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With just over a week to go until the start of the qualifiers for the first of Dota 2's "Major" tournaments, Valve have spilled the beans regarding what is now known as "The Frankfurt Major". Here's the basic rundown: The Major will be held at Festhalle Messe in Frankfurt, Germany, it will be produced by ESL, and it will feature an impressive prize pool of $3,000,000.
The six day main event will run from November 16th through the 22nd, and will feature 16 teams from throughout the Dota 2 competitive scene. Unlike The International annual tournament, the event is open to the general public for five of the six days, with visitors only requiring a pre-purchased ticket for the Grand Finals on Saturday, November 21st. Tickets for the final day will be sold for €50 in two waves this Sunday, September 27th, with times currently listed on the Dota 2 blog. The first Seasonal Compendium will be released sometime soon alongside the upcoming 6.85 balance patch, set to drop sometime later this week. While following The International as the next stage of the Dota 2 competitive scene isn't going to be easy, the Majors should prove very interesting in their own right.
The blog post revealing this information also discusses the next few updates for Dota 2. The desert terrain map is brought up once again, with Valve mentioning they are doing some "underlying map rendering tech" to make it easy to iterate on in the future, before then describing the Axe-focused "longform" comic as "much bigger" than their previous comics.
The blog post revealing this information also discusses the next few updates for Dota 2. The desert terrain map is brought up once again, with Valve mentioning they are doing some "underlying map rendering tech" to make it easy to iterate on in the future, before then describing the Axe-focused "longform" comic as "much bigger" than their previous comics.
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