It would not be much of a surprise to see Valve attending Gamescom this year, having been absent from E3, of which has recently been made official on the convention website. But what would be surprising is that they are, according to a handful of sources, going to be showing off Dota 2 for the first time in public — but in the form of an invitational tournament, or a “promotional tournament”, as they put it.
Valve recently mailed several professional Dota players invitations to a “Dota 2 International Invitational being held in Cologne, Germany” which will, according to the letter, “mark the first public presentation of Dota 2”. On top of all of that, a thread on GosuGamers tells that there will be a prize pool in the tens of thousands of US Dollars, as well as beta invites for the players involved (of which has been going on for some time now with friends and family of Valve).
Hey guys I’m on vacation right now but happy birthday Vic and great article as usual! Keep up the good work!
Thanks Dom! It was Sam’s article, though.
Oops sorry. It’s the thought that counts
Happy Birthday Vic! 😀
Thanks! Bit late though!
That’s where you are! Was wondering if oyu were ok man, have a great trip! Working on tons of stuff for the site right now 😀
Well, DoTA is a pretty niche game, Knowing how good valve’s creations are I think they can at least try and throw it in to the spotlight for a bit.
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This news is a bit old….
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Also, it is ‘international’ not ‘internetional’ at the start of the second paragraph.
Thank you very much for the kind words! Yes, we are slow. But we try to make it up for that with interesting, detailed posts.
Only? No sir. 2 others.
No Sir, Yes Sir. Wow your attitude stinks :/, Lambdagen maybe a bit later but their content is very high quality. keep up the work guys! – Jimmy
More than a bit, Jimmy, but thanks for the kind words!
Thanks alot Jimmy 🙂
Thanks very much! (TheEvilPplz) Vic is a great writer and we are currently working to make it much more focused and even more community based.