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DotA has its roots in the "Aeon of Strife" custom map for StarCraft. The scenario was developed with the World Editor of Reign of Chaos, and was updated upon the release of its expansion, The Frozen Throne. There have been many variations of the original concept, the most popular being DotA Allstars, eventually simplified to DotA.
Holding the Dota name to be a community asset, Feak and Mescon filed an opposing trademark for Dota on behalf of DotA-Allstars, LLC (then a subsidiary of Riot Games) in August 2010. [20] Rob Pardo, the executive vice president of Blizzard Entertainment at the time, similarly stated that the Dota name belonged to the mod's community.
DotA: Allstars by Steve Feak was the most successful, [42] and Feak, with his friend Steve Mescon, created the official Defense of the Ancients community website and the holding company DotA-Allstars, LLC. [43] When Feak retired from DotA: Allstars in 2005, a fellow website user under the pseudonym IceFrog, became its lead designer. [44]
The International (TI) is an annual esports world championship for the five-on-five video game Dota 2.Produced by the game's developer Valve, the International is the final event of the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) and consists of 20 teams: 12 based on final results from the DPC; six from North America, South America, Southeast Asia, China, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe regional leagues; and ...
Called DotA: Allstars, it was inherited after a few months by a modder called Steve "Guinsoo" Feak, and under his guidance it became the dominant map of the genre. After more than a year of maintaining the DotA: Allstars map, with the impending release of an update that significantly changed the map layout, Guinsoo left the development to his ...
Gilgeous-Alexander is tied for the league lead in scoring, averaging 31.5 points per game on pristine 53/35/90 shooting splits, as the driving (and I mean that literally) force behind a Thunder ...
Subsequently, Blizzard filed an opposition against Valve for claiming the DotA trademark. [37] On May 11, 2012, Blizzard and Valve announced that the dispute had been settled, with Valve retaining the commercial franchising rights to the term "Dota", while Blizzard would change the name of Blizzard DOTA to Blizzard All-Stars. Blizzard, however ...
Top-5 Early Round All-Stars Guard: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder. SGA is the best guard in the NBA. He ranks second in 9-cat and fifth in points leagues this year while leading ...