Dota 2 International!

[BoredomIsFun]

http://www.dota2.com/international/location/event/

Date: August 31 - September 2
Location: Benaroya Hall - Seattle, Washinton, USA

NOTE: Free to spectate in game!


ANYONE ELSE PUMPED FOR IT?

[Instinx]

Yes. So keen, but also probably means to new heroes till its over.

[diamondd]

NOTE: Free to spectate in game!

for real? that is AWESOME

[TheMeadow]

It is awesome news and good support to the community! Can't wait to kick off.

Hope Absolute Legends gets our of their funk and brings some amazing games.

[Matt 'El_Funko' Long]

It's interesting that they're going to allow people to spectate from the game client. I assume they won't have anyone casting for people spectating via the game client, but will have a regular casted stream on twitch.tv?

It will be interesting to see how the client handles several thousand? tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands? viewers watching the same game. I know League of Legends tournaments regularly get over 200k watching the casted streams, so I'm very interested in what will happen during the Dota 2 International.

[Fireslide]

I think you'll be able to listen to casters in game too. There's the capability to send audio streams with the game data too. Similarly camera control can be shown by the casters.

Dota2 implements what HLTV and SourceTV have been able to do, seamlessly.

Basically the way it works is this.
Game is hosted on a server, TV Client/casters connect to that. That master server then can stream out to hundreds of repeating servers. Spectators can connect to those repeating servers. In theory it should work flawlessly and have no impact on the players playing. I wonder if they've deployed a bunch of servers that can automatically allocate more resources to stream popular games. That'd be pretty nifty

[Minkelz]

Definitely gonna catch some games through the game client. Selecting from a range of commentators + having you're own camera control is amazing.

I think there will be some technical hitches but hopefully they won't be too bad.

[IronM@sk]

I am... so tired, right now

[Minkelz]

Yeah about the worst possible time for aus. At last the main games are over the weekend.

[TheMeadow]

ouch - some random wins and losses - Day 1 THREW ME I couldn't pick a winner at all. Good to see some teams get some form and recover, shall be an interesting weekend.

[Jez]

Watching NAVI vs DK was pretty awesome today. Damn the casters and the crowd get excited.

[Fireslide]

One of the funniest moments. Bruno is entertaining. Some great games too.

[Minkelz]

Amazing tournament, valve just seems to do everything right. Streaming/commentary worked so well and hollywood final of best of asia vs best of europe. Hopefully valve strikes up a deal for dota 2 in china and it could really take off now they have the pros involved.

[Giblet1]

One of the funniest moments. Bruno is entertaining. Some great games too.

Did you realise that Bruno "Stat Man" is actually Icefrog.

Edit: Here is what makes me think he is http://www.own3d.tv/Valve/video/784021 (go to 1hr 56min)

[XViper]

1h 57min!! not 1h 56m! >_<
Possibly due to me being a retard, but I watched almost up until the end of 1h 56m 3 times before I actually left it to keep going when he announced the names at the end.