DOTA 2

Apparently Loda retired and Qoijva replaced him on Alliance.

Also OG picked up Ana and Topson.

Big changes to the post TI8 pro circuit

http://blog.dota2.com/2018/06/the-dota-pro-circuit-2018-2019/

Quick summary: Restrictions on owners who have multiple teams (they can participate in majors/minors, but not TI), DPC points applied to teams vs players, allowing more roster changes during year but you lose 20% per changed person, DPC points reduced by 40% if you have a substitute playing vs. a core roster player, no more direct invites for majors/minors so everyone has to play for the slot.

Cybsled said:

Restrictions on owners who have multiple teams (they can participate in majors/minors, but not TI)

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I wonder if this is even a real problem - must be aimed at China but at the same time I feel its probably easy to mask the true owner there.

Cybsled said:

DPC points applied to teams vs players, allowing more roster changes during year but you lose 20% per changed person, DPC points reduced by 40% if you have a substitute playing vs. a core roster player

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I feel these rules create a bad situation for a team replacing a player - if they add someone who doesn't work out they lose another 20% DPC but if they have a trial period they earn 40% less DPC. Were the handful of times substitutes were used this year that big of a deal?

I'm not sure how i feel about team based DPC generally.

Cybsled said:

no more direct invites for majors/minors so everyone has to play for the slot.

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This makes perfect sense when teams (/cough EG) win some meaningful DPC early in the season and get free invites for the year despite performance. Apparently teams qualified for the major can't go to the minor? Seems like minors will be a couple decent teams and otherwise irrelevant ones, its hard to see how minors are going to earn money on their events.

Nice end to the season and some real hype heading in to TI now.

Idly have the the Giant Bomb nite stream at E3, between interviews they have the camera pointed at people mingling and I notice.... Cyborgmatt.

looking for a few people to play with, looking to win some games and have fun!

Navi getting shit on during a bo1 for the TI8 open qualifiers by a no name team. Feelsbadman.

must feel real bad going from winning everything on VP to losing to nobodies in an open qualifier with a shadow of a TI winning team lol

Haven't played in years, is techies worth playing or did 7.0 kill the hero?

Naga song should really affect roshan.

fanaskin said:

nerfed? cause stacking red mines was "fun"? just plays different now.

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I last played when you couldn't stack mines but could still be effective mining in blind spots eg treelines in triangle formations. I meant after the "mines are now visible and make a sound change"

Just played an unranked game, first game of dota in prob 18 months and the hero was junk lol

Mind_Control got in trouble, fined by Liquid etc for the above lol

Malinatar said:

AI bots trained for 180 years a day to beat humans at Dota 2

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I feel like they're misleading themselves by providing the bots with perfect knowledge (programmatic access to inventories, hero positions, etc.) and perfect control. They reference real world applications but most real world problems deal with imperfect knowledge and imperfect control.