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The International 2026 is finally here! The 16 best Dota 2 teams in the world will compete for their chance to lift the coveted Aegis of Champions. The first day of the event has concluded and unsurprisingly, the strongest region in Dota 2 remains the one to beat.

Valve has recently squashed MMR for Immortal players in Dota 2. After years of inflation, MMR is brought back down to meaningful numbers. The result is much shorter queue times and an easier grind to make it to the leaderboards.

The International 2026 is finally about to start, and we will show you everything you need to know about the tournament in our preview article. Take a look to understand how the tournament is organized, which teams are taking part in the event, and when every stage will begin.

The Dota 2 world received a shock when LGD Gaming's midlaner, Santiago "TaiLung" Agüero Gustavo, was banned from The International and all future PGL events.

Every year we get a new possibility of another player or organization returning to set a new record for the most TI Championships, and we decided to check every possible two, three or four-time champion at The International 2026.

LGD has just announced on Weibo that their Dota 2 midlaner, Santiago "TaiLung" Agüero Gustavo, has been banned from competing at The International this year and issued a lifetime ban by PGL.

The International 2026 will award prizes to the best performing predictions on the compendium and our Fantasy Guide will try to explain in a simple manner how to get the best out of your rolls to breach the highest percentiles.

With so many players brought down to similar levels, we thought it would be a good time to give players a few simple tips to help climb the MMR ladder in this turbulent time.

After a catastrophic event during the Esports World Cup 2026, PlayTime managed to turn things around, win the Games of the Future 2026 with a couple of new players on the roster, and take a big payout home before the new season begins.

Team Liquid finally did it again and defeated the defenders of the Aegis of Champions on the last chance they had before The International 2026 begins and teams go all in for a shot at eternal glory.

The International 2026 is just a couple of weeks away and, along with Patch 7.41e, Valve also released the tournament's menu, where you can make your predictions for the Group Stage and check this year's rewards.

On top of getting the balancing just right for The International 2026, the Summer scrub also made a couple small big important updates. Dota Plus subscribers got a new post-game breakdown screen and all players can now bind non-hero unit hotkeys separately.

Dota 2 patch 7.41e is here and it will likely be the patch The International is played in. While not adding any new items, heroes, or mechanics, the latest update does go a long way to solving some of the biggest problems in the game.

In the latest Summer Scrub update, Valve has done a long awaited change. The recent update squashed MMR for Immortal ranked players.

The “Dota 2 beta” meme lives on and another chapter of the game's history is written after Valve fixes yet anoter Meepo bug. Some heroes are a constant source of bugs and among the full lineup, Morphling, Rubick and Meepo are the most affected by these problems.

Games of the Future 2026 is the last million dollar tournament on this season for the professional Dota Circuit before The International 2026 ends a cycle and begins the next season. Most big teams will not show up to the event but we have some interesting candidates such as the two biggest Chinese teams.

With The International getting closer by the day, Tier 1 tournaments have entered a hiatus, and Tier 2 tournaments get their last chance to shine. Among the two remaining events, we have the 1win Essence II with a $200,000 USD prize pool and a handful of big teams in the lineup.

After losing a couple players and their coach after the Esports World Cup 2026, PlayTime stood back up and started preparing for Games of the Future 2026 by bringing in Abed "Abed" Yusop and Anucha "Jabz" Jirawong.

The Esports Federation has named Saudia, the national air carrier of Saudi Arabia, as the official airline of the Esports World Cup 2026 (EWC). Here's more.

The Esports World Cup 2026 is finally over and, after PVISION's victory, it's time to step back a little and look at the bigger picture to see which heroes defined the metagame during the tournament.