Valve introduced in an official weblog that The Worldwide will likely be coming to Copenhagen’s Royal Area.
The match, as a consequence of happen in September this 12 months, is likely one of the prime occasions in esports. Regardless of some difficulties in recent times, Valve is again for extra.
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The Worldwide returns the Europe
For under the third time in its 13 12 months historical past, The Worldwide is coming again to Europe. Copenhagen is seeing an enormous surge in prime tier esports tournaments this 12 months, with the PGL Copenhagen Main and the RLCS Main 1 additionally happening within the metropolis.
However none are fairly as prestigious as The Worldwide. After one thing of a disappointing finish to final 12 months that noticed the ultimate prize pool barely scrape previous $3 million, Valve will actually have to drag out all of the stops to make this 12 months particular.
Midas Mode – a recreation mode developed in 2017 by Moonduck – was identify dropped within the weblog and so ought to be making a return this 12 months. Whether or not as an in recreation mode or separate match isn’t fairly clear. However papa Gaben wouldn’t tease us with out dropping it will definitely, proper??
Qualification particulars revealed
Because the removing of the DPC, the highway to TI hasn’t precisely been clear. Sure, the EPT factors are giving groups some thought of the place they stand however as to truly securing an invite, nobody actually knew.
The weblog publish confirmed that 16 groups will compete this 12 months via open qualifiers, regional qualifiers and direct invites. As at all times, the direct invitations will likely be despatched to the groups “primarily based on crew efficiency through the 12 months”. So it appears each match from DreamLeague to ESL One to the brand new PGL tournaments will depend.
In-game occasions
Now that The Worldwide battle go is a factor of the previous, followers have been anticipating extra occasions to drop all year long. The aim was to make the 12 months in Dota much less TI-centric and have extra occasions unfold all year long. This may additionally assist the TI prize pool develop extra progressively all year long as an alternative of releasing it a month or so earlier than the match.
In a weblog from February eighth, Valve confirmed the intention to launch a brand new replace named Crownfall as quickly as doable. However a month on, nothing else has been revealed.
They’ve actually been laborious at work with the Dota Labs replace. However followers are hungry for the brand new Dota hero, Ringmaster. The hype is actual, let’s see what’s subsequent for Dota!