The International 2018 News and Discussion

Same here, I really enjoy playing him even though he's not that strong this patch. Can't pick him too often though since people tend to get demoralized when they see something that's not Crystal Maiden or other meta support. :(

Yup. I think Rubick has been loosing for about 2 years. Hope the little guy gets a break this year!


BTW almost 2 week left! 1st Prize for the international 2018 is 10 million dollars!

The International 2018 Group Stage Day 1 Schedule / Stream / Caster Information!

So the day one group stage has ended. Bringing is some major upsets! With highlights of the day including EG picking up Phoenix Arteezy (it was a mis-click) and Liquid losing 1-39 against Fnatic! Overall it was a fun day, With EG and VGJ.Storm in leads so far. Match score, Day 2 scheduled and Day 1 Highlights can be found here. What you guys think about Day 1?

Here are day one standings:

Group 2 day 2 has ended. I was not able to see any of the matches as I am still watching day one. But it seems EG and VGJ.Thunder are still in lead. That is quite astonishing, was not expecting EG to remain top.

Here are day 2 standings so far:

The group stages have ended. Liquid takes the lead and Pain Gaming goes home! Here are the final standings of group stage.



The International 2018 Main Event Bracket. #TI8

Our AI made some predictions for today's matches!



Overall, out of all 14 matches in the playoffs, it managed to guess 9!
Pretty good result for a robot, isn't it?

What are your thoughts on those predictions?

Sorry I have been away for few days, got really sick. Here are the updates, till today( Main event day 4)
The prize pool is now 25 million+ USD!


Main event day 1:


As expected day 1 of the main event was crazy. We saw Winstrike knocking out Newbee. While LGD pushed VP to lower bracket!

Main event day 2:



Day 2 made many fans sad as SEA was completely wiped out from the The International.



Main event day 3:


Day 3 had the biggest plot twist of all! EG and Team Liquid, both favorite to many DOTA fans across the globe were knocked out to lower bracket. LGD defeated Liquid 2-0 , while OG took out EG with a 2-1 score.



Gonna start watching day 4 now and update as soon as I am done with it!

So the TI is done and dusted, the results were quite unexpected. At the final day EG and LGD fought for a seat at the grand finals, where EG was completely wiped out by LGD (0-2). I was personally supporting EG against LGD, EG tried to rush the games and were completely dominated by LGD.

However the grand final between OG and LGD was a complete shocker! Many thought LGD would take a clean win but OG fought back hard and WON THE INTERNATIONAL 8.

The TI is over but I wanted to share this. A small interview with the SEA casters Marlon and Aldrin! who are behind the famous voice line 'Lakad Matatag'
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