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The Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) was the professional league used in Dota 2, a competitive five-on-five video game.Active between 2017 and 2023, the DPC was organized by the game's developer, Valve and consisted of seasonal "Major" tournaments and Regional Leagues from North America, South America, Southeast Asia, China, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe.
Dota 2 is a 2013 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game by Valve.The game is a sequel to Defense of the Ancients (DotA), a community-created mod for Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
First commercial game inspired by DotA. [8] 2009: League of Legends: Riot Games: Windows, Mac: Yes: Yes: 2010: Heroes of Newerth: S2 Games, Frostburn Studios: Windows, Mac, Linux: Yes: Discontinued: Became free to play in July 2011. Servers shut down June 19, 2022. [9] Garena bought the rights of the game from S2 in May 2015 and founded ...
Mark Glickman created the Glicko rating system in 1995 as an improvement on the Elo rating system. [1]Both the Glicko and Glicko-2 rating systems are under public domain and have been implemented on game servers online like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, [2] Dota 2, [3] Guild Wars 2, [4] Splatoon 2, [5] Online-go.com, [6] Lichess and Chess.com.
[2] [3] Defense of the Ancients (DotA) was created in 2003 by the Warcraft III modding community for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion, The Frozen Throne, with a map based on AoS. DotA was one of the first major titles of its genre and the first MOBA for which sponsored tournaments were held. [ 4 ]
Three of the same piece combine to form a 2-star piece, and three 2-star pieces combine to form a 3-star piece. Each piece also belongs to a class and at least one particular race. Assembling a sufficient number of pieces in a race or class grants a "synergy" which increases the power of either a certain group of pieces or a player's entire team.
By the end of 2011, Dota 2 was already one of the highest-paying esport games, second only to StarCraft II. [81] At E3 2013, South Korean company Nexon announced the investment of ₩2 billion (approximately US$ 1.7 million) into local leagues in the country, which coincided with their distribution partnership with Valve for the game. [82]
Dota Underlords, an auto battler based on the community-created Dota 2 mod Dota Auto Chess, was released in 2020. The original DotA map is considered one of the most popular of all time, with tens of millions of players and a consistent presence at esports tournaments throughout the 2000s. DotA is considered a catalyst for the MOBA genre, inspiring