They wanted to take revenge - and they did. Just a few minutes ago, Invictus Gaming has beaten Evil Geniuses and is now the champion of ESL One Frankfurt. We grabbed a very happy Chuan right after the final game.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Loda: "They were the better team today"
Jonathan 'Loda' Berg sat down with joinDOTA at ESL One today, talking through their semi-finals match against Invictus Gaming, as well as opening up about the event as a whole and how the ESL experience.
SyndereN on ESL, TI4 and casting
The interviews just keep on coming from ESL and this time we have a great chat with Troels 'SyndereN' Nielsen as we cover a wide array of topics including his switch to casting and working for DotaCinema, what TI4 (and beyond) holds and the ESL event.
Interviews with Dendi and Puppey
Danil 'Dendi' Ishutin shares his thoughts about Na'Vi's practice for TI4 as well as some impressions from their loss vs EG and the crowd who's always behind them. Meanwhile his captain Clement 'Puppey' Ivanov is speaking about Na'Vi's mistakes in their match vs EG as well as his predictions for the ESL One Final. He also clarifies things up about Na'Vi's past and future plans for TI4.
SingSing: "One of my worst games"
One day after their 0:2 defeat against The Alliance, Cloud 9's Wehsind 'SingSing' Yuen tries to explain the loss and tells us his expectations for the team's performance at The International.
7ckingMad: "Playing before everything"
Sebastian '7ckindMad' Debs is not only part of the broadcasting crew at ESL One Frankfurt, but can also look back at a long history as a competitive player. We managed to talk to him about both roles, and he revealed some information about his future team.
Mouz talks ESL One and TI
After paS already hinted the same yesterday, Arif 'MSS' Anwar and Rasmus' Misery' Fillipsen also state that their weakness right now is the drafting. The two Mousesports players discuss their perfomance in Frankfurt and their expectations for The International.
ChuaN: "We want to take revenge on EG"
Hock 'ChuaN' Wong giving his impressions about ESLOne, iG's bootcamp and
TI4. He also answers some questions about the Chinese metagame and
explains why they want to beat EG in the ESL Final.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
[UPDATE:]Fnatic: "As we approach TI4, we are at a crossroads"
Adrian "Era" Kryeziu's health has recently been on a decline, forcing
Fnatic to obtain the services of Steven "Xcalibur" Ye for recent LAN
events. Unfortunately, Fnatic revealed today that Era's health is much
worse than previously thought, and is causing difficulties with their
invite to TI4.
Fnatic revealed today that 
Adrian "Era" Kryeziu's health had taken a downturn, with their carry
player suffering from intense anxiety and panic attacks manifesting
"every time he had to travel." An intensively competitive player, Fnatic
has no doubt that Era would have loved to play with them during the
summer, but was unable to do so on doctor's orders.
Predicting potential issues, Fnatic has "been in constant communication with Valve since the very beginning" of this dilemma, and has kept them informed of Era's status. Despite these issues, Valve has remained firm that it will be the five invited Fnatic players (including Era), or none at all. Not willing to jeopardize Era's health for anything, Fnatic hopes for some sort of resolution to this issue in short order.
Valve's position in this situation is unusual given their previous policy allowing some replacements in cases of medical emergency. While Valve time does permit unexplained delays, Era's health and Fnatic's ability to play in TI4 will not, leaving the DOTA 2 community - and Fnatic - in a state of confusion as to whether Fnatic will be able to play in this year's International at all.
We will keep an eye on this situation, and update this article when new information becomes available.
UPDATE: Valve just stated their point of view in a blogpost, you can review here.
UPDATE 2: Fnatic just responded with their own entry from their correspondances. You can read their case here.
Adrian "Era" Kryeziu's health had taken a downturn, with their carry
player suffering from intense anxiety and panic attacks manifesting
"every time he had to travel." An intensively competitive player, Fnatic
has no doubt that Era would have loved to play with them during the
summer, but was unable to do so on doctor's orders.Predicting potential issues, Fnatic has "been in constant communication with Valve since the very beginning" of this dilemma, and has kept them informed of Era's status. Despite these issues, Valve has remained firm that it will be the five invited Fnatic players (including Era), or none at all. Not willing to jeopardize Era's health for anything, Fnatic hopes for some sort of resolution to this issue in short order.
Valve's position in this situation is unusual given their previous policy allowing some replacements in cases of medical emergency. While Valve time does permit unexplained delays, Era's health and Fnatic's ability to play in TI4 will not, leaving the DOTA 2 community - and Fnatic - in a state of confusion as to whether Fnatic will be able to play in this year's International at all.
We will keep an eye on this situation, and update this article when new information becomes available.
UPDATE: Valve just stated their point of view in a blogpost, you can review here.
UPDATE 2: Fnatic just responded with their own entry from their correspondances. You can read their case here.
The International 4 cracks 10 million!!!
WE DID IT! This battle cry probably echoed through the Valve offices,
joinDOTA studios, 2GD's bedroom and apartments all over the world. The
International 2014 has exceeded a total of $10 million for the overall
prize pool and is undoubtedly the biggest prize money ever seen in
Esports. But how does it compare to other things? Check it out!
Okay, we spoiled it in the header already, but you can't pretend as if you wouldn't have known already. The International 2014
tops every eSports tournament so far by an astronomic amount. The
second place is taken by last year's International, which shouldn't be a
surprise either, considering the large amounts of money the community
has been pumping into the scene.
Shockingly enough, none of the other 'big' eSports titles are able to keep up with the pace set by Dota 2. Even League of Legends, the game with a larger player base and popularity isn't able to pose a real threat. One of the other things to notice is a rather minor increase of the overall prize pool from LoL's World Championship S2 to the World Championship S3. Valve has once more shown the power of community funding.
Last year's International was the mantle holder of the eSports competitions, but this time around the community has topped itself. With $10 million and counting, we managed to more than triple last year's prize pool year and set a bar that will stand at least until TI5. With that much money on the line, Dota 2 secured its future growth, be it with new players switching from other games or sponsors that will see the game as a worthy investment. But have we made it clear yet, how massive this year is?
Shockingly enough, none of the other 'big' eSports titles are able to keep up with the pace set by Dota 2. Even League of Legends, the game with a larger player base and popularity isn't able to pose a real threat. One of the other things to notice is a rather minor increase of the overall prize pool from LoL's World Championship S2 to the World Championship S3. Valve has once more shown the power of community funding.
Last year's International was the mantle holder of the eSports competitions, but this time around the community has topped itself. With $10 million and counting, we managed to more than triple last year's prize pool year and set a bar that will stand at least until TI5. With that much money on the line, Dota 2 secured its future growth, be it with new players switching from other games or sponsors that will see the game as a worthy investment. But have we made it clear yet, how massive this year is?
ESports is often a risky career with low paychecks and a fierce
competition. But if you are among the best, you can actually make quite a
bit of money. Names such as 
Jaedong and MC,
widely known in the Starcraft scene, are considered the best among the
best, and rich just from playing computer games. Also our very own 
Danil 'Dendi'
Ishutin made quite a bit of money with his profession, winning one and
placing second in two Internationals. The last in the list is 
Fatal1ty, a former pro-gamer and now entrepreneur with his own business.
All of these people have two things in common: they have made a tremendous amount of money with computer games, and they all will be outnumbered by the winner of this year's International. You know when they called Dendi the Dota 2 millionaire? Well, guess what: every member of this year's winning team will leave the competition a true millionaire, with $1,000,000 cold hard cash in his pockets.
Additional winnings, salaries and sponsor contracts aside, each member of the winning team of TI4 will literally have made a million out of playing a computer game, more than anyone else has ever before. But how does that compare to the real world?
Jaedong and MC,
widely known in the Starcraft scene, are considered the best among the
best, and rich just from playing computer games. Also our very own Danil 'Dendi'
Ishutin made quite a bit of money with his profession, winning one and
placing second in two Internationals. The last in the list is Fatal1ty, a former pro-gamer and now entrepreneur with his own business.All of these people have two things in common: they have made a tremendous amount of money with computer games, and they all will be outnumbered by the winner of this year's International. You know when they called Dendi the Dota 2 millionaire? Well, guess what: every member of this year's winning team will leave the competition a true millionaire, with $1,000,000 cold hard cash in his pockets.
Additional winnings, salaries and sponsor contracts aside, each member of the winning team of TI4 will literally have made a million out of playing a computer game, more than anyone else has ever before. But how does that compare to the real world?
Dota 2 is an invincible giant...amongst eSports. Although it fights a
good fight, the first place of this year's International still has to
bow to the first places of more traditional sports. While it manages to
beat Tennis, Indycar Racing, Chess and many more, it gets beaten by
Nascar, Horse Racing and Golf, not to mention the titans of the NFL,
Soccer and Formula 1.
We fared incredibly well considering how young the eSports scene is and how rapidly it has been growing in the past few years. Prize pools like the premier sports might never be possible, with hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars up for grabs, and one player worth as much as a small city, but eSports shapes itself a niche where it can not only exist, but also offer a valid career path.
Considering the growth of the past few years, it is very likely that we will soon manage to outnumber everything but the premier sports. If we manage to double the prize pool, we are on par with golf already. eSports is growing, slowly but steadily. The times are over when gamers were looked at like people who don´t have a life. Gaming has finally made its way into society.
We fared incredibly well considering how young the eSports scene is and how rapidly it has been growing in the past few years. Prize pools like the premier sports might never be possible, with hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars up for grabs, and one player worth as much as a small city, but eSports shapes itself a niche where it can not only exist, but also offer a valid career path.
Considering the growth of the past few years, it is very likely that we will soon manage to outnumber everything but the premier sports. If we manage to double the prize pool, we are on par with golf already. eSports is growing, slowly but steadily. The times are over when gamers were looked at like people who don´t have a life. Gaming has finally made its way into society.
Monday, June 16, 2014
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