The International 10, By The Numbers

… and some pictures

• Won by Team Spirit ($18,208,300)

Some Basic Chat Statistics From TI

The tea-eye winner requests it, and it shall be.

After over 180 hours of gameplay in 195 different games, we need to crown the true winners of The International — the biggest All-chat and Chat-wheel spammers.

A Stronger Look at Tournament Formats

I’ve written quite a bit about tournament formats in the past — mostly criticizing events…

On why the Boston Major format sucks…

But how it might be fun anyway.

As a company, Valve operates very very differently to pretty much any company you’ve ever worked with or interacted with. Their fundamental approach is to view every external (and many internal) events as…

The Most Skilled Dota 2 Players

Yesterday I put a tweet out about average Elo gain vs winrate. It produced the following pretty…

The Final (TI8) Countdown

Dota 2021 — in Numbers

5566 total professional games

• Radiant won 50.88% of them
• Total gameplay time of ~211972 minutes
• Average game time 37:05, with std deviation of 9:41
• Longest game…

Piercing the Veil: Selection Priority

Within the game of Dota 2 there is an obvious fog of war. It represents uncertainty — forcing players to make instinctual, logical, yet best-effort decisions. After the game is done, that fog’s veil is pierced — the players can review the game in it’s entirety and…

The International 10 Compendium Predictions

Hey, it’s time for some TI10 predictions. There’s no public announcement regarding stuff like tiebreakers or which teams start in which group — so it’s possible I’ll change some of these if any of these are crazily different to what I expect.

Return of datdota

The board is set… the pieces are moving

It’s been a very long year, but datdota is FINALLY BACK.

For those who aren’t familiar with datdota — it’s a database primarily aimed at Dota 2 statistics enthusiasts who are interested in professional…