So this happened last night

This was during the finals between Harrosh and Giggles deciding the last spot in the $5000 Gigabyte Masters tournament.

Would anyone else have the balls to do this in a match like this?
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Ice and Harrosh met in the first qualifying tournament to decide which team deserved a wildcard spot in the Gigabyte Masters tournament ($5000 prizepool).

Best of 3 series VoDs:

Match 1

Match 2

Match 3

The rest of the VoDs for the first qualifying tournament can be found over on Dotacast

The second qualifying tournament kicks off 1400hrs GMT+6 28/4 (0800hrs CET). Check out the Gigabyte page for more info
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8 Teams are through the group stage into the best of 3 single elimination series, playing off for a $500 prize. Games will be streamed at Dotacast.com

Games start at 10am GMT+10 (about 40 minutes from this post)

The Teams:

Blackfade.org (US/AU)

Parallel Gaming (AU)

Skill Difference (US)

Absolute Legends (AU/CAN)

BVD (AU)

Sequential Gaming (NZ)

BIG PLAYS (AU)

We'll also be giving a couple of beta keys away again after the last game. Brush up on your trivia if you want to take a shot at one.
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News just broke. Dota 2 is definitely going to be f2p.

Source

BUT! The real question is what's Gaben's twist going to be? Well, I had some ideas on that.

What do you guys think this twist might be?
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Ok.

So I was working on a guide about hero roles. I had a snazzy name picked out and everything "Dota 2 Class Warfare" I was going to call it, and maybe insert bad jokes and pictures of the Occupy X movement.

Then I had an awesome discussion with Snoopy from Absolute Legends. It was incredibly enlightening and yet also extremely frustrating. The gist of it is there's a metagame shift in the works and with it mostly invalidates the stuff I've done and was working on at the time. Gah. At least we get to explore new topics though. The next video guide will mostly be concerning what's happening right now.

Basically Na'Vi are to blame. Those of you who've seen the Ukranian (mostly) juggernaught in action know exactly how successful they are and how damn scary they look when they play. Naturally they're extremely talented players with incredible coordination but that's not the whole of it. For a long time I've put down their ability to pub stomp even the strongest teams (and I do mean sto…
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