowhere near as OP as Silhouette was when she came out.
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I don't think the criticisms of S2 heroes are fair. Monkey king is, aside from that bug, not a very good hero, that is pretty widely agreed by the community. Likely next patch you'll see the bug fixed and the hero slightly buffed if anything. But look at the rest of the S2 heroes...I really feel like they have done a decent job with many of them. Panda, bombardier, gauntlet, chipper are all some of my favorite heroes in the game right now, and I think S2 also deserves some credit for attempting to give most new heroes some sort of "skill shot" (non targetted spell similar to POTM arrows) which encourages skillful play.
I do think most of your criticisms are fair. Though, the reason that you've got a few teams dominating the competitive scene is due more to them being that much better than the competition than a complete lack of it, IMO. I completely agree about breakycpk...got to give him some props for setting up the honcasting from the start, but he really is just not a good announcer. Needs to hand the reins over to people who don't misspeak every 30 seconds.
Another criticism that I'd add is that the company can't seem to get the most basic things together for the game. For example: their website's hero and item information is terribly outdated, there are still small but annoying bugs in the program UI and the matchmaking MMR calculation, and most annoying, sometimes stats fail to record at all. If they were smart they would work on upgrading the basic infrastructure of the game instead of releasing 2 heroes a week.
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you mean reptile?
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Youtube videos are not streamed (unless it's a live show), they're progressively loaded.
A streaming can be live (as in, a tournament) or not live (as in, Netflix). The difference is that, for something like Netflix, it's serving you data as needed (buffering a bit) and adjusting as necessary. Basically loading the data and processing it before sending it to you. Whereas with a progressive load it's just serving you a file.
The thing about YouTube is that it can serve you chunks of a file starting at difference points, so it feels like streaming. But it's still progressive loading.
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Streamed to me means 'watch as it downloads'. So I consider Netflix to be streamed.
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I'm pretty disturbed that Valve is throwing a million dollars at this tourney on a game in beta given that LoL just had their $100,000 a year and a half after launch. I know that Valve has an infinite money supply, but I hate to see them moving to kill LoL and HoN by basically cash expoiting.
Very weird to see Valve playing the roll of Microsoft of the 90s.
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