After a neck-to-neck battle between professional players from all over the world, Abed is crowned with the honour of being the first ever 10K MMR player ever.
Dota
Dota 2 is a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game or massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Valve Corporation.
The game initially used the original source game engine until it was ported over to Source 2 in 2015, making it the first game to use it. Despite some criticism going towards its steep learning curve and complexity, the game was praised for its rewarding gameplay, production quality, and faithfulness to its predecessor. The popularity of the game has led to official merchandise being produced for it, including apparel, accessories, and toys, as well as promotional tie-ins to other games and media.
Dota 2 has a widespread and active competitive scene, with teams from across the world playing professionally in various leagues and tournaments. Premium Dota 2 tournaments often have prize pools totaling millions of US dollars, the highest of any eSport. The largest of them is known as The International, which is produced annually by Valve and held at the KeyArena in Seattle. Valve also sponsors smaller, but more frequently held tournaments known as the Majors, which lead up to the International every year. For larger tournaments, media coverage is done by a selection of on-site staff who provide commentary and analysis for the ongoing matches, similar to traditional sporting events. Broadcasts of professional Dota 2 matches are streamed live over the internet, and sometimes simulcast on television networks, with peak viewership numbers in the millions. Dota 2 is an RTS-styled competitive team game with RPG elements. Two competing teams of five players (Radiant and Dire). The main objective in Dota 2 is to destroy the enemy Ancient inside their stronghold. These strongholds are protected by multiple towers down 3 lanes. Instead of building armies of units like in classical RTS games, each player controls a single Hero, a strategically-powerful unit with unique abilities and characteristics which can be improved over the course of the game. Experience is earned when nearby creeps and heroes die, and once collecting enough experience, the hero gains a level, which increases the hero's stats, and at most levels the hero gains a skill point which can be spent to unlock or upgrade one of the hero's abilities. Alongside a hero's fixed abilities, each hero has 6 inventory slots which can be filled with Items which provide various benefits and abilities. To purchase these items, Gold is gained passively over time, by killing creeps, by killing enemy heroes and by destroying buildings. Dota 2 has an heavy emphasis on tactics and team co-ordination, and a deep amount of strategy focused on building up strength as fast as possible, optimal itemization, and selecting what order to upgrade your hero's spells.
League Of Legends
League of Legends is the finest example of the multiplayer online battle arena genre, a real-time strategy game published and developed by Riot Games.
Developers adopted and tweaked some of the concepts that made Defense of the Ancient famous and introduced more than 100 new characters.
Although the game is inspired by the famous Warcraft 3 mod, it is truly innovative and has a smooth learning curve that makes it more suitable to beginners.
League of Legends is a free to play multiplayer online battle arena, where players compete on one of the four maps. The gameplay differs slightly for each map, but ultimately players need to defeat opponents and destroy their nexus. The game is funded through micro purchases, with players spending real cash on Riot Points that can be turned into by skins, champions and various bundles. The League of Legends characters can also be unlocked using Influence Points which are earned at the end of each round. The IP are of great importance as they are only currency accepted for purchasing League of Legends runes. Since these have a positive impact in-game and enhance the skills and abilities of all heroes, Influence Points are worth accumulating. As mentioned above, League of Legends has no mission pack and no campaign whatsoever, but multiplayer action is extremely complex. Blind Pick and Draft Pick are the most popular ways to select the champions before the game begins, with the latter allowing players to ban three League of Legends characters. Team Builder and ARAM are new additions to the game, forcing players to play random heroes or encouraging them to construct teams based on their chosen role. Despite the fact that League of Legends lacks a campaign, therefore has no proper plot, the Champion introduction makes the absence go unnoticed. There are more than 100 heroes right now and they fall into six main categories, serving as assassins, fighters, mages, support heroes, tanks and marksmen. All of them are introduced with glamorous short videos, and Riot made sure that they come with a short and clear description of their skills as well as a compelling narrative.