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The original version, Defense of the Ancients, is a community-created Warcraft III custom map developed with the Warcraft III World Editor that was first released in 2003. [1] The franchise name, "Dota", is derived from the original map's acronym, DotA. [2] Dota 2, its standalone installment, was released as a free-to-play sequel in July 2013. [3]
This is a list of esports players. This is not a complete list of all active, professional esports players, but rather a consolidation of the most influential or significant. The list does not include online poker or online chess players, since they are usually separated from esports.
[11] [14] Other mapmakers produced Defense of the Ancients spinoffs that added new heroes, items, and features. Among the DotA variants created in the wake of Eul's map was DotA Allstars, originally created and developed by custom map makers Meian and Ragn0r, who took the most popular heroes and compiled them into one map. [11]
Dager began his esports career with Heroes of Newerth (HoN) in 2010, where he initially played under the alias "peterpandam" (which later became the acronym 'ppd').He got vouched into the Fragment Inhouse League, where he reached the top of the competitive leaderboard; afterwards, he was invited to play for North American team SGty.
Sumail was born on 13 February 1999, in Karachi, Pakistan. [2] [3] He has a brother, Yawar Hassan, who also plays professional Dota 2. [4]Sumail first started playing Dota when he was eight years old.
Free to Play is a 2014 documentary film by American video game company Valve.The film takes a critical look at the lives of Benedict "hyhy" Lim, Danil "Dendi" Ishutin and Clinton "Fear" Loomis, three professional Defense of the Ancients (DotA) players who participated in the first International, the most lucrative esports tournament at the time.
After a hard start to DotA, N0tail and his team Fnatic.EU won Thor Open LAN on 9 December 2012, beating No Tidehunter, now known as Alliance. [11] Since Fnatic.EU won the LAN, they mostly dominated the pro scene until The International 2013 , in which they placed 7–8th after losing to team Orange, which turned out to currently be the Fnatic ...
Artour Babaev (born July 1, 1996), better known as Arteezy, is an Uzbek-Canadian professional Dota 2 player for Shopify Rebellion. [5] He is also one of the most popular streamers among the community. [6] Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Babaev showed much promise as a child, reaching the highest matchmaking rating on the leaderboards in public ...