Gaming Valve Officially Announces The International 2013 DOTA 2 Tournament

[Domination]

Announcement

Well, competitive DOTA fans all knew it was coming, and Valve officially announced it today together with the patch! The spectacular and highly successful event is going to return to Seattle as a 5 day main event, which is an improvement from the 3 day main event from the last TI.

Twelve teams will received invites, and three other teams will be decided through qualifers (East, West and Wild Card). The West qualifiers are going to be hosted by The GD Studio, who hosted a spectacular DreamHack Invitiational, and the East Qualifiers by the Beyond the Summit Studio, who I feel are the leading studio for the Asian scene.

Previous year's Champions, iG has already received an invite during the week. Who else do you think are gonna get invited? And who do you think will win the qualifiers?

 

[bowser]

Meh, I'm looking forward to them announcing something else...

 

[nryn99]

^yep, the biggest news that would be is when Goblin Techies will be ported.
Shit will get real.

 

[FireGrey]

Will we be able to watch it live?

 

[nukeboy95]

darn i say only "Valve Officially Announces" and thought it was half life 3

 

[lolzed]

Will we be able to watch it live?

Yes you will, through live streams on twitch.tv or the free spectator client on steam

Also, i can't wait for this

 

[Satangel]

Will we be able to watch it live?

Of course you will Bet they'll take a ton of lessons from the weekly LCS competition from LoL, how to stream/organize their event.

Might watch a game or 2, even though I'm a big noob in DOTA2. It'll be enjoyable.

 

[Gahars]

This is one iota 2 prota for my Dota 2 quota.

 

[Black-Ice]

DOTA ARE COPYING LEAGUE
LCS FTW
LOL SWAG

 

[lolzed]

Of course you will Bet they'll take a ton of lessons from the weekly LCS competition from LoL, how to stream/organize their event.
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Its not as if its the first tournament ever in dota, you'll be pleased to find out that they know a thing or two about production value, you'll be amazed that LoL isnt the only esport in town

 

[jan777]

Its not as if its the first tournament ever in dota, you'll be pleased to find out that they know a thing or two about production value, you'll be amazed that LoL isnt the only esport in town

Yeaaah I suggest you watch TI2 lol
maybe LoL can learn from valve.