In the first offline tournament after the just-concluded TI12 - ESL Kuala Lumpur Station, the Chinese team Azureray defeated last year's TI runner-up and Western European powerhouse Gaimin Gladiators, and it was also the first offline championship of the Chinese team after the 2022 Leyard Masters.
Speaking of the Riyadh Masters, it is impossible not to mention the upcoming Esports World Cup in 2024, which, according to the Saudi crown prince's speech at the launch, will include "the most popular games in the world" and offer "the largest prize pool in the history of esports". This ESL competition is likely to be a points match for the 2024 E-sports World Cup, and the AR team that has won 4,800 EPT points can be said to have stepped into the E-sports World Cup with half a foot.
Saudi Arabia's confidence in announcing the 2024 Esports World Cup comes from the success of the Gamers8 esports events held in 2022 and 23, and the past two editions of the Riyadh Masters have been unanimously praised in terms of event production and tournament prize money, and the total prize money of all events in Gamers8 in 2023 exceeded 45 million US dollars, breaking the record of 40 million prize money originally held by a single project of Dota 2.
Recently, the 2022 Riyadh Masters champion and the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games champion Carry player AME announced that he has joined the XG team from LGD, which will also end his year-long inactivity. FY has maintained an ambiguous relationship with the new lineup of the XG team. It can be said that although this galaxy battleship has not yet set sail, it has already attracted the attention of Dota 2 fans at home and abroad, and it is believed that the official announcement of this new XG will be a boost to CN Dota together with the AR team winning the championship in ESL.
Dota 2 launched a new 7 on December 15thVersion 35, at the same time launched the Frostivus event, and Dota 2 also relied on the release of this new version and new event, so that the number of people at the same time rushed to 800,000 again. With the beginning of the year 7The number of ** after the release of the 33 grand plan version is equal.
This time Dota 2 7Version 35 has made a lot of changes to items, including rework of legal equipment such as Blood Essence Stone, Meteor Blow, Ethereal Blade, and Siwa's Guardian, updated a large number of new neutral items, and most heroes have been balanced.
The game UI and hints have also been updated a lot, including tower range reminders, teleportation times, minimap icons, more skill reticles, skill icon statuses, item description descriptions, experience gain range indications, Dota Plus wisdom rune countdown, Creep bounties, etc., clicking on an item in the inventory will also highlight the selected item and dim other items, so as to better distinguish them, and popular items will only appear with a gray border when there is enough money, so that the border will be different, and the health or mana required to consume when the item is in the backpack will be hidden.
In the Frostivus event, a new treasure chest was also introduced, which needs to be exchanged for points, after which you need to purchase the 2023 Frostivus Sigil to open, players can get 500 points for each victory in the game, 150 points for failure, 250 points for winning in Accelerated Mode, 75 points for failure, and an additional 2000 points for the first win of the day, and the cosmetics in the Frostivus 2023 Collection are divided into four levels and a rare gingerbread Roshan Baby Courier, of which level 3 includes an immortal set, two immortal parts, and an immortal body and mind setTier 4 includes a new version of the Crystal Maiden Body and Mind Set and the Wraith Emperor Arcana Set, and each time you unlock a set, you'll also have a chance to unlock a unique version of an additional item in the set!
Recently, the Dota 2 national server has been developing towards a better side recently, both in terms of team results and in-game updates, and I hope to see more exciting performances of the Chinese team in the subsequent games of this season. Let's look forward to the next Dota 2 event this year.