Dota-League News http://www.dota-league.com/ http://www.dota-league.com/rss/news.php The latest news from Dota-League.com en-us DLeague Ltd. http://www.dota-league.com/gfx/logos/banner_142x62.jpg Dota-League http://www.dota-league.com/ 142 62 Animals in eSports - Picture Contest The entry time is closed now and we thank everyone who took part in this fun contest.We have received quite a few images from you guys and we will put them onto an overview page so that everyone can see the marvelous work of all other contestants.For now we, the admins, will sit together and take a... Fri, 09 May 2008 21:06:15 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=524 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=524 Animals in eSports - Picture Contest Dear DL community,While being out in Africa (Kenya) for this month, I thought I could do some fun stuff over here. When I was sitting at my computer a monkey tried to steal my SteelSeries Neckband. I took a picture and sent it to the DL admins. We then got the idea to make a picture contest with ani... Thu, 08 May 2008 10:22:16 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=518 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=518 Top Match: mouz vs. WG Tonight two of the big teams of Division 1 come together for a clash once again. This time it is mousesports vs. WolkeR Gaming. So far mouz is leading with 15 points and 7 played matches in front of WG who have 12 points and also 7 played matches.This will be a tough fight for both teams and a chanc... Wed, 07 May 2008 13:45:37 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=519 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=519 DotA Client 1.86 Alpha Hey community,today a public alpha of the new DotA Client version 1.86 has been released. Our DC server has been updated and supports both the stable 1.8 and the new 1.86 version.The new version features a lot of bugfixes and security enhancements. It also includes in-game latency change (see toggle... Tue, 06 May 2008 23:47:44 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=520 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=520 6.52 is out! IceFrog has just released a new version of DotA! As always, you should download the map directly from getdota just in case there are fake versions out there.Changelog: Rewrote all item code and systems. It now supports things like properly tracking item ownerships, fusing recipes with a full invent... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:15:09 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=517 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=517 d0tabunny in the spotlight Some time ago SK-Gaming presented the first part of their Behind the game of DotA series in which they interviewed our very own head admins Mooseman and m0rdiN. Now they just released another article, talking with Alisha `d0tabunny` Sawadiwong who is the new head admin of the Prime Defending tourn... Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:32:05 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=516 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=516 Top Match: Avid vs WG After a few days of GGTV and shoutcast abstinence it`s finally time for some live action again! Today around 19:00 league time two top teams will face on the battlefield of our Division 1, fighting for the third place.Due to this we just caught Avid|Lacoste for a brief statement about the upcoming... Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:04:37 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=512 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=512 Vicious and Evil back to DotA It`s been quiet a while since the name Vicious and Evil showed up in the DotA scene. If you can`t remember or didn`t play back then, VAE was a German and pretty promising young team that was able to achieve very good results in a short time. Now the organization finally comes back to DotA, signing... Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:08:21 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=513 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=513 Top Match: SK vs WG Yet another interesting game is being played tonight: SK-Gaming vs WolkeR GamingSince it went so well yesterday, we will give it another go with a live stream on GGTV together with the shoutcast by GG-Domi! SK-Gaming1:0WolkeR Gaming Bans Bans Akke Hailo Loda Djan BogdanBottomBottomMiddleTop... Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:28:45 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=511 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=511 Top Match: SK vs MYM Tonight one of the most exciting Division 1 matches of the running Pick League season takes place: SK-Gaming vs. Meet Your Makers.Update: The game is live on GGTV and as another surprise GG-Domi will shoutcast the game too! So if you want some live action check out the shoutcast and stay tuned just... Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:59:26 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=510 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=510 Your own SIG Signature As some of you might have already noticed, some users on our forums had a banner in their signatures which dynamically showed their SIG statistics. Now we want to give you all the possibility to share your SIG details via a signature on a forum, on a website or something like that.All you need to do... Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:25:24 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=509 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=509 Darky- and Fanat1c join PGS It`s only been a short time since Xero Skill disbanded, but the Polish players already found a new home, joining the Division 2 team PGS Gaming. This means that Darky- and Fanat1c will play for the well sponsored organization in the future. Statement by PGS|Darky- We decided to join PGS to sup... Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:04:08 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=508 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=508 SK Gaming adds Rwar Not long ago the SK Gaming dota team added hailo and the Russian player ARS-ART to their squad. Now they just announced another addition of a not Swedish player - the French DotA star Jamal `Rwar` El Akkad. In his past Rwar already played in teams like  Dimension 4 or eMazing Gaming, sho... Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:11:26 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=507 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=507 Wolk3r Gaming replaces Xero Skill Like a pretty famous proverb says, "when one door closes, another opens". Thats what just happened in our Division 1. As we sadly had to announce, the international team Xero Skill disbanded and left our top division. Only a few days later we are glad to announce that the team ... Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:52:12 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=505 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=505 Kill the Admins XI It`s been quite a while since you had the chance to pay us all the laziness and maybe also the unfairness back. Now once again, we are ready to face our community, fighting in an epic battle to determine the real owners of the Dota-League. Be ready tonight around 20:45 and onwards league time , to K... Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:49:00 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=504 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=504 XsK Disbands: Interview with Puppey & Metro As we already announced, the Division 1 team Xero Skill has been disbanded due to the inactivity of their players and real life problems. Now an interview with the former leader Puppey and the teams former manager Metro has been published on the Competitive DotA forums, talking about the reasons... Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:09:32 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=503 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=503 Evil Geniuses adds former eMg The multigaming organization Team Evil Geniuses just announced that they signed the former DotA team of eMazing Gaming as their new DotA squad. Even though it`s been some time since the team achieved a win in a big international event they are one of the best North American DotA teams.Alex `chib... Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:33:25 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=502 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=502 XsK disbanded The famous team XsK - also known as switchBack - does not exist anymore. This comes as a surprise as the team itself did not seem to be that weak recently. They were, for example, in third place of the E-Challenge and added the former SK-player kwom to their roster.. Also in our pick-league they we... Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:44:52 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=501 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=501 WCG Asia - Not Warcraft but DotA! As in the past years the World Cyber Games Asia announced DotA as one of the official games being played at the event. But for the first time they exclude the original Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, even though the Asian scene is still very huge.With this change the following games will be played:... Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:11:08 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=500 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=500 DTS-Cup 2008: Finals Right after presenting you the ESTC 2008 finals we are glad to present you another offline final match, this time played in the Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.A lot of known teams like excello, Virtus.Pro or WolkeR-GaminG took part in the tournament in which the winner got about 1000$ and some produc... Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:26:36 +0200 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=498 http://www.dota-league.com/?section=news&id=498