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DOTA 2: The International 3 officially announced

dmr87

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The top sixteen teams in the world compete for the Dota 2 Championship

August 7 - 11, 2013

Benaroya Hall, Home of the Seattle Symphony - Seattle, Washington, USA

13 invites
2 qualifiers
1 wildcard winner

West Qualifer - May 13-19 hosted by the GD studio

East Qualifer - May 20-26 hosted by BeyondtheSummit

The first team invited to The International are the returning champions, Invictus Gaming. Twelve more teams will be announced over the coming days. Just like in last year’s event, the winners of the East and West Qualifiers will each receive an invite. As you’ve probably noticed, that only adds to 15 teams. Right before The International begins, the Wild Card event will determine the final spot in a match between the runner-ups of each qualifier.

The West Qualifier will be hosted by GDStudio from May 13th through the 19th and the East Qualifier by BeyondTheSummit from May 20th through the 26th. All matches will also be available for free through DotaTV.

For those interested in attending in person, we will be providing more info soon.

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http://www.dota2.com/international/announcement
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=409657
http://www.joindota.com/en/news/8705-international-3-qualifiers-set
http://blog.dota2.com/2013/04/the-international-3/
 
Awwww yisss. Gonna try to go this year if I can get the time off work.

Woulda liked to do this and PAX together but I will settle for just TI3.
 
Wait, the GDStudio and Beyond the Summit on the qualifiers instead of JoinDota? Nice.
Now I hope QPAD Red Pandas enters, they're not the best team but they're fun to watch.
 
Wait, the GDStudio and Beyond the Summit on the qualifiers instead of JoinDota? Nice.
Now I hope QPAD Red Pandas enters, they're not the best team but they're fun to watch.

JoinDota is pretty much just Tobi in a room, nothing compared to what BTS and GDStudio can offer.
 
Wait, the GDStudio and Beyond the Summit on the qualifiers instead of JoinDota? Nice.
Now I hope QPAD Red Pandas enters, they're not the best team but they're fun to watch.

Doubt they'll get an invite but hopefully they'll show up in the qualifiers.
 
Wait, the GDStudio and Beyond the Summit on the qualifiers instead of JoinDota? Nice.
Now I hope QPAD Red Pandas enters, they're not the best team but they're fun to watch.

JoinDota is so far behind the other studios now it isn't even funny. Tobi can't compete right now.
GD Studio best studio

Also, Qpad aren't going to qualify, they have too many issues that aren't going to be solved in a few months. They are probably 6 months away from being good. I mean, they have Sing as carry now.
 
As noted in another post on reddit, the lineup in the background of the site was the one selected by IG in their final win at TI2. Nice attention to detail!
 
Blue Jays and Brewers are in town to play the Mariners, hotels shouldn't be an issue because PAX will be over, and airfare isn't too bad... This might work out better than PAX anyways if the ticket prices for the event aren't too bad.
 
I'm expecting the same insane production values of TI2.

Hopefully Valve will have every hero ported over by then. 10 more in a little over three months. 3 are very close.
 
It won't matter. You can predict who will be the most commonly used heroes before group stages begin.

Most teams won't risk using a newly introduced hero who can be altered mildly from what is seen Dota because of how differently each engine works.

*facepalming at myself for forgetting the original prize pool*
 
I think it was quite a few things at this point. It's not hard to come up with quite a list of why they might not want Tobi involved with this.

It doesn't have to be anything negative like that when GD Studio offers so much more than joindota can bring to the table.
 
Would be nice if they included CS:GO and TF2 and made it a Valvecon of sorts.

That would be amazing. Having all their current multiplayer titles present in tournament format would be killer.
 
At what time will the matches be held during the tournament? I am afraid it will be in the middle of the night in Europe.
 
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