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Inhouses, Tournaments and the Shmackdown vs. "That Guy"

LostENT — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:07:44 +0000

Yezzir, today marked an important day in UAE history-
Our boys put up quite the fight against a certain someone and his buddies.

GG,WP to all involved and let's keep the inhouses going. More special event inhouse matches to come... Dota 2 is going to be released very soon, so let's make sure that everyone knows UofA has the best Dota 2 E-Sports team on the West Coast.

Teams: If you want to register for The Defense, or other tournaments with $$ involved, head to JoinDota.com. We will need to register the team. Other than that, it's September and there are heads to be pwnd.

Updates, Items, UofA, and Moar

LostENT — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 05:29:24 +0000

Mentlegen!

(or at least til we find one female member)

As you probably already know, three new heroes have been added to the Dota 2 hero roster! (slowpoke.jpg)

-Chaos Knight
-Mortred (PA)
-Gyrocopter

Try them out via co-op vs. AI and learn the ways of either.

A) Destroying Everything with a stampede of pissed off horses.
B) Cutting throats and one-hitting most squishy supports.
C) Shooting rockets... shooting fast rockets... and nuking just about anything from a distance.
D) All of the above (if you can manage to build a hard-carry Gyro on a horse)

Here are some tips to succeed in any of these three arts.

-With Chaos Knight, get a Manta... (moar hoarses)
-With PA, go tri-lane and last-hit creeps with your stifling blade early game.
-With Gyro, learn to play like a boss and gank like a machine. (he's way too much fun)
-With Gyro, calling him Corki via all chat may cause massive flames to pour out of your computer.

Anyway, enough of that....

ITEMS!!

Feel free to use this group to trade or ask for items. More will hopefully be released soon. I have plenty so if you're looking for something let me know!

Well if you played TF2 I'm sure you know how the item system works. Crates require keys, which can be bought... items are dropped randomly regardless of performance (i think)... and Battlepoints are an excuse to play moar Dota.

UofA!!

Well, I've graduated. So I won't be able to play AS much as I used to. I've recently been picked up as a 6th man for an all German team trying out for The Defense (tournament). So far all I've played is Crystal Bitch twice but we've won which is nice.

On another note, the game is almost out of closed beta and it is up to everyone to make sure UofA dominates.. many of you are awesome and picked up really quickly. A special shout-out to everyone I've played with.. those Skype calls were epic and we will still have more of them.

So yea, kick ass and make UofA rock. Figure out your role and work together.

"Teamwork is the key to win every game"

MOAR!!!

I love you all hueheuheueheuheuheueheu

A Message on Team-Play

LostENT — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:48:05 +0000

Hello, Hello-

So to those new to DotA, I want to discuss teamplay before you solo matchmake into a team filled with Russians against Na'Vi super-humans...

(no offense to any Russians, you just don't want to deal with a team that only speaks in acryllics)

First. Teamplay- Gank as a team. It wins. Without teamplay you will end up with three people running into a team of five late game, dying and allowing them to push while your Mirana solo-farms top so she can get that Butterfly she's been farming for over 30 minutes.

Assists give you gold. Don't forget that. Last-hitting hero kills as a support is only necessary if your sure the carry/ganker can't catch them. Supports farm assists, gankers farm hero kills, pushers farm tower kills, carry's farm everything. A carry's job is to find any opportunity to farm gold before late game. If it's late game, all the farming you did early-mid game should suffice for you to be a BAMF. There are no rambo heroes, no matter how farmed you get it's extremely rare to get to the point where you can 5v1 a team. So if your team dies in a 3v5 fight. The other 2 should defend ancients and wait for the other 3 to respawn.

Also, don't be afraid to play co-op vs. AI. It's a great way to test out new heroes and not end up with a team that flames you. Just beware, AI are programmed for team-play.

Speaking of flaming: here's the video that our Avatar comes from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOleOzC3nXY

Tl;DR: See link above.

Dota 2 Update- A Hush Falls on the Battlefield

LostENT — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:25:47 +0000

Check out the patch's new changelog.

Time for me to finally start carrying with Sven (my favorite hero)

http://blog.dota2.com/2012/01/a-hush-falls-on-the-battlefield/

CS:GO Admins and any other Steam game.

LostENT — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:18:31 +0000

If anyone's interested in being an Admin for CS:GO or any other Steam game then let me know.

Also, Starcraft II and many other non-Steam games are playable through Steam. This is just as an FYI- and I encourage any non Steam users to link their SCII accounts to a Steam account.

On top of that, Steam is releasing a new system known as Steam Works for Dota 2... I suggest everyone take a look at some of the features that will offer. (it's pretty amazing)

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2010/10/13/dota-2-announced-details.aspx

When we hit 15 members, I'll begin arranging weekly Dota 2 sessions on Sundays.

Happy Holidays and into the New Year

LostENT — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:24:18 +0000

I hope everyone's having a good break from school. I apologize for the inactivity of this group so far, but with the coming of the new year- I think all will pick up momentum sooner than later.

So I've distributed about 6 Dota 2 beta-keys to some of the group members. I hope everyone's enjoying the game and aren't struggling too hard to tackle the learning curve. Dota 2 tournaments have already begun sprouting about the globe (Malaysia tourny this December) and there are many more to come. Thus, keep practicing and find that hero you PWN with so that when we get an epic team assembled- you will be an essential part of it.

I want to remind everyone to sign up on playdota.com forums, and join the Beta-key lottery. This increases our chance of getting our hands on more keys/arrows to the knee.

Also, try and get more UofA gamers involved in this group. If they want keys, make them do something uber embarassing, troll them, and then never give them a key. Or, refer them to me.

Have a great break, please plan on practicing as a team when the new year arrives.

- Nick.