The tournament presents an exciting new format, as not only the podium finishers will get the prize. Instead, half of the joining teams will earn themselves a reward for their win.

Because of the format, a maximum of only 16 teams will be admitted. All in all, the prize pool is 500 USD worth of steam wallet, with the Champion getting a quarter of it.

Basically, every win will garner a team a ‘bounty’. These bounties will be accumulated as the team advances into the tournament. For easier understanding, please refer to the following illustration.

All 16 slots will be consumed by invites. There will be no open registration.

25 May (Tentative time)

• 2100 SGT – Round 1
• 2200 SGT – Round 2

26  May (Tentative time)

• 2000 SGT – Semifinals
• 2100 SGT – Finals

The invited teams are:

•  Dreamz.Ledion.Steelseries
•  Gangster.Blaque
•  Happyfeet Reborn
•  Inzomnia BG
•  MI Cebu – It’s Pro Time (confirmed)
•  MILP – Speratus
•  Mineski.Razer
•  MSIEvoGT
•  Ninjacool (confirmed)
•  Pacific Badboys
•  Pacific Badburn
•  TnC Gaming (confirmed)
• TBA
• TBA
• TBA
• TBA

Invited teams are requested to confirm their participation on or before 24 May, which they can do via sending a message to DotaTalk’s Facebook page.

Prize:

• Champion – 125 USD Steam Wallet
• Second Place – 75 USD Steam Wallet
• Third-Fourth Place – 50 USD Steam Wallet
• Fifth-Eight Place* – 25 USD Steam Wallet

  *no walkover win

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The tournament presents an exciting new format, as not only the podium finishers will get the prize. Instead, half of the joining teams will earn themselves a reward for their win.

Because of the format, a maximum of only 16 teams are admitted. All in all, the prize pool is 500 USD worth of steam wallet, with the Champion getting a quarter of it.

Basically, every win will garner a team a ‘bounty’. These bounties will be accumulated as the team advances into the tournament. For easier understanding, please refer to the following illustration.

The four rounds of the tournament was split over two days of action. The teams were halved on the first round alone, but the good news is that the other half were already deemed as winners for the tournament. Unfortunately, some teams weren’t able to show up because of private reasons – including top seed Joenet PNM. This opened up the tournament for the other teams, with each having a bigger potential on taking the top prize.

The three other invited teams in Veyterons, Ultimate and TLeR.Reborn flexed their muscles and won their respective second round matches. ThunderBuddies also made their presence felt after winning their second straight match. Defisite Lose and NexTrue unfortunately will not have any bounties as their previous wins were from forfeits, but Flaming and NEST|NM will both get their hands on the bounty,

TLeR.Reborn handily disposed TB on their semi-final match, while ULTImate took the match against Veyterons. These two teams set to meet on the finals were Indonesia’s representative on the previous Pride Challenge.

ULTImate then proceeded to win the whole tournament via a decisive 2-0 win over their rivals. Their second win was emphasized with a surprising but effective Slark pick-up. The full bracket can be found here.

• 125$ Steam Wallet  -  ULTImate
• 75$ Steam Wallet -  TLeR.Reborn
• 50$ Steam Wallet -  Veyterons
• 50$ Steam Wallet -  ThunderBuddies
• 25$ Steam Wallet –  Flaming
• 25$ Steam Wallet -  N.E-S.T|NM

All other tournament related details, brackets, can be found at the coverage page.

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To determine the participants of GEST, eight different national/regional GMPGL qualifiers are held monthly. So far, four of those qualifiers are already finished.

Philippines:  Mineski.Razer,  Dreamz.Ledion.Steelseries,  TnC Gaming,  Gangster.Blaque - The Philippine GMPGL, hosted by Mineski, was dominated by Mineski. They didn’t drop a single game en route for a very strong performance before the TI3 East Qualifiers. Dreamz, last month’s champion, place second. TnC placed third yet again, and Gangster climbs the top four to enter the GEST Tournament.

Singapore:  Zenith,  Netolic.SG - Zenith made their triumphant debut on the Gigabyte-sponsored tournament, lording over decisively over the strong Singaporean bunch. Netolic.SG, previously known as AFD, placed second. Last month’s top two finishers Neo.int and First Departure failed to qualify for GEST this month.

Malaysia:  NeoES.Orange ,   Inv.GIGABYTE- Orange takes their usual spot on top of GMPGL Malaysia, but the runner-up was taken surprisingly by Inv.GIGABYTE. The regular second-placer of GMPGL Malaysia happens to be very strong on the main tournament, but it seems that they aren’t making it there this time as  Invasion.MUFC lost to  Lowyat on the quarterfinals of the tournament.

Non-SEA:  NEVERENDING HEADACHE - Yet another Oceanic team took the Non-SEA slot, as Neverending Headache won against China’s The One on the finals.

The rest of the GMPGL qualifiers will be held weekend, as the GMPGL regional tournaments for Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Rest-of-SEA and the all other Non-SEA teams will all be running on 25-26 May. An allocation of 32/64 slots will be given for each qualifier, depending on the number of teams registered. Registrations for all 4 country/regions are already open and will close on 24 May. Further information for your respective country/region’s GMPGL can be found at:

• Indonesia
• Vietnam
• Thailand
• Rest-of-SEA

Prizes vary for different country/regions.

The top team(s) from each qualifier will automatically qualify for GEST Dota 2 May, which will be held from the 30-31 May, 1-2 June, 2013.

Currently, these teams are qualified for GEST May:

•  Mineski.Razer
•  Dreamz.Ledion.Steelseries
•  TnC Gaming
•  Gangster.Blaque
•  Zenith
•  Netolic.SG
•  NeoES.Orange
•  Inv.GIGABYTE
•  NEVERENDING HEADACHE
•  ID1
•  ID2
  
•  VN1
  
•  VN2
  
•  TH1
•  TH2
• Rest-of-SEA1

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While  Mousesports didn’t have the best start for this tournament, they still secured the invite after a very strong finish. They seemed to be a different team after losing to  DD.Dota on the playoffs – since then they took seven wins against just one defeat to close out the tournament.

The majority-French team was actually the strong favorite heading into the Championship.  They topped Group A and also headed over the Championship via the Upper Bracket. They did not have a one-game advantage though, and mouz was clearly determined and poised on that last series.

The German squad, led by syndereN, won the series 3-1. They stormed to a quick 2-0 lead  to start the series, but dd inched closed on the third game with their second Razer pick of the series. The fourth game sealed the win for mouz, as they had better laning and made good use of that to farm Alchemist up.

With that, mouz will be heading into Seattle as a sure participant for TI3. Meanwhile, dd.Dota will also be heading to Seattle, but will have to fight it out with the East Qualifier’s runner-up for the final slot of the tournament. syndereN’s previous team, mTw, won the TI3 West Qualifier last year.

The East qualifier will start today with two matches on Group A.

•  Rattlesnake vs.  First Departure
  
•  LGD.cn vs.  Dreamz.Ledion.SteelSeries

Similar to the West Qualifiers, the top team on the East qualifier will be invited outright into TI3. The runner-up will be facing against DD.Dota on the Wildcard for the final slot of the event. TI3 East Qualifier is scheduled this 20-23, 28-30 May.

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image from tpl.eu

TPL Season five will be composed of seven regular cups plus one championship cup. Each of the first seven cups are single-elimination tournaments set to finish within a day. The top four teams from each cup will get 100, 50, 30 and 18 points respectively. The first cup, the Demon Edge Cup, is set to start this 20 May at 1500 CET (2200 SGT).

The invited teams are:

•  Alliance
  
•  Virtus.Pro
•  Rox.KiS
•  Fnatic
•  QPAD
•  Kaipi
•  Mousesports
•  Evil Geniuses

The top four based on the accumulated points after the seven cups will advance into the championship cup, the SuperCup. A total of 15500 USD is up for grabs on the prize pool, which is 50% bigger than that of last season’s.

After innovating last season with Dota 2′s first evolving courier, TPL will have the game’s first evolving set this time around. This, among a unique Chaos Knight-themed HUD and the DotaTV ticket for watching games, will be given in bundle when you purchase the ticket at the Dota 2 store.

the evolving Queen of Pain set, photo from tpl.eu

the Chaos Knight-themed HUD, photo from tpl.eu

Alliance won the fourth season with a crushing 3-0 win over Liquid on the Grand Finals.

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Season six of Starladder will start tonight. 16 of the best Europe / CIS teams will be facing each other on around one month of nightly action. The online phase will follow a round-robin stage. The top four teams on that tournament will proceed to the LAN finals in Kiev, Starladder’s usual home.

The invited teams are:

•  Fnatic
•  QPAD
•  Kaipi
•  DD
•  Mousesports
•  Natus Vincere
•  Alliance
•  TCM-Gaming
•  4FC
•  Virtus.Pro
•  Empire
•  Rox.KiS
•  OsG
•  iCCup
•  zRage

The games will be cast by multiple steamers. TobiWan and Sheever will be having separate English streams, while the Russian streams will be handled by v1lat and mtrx4u.

Natus Vincere won the first four Starladder Star Series tournaments, while Alliance won the thriller Season five.

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GEST May started with the first batch of GMPGL yesterday, 18 April. Usual names end up on top, lead by  TI3 bound teams in  NeoES.Orange and the newcomer for GMPGL,  Zenith. A surprise was made though, as  Lowyat surprised defending Champion Inv.MUFC on Malaysia’s GMPGL.

Among other teams in the top four for Malaysia are  Inv.Gigabyte and  MalayAllStars. Singapore, despite not having Neo.int, looks very stacked. The other three teams on the top four are  Flash,  First Departure and Netolic.SG.

Meanwhile,  The One and  NEVERENDING HEADACHE will face each other for the only slot for the Non-SEA region. Further information for your respective country/region’s GMPGL can be found at:

• Malaysia
• Singapore
• Non-SEA

Prizes vary for different country/regions.

Schedule:

• 1400 – Semifinals (Best-of-3)
• 1630 – Finals (Best-of-3)

Registration and information for GMPGL Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and Rest-of-SEA will be released next week. The top two team from each qualifier will automatically qualify for GEST Dota 2 March, which will be held from the 3 May – 2 Jun, 2013. The top team from GEST Dota 2 May will qualify for GEST : The Challenge.

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The RGN Pro League is a double round-robin tournament, which means that every team will face all others twice – once as Radiant and once as Dire. The top six teams then after that stage will advance into the finals. The whole tournament is expected to be running for nine months.

The nine-month period already has a one month break covered, which will be from mid-June to mid-August. This will be to accommodate the team’s participating on The International 3. So far, four out of the ten participating teams are sure to go to The International. The schedule also allow teams to reschedule when there are conflicts on LAN tournaments.

The participating tams are:

•  Rattlesnake
  
•  Rising Stars
•  TongFu
•  Zenith
•  First Departure
•  Neolution.International
•  NeoES.Orange
•  Invasion.MUFC
•  MiTH.Trust
•  Mineski.Razer

The full schedule can be found here. Interested fans can also watch the event via DotaTV ticket subscription.

Prizes:

• 1st Place – 10000 SGD (8063~ USD)
• 2nd Place – 3000 SGD (2418~ USD)
• 3rd Place – 2000 SGD (1612~ USD)
• 4th Place – 1000 SGD (806~ USD)
• 5th to 10th Place – 500 SGD (403~ USD)

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GEST May will start with its regional qualifiers. It will start with soon, with the GMPGL Dota 2 for Malaysia, Singapore and Non-SEA will be due next week, 18-19 May, 2013. An allocation of 32/64 slots will be given for each qualifier, depending on the number of teams registered. Registrations for all 3 country/regions are already open and will close on the 12 April. Further information / registration page for your respective country/region’s GMPGL can be found at:

• Malaysia
• Singapore
• Non-SEA

Prizes vary for different country/regions.

The two hot regions in Malaysia and Singapore will be played.  Inv.MUFC will be trying to qualify for GEST again, but it can be remembered that they can’t seem to get ahead of  NeoES.Orange on the GMPGL. Sinapore, on the other hand, will be lead by last month’s runner-up  First Departure and one of the young guns,  Netolic.SG. 

Mineski, on the other hand, will be holding the PH qualifiers for the GEST. Interested teams can check this link

.

Registration and information for GMPGL Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and Rest-of-SEA will be released next week. The top two team from each qualifier will automatically qualify for GEST Dota 2 March, which will be held from the 3 May – 2 Jun, 2013. The top team from GEST Dota 2 May will qualify for GEST : The Challenge.

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There were some fixes for Tauren Chieftain and some tweaks on ping interaction of communication banned players. Other Compendium features were also added.

Update notes:

GAMEPLAY
- Elder Titan: Fixed Ancestral Spirit giving vision to Elder Titan while dead.
- Elder Titan: Fixed Earth Splitter being placed slightly too far forward.
- Elder Titan: Fixed Natural Order not getting upgraded on the Ancestral Spirit if it was already in the air.
- Elder Titan: Fixed Natural Order sometimes not getting applied before Ancestral Spirit’s damage.
- Ursa: Fixed Fury Swipes stack getting dispelled with Magic Immunity.

PERFORMANCE
- Added vsync support to windowed modes.
- Reduced memory fragmentation.

COMMUNITY
- There are now 6 broadcaster channels.
- Added map ping throttling for communication banned players.

INTERNATIONAL COMPENDIUM
- Now highlights Compendiums that are gifts from other players.
- Updated with new stretch goals.
- Prize pool now displays how much the Compendium owner has contributed.

DOTA ECONOMY
- Particles on unusual couriers work again.
- Strange items that count things other than kills work again.

 

Source : dev.dota2.com