Southeast Asia teams bow out of The International 2018 Player Images © DOTA 2 Twitter Fans who dreamt of witnessing the rise of Southeast Asian teams at The International 2018, the grandest Dota 2 world championship of the year, woke up to a real-life nightmare after the region’s last representative, Mineski-Dota, bows out of the Aegis of Champions … Read more
Mineski-Dota is the undisputed Kings of SEA Image Banner © Valve We’ve seen Mineski-Dota and TNC Pro Team battle it out against each other for countless times, but none of those matches are undeniably more important, and significant, and awaited compared to their do-or-die match at the first lower bracket round of The International 2018, the grandest Dota 2 world championship … Read more
Valve imposes sanction on the NA squad Image Banner © VGJ. Storm VGJ.Storm was slapped with a sanction after Valve found out that they used two coaches for their The International 2018 group stage drafts instead of one. The decision was publicized in a tweet posted by the official DOTA 2 account earlier today. The tweet cited how … Read more
EG, VGJ.Storm prove NA deserves the regional qualifier slots Resolution Image © Beyond The Summit Evil Geniuses and VGJ.Storm mathematically secured the first two upper bracket slots at the main event of The International 2018, this year’s grand Dota 2 world championship, after a three-day group stage dominance. Both teams never let go of the their respective group’s top seed … Read more
Evil Geniuses and TNC Pro Team are on a roll! Image Banner © Dota 2 Two months ago, if somebody were to tell me that the North American and Southeast Asian representatives will dominate the first half of The International 2018 group stages, I probably wouldn’t believe them. Well, it’s not just because I don’t believe in … Read more
Wraiths, your king is here! Image Banner © Dota 2 A total of 40 action-packed games were played by 18 of the world’s best Dota 2 teams earlier today at the opening of The International 2018 group stages and one unlikely hero has already been dictating how this year’s grand Dota 2 championships’ metagame would turn out … Read more
Lon, Tryke, Kuya Nic, Kuya D, Wolf, and Pao cast their predictions! The International 2018 is just around the corner (we really can’t stress this enough)! To get into the TI mood, we at Mineski.net talked to some of the casters of Sanduguan: The 2018 Philippine Coverage Of The International to know which of the three Southeast … Read more
A balanced group division Image Banner © Valve One more day is left before the commencement of this year’s grand Dota 2 showdown and the Dota 2 community can no longer contain the excitement especially after the groupings for this year’s The International contenders have been revealed. Vancouver, Canada is undisputedly the city with the highest … Read more
Visa woes persists for the TI winner AdmiralBulldog Image © EPICENTER Henrik “AdmiralBulldog” Ahnberg will be missing The International for the second straight time as an invited talent after failing to accomplish his Canadian visa application in time. In a Twitlonger post, AdmiralBulldog pointed at a stupid mistake he did eight years ago to be the reason behind … Read more
Meet the Filipino Dota 2 player from the eyes of his father Background Image © Romell Tabios Armel was just 10 years old when he started playing Dota in 2010. Back then he would often cut classes just to play. His mom and I never knew about it until we were notified by the school … Read more