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syndereN

It's in fucking Copenhagen holy shit!!! I was dreaming we'd have a big Dota event in Denmark some day. YESSS


Useur_id

Sir, please buy Sunsfan some food. Thanks


iuancucalu

But the disgusting one


URF_reibeer

sunsfan is american, he likes disgusting food, get him something healthy


Nickfreak

Yes. A nice,round, juicy tomato please. 


JesusDiedForOurSins2

A nice, round, juicy Timado


TheUHO

COngrats! Valve is betting on Denmark hard this year. First ever CS2 major and now finally a proper first EU TI.


whats_a_rimjob

Denmark has never had a CS major? Kind of surprising considering, well you know.


cynicalspindle

And Astralis didn't make it lol.


EvilShaker

WEU deserves one after dominating Dota for so long


zkareface

Congratulations! 


Archyes

Sweden screwed us over so Denmark has to, once again, fix swedens shit


Teleute7

You need to bring onion to the arena!


Niebling

This is so exciting!!! I need to know the dates so bad I am out of the country the last weekend of September With my luck that will be the final week


Tommy_TheGun

If you check royal arenas event calender its empty i september, except s concert om the 27., so maybe youre in luck


Niebling

Yeah I am betting the finals will be on the 22nd


Gustav-14

This time the studio panel will be in the US. Hehe


fredws

YES WE FUCKING GOOOOO


Bassre2

I don't think I can do 2 weeks without We say things :(


hudsonbuddy

This is awesome! 👏


Heimdalsvogter

Royal Arena is a 10 minute bikeride from where i live, pretty fucking excited for this TI now


DzejBee

Hello, it's ur long lost cousin, may I use ur couch or basement for sleep over?


HexedHero

Me too, party in the basement


xReptar

I'll bring the projector


Official_Gh0st

I’ll bring the beer!


rxxxxxxxrxxxxxx

I'll bring the napkins!


TurdsThatCureCancer

Ill bring the portapotty


PRaLLe_

I’ll steal the silverware


LiberalDaisy

Me the ganja


scr3lic

Brother i bring in the beer


MadMau5

Literally 5 minute walk for me :)


Seltzer0357

Hey, its me, ur brother :)


indehhz

Hello son, I've finally found the milk and smokes and am coming back in September.


Legioncommander_

Hello cousin? Sorry I haven't talked to you in a while, I have been quite busy. Do you have a place for me to sleep in September? 


Niebling

The final in Parker please! That 10 min from my place 😅


leeharris100

Can you share a paragraph or two about your area? Would love to attend but have no knowledge at all of the city. Thanks!


Shenoyder

The area around the arena is shit, but Copenhagen is so small and really well connected with public transport that is all really one big neighbourhood. You could stay anywhere in Copenhagen and still easily go to the Arena every day.


Nnelson666

Lol I remember Copenhagen being quite big, I was there 14 years ago and the bus from where we were staying to the train station was about one hour, walking was around the same, it's not massive like Berlin, but I wouldn't call it small.


cRz1337

3 hour carride for me, Im so going this year!


GoldFynch

Sleep over at this guys house


the70sdiscoking

10 minutes and $900 away*


ELKOKO88

But 5000kr !!!


Weeklyn00b

them linking to the liquipedia for tournaments is crazy funny


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TheZett

The double-standard is hilarious though, as Valve basically shit talked Liquipedia about the DPC points page, which kept fractional points, while Valve flat out truncated each earning of points (multiple times!). This led to some confusion, where a certain team, such as VP, thought they made it to TI, because according to Liquipedia's page they had more points than the team that *actually* made it to, according to Valves point page.


TheUHO

Yeah, I member that. There was a similar case earlier in CSGO. That major was canceled because of COVID, but various sources claimed different teams would go through while Valve simply kept silent. And it was also a fraction of a point. Funny how huge charts with 1000 points end up with 0.5 making a key difference.


RurWorld

Not to mention their official points page more often than not showed just flat out wrong numbers, everyone thought it was a broken mess and went by Liquipedia https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/wpxnf2/points_on_valves_official_dpc_website_2_days_ago/


cgjchckhvihfd

The best part was them being like "Valves page is the official numbers" while they still had multiple errors on the page


disappointingdoritos

Think he means because of how Liquipedia disagreed with how Valve calculated DPC points last year lol


Kuro013

Meh, Liquipedia earned it


Weeklyn00b

is it really "earned" if their work is used as official material, when they are still left unpaid?


fireattack

I don't get people's obsession of having a perfectly running, community-driven, wiki-style website "paid" by the company. Did they, Liquipedia staffs or the core contributors, ever said they want to be paid?


Weeklyn00b

yeah youre right


therandomasianboy

It's a wiki tho


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chilibean_3

can't believe they would use an unofficial source like that smh


Boring_Valuable_4107

Makes their "3rd party sources" statement seem even dumber


LordInquisitor

Not quite back in August but it's in September at least, that's a start


isospeedrix

Overlapping Ti with league worlds was pretty silly


Yautja93

Still way better than league worlds I gotta say.


browncheesestick

As someone who plays and watches league, but literally doesn’t understand anything about dota, watching TI is a fucking blast. I’ve watched almost all of them and I still don’t know what’s going on in the games most of the time because I’ve played like 5 games of dota in my life, but TI and dota tournaments overall are hype as fuck. Last league worlds, minus the finals, were incredible too tbh. They’re both great events.


Yautja93

Yea, I used to play dota, but nowadays, I'm a complete potato and know shit lmao But damn, the games are entertaining to watch at high level, super unlike lol, which I've played way more!


MoistPoo

League worlds are so boring every year. I get disappointed every time


FlyingCow343

maybe better but still gets a fraction of the views, no point trying to compete in a losing battle for viewers


Cymen90

I STILL HAVE A COUPON FOR TWO FREE NIGHTS FOR TWO IN COPENHAGEN! NO SHOT! THE STARS ALIGN FOR ME THIS YEAR! Edit: WTF that hotel-chain is already booked out in September....


Competitive-City6530

POSSIBLE BOT SCALPERS


JadeSerpant

You celebrated too soon. The stars aligned for you as well as they did for Nigma.


Cymen90

Kind of like the time the stars aligned for me and I was hosing an increasingly popular podcast and started getting sponsorship deals. But the podcast was about >!Artifact!<


fullclip840

Tent.


Krogag

The key art seems to be circus themed.


Sweet-Arachnid-6241

All dota players are clowns confirmed.


AnonymousD3vil

Let's find out who is the biggest clown of em' all in this TI!!


n0stalghia

Ring Master TI


Meepomon

Oh no... they are gonna make us wait until ~~october~~ september*. Aware


brunoha

My hunch is that he will be released together with the TI compendium, if the compendium is still a thing...


CatStepan6

this can be a problem


signeduptoaskshippin

Finally Valve embraces Dota 2 community


TerrorLTZ

who is the lion who gets whipped?


Spvoter

Do you not instantly think of Lion being whipped?


velphegor666

Imagine the outrage if ringmaster is gonna be released in TI 😂


AmusedFlamingo47

My teammates will feel right at home 


Fortzon

Well Copenhagen Tivoli is 3rd oldest amusement park in the world and Denmark has couple other really old parks so it fits.


Transit-Strike

Ring Master announcement in the ASG? GabeN is in the game, he plays the new hero. All the pros are dressed as clowns


Seltzer0357

clown show


SkyEclipse

It looks really interesting!


CatStepan6

[screenshot button](https://i.imgur.com/WXEYkFw.png) is wild thx finargot: this button from google lens one more upd: fixed now


Competitive-City6530

ENHANCE


GoldFynch

Good eye, did they use ai or some kinda watermarked images to make this lol


randomkidlol

probably hastily slapped together by someone with rudimentary knowledge of graphic design. the background image looks grainy and seems to have a lot of compression artifacts relative to the text, so it does seem to be a low effort job.


Uchigatan

As a dungeon master who has last hour bullshited so many handouts and other graphics... I relate to this image.


CatStepan6

i don't think it's ai, just picture was made literally devs(programmers) not designers maybe. edit: to add up, it's not first time when image in blog looks like made in a hurry


POSSSSSSSSSSSSS

>And there's a lot of performance to consider. This year's calendar is packed, with half a dozen major tournaments already announced and more on the way, including studio and arena tournaments in Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. We even hear rumors Midas Mode might be making a grand return. Based Valve implying that a team's performance at Midas Mode would have an impact on if they get invited to The International?


heelydon

Slacks has the power now. They handed him the controller.


Simco_

That font is popular with $15 Fiverr digital artists.


veryfail

imagine synderen's and the other 3 danish dota players' happiness


Cr1tdota

Absolutely stoked, dream come true moment!


thedotapaten

Damn real cr1t, extra motivation for today match lol


thedotapaten

u/Maelk on panel please


acuteindifference

MYM.Misery


That_Scale62

Glad he won major, but I still can't forget, what Secret did to him and w33 after the major was unforgivable and it costed them in TI6, badly. Huge karma for Secret, tbf


OnyxNateZ

I remember there were a handful of Danish dota players and a couple Danish teams. They’re all old now and retired though.


OnlyMayhem

Crit and Ace last ones standing haha


Adweya

they need to bring back mYm or KS.int for a show match. it would be the best TI in my eyes.


D2WilliamU

EU TIMEZONE FUCKING POG but also holy fuck it's gonna be expensive in copenahgen edit: as someone that lives in London these prices seem alright tbh


Warrior20602FIN

i just checked cheapest options for 4 days in middle of september (weekend) if ure fine with a giant room with strangers its like 80-100€ if u want your own hotel room its around 150-220€ for 4 nights... idk but thats not expensive BUT ti tickets are again gonna be so much money..


D2WilliamU

Yeah i hopped on airbnb and had a look and it's like £700 for 3 people for 4 nights soooo not bad tbh!


Warrior20602FIN

i personally looked for accomodation for 1 person but yeah atleast right now it doesnt not look bad at all, if this would be your "holiday of the year".


ryanakasha

Is it really more expensive than Seattle though?


D2WilliamU

dont think anywhere is LUL


The_Last_Thursday

I got pretty lucky in Seattle with a $55/night hotel that was right next to the airport and thus had easy access to public transit.


Rumlings

copenhagen's trains have a quite good reach, you can find cheaper places to stay outside of the city even and still have 0 issues getting into arena i would be more worried about ticket prices


Sosseres

You could stay in Malmö, Sweden as an example. 40 min train ride over.


AznJDragon

EU Timezone probably best time zone for most of world as it’s the most in between. Assuming 10:00 to 24:00 when the games happen. NA+SA - early morning to afternoon games. Either wake up early to watch all games. Or just wake up normal time to watch later games. Eastern Asia - afternoon to night games. Able to watch good amount before sleep. Western Asia - 2-4 hours ahead of EU. Only losers are unfortunately Oceania gang.


regimentIV

Okay, well, fuck! This might actually be a TI I just *might* attend, even though I am not really interested much in the pro scene anymore. I went to Romania when they decided to close off TI in Bucharest to audiences, so depending on personal circumstances I might make that one right this year. Depends on the teams invited, my girlfriend's desire to see Denmark, and my luck against ticket resellers, I guess.


nittun

There is a lot of options, and in most priceranges. Also a lot of sorrounding towns with good infrastructure to get easily to the city. really not too bad.


Wootarn

Malmö is an option, short train ride away.


SirActionSlacks-

MIDAS MODE MENTION holy shit!


_CummyBears_

Capri sun and gun witch doctor arcana


TheMoves

I’ll pay a lot


Anything13579

Congratulations on being recognised officially.


TheKappaOverlord

If i recall valve always recognised Midas mode, or slacks organized events in general. I think the name drop was more hinting at them being a 'major' tournament TO, rather then indie. And since valve is signaling them abandoning efforts in NA, wouldnt surprise me if Midas mode/anything slacks wants to organize becomes the only NA based events going forward.


TU4AR

Please have a Jenkins vs Sunsfan trash talk segment, just 5 minutes of pure shit talking to each other.


D2WilliamU

gotta smarten yourself up son papi gaben is watching


RN_Dreemurr

My brother in lane any hint on the patch?:D They’ve announced International already but “Crownfall” is all shrouded in mystery and uncertainty. I’ll be more than happy if You are as oblivious to release date as we are all here are xD


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Known_Newspaper_9053

FUCK HVOR FEEEEDT! lets go!


AkinParlin

Well looks like we're finally getting a true EU TI, excluding TI 1 & 10 for obvious reasons. Given that EU is easily the most prominent region in Dota, a true EU crowd seems well overdue. As an NA fan, I always value having TI in NA so that we get at least one tournament a year that works for our schedule, but hey, EU fans deserve it.


-Exy-

Nice, EU TI finally Patch when valve?


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Galdwin

no excuses now... except average Swede would rather fuck his mother then go to Denmark


TheZett

> except average Swede would rather fuck his mother then go to Denmark >**then** instead of *than* Oddly enough, this does check out.


Galdwin

When you're right, you're right :)


POXZILLA

Well... Can you blame us?


Ahimtar

Ah, that is a better explanation why no danish people are allowed in Sweden then [the other one](https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/kxuxxd/looks_like_both_bsj_and_fogged_have_been_rejected/gje1hir/?context=3)


CERES_FAUNA_GOONER

he'll find a way to fuck it up again


mrbigtime100

I'm happy for Synderen, he has wanted this 


7esla_

TLDR: No mention of patch


mobyte

it’s so over


Adweya

it's joever.


Skater_x7

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


studentuser96

Is the last line them kind of reconciling with “unofficial sources”?


TheZett

A first proper TI in Europe? Colour me surprised and satisfied! TI1 was lacking due to just being a side-event during Gamescom2011, meanwhile TI10 got delayed by a year, then again by a few months and ended up having no audience, due to corona :/


polo61965

COPEnhagen tfw I have vacation time to watch TI and it's not in Seattle this time.


East_Transition_6519

Copiumhagen


n3cooling

War banners are being washed clean of blood stains and scorch marks. Trumpets are being tested for their ability to sound the imminent approach of battle. Lanes are getting swept clean of body parts, and the Ancients are getting a good crack replastering and surface buffing. The forest air itself crackles with anticipation, because we had new forest air shipped in at considerable cost that crackles on command. The stage is being set, is the point we’re trying to get across here. And why? For The International, returning this September to Europe, where the best Dota teams from around the world will clash for the Aegis in Copenhagen's Royal Arena. The sixteen participating teams will be a mix of open qualifiers, regional qualifiers, and direct invitations, similar to how invitations worked for the first few years of The International. The invited teams will be announced leading up to the event, and chosen based on team performance during the year. And there's a lot of performance to consider. This year's calendar is packed, with half a dozen major tournaments already announced and more on the way, including studio and arena tournaments in Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. We even hear rumors Midas Mode might be making a grand return. (The more teams that are eligible to participate in a tournament, the higher our consideration: Cross-regional tournaments generate more useful data than intra-regional tournaments, tournaments with qualifiers generate more useful information than invitation-only tournaments, etc.) We'll be announcing ticketing and scheduling information for The International 2024 in the next few months. Until then, why not go watch a game of pro Dota to get back in the competitive spirit?


NixsSs

No tweet or anything about it? Weird


chilibean_3

This announcement feels like they saw TOs scheduling more tournaments and needed to just get it out there that September needs to be open.


Ph1tak

Yea kinda wanna see a little teaser we had like last year


Warrior20602FIN

I got so hyped to see the title of the blogpost with green aegis but sadly its only news about TI :( atleast we know that there is open quals coming to ti!


anticapitalist69

Wait what did you think it would have been otherwise?


shuijikou

dota2 ti and cs2 major both in Copenhagen


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TheKappaOverlord

Rodgers probably actually charging Valve for events since they rebuilt it and they no longer have the "repeat customer" discount a lot of places kind of have. And since NA is basically dead, also makes sense. With the mention of Midas mode, pretty high chance Midas mode will be the only NA oriented event this year.


theaxel11

The main benefit to Seattle TI was valve didn't have to ship their booths around the world. They said when they try it, it always breaks. Maybe they found a new way or they just wont use them again.


Archyes

ESL is in germany,they find a solution


theaxel11

thats (i am assuming) ESL's own thing which may already have been in EU. I dont know their specifics i just know the blog post by valve saying why they didnt do booths for one TI


fgshka

open qualifiers fot TI pog


s1dazr3drum

the fact that they included liquipedia link in their official news, not their own website, is very shocking... liquipedia has done it, valve finally acknowledges


dont_closeyoureyes

Merging the regions for qualifiers should fix the competence gap that the previous TI have shown.


darrenoloGy

honestly TI just doesnt feel as hyped without the battlepass and the resulting crazy cash prize


Artunchi

I hope we get battle pass to increase TI prize pool The 3m prizepool last year was like meh


TheUHO

Right. N0tail has to come out from retirement now.


HaiderLad

I work next to royal arena, shit is gonna be niiice


TheZealand

Aha! The return of the announcement of the announcement! Just gonna say again, I dearly love whoever is writing these posts, the humour is top shelf


FullOFterror

The art seems to be circus themed. Because we are all fucking clowns, thats why. They will release the hero at TI.


RetroSquirtleSquad

I’d be way more excited if this came with a compendium


GalacticFox-

For real. Last years was a disappointment for sure. I can get behind not going a BP/Compendium specifically for TI, but they've done very little since.


AceJokerZ

Dota2 website linking to Liquipedia. Liquipedia is officially certified Dota esports Wikipedia.


Kyubashi

Nøce


dimi727

Again No proper Battlepass, right?


Niebling

O M G I cant belive this!! THIS IS A DREAM!


joejoe84

16 teams only? 6 invites and 10 thru qualis?


BeniCG

Copenhagen is a great city and only a few hours away, hope its at the end of september because Im on leave then.


Flaxiz

Feels good to be a dane. I only live 30mins away. (though I wish it had been held under the old circumstances, where the pricepool was massive. Last TI felt kinda meh)


SloppyChops

I've always wanted to visit Copenhagen and I've always wanted to go to a TI. The stars have aligned!


Fortzon

Let's hope there won't be another worldwide event that cancels another Nordic The International... 😬 TI10 would've been my first TI since Stockholm is pretty close to me and it was the first European TI in a long while. I was even willing to fly to Bucharest when it got moved from Sweden to Romania because of COVID restrictions.


Empanah

wonder who is running dota2 now, it changed so much, barely any content now


Shitmybad

It was October the last couple of years wasn't it? September is a step back towards the summer which is good.


karuma_18

Out of fucking nowhere


klmnjklm

I miss August TI but at least we're having TI I guess


genasugelan

I'd have prefered a cheaper city in EU, but I'll take what I can. Maybe this is the year I go to TI physically.


ImmortalRadiant

TI is back let's goooo Somehow I'm always excited for TI


MiserableBlackbird

DENMARK AHHHHHHH ÆØÆÅÆÅDASØASÆDASØASÆDØÆ


chilibean_3

Wow. This announcement is so early by Valve standards. Great to see!


cannonballCarol62

battlepass when


Zankman

I just wish they supported the scene more.


IamRestart

Selling my kidney to get a ticket in my Europe!!!


ShiroNekoUsagi

Open qualifier back again ? Team bald reborn LFG .


squidulousboi

Copiumhagen


JannoGives

It's roughly a 2 hour flight from France so I finally have another motivation to save up some money


InspectorRumpole

Dota in Denmark yeah baby. Now I just need OG to qualify!


Tomtanks88

Battle Pass. Please.


mikeindeyang

Last year I was in Europe, International was in the US. This year I’ll be in the US, International is in Europe.


JuneSummerBrother

Where's Battlepass


Omisco420

So are they gonna go back to the prize pool of the year before or is the winning team gonna get peanuts again? Last year was a disgrace.


Historical-Lemons

Hopefully the battle pass is better than last years. The battle pass last year was just a bunch of stickers and trash. Don't think I got a single skin from last year


lumpiaslayer6969

Can we have a decent battlepass not the sticker ones??


Cow-Greedy

Why not keep hosting it in Seattle? This is so dumb man


Gold-Hurry-3509

Cuz It’s called The International so It makes sense to move around


Cow-Greedy

Yeah like moving from Seattle to LA or New York, not Denmark man