Later this month I’ll be attending ESL One Frankfurt to cover the tournament for PC Gamer. It’s one of the last high profile Dota 2 competitions before The International, and the best chance most European fans are going to get to watch some of these teams play before they win eleventy million dollars at TI4, buy private islands, and vanish.

If you’re considering attending then you probably play Dota 2. You know something about the meta, drafting, laning, teamfights, whatever. You’re capable of replicating many of the things that you watch professional teams do—albeit imperfectly—on your own time, and doing so constitutes a big part of your hobby. You watch Dota because you play Dota.

Source: PC Gamer

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